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Doghouse RileyDoghouse Riley Posts: 347
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Anyone else upload videos of their gardens and hobbies to YouTube?
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'm not vain enough to think anyone else wants to see them
    Devon.
  • Fran IOMFran IOM Posts: 2,872
    @Doghouse Riley I think your video of the foxes on the trampoline would do well. Don't know much about YouTube as to whether it has to be a video rather than any photos as you have plenty of those of the foxes as well. 
  • Doghouse RileyDoghouse Riley Posts: 347
    Hostafan1 said:
    I'm not vain enough to think anyone else wants to see them

    Well, all due respect, not everyone is like you, who's main occupation  seems be to post snarky pointless criticisms. That's the second one you've made to me. You sound so sad.

    There are dozen of different hobby messageboards where people link YouTube videos of their efforts.
    It's a way of showing what can be done with a bit of imagination, which may inspire some to attempt something they previously thought beyond their capabilities.

    Also pick any task you want to attempt and there'll be a video someone has made explaining how it can be achieved.

    i'm not in favour of any "hobby" videos where the person who uploads it thinks they are some sort of a presenter. I don't appear or speak on any of mine (I'm sure you'll be pleased about that) I just let the video "do the talking" though I usually add some notes below.

    Do me a favour, if you don't like something I post, just scroll down, I do that with your posts unless you've copied  or referred to one of my posts and  made a personal snarky comment to me.


  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    I watch a lot of you tube when mainstream television has little that interests me or when the mainstream television company's are hell bent on influencing public opinion I just switch over to you tube where there are some interesting and talented people making contents on a shoestring, everything from the huge movement of people who live in vans in the USA, folks living off grid, repairing vintage cars, mudlarking the tidal shore of the river Thames not to mention lots of gardening advice. I don't need the Television executives trying to brainwash me I can do that myself.  :|
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Doghouse Riley said:
    Hostafan1 said:
    I'm not vain enough to think anyone else wants to see them

    Well, all due respect, not everyone is like you, who's main occupation  seems be to post snarky pointless criticisms. That's the second one you've made to me. You sound so sad.

    There are dozen of different hobby messageboards where people link YouTube videos of their efforts.
    It's a way of showing what can be done with a bit of imagination, which may inspire some to attempt something they previously thought beyond their capabilities.

    Also pick any task you want to attempt and there'll be a video someone has made explaining how it can be achieved.

    i'm not in favour of any "hobby" videos where the person who uploads it thinks they are some sort of a presenter. I don't appear or speak on any of mine (I'm sure you'll be pleased about that) I just let the video "do the talking" though I usually add some notes below.

    Do me a favour, if you don't like something I post, just scroll down, I do that with your posts unless you've copied  or referred to one of my posts and  made a personal snarky comment to me.


    When did I direct my comment at YOU?
    Devon.
  • Doghouse RileyDoghouse Riley Posts: 347
    barry island said:
    I watch a lot of you tube when mainstream television has little that interests me or when the mainstream television company's are hell bent on influencing public opinion I just switch over to you tube where there are some interesting and talented people making contents on a shoestring, everything from the huge movement of people who live in vans in the USA, folks living off grid, repairing vintage cars, mudlarking the tidal shore of the river Thames not to mention lots of gardening advice. I don't need the Television executives trying to brainwash me I can do that myself.  :|

    I like the guy on Vice Grip Garage, where he finds fifty year old cars  that haven't run for twenty years or so and gets them going where they are, then drives them home a few hundred miles. A lot of cars in the USA are run until they stop working and are just left in a field or a barn to rot. He doesn't take himself seriously and i'm sure the situations can be "managed" occasionally but I find them entertaining.

    Others I enjoy is where enthusiasts in the States restore pre-war radios to their former "veneered glory" and get them working again, though there's naff-all stations they can get on some as they were only originally designed to  receive stations  within a few hundred miles.
    I've always fancied a "chairside radio" popular before remote controls were invented.


  • Doghouse RileyDoghouse Riley Posts: 347
    edited October 2021
    Fran IOM said:
    @Doghouse Riley I think your video of the foxes on the trampoline would do well. Don't know much about YouTube as to whether it has to be a video rather than any photos as you have plenty of those of the foxes as well. 
    I liked that one
    But it  wasn't mine, it's thirteen years old and has had 44 million hits.

    You may not know that videos uploaded to YouTube can be "monetised," you can earn money from them depending on the number of hits it gets.

    Mind you it'd have to get a hell of a lot of hits to earn anything. But to achieve this anyone who clicks on it has to suffer adverts before they can watch it. I don't do that with any of mine.
    I also use Firefox with adblock plus so I don't see any adverts if I go on Youtube.

    They give you a lot of help, if you want  to upload a video. I took the one with the foxes whilst my wife was watching a shopping channel on the TV next to me. So on the original video that was what you would have heard.  But you can remove the sound from the video and add some non-copyright music from  a huge library provided free by YouTube. I just listened to a few until I found a track that seemed suitable.

    One of my videos is just a succession of still photos, with some subtitles using a Microsoft programme, it's of my tea-house build. It must have appealed to some as so far it's had 88,000 hits, mind you that's in nine years.

    On any video you upload you can allow people to make comments, most are complimentary, but if someone says something snarky you can remove it.

    I'm into music and audio/hi-fi message boards, so some music videos appeal to me.

    It amazes me sometimes what appeals to people.  I uploaded a track from one of my CDs,  of my mother's favourite song from the  early fifties, (because I like it too).
    The analyics  told me a few years ago this particular upload  had been heard in 132 different countries.

    The singer got a lot of complimentary remarks. It's had 44,000 hits

    "It might bring a tear to your eye"


  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Most you Tube videos I have seen have major factual inaccuracies and seem to be by rampant self publicists, although there are some excellent ones if you search hard enough.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Doghouse RileyDoghouse Riley Posts: 347
    punkdoc said:
    Most you Tube videos I have seen have major factual inaccuracies and seem to be by rampant self publicists, although there are some excellent ones if you search hard enough.

    As they say it takes all sorts, you have to pick and choose.

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited October 2021
    punkdoc said:
    Most you Tube videos I have seen have major factual inaccuracies and seem to be by rampant self publicists, although there are some excellent ones if you search hard enough.
    That was kinda the point I was trying to make too.
    Not directed at anyone one person. but hey ho
    Devon.
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