Thank you for this video. I'm still trying to figure out what my unfair advantage is... Being an author? Living in Belgium, speaking English, French and Dutch? My aesthetic? When I see other bookchannels blow up after one video, I start doubting myself again :) it also takes me 7-14 hours a week to put out 1 video, so I feel you. I wonder if I'll ever be where you are now. You have built a lovely community in such a short time! It still blows my mind. You're doing GREAT and you should be proud of your work - it's paying off. 🥰
Hallo Maria! Ich verfolge deine Videos schon eine Weile und ich denke, nun ist es auch mal Zeit zu kommentieren. Deine Videos sind es nämlich, die mich nach 4 Jahren Zögern nun doch dazu gebracht haben, meinen Literatur/Booktube Kanal zu starten. Wie du studiere ich im Bereich Literaturwissenschaft und ich habe mit großer Freude deine Videos zum Studium verfolgt. Ich bin total beeindruckt und begeistert, wie souverän du es schaffst, deine Videos auf Englisch zu gestalten. Ich habe an der Uni mein C2 Englisch abgeschlossen, habe aber beim ersten Videodreh gleich gemerkt, dass ich VIEL zu nervös vor der Kamera bin, um auch noch auf Englisch zu sprechen. Langer Rede, kurzer Sinn - seit gestern ist mein erstes, deutsches Video online und du hast mir mit deinen Videos Mut gemacht, das endlich zu tun. ❤
I wish I had a youtube channel about books. But I take too much pleasure watching you and other booktubers and I have so little time outside of work. I am listening to you as I study for a test. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful video. ❤ I love your channel so much.
Hello Maria, thank you for another great video. I love that you document your journey so meticulously. It is always the view behind the scenes that I find fascinating - how things are made and how they are going. Your particular combination of cozyness, passion for literature and also a certain academic seriousness are valuable, there are few if any channels that can offer all that - which is in line with your own advice. I have already seen your channel grow by thousands of subscribers and I expect it to grow beyond 10k soon. This is a great example that if you talk about what you love, put your own personality into it and do the work of ever improving quality - the audience will come. I recently started reading Robert Greene's „Mastery“, wherein he talks a lot about finding your „Life's work“. Your channel seems like exactly that for you, at least for now. Looking forward for what is yet to come. Greetings from freezing Freistadt
How kind of you to say all that ❤I appreciate it! I'm the same way, I love knowing the nitty gritty behind the scenes... And I also know Robert Greene's work :-) Greetings back to you!!
This was great advice. Thank you! I have been thinking about starting a YT channel for several months now, and this has given me the motivation to at least try it. I am older, but certainly not wiser 😉 It's wonderful to encounter a RU-vid channel that radiates calmness and authenticity. You are a joy to watch and an inspiration!
Thank you for the video, Maria❤️ We can see how much work you’ve put into it and it’s really precious and I’m truly grateful for that! Thank you for sharing your tips and thoughts on this topic because the video is really helpful 🫶🏻 And thanks for answering to my comment, I’ll follow your advice!
I just discovered your channel recently... I love your content and even the name of your of channel is great. I love the idea of strange lucidity even though I have no idea how you came to that. Also love the quote at the beginning of this video. I've taken up reading again recently, and basically that quote is what inspired me to start reading again, and to keep reading. I think that people don't/didn't realize including myself how boring and unoriginal a lot of today's culture and ideas are
Thank you for this video.... Starting a RU-vid channel (particularly about books) from a developing country is quite daunting... Because lack of asthetic places, beautiful rooms, or perfect table setup... I started a insta page about books but it didn't worked well... Still trying...😅
This is wonderful. You clarified a lot of ideas that have floated through my mind before but never quite crystallized. I love the reflection from Adorno on what makes something truly artistic / creative. Personally I'd also really encourage new creators to notice the impulse to want to grow your channel faster, and to ask yourself honestly if and why this is something that's important to you. If it is, this helps you better understand your motivations, but you also might find it's not very important to you. My own channel is a smallish one and I'm content with it staying that way. The first time I shared a video and was debating whether to bother publishing it, I thought to myself, if just one other person watches this whole thing at some point and appreciates it, then I guess it'll be worth it. I still think this is true -- I hope the people interested in the videos I make will find them, and that's really the full extent of my goal in making them. If I'd tried harder to grow my channel I think it would have become a chore and I'd have given up on it by now.
Despite having my domain named after his concept of flow (and, well, Wolf spelled backwards) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is unpronounceable for me as well :) Thanks for your video Maria!
