• Creator • Video Editor • Helping Small YouTubers Grow & Monetize on @YouTube • Over 3M Views Generated • Advocate For Fried Chicken 🍗

Joined July 2022
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How to keep viewers hooked on your video! 1. K!ller Intro 2. Pattern Interruptions 3. Pacing and Storytelling 4. Niche expectation 5. Retention Analysis K!LLER INTRO You have 8 seconds to hook your viewer Don’t waste it on long introductions and branding animations Viewers decide after 8 seconds if they want to stay and watch a video or do something else. Jump straight to the promise of your video in the first 8 seconds. PATTERN INTERRUPTIONS If you don’t change what viewers see on screen often, they’ll get bored. Use this tip: ✅ Show whatever you’re talking about on the screen ✅ Change visuals every 5-10 seconds. ✅ Add text overlays, ✅ Zoom in/out, or ✅ Show screenshots ✅ Use sound effects transitions and music PACING AND STORYTELLING For pacing: Cut any unnecessary footage that doesn’t add value. Reduce long explanations. Don’t repeat what you’ve said before. For storytelling: Ask question. This creates an open loop and you can answer in the end. Also share true stories that hold a moral lesson. NICHE EXPECTATIONS For entertainment niche: ✅ fast edits, ✅ music ✅ sounds effects ✅ storytelling For educational niche, ✅ Slow, calm, detailed explanations ✅ Zoom in to focus ✅ Red arrows, red circles ✅ highlight mouse cursor For documentaries, ✅ Visuals of real footage, ✅ Music, ✅ Sound effects, ⭐️ Storytelling should be your focus Every niche is different, know what your audience expects from you. How? RETENTION ANALYSIS Study your YouTube retention graph in studio Where do you see drop off? Ask what made your viewers leave. Where do you see peaks? Ask what made them watch more of that part of your video Learn from it. Summary You don’t need a 40 minute video to get high retention You just need to keep your viewers hooked on your video.
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OG | The Creator👨🏾‍💻 retweeted
Hot Take… Everyone needs to stop telling Broke Beginners to compete on QUALITY AND EFFORT… because it’s BULLSHIT. If you work 40-50 hours a week and then have to take care of yourself and/or a family… Telling you to compete on Quality is ridiculous when the average large channel in your niche has 40 hours a week only dedicate to YouTube and a team that can put 200 hours into every upload. You have what? 10 hours, 20? And scraps energy from a left over job? Distracted work while you manage a chaotic life? Competing on Quality and Effort in that situation as a part time YouTuber is BULLSHIT… If you’re not a kid living off mommy and daddy in a stable suburb somewhere with unlimited free time to be a TRY HARD teenager… If you have a single scrap of real world struggle to overcome… It’s BULLSHIT. And I’m finally just unapologetically saying it because I’m tired of watching people struggle to chase the impossible standards of where people are… When their effort already usually beats their favorite creators broke beginning… And their favorite creator usually made 100-500 crappy videos to break 10K subs (MrBeast made 460 to get 10K subs) And they telling you not to post anything that isn’t a “viral banger”… When if they listened the BULLSHIT (well intentioned) advice they are giving you… they’d have quit and never had the change to learn… to grow… to be great… You HAVE to make 100 crappy videos if you lack time freedom, money, experience or people to help you… Because you have to do the best you can with what you have where you are. A lot of people who blow up with 100-500 videos have a starting on 3rd base backstory you’ll never hear about or they will never disclose. And it makes you feel inferior when it shouldn’t… So yeah UNTIL you’re almost full-time for most of you QUALITY over QUANTITY is in fact BULLSHIT… Because your circumstances and capacity cap how much “quality” you can hope to achieve… And by itself it’s not enough to conflate on… SMALL YOUTUBERS win on consistency… and being authentic and bringing something different to the table… For every million view video or million subscriber channel… Assume 20% of the audience, disagrees, is disenfranchised, or disappointed… There is where the gap an opportunity lies… Play to your strengths instead of chasing strengths you can’t win on in the first place. It’s not forever. Quality Over Quantity is PERFECT advice for a YouTuber who is full-time making $30,000 a month… It’s not good advice for a Working Class Creator making just over $30,000 a year on their job and losing money on every upload…
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OG | The Creator👨🏾‍💻 retweeted
You people have useless this "love" word that you think you can use it in any sentence/scenario😂 You can't LOVE your partner and be drawn to someone else!
I keep hearing that you can love your partner and still feel drawn to someone else 👀
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How to stay below the poverty line:
Avoid friends that think 100k is not a lot of money
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If you smoke, you can’t hide it from anyone. It’s in your breath. It’s on your face. Her husband already knew she smokes Did he not kiss her while they were dating? He knew she smokes and still chose her. Is it a crime to smoke?😂
Her husband caught her smoking. If you found out your wife smokes, what would you do? 🌚
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Where can I get them for free?
Shoes Dey this world 😩😩😩
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Yeah because in the modern world you have to package yourself in a certain way to be appealing to people.
Unpopular opinion: Genuine people don’t have many friends.
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Unnecessary debit alerts
Apart from breakup, what else can put a man in this position?
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Hi YouTubers Have you ever made one long-form video in a day? How many hours did it take? 🌚
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Please help! 😭 I’ve not been active on this side of X How do YouTubers have time to make videos and also have time to post here?
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OG | The Creator👨🏾‍💻 retweeted
THE REASON WHY YOU SHOULDN'T RUB YOUR WRISTS TOGETHER WHEN YOU WEAR PERFUMES!!! This advice comes from how fragrances are designed to evolve over time. When you spray your perfume, it has three stages: ✅️Top notes – the first scent you smell ✅️Middle notes – the main character of the fragrance ✅️Base notes – the deeper scent that lasts the longest Rubbing your wrists together creates friction and heat. Rubbing doesn't "destroy" a perfume completely, but it can cause the top notes to evaporate more quickly and make the fragrance develop differently than intended. That's why many fragrance experts recommend: "Spray on your wrists, let the perfume air dry naturally for a few seconds." "Avoid rubbing" When you don't rub, the effect is often less than people think. If you've been rubbing your wrists for years, you have not been ruining your perfumes. You're just not getting the fragrance exactly as the owner designed it. For the best performance: ✅️Spray on moisturized skin ✅️Apply to pulse points (wrists, neck, behind ears) ✅️Let it air dry ✅️Don't overspray. A more common mistake than rubbing wrists is spraying too much perfume. Two to four sprays in the right places usually work better than ten sprays everywhere👍
Replying to @Silky_Sepia
Why shouldn’t I rub my wrist together, please explain. That’s new.
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OG | The Creator👨🏾‍💻 retweeted
house of the dragon marketing team is actually insane
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OG | The Creator👨🏾‍💻 retweeted
How to Come Up With Viral YouTube Video Ideas
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OG | The Creator👨🏾‍💻 retweeted
How to wear perfumes For Ladies: -behind the ear -neck -shoulder -chest -inner elbow -below your belly button -wrist -behind your knees -ankles For Men: -lower jaw -neck -shoulder -forearm -wrist PS: don't rub your wrist together when you spray perfumes on it
Teach me how to spray perfume in the comment section
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Canada and the U.S can decide to deny Harry Kane a visa, so England won’t have a striker. It’s genius.
🚨 FIFA statement on Thomas Partey left out of Canada. “FIFA can confirm that player Thomas Partey will be unable to travel from Ghana's Team Base Camp in Boston, USA, to Canada for their first match against Panama on Wednesday, 17 June, as his visa application has been refused by the Canadian government. "FIFA is not involved in the immigration processes of host countries, including the adjudication of visas. As with previous FIFA events, the host government ultimately determines who receives a visa and is admitted into the country."
Community note
Thomas Partey faces rape charges in the UK that he denies. Trial is scheduled for 2027. Canadian immigration rules may deny entry to those charged with serious criminal offences. bbc.com/sport/football… skysports.com/football/news/… espn.com/soccer/story/_…
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OG | The Creator👨🏾‍💻 retweeted
Democrazy>>>>>Democracy 💔
Happy Democracy Day, Nigeria. Be honest, do you think we actually practice democracy in this country?
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OG | The Creator👨🏾‍💻 retweeted
A responsible person should know how their household operates, contribute where necessary, and stay aware of basic day-to-day responsibilities instead of placing the entire mental load on their partner. It's not a "man" or woman" thing I pity you if you leave everything to me😭😂
I just think most men are too lackadaisical about stuff like this. When they meet a woman, they let her fill that void and completely surrender that responsibility to her. Unless I don’t live in that house, I know where everything in the house is. I know when something needs to be replaced.
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Your strength is made perfect in my weakness
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Life is a marketplace and time is the currency pair. Be careful how you trade your time.
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This happened to me when I started learning After Effects
I was learning coding till 4am and guess what?? Tried to sleep and all I'm seeing is codes in my head😔
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