I’m just doing commentary over gameplay (not even related to the topic I’m talking about) but I feel like it’s too low effort and lazy and would be more immersive with full related visuals.

I see a successful channel (Optimus) that does just this, he plays games (at least I assume he’s playing them himself, they seem to match a “No Copyright Gameplay channel, which is fine because they give permission, I’m actually using it to just focus on what I’m talking about. When I play games I want to play the game, just play it, for my own enjoyment).

He talks about mostly news in pop culture, politics, videogames, whatever is viral and trending. But his actual VIDEOS are just some random gameplay that’s completely unrelated to the topic he’s talking about.

And here’s the thing, while he has over a million subscribers, and regularly tens of thousands of views, another channel (Moon) that makes the actual video unique visuals that are ACTUALLY RELATED to the subject they’re talking about, regularly gets hundreds of thousands of views (with only around 20K more subscribers). The video editing is obviously more advanced and complicated, not sure I could even do that level of video editing on my iPhone, not sure CapCut can do all of that, and yes I know CapCut might still get banned, for good, there are other similar apps).

And then there’s SunnyV2, similar video editing and visuals to Moon. But he has over 4 MILLION views, which is probably a reason he regularly gets MILLIONS of views.

I also have to use a TTS, but it’s from ElevenLabs and I generate small at a time and regenerate a lot, editing punctuation and spelling, to get it to sound better. It’s still hard to get it to sound proper enough, but it at least doesn’t sound completely dull and robotic. This is the only way I can or will narrate any videos for the foreseeable future. I cannot, and will not record my real voice, even to use voice changer (I’m not even sure if that’s even much better than TTS, it won’t even let me use it with the particular voice I already chose to use) and I sure as hell won’t show my face.

I know a lot of you absolutely hate any kind of AI and think TTS is the worst thing to hear on YouTube. I could be physically mute for all you know, what if I was? What if I had to use a robot voice to talk in real life? That’s a thing.

Despite my lack of success in anything in life (I barely made any YouTube videos yet though, only ONE on this commentary channel so far) I get frustrated that my content won’t be higher quality.

I’m close to 30 and I feel like YouTube, or some type of fully online social media content, is only remaining chance to get out of low paying dead end job and progress in life. A lot of jobs don’t even pay a living wage, and don’t even serve as a stepping stone. I also have trouble, let’s say holding onto better jobs than I’m stuck in now……

Everything feels too complicated in life now, everything feels too advanced. The shut people have to do to earn a living and survive in life, it’s all artificial and unnatural, but I doubt most people can understand what I mean…….

I kind of abandoned my AI video channel, it took too long to make anything decent quality, and it’s way too expensive to generate that stuff now. And a lot of people assume anything and everything involving ANY use of AI is slop, and if they actually saw good AI content, would probably still hate it anyway…….

The only “AI” I’m using now is for voice, but everything said I write myself.

At my age I don’t have many years to maybe blow up and get monetized and rake in revenue. On the other hand, I’ve had the same W2 job for over 6 years and still only make $400 a week WHEN I get the hours, but they regularly dip into the 20s……

I view life as more about luck now, there’s too many people too, and I don’t think it’s realistic to be better than most people. My hopes and dreams are dead, and I’m more or less a zombie stone and even getting out of bed feels pointless, going to the store to do the pointless job feels pointless, it doesn’t do anything to improve my life.

Most jobs don’t even make any sense, and I kind of do want AI to takeover more now, especially driving. We should have AI takeover the military (physical war) to save even more lives, or at least have them remote control robots and tanks instead of physically going out and getting shot to death and blown up. What kind of society accepts sacrificing lives over automating technology to SAVE LIVES???