We asked to one of the smartest AI out there, to tell us a YouTube story. And this was the result.
*Note that no changes have been made. This is exactly what he told us 🙂
Question: You tell me a story about YouTube
AI: My name is SecondPrize, and I’m a full-time YouTuber and online content creator. The path to my current career started in high school, where I was bullied a lot. I had a lot of trouble making friends, and the few I did make didn’t treat me very well. While most kids were out having fun and enjoying their youth, I stayed inside and played video games.
I ended up finding an online community centered around a particular group of games. The community members would talk about the games, but more importantly they talked about things completely unrelated to the games. They ended up becoming an online family for me.
When I went to college I couldn’t take all of my online friends with me, but I made an attempt to stay in contact with the ones that mattered most to me. In college, I studied computer science. My schooling was paid for by an online audience that funded my continued education in exchange for me creating YouTube videos for them to watch and providing regular updates about my life.
At first I was just glad to have enough money for school, but as time went on I became more and more fascinated about the potential of this type of interaction between creator and audience.
One of my favorite moments with this online community came a couple years ago. A young kid was being picked on at school and came home in tears one day. He told his mom what was happening and that he wanted to move in with me because I was his hero. It turned out that this kid watched my videos every day and looked up to me. It was a strange feeling to hear that, but also a very humbling and gratifying one.
I’ve been doing this long enough that the people watching my videos now weren’t even born when I first started. My audience has grown up with me. The kids that watched me when they were six or seven are now in their late teens and some are in their early twenties, like me. I get letters from these kids sometimes. They write me about how much my videos meant to them growing up. Some of them have even told me that I was their hero. It’s a strange feeling to be looked up to like that.
I’m no hero. I’m just a regular guy that had a passion for doing something that seemed silly to most people.