#ArapyDea The Content Creator

[arapydea]

I keep feeling like the VTuber Boom of the early 2020s perfectly replicated and amplified the YouTuber Boom of the early 2010s

It's full of parallels, you can do something you have fun with and make a living! wuu! but thats not even a quarter of the truth

Besides purely on statistics, barely anyone can make a living, sure we see dozens and dozens of VTubers making a living, but there are thousands not making a living

Success is a gamble at best, you can absolutely put in work to have a higher chance of becoming successful, but there is never never a guarantee for it. No matter how many YouTube Gurus & Twitch Experts tell you that if you do this and if you do that, you make it.

I honestly find people who do follow those steps & make it somewhat problematic cause they run around preaching these methods that worked for them when dozens if not hundreds of others did the exact same and didn't make it. Or people who didn't do anything they did and made it.

If there was one secure way to make it that would be the one being passed around by the biggest people to smaller people who then make it big. But instead we have thounsands of the most annoying ""Experts"" running around trying to sell courses.

Anyway where I wanted to go with this is, if you are having fun with the content you are making - be that Videos, Livestreams, Fanart or Fanfiction - people will notice. But of you only wanna do those things when people notice I want to kindly recommend reevaluating why you are actually doing it

(This is coming from someone who is currently making content for - what feels to me like - no one. I'm just vibing, but if anything I am having fun in my streams, I am having fun making Clips, and if I'm not having fun how is anyone else supposed to be)

(I also absolutely had phases where I was demotivated by not having attention, not having interaction, not having viewers. But if thats gonna stop me, why the hell did I even start?)

[arapydea]

Helllooooo! Just gonna talk about my experience with Streaming till now! Because why not! 

So I started streaming around the start of April this year because it turns out I actually can? 

I was kinda convinced that with the little Laptop I have here it would be almost impossible and I am like the furthers away possible from the router in this apartment so that was another worry. And yet. It works…for the most part…but what more can I ask for? 

I only have occasional connection issues and otherwise it works fine so I’ll take that anyday over it not working at all. 

Anyway so the 2 big things that I wanted to be able to do were Games Streams (which works as I already record my gameplay) and Art Streams (which is were the problems started). Because I could not for the life of me figure out how I can connect my tablet to my laptop in a way where I can record what is happening on the tablet for months. Until I decided I would check once more for a way and I found one that (again, works for the most part) in under 10 minutes...yeah... But it works! I can record my art! I can stream my art!

Anyway I started on March 30th with just a test stream to see if it works. It did! Yay!

I did a few more test streams just to see that it actually works consistenly after which I put a scheduel in place I felt I could stick to. Which is Tuesday & Saturday from 11am to 1pm (CEST) with occasional Thursday afternoon streams. I get if that is an odd time it's just what works best for me at the moment.

But streaming has been very fun! Being able to talk for 2 hours straight has been very nice somehow (well more for my soul than for my throat).

What I did learn thorugh the Art Streams is that I cannot start a piece and partially do it on stream and partially off stream, my brain can't work with that. However a Meme Ara takes around 90 minutes to do while streaming and that fit very nicely with my streaming times & you can never have enough Meme Aras.

But I also learned rather quickly and rather involuntarily that my Streaming limit is at 2 Hours & 30 minutes. I did a stream recently that accidentally went on for 3 hours and 30 minutes and...ah...that wasn't good for me...we did get further in the game though.

You also have to keep an eye on soo much stuff all the time? I have to remember to check the Chat regularly for any activity, Twitches acitivity feed itself, the Bitrate/Internet connection, the Feed from the Game/Tablet & doing all that while conituing to actually do stuff. I am getting used to it but it's taking tiimmeee.

Either way, it's going great! I can mostly stick to my scheudel, I get stuff done, I have fun and that is basically all that counts. I also get to use my PNGModel more which just make it easier to use over time. And having made scenes & screens for the stream has also been fun (even if almost everything is currently only temporary)

Prepping the VODs has also been interesting, especially in Thumbnail Terms. I'm also learning lots there.

Another thing I did just for fun is that I recommend a Song every week through "Aras Song Of The Week!" which is more like "Aras Song of Last Week" but it still works. I have a Playlist for those!

There are also some things I would like to try out in the future, like handcam streams & building some fictional Kpop groups on Stream (I know, that came out of nowhere didn't it?).

And thats where my thoughts about all that end. Well well.

Let's finish this of with a little hold up of my stats

Since the 30th of March 2024 I have (as of the June 21st 2024): - Streamed on a total of 22 days - Streamed 46 hours & 35 Minutes - got 15 Followers

Either way Here is the VOD channel and I Stream Here on Twitch!

[arapydea]

Video Timeline Post (2)

This Post is for me and everyone who may be interested in the editing of my videos in the hopes that someone learns something. Timelines will be added around the time where a new Video is released. BloopDea Timelines (My personal Bloopers format) will be added in this version.

This is the second post of this kind for cleaness and overviews sake. First Post can be found here (and also because I did say I entered a new era so making a new timeline post seems appropriate)

>Overview of all my posts<

Last update: 17.11.2023 (Day/Month/Year)

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Create to Live or Live to Create - What I Learned From Youtubers I Watched (Part 1)

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: Editing this was very exciting & very frustrating. I learned a lot and got to optimize my working process ! Now that I look at the Timeline I should have made more use of the markers. It helps with feeling productive and feels like reaching goals xD

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~{BloopDea}~

-Video Status: Unlisted (as BloopDea always is)

-Additional Information: Editing this was fun! And I learned new things about Shotcut! It's funny how before I started editing this I decided I wanted to be able to do Keyframes without thinking about it and then here I just did it

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My two cents about the SSSniperwolf Situation

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: I was literally so outraged that I made this entire video in 3 days and threw out my normal editing. I was fun though, I may do more videos like this if there is something I really want to talk about.

(And no BloopDea here)

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Fleeting Case Studies - What I Learned From Youtubers I Watched (Part 2)

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: This was an experience. I definetly got more efficient with my editing and while I have a lot to learn I think I am improving alright. I also lernt a lot more about Shotcut and how certain things can be done. Even though I did more work overall it still felt like I spend less time doing it.

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~{BloopDea}~

-Video Status: Unlisted

-Additional Information: This was a lot of fun. I did a lot more with the keyframes. Breaking the static and general unwritten bounderies of editing with BloopDea feels right and really fitting so I will do that more. Also i am in dire need of more Meme-Aras so I'll add some more until the next one.

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[arapydea]

What I learned after making 20 Videos

I’m just gonna go through each of my videos and what I learned from them because now seems to be a good time for that considering the upgrade that will happen soon-ish 

So in the beginning I was only writing notes, little reminders for what I wanted to talk about in my videos. I realized quickly that this made the recording phase longer than it had to be, made the video disorgenized and added a ton of time in editing.  Because I had to make something good out of a recording in which I wasn’t only not confident in what I was saying but it was also all over the place (more so than my videos now which is surprising). 

So after 4 videos of weird notes and too long recordings I decided I would write scripts. Word for word for what I was gonna say. (I’ve always been told that my reading aloud sounded rather natural, that paired with my ability to write how I speak gave me an advantage on that.)

But I did actually write a word for word script for the channel trailer though I generally don’t count that as an actual video. 

For the first few actual videos (Miraculous Truth & Lies Rant - AngryArapy 🌋 /Merlin - BabbleArea 🌌/Why the Haikyuu Characters are great - BabbleZone ☄️/Gravity Falls - BabbleArea 🌌) I did not have scripts and it shows. The videos were a good start because I had something to work off of and it showed me a lot of how I shouldn’t do things.

So since “Reaction Streamers are parasites - AngryArapy 🌋” I have been writing scripts.  These solid scripts cut down my recording and editing time significantly (which does not mean it’s quick…)

Though looking back this video isn’t good…which I think is mostly because I had the entire script ready and then 3 new things came out that I wanted to incorporate and just overall I just wasn’t ready to talk about this kind of topic. If I ever get to it I would like to re-do this video in a proper way to do the topic justice and explain my viewpoints better.

I personally think that from “Marinette is NOT a normal girl ☄️ BabbleZone” my thumbnails have become good(-ish).  At least from then on I felt like I kinda knew what I was doing. 

After that I did “How I made my Persona” which was a very lengthy process which I am still pretty happy with that.  As far as I remember the video was fun to edit, I don’t think I learned a lot from this one besides that it’s good to keep track of what you are doing so you can talk about it later.

The first NameAnalysis (which is a format I am not sure I want to continue but we will see) was…a pain to say the least, this was around the time were my fascination with Miraculous turned to pure frustration. The research for this was somewhat boring and the editing bored me even more. This was the first time I truly noticed that when I am bored I am slow in editing (which I will come back to later)

The first Speedpaint Commentary was a new experience! “HeRos Creation Explained” was pretty fun for me because it was a new experience, I don’t think Speedpaint Commentaries are really my thing but it challenged me to develop my editing skills further and think outside of the box I was in before. 

“Avatar: The Last Airbender 🌌 BabbleArea” was…said lightly…a straight run into a wall. I edit in Shotcut and at the time I didn’t know what it could do and with the knowledge I had I hit the wall so hard I wasn’t sure if I could continue. With what I know now about what Shotcut can do I think I could do this Video better but at the time i just simply didn’t have the knowledge and thought it would be fine. This video was a big reason why I tried Davinci Resolve (which we will also get to later).

What I have not mentioned until now is that I edited all of these videos on a 10 year old laptop with a whopping 4GB RAM (which if you don’t know, isn’t a lot…) As you probably can imagine, editing was a pain.  Shotcut crashed on me more than I want to remember (but as Shotcut has automatic saving I never really lost much). 

Around this time I started looking for a new laptop. 

“The ending of Digimon Frontier could’ve been genius ☄️ BabbleZone” I think I still made on the old laptop (but that was just a quick video to get out of my head and just have another video so I wasn’t that attached to making this one good)

But both “Miraculous…WHY Power-Ups AND Fusions?? 🌋 AngryArapy“ and “Kitsuyoi Artwork 🖌️ DeaDraws“ were edited on the laptop of my dear MamaDea (which has 8GB RAM, and damn was it nice to not edit in fear of a crash and slowness.) [Around that time I was looking/waiting for my new laptop and couldn’t bare working on the 4GB RAM anymore.]

And then I had the new laptop, and immediately did the dumbest thing I could do.  Throw out everything I know and make an entire Video in Davinci Resolve without getting enough info about how the programm works and what it can do. (And not informing myself what the limits of Shotcut are)

“Pokémon: Hisuian Snow 🌌 BabbleArea” was the first video I made on the new laptop and in Davinci Resolve (even though I think the audio editing I still did in Shotcut because it was easier for me). 

Between this Video and the one before were (if my math is right [and it’s probably not]) 94 days of no uploads. Changing to a completely new device and a completly new editing programm with no planned buffer or a planned slow learning process is just not the smartest move.  I tried to learn Davinci Resolve while making a full video which is just simply not how this works.  (Additionally to that I didn’t even like the Video I made in DaVinci. Learning how to not to things is also good kids.)

And here I just want to share a thought because I think there is a difference between DaVinci Resolve and other video editing programms because DaVinci just doesn’t seem to be a video editior, it’s a movie editor. 

It surely can be used as a video editor and in some cases I guess it makes more sense but at least for me and the type of content I want to make, a video editor (if actually understood) should be able to do everything I want to do without giving me 4 Pages I do not understand and will never need.

From “Miraculous Rewrite Summary - Season 1 🐞🐱” I have been editing in Shotcut again and have been learning the absolute limits of Shotcut because I think it can do more than it looks like it can and it should be able to do everything I need as soon as I figure out how. 

In “How I Made My Channel” I didn’t learn as much in editing but I did realise again that my scripts are lacking. 

Through “Digimon Adventure is a pretty great movie 🌌 BabbleArea“ I realiesed 3 things. One: my scripts are not getting better. Two: BabbleArea as a format in itself is severely lacking. Three: I need to get my editing done in at most 2 weeks because if it takes longer than that it takes longer than it needs and I get confused with what I wanted to do. 

“Pokémon Pokémon copied from Digimon ☄️ BabbleZone” confirmed point one and three from above again but also let me know that as long as I fully believe in a video until I need to start the visual editing process the video is at least okey. 

What I learned overall is that scripts are always good because they save time not only in recording but also in editing, allow for easy subtitling and probably much more.

I think I naturally learned how to make better Thumbnails (but stll have much to learn).

In the beginning I actually purposefully kept my editing as simple as possible because I wanted to avoid copyright issues and just not spend that much time on it because it was just this “I’m going to try it out" thing but I will try some more things in the future and take some more risks.

As much as I would like to just do what I am comfortable with now, if I don’t try new things I won’t learn new things and I won’t have a proper chance at making my content more interesting. 

So I’m going to try more things and keep going for as long as I can ! ^^

[arapydea]

The Video Timeline Thread

This Post is for me and everyone may interested in the editing of my videos in the hopes that someone learns something. Timelines will be added around the time where a new Video is released. BloopDea Video Timelines will (as of now) not be added in this.

I originally posted the Timelines on Twitter but decided to put them here in a Tumblr post as I find it looks cleaner and is easier to update.

-Note: I do not have the Project Files of my first 3 Videos anymore and also no screenshots of the Timelines. Those are lost to time itself.

>My Navigation<

Last update: 06.06.2023

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Merlin - BabbleArea 🌌 #01

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: My placement of things for this Video was really inefficent, I have learned since.

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Why the Haikyuu Characters are great - BabbleZone ☄️ #01

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: As far as I remember rght now editing this Video was really fun.

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Gravity Falls - BabbleArea 🌌 #02

-Video Status: Unlisted

-Additional Information: This Video was made unlisted as I was really unhappy with it. If you take a deeper look you can still find it.

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Reaction Streamers are parasites - AngryArapy 🌋 #02

-Video Status: Unlisted

-Additional Information: This took ages to edit but you can see that I made the editing more organized (for me) and got more efficent. Still really happy with the end product. Update on the 06.06.23: After all this time I have become unhappy with this video. My execution was unclear and I feel way more comfortable to just put this on unlisted. Maybe one day I will do a new take on it.

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Marinette is NOT a normal girl - BabbleZone ☄️ #02

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: I remember editing this really fast as it also was quite short but also that I was really annoyed with the pictures.

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How I made my Persona

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: Stacking all those pictures up surely was something. (I’m sure there is an easier way to put multiple pictures at the same place but I don’t know about that and like this I have more control.)

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NameAnalysis 🔭 #01 - Kwamis (Part 1) - Miraculous Edition

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: I think I am still haunted by the Kwami Pictures. Again lots of stacking. I think I was quite efficent with this one.

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HeRos Creation Explained! - Speedpaint Commentary - DeaDraws 🖌️ #02

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: I cut a lot of the speedpaint for flow purposes. And stack stack stack pictures over pictures.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender - BabbleArea 🌌 #03

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: I think I finally understand how I should edit these videos. Unfortunatly I am limited in my current abilitys.

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The ending of the Digimon Frontier Opening could’ve been genius - BabbleZone ☄️ #03 

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: I was kinda lazy on this one but I am still very happy with it.

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Miraculous…WHY Power-Ups AND Fusions?? - AngryArapy 🌋 #03

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: First Video edited on my mother laptop cause I just couldn’t work anymore on the one I had. But I really like this video :3

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Kitsuyoi Artwork - DeaDraws 🖌️ #03

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: This was edited over a way longer amount of time than was actually needed. Also it’s vertical so that was new.

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Pokémon: Hisuian Snow is beautiful 🌌 BabbleArea

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: Edited in DaVinci Resolve. I did not like it. I am going back to Shotcut for most things.

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Miraculous Rewrite Summary - Season 1 🐞🐱 

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: Editing this was actually fun but it took a bit till I found the flow with the Aras again. And damn do I prefer working in Shotcut x’D

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How I Made My Channel

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: I do not know how but I edited almost half of this in only 2 hours and I do not know how. But editing this was fun because it was...easy. It gets easier and easier to use the Aras and I like that very much. Also ! Markers !! They are actually useful for organization I’ll probably keep using them.

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Digimon Adventure is a pretty great movie 🌌 BabbleArea

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: This video took too long to edit. But it felt rather easy so I am getting somewhere. I am not satisfied with the transitions between the parts, I’ll test more with that in future BA Videos. Also markers !! Love markers, good for seperating large chunks of the video to have an easier overview of how much I should get done in one sitting. 

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Pokémon Pokémon copied from Digimon ☄️ BabbleZone

Addition Timeline because I did not want to risk to mess up the entire video by trying to put this into the orginal file:

-Video Status: Public

-Additional Information: Editing this took sooooooooooooo long but I learned a lot. Specifically that I need to make editing more interesting for me. I do think I could be faster in editing when I am less bored. I’ll put that to the test. 

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