Comments by "Harry \x22Nic\x22 Nicholas" (@HarryNicNicholas) on "Why So Many YouTubers Are Quitting" video.

  1. i'll be 70 this year, i've worked in graphics of all kinds since i left school in 1970. i got caught up in computer graphics at uni, i got my degree as a mature student in 1984 and my first job after leaving uni was working for digital pictures in london, but my direct boss was more interested in pop videos and commercials than CGI so i spent a year or two doing all manner of graphics for music videos. i moved to CFX, another cutting edge computer graphics house and there i learned computer animation from the basics, and in those first 5 years out of uni my cv included a top of the pops titles, teletubbies titles, dozens of commercials, dozens of corporate videos, architectural, automotive and space exploration videos. i went freelance around 1990 and since then i've clocked up hundreds more videos and even games and four feature films. to me youtube was just a place to promote my freelance work and to store any animation i was tinkering with. my impression of youtube when it appeared was that here was another source of work for me, everyone would want titles and everyone would want graphics, but what happened in fact was everyone got photoshop and everyone got 3ds MAX or blender, or some other pirate 3D software, and animation i we charged at CFX and DP £20,000 for suddenly people wanted done for £50. so i just use youtube to save my animation work, i do some sculpture these days too, and i've been uploading my music since about 2013 too. youtube is just a storage facility for me, despite being on since about 2006 i still have less than 200 subs, i never promote my channel (until recently that is, since youtube want to force me to watch their crummy ads - they've used my content for free all this time so it would be nice to get some revenue back) to me youtube has just been a vanity project and a way to store my work so i can show it at will.
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