I'm pondering doing some kind of social media content creating

[aliumbear]

I am generally not a fan of social media and people can be nasty but there must be a way to do it that doesn't impact your mental health too much? I like the idea of documenting parts of my life and think I could potentially earn some money from it? I have seen some people doing that on facebook or youtube even filming their supermarket shop, gardening etc, they are normal people and they get thousands of views? I have seen a lot of nasty comments as well so I would be worried about that because I'm quite a sensitive person.

Me too!

I think itd be good to tell a bit of mine and dd's story!

But I have my reservations too!

Do you want to do it for money? I have no idea why anyone would do it otherwise. But if I were you, I wouldn't even start. Unless you can get hundreds of thousands of followers it will not be worth your time.
People who post about going about their daily life are just weird. People who do things such as gardening or makeup or anything where theres an audience for it then maybe... but everything has been done to death now

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You say you are quite a sensitive person, so this would be a terrible idea. People who do this sort of thing need to have the hide of a rhinoceros.

I really wouldn’t advise it if you acknowledge yourself to be sensitive.

There are ‘real’ people on tiktok who are monetising their everyday life, but I think the boom growth period has passed, and it’s now an extremely crowded market where thousands of people are uploading videos of their weekly shop to all of potentially 7 views (you don’t make any money on TikTok until 10,000 individual users are following you.)

The way to get 10k followers is by either finding a niche and being very good at it, having a network that will get you exposure - an agency or existing relationship with a known creator, and the ‘easiest’ or most accessible stream to the everyday person is ‘rage bait’

Rage bait content involves pushing yourself in a deliberately provocative way that creates a heightened response from the audience, mostly negative and inflammatory. You need to be very thick skinned, and have a ‘I have nothing to lose’ attitude towards your career and community.

It’s oversaturated
you are sensitive and don’t think you’d be comfortable with the inevitable bad comments
are you interesting enough for people to want to follow you?!

There are so many people creating 'content ' there is no need for more. I also don't think it's the arena for someone who describes themselves as sensitive

Yes, it probably does have to be something very interesting anx unique to make money.

Just thinking if I documented my life, people would be watching me agonising over which emollient would best tackle a rogue patch of eczema 😂 Not sure there is a market for that, but then I've heard OnlyFans can be very odd so who knows!

A social media content creator I follow had a post viewed 1million times and made 0.14 cents which is worth around 10p from that video. Not sure I would want all the hassle and grief that she gets for 10p

I had a go with zero plan and I would give my videos 3/10. Not terrible but not very good either. I got fed up because I realised if I wanted it to be good, I would need to be a lot more strategic about it. Eg. Considering what limits I was going to put in place and what repeating themes/catchphrases/fonts for subtitles. Plus:

Deciding in advance my usp
Considering ‘brand’ aesthetic
Planning, scripting and scheduling
Creating a ‘character’ version of myself
Being outward looking behind the scenes

If you, take someone like Lydia Millen who is the best at what she does, she limits her conversations to camera to gardening, clothes for events and her content is nature, greens, neutrals, natural materials.

Or someone like (TikTok) Scaryspookystorytime - where her content is 90% her telling spooky store in her car. She limits the location, she limits the content - we don’t know lots or much about her life. I used her as an example of someone who limits her location, which I think makes editing easier.

(TikTok) Danielle Charity Shop life - does polished videos in her niche. She is a good one to look at how she does it.

I think it’s a lot more scary before you actually start. No one was horrible to me but also not many people actually saw my videos!

I was there at the start of Twitch which is a streaming gaming platform. I wouldn’t call myself that sensitive, I did stream for a bit. But my God the comments. This is live interaction but well I’m not writing exactly what was written in my comments section but some stuff was vile of a sexual nature. The stream was me playing games and talking about what I was doing and the game, people comment on their favourite characters, builds, techniques, it can also go in to other general chat, I was wearing a hoody not a bikini streamer as they were called.

You need to find a niche that does not attract vitriolic and nasty followers. I follow mainly gardeners on social media. A peaceful and kind space where people talk about peat free compost and sustainable growing. Clearly extremely boring to most people. But negative comments are unusual and are stamped on by others.

My husband, a biker, follows people on YouTube etc. who are travelling the world on motorbikes. Their content is amazing. One woman he follows has to post 3 weeks after each filming because she has often been stalked by (men) crazies. She gets some disgusting comments too.

I don’t agree with PP that we have enough content creators now. Any more than we have enough TV programmes. The space is constantly evolving. But you do have to have a good idea if you want to make money