You Tubing

Harry has started a You Tube channel called Tanki Pickle, and has had an enormous number of views and subscribers. He has now also just started a blog for his Tanki Pickle. I am quite impressed.  I told him to stop wasting so much time bumming around on the computer, it is time that he started to use it to earn him an income. If the creator of instagram can make 1.2billion by his twenty sixth birthday, I see no reason why Harry can't.  There needs to be some pay off for the massive amount of time that he devotes to technology on a daily basis.
Harry's Channel is just you tube videos of him playing various scenarios on the video game Tanki Online.  In my Opinion, BORING!  But there is a market for that sort of stuff.  Other online gamers seem to love watching other people play video games on You Tube.  If devoting endless hours playing isn't bad enough, they devote even more hours watching someone else play.

Online gaming is becoming huge and there are calls to recognise it as a legitimate sport, like football or cricket. Evan, as well as playing League of Legends, happily inflicts severe sleep deprivation upon himself to watch full on league championship games.  These are played in a different time zone, so the middle of our night.  He sits up and watches the world's best League of Legend gamers battle it out for the championship, all expertly commentated and broadcast worldwide to legions of eager fans.  All of this adds up to massive amounts of screen time, and minimal sleep.

Evan hasn't displayed the slightest interest in blogging or producing any videos of his gaming, even though, I would estimate that he has far outstripped Harry's time at the screen just on this game alone.  He has sunk plenty of money into the game buying riot points and upgrading his heroes, and has nothing substantial to show for it.  I believe that he is reasonably successful in the game, but show me the money in real life.  Where's the pay off?

Now Harry has an eye for the entrepreneurial side of things.  A little whisper in his ear and he was straight into his You Tube account settings setting himself up to get paid for all of those views that he has been getting.  Good boy!

Now for me to attempt the creation of my own You Tube channel.  We have so much silly video footage, how to narrow it down and generate views will be the challenge.  I have Harry to compete with now, so somehow I need to beat all of those crazy gamers who have ridiculous amounts of time and energy to watch endless videos on his blog, and find an equally crazy demographic of my own to tap into.