Hi :)
In a few weeks time, I'm going to be cutting off all my hair and donating it to The Little Princess Trust. It's an amazing charity which I decided to help out, they make wigs for children going through cancer treatment who need some support and give them to them for free (they'd usually cost around £2000).
You'll notice that on the left of the page, there's a button linking to my JustGiving page. Alongside cutting my hair off, I'm raising sponsorship money to go towards Cancer Research, which is also an amazing charity. I explain further about why I'm doing it in the story section of that page, but I thought I'd put up a quick post to let you know in case any of you are particularly charitable people and would like to donate.
Thank you to anyone who does, and thank you for reading this :)
See you soon,
Lucy x
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27 January 2017
15 January 2017
The YouTuber Stigma
Hi.
Okay, I now, the regular updates flopped. But honestly, if anyone actually expected me to keep a new year's resolution, I blame it on you.
Anyway, in case you didn't know, I have a YouTube channel which goes along with this blog. Well, that's sort of reversed itself, but I still don't like referring to this blog as an add-on because I've had it for so long. Some of you might remember my first ever blog post (props to you), where I said that I made this blog after a previous YouTube channel went wrong.
We don't talk about that channel.
Or my old blog posts.
(dear god no.)
However, in May last year, I went on hiatus on here and created a new YouTube channel (this one), which hasn't gone quite as badly. Since I've made this one, people have started to actually be interested, which has been an experience.
That's one word for it, anyway.
I don't even have many subscribers, and I've started to get a taste of the stigma surrounding YouTubers. I feel like people judge me differently when they find out that I have a channel. If they were judging me on the actual content of my videos, I'd understand, but that's not it. All I have to say is 'I have a YouTube channel', and I'll get a patronising look of 'that's weird.' I don't usually tell people- in fact, I originally intended on keeping my channel private from people at school, but they somehow found out. There's only a couple of people who actually talk about it, most of which aren't actually my close friends, which is interesting.
I feel like the fact that I have a YouTube channel should be similar to someone else enjoying football, or something like that; a part of my personality rather than my entire existence. Why is it such a big deal? I enjoy making videos- does that change something about me? I'm hardly Pewdiepie, I'm not even that active on my channel, so why is it so important?
Well, that was a bit negative. On the plus side, I re-discovered my love for Vesperteen's music recently, as the music video for What We Could Have Been came out, and Jesse Cale, one of my favourite people, started going back on the road to support them. I definitely recommend you listen to it.
I think that's everything I wanted to say, so I'll (hopefully) see you soon. If you do follow my uploads, I'm currently working on a video which is pretty complex in the technical department, so might not be out for a couple of weeks (if any of my friends are interested in helping out with the filming, that would be greatly appreciated), so I might be a bit inactive for a few weeks.
Lucy x
Okay, I now, the regular updates flopped. But honestly, if anyone actually expected me to keep a new year's resolution, I blame it on you.
Anyway, in case you didn't know, I have a YouTube channel which goes along with this blog. Well, that's sort of reversed itself, but I still don't like referring to this blog as an add-on because I've had it for so long. Some of you might remember my first ever blog post (props to you), where I said that I made this blog after a previous YouTube channel went wrong.
We don't talk about that channel.
Or my old blog posts.
(dear god no.)
However, in May last year, I went on hiatus on here and created a new YouTube channel (this one), which hasn't gone quite as badly. Since I've made this one, people have started to actually be interested, which has been an experience.
That's one word for it, anyway.
I don't even have many subscribers, and I've started to get a taste of the stigma surrounding YouTubers. I feel like people judge me differently when they find out that I have a channel. If they were judging me on the actual content of my videos, I'd understand, but that's not it. All I have to say is 'I have a YouTube channel', and I'll get a patronising look of 'that's weird.' I don't usually tell people- in fact, I originally intended on keeping my channel private from people at school, but they somehow found out. There's only a couple of people who actually talk about it, most of which aren't actually my close friends, which is interesting.
I feel like the fact that I have a YouTube channel should be similar to someone else enjoying football, or something like that; a part of my personality rather than my entire existence. Why is it such a big deal? I enjoy making videos- does that change something about me? I'm hardly Pewdiepie, I'm not even that active on my channel, so why is it so important?
Well, that was a bit negative. On the plus side, I re-discovered my love for Vesperteen's music recently, as the music video for What We Could Have Been came out, and Jesse Cale, one of my favourite people, started going back on the road to support them. I definitely recommend you listen to it.
I think that's everything I wanted to say, so I'll (hopefully) see you soon. If you do follow my uploads, I'm currently working on a video which is pretty complex in the technical department, so might not be out for a couple of weeks (if any of my friends are interested in helping out with the filming, that would be greatly appreciated), so I might be a bit inactive for a few weeks.
Lucy x
2 January 2017
2017
Remember when I used to post regularly on here and people actually read it?
That was fun.
It's partly my fault, but partly not. I haven't posted on here in over a month, after a pretty solid couple of weeks of daily posts, but even so, people weren't reading or commenting on those, either.
I think the main reason I've lost my audience on here is because I've started to find myself a bit more. I talked about this briefly in my recent YouTube video, but when I started this blog, not only did I have a lot of time on my hands, plus next to nothing going on in terms of my personal life, I was also quite 'normal'. That's the only word I can think of, it doesn't quite cover it. All my photos were overly saturated, I was always buying makeup and bath bombs, I listened to all the music in the charts, and people liked that.
When I'm talking about this 'audience' I used to have, it wasn't big or anything, but I'd get 50-ish PVs per post, and about five comments. Since I had a break over summer, and changed the style of my posts, my PVs dropped to around 20, and I don't think I've had any comments. People occasionally bring up my blog in conversations (which is great by the way), and for some reason, I find it a lot easier to talk about than my YouTube. Which, when you think about it, doesn't make sense, because I share a lot more of my feelings and experiences on here, and it's more personal than my channel. So if my channel is more light-hearted, why is it harder to talk about than my blog?
Anyway, happy new year! I'm back on here, but how often, I'm not sure. My spare time has gone down a lot recently, and it's going to decrease even more over the next few weeks, with school, so I don't want to promise anything. But I do enjoy posting on here, and I have been doing so for over a year now, so I'm not intending on stopping anytime soon. I just might not post as regularly. For the one person living in Poland, six-ish in America and two in France who reads all my posts, hello! I also have a YouTube channel which I'm more active on if you'd like to look at that. I'm assuming all the Brits are my friends.
So, that was a bit of a ramble. But in short, I'm back on here, and happy new year!
Lucy x
That was fun.
It's partly my fault, but partly not. I haven't posted on here in over a month, after a pretty solid couple of weeks of daily posts, but even so, people weren't reading or commenting on those, either.
I think the main reason I've lost my audience on here is because I've started to find myself a bit more. I talked about this briefly in my recent YouTube video, but when I started this blog, not only did I have a lot of time on my hands, plus next to nothing going on in terms of my personal life, I was also quite 'normal'. That's the only word I can think of, it doesn't quite cover it. All my photos were overly saturated, I was always buying makeup and bath bombs, I listened to all the music in the charts, and people liked that.
When I'm talking about this 'audience' I used to have, it wasn't big or anything, but I'd get 50-ish PVs per post, and about five comments. Since I had a break over summer, and changed the style of my posts, my PVs dropped to around 20, and I don't think I've had any comments. People occasionally bring up my blog in conversations (which is great by the way), and for some reason, I find it a lot easier to talk about than my YouTube. Which, when you think about it, doesn't make sense, because I share a lot more of my feelings and experiences on here, and it's more personal than my channel. So if my channel is more light-hearted, why is it harder to talk about than my blog?
Anyway, happy new year! I'm back on here, but how often, I'm not sure. My spare time has gone down a lot recently, and it's going to decrease even more over the next few weeks, with school, so I don't want to promise anything. But I do enjoy posting on here, and I have been doing so for over a year now, so I'm not intending on stopping anytime soon. I just might not post as regularly. For the one person living in Poland, six-ish in America and two in France who reads all my posts, hello! I also have a YouTube channel which I'm more active on if you'd like to look at that. I'm assuming all the Brits are my friends.
So, that was a bit of a ramble. But in short, I'm back on here, and happy new year!
Lucy x
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