My take; the context here is recognition vs reception and how it relates to the quality of your content. You have among the best quality content of all fashion creators on youtube but your reach is not as big (however the people whom it reaches, the content has a big impact on them). Think of it like this; you may have a smaller reach but the people you reach truly recognize your content as special, I know I do.
Omg had no idea you were back but anyway - I can definitely relate to what you’re saying. I used to have these frustrations many years ago but over time I’ve learnt to just accept that what will be will be. All I can do is what’s in my control which is to try and make good videos for the great people that support me rather than focus on those who don’t. It can de a bit disheartening when you see people who make millions a year teaching men how to “wear a white t shirt” but unfortunately I’ve come to accept that more people want to learn how to “style jeans with white sneakers” than people that care about a fashion runway show analysis.
the transparency and vulnerability of your struggle is endearing, relatable, and at the heart of my appreciation of this channel. While content creators who have settled into a stable and predicable formula may provide a reliable form of escapist distraction, your videos speak to the contemporary crisis of identity production itself, and the schizoid nature of being a ghost in this machine. To make your channel formulaic would be to undermine the very conflict which makes it compelling, namely the struggle between the "creator" and the "content." Your channel has stakes, and speaks, whether you mean for it to or not, to the psychological machinations of art, performance, and media in the 21st century.
@@BraveNewWear your channel does not exude it, so much as it speaks to it, the experience we all share of having to construct an authentic and commercially viable image of ourselves, our profile, feeling beholden to it, resenting it, desiring it. To dream of algorithmic validation and fame for "being ourselves. " This is a paradox, everyone online experiences it on some level. When I see you struggling to optimize yourself for consumption, I see myself and my peers; I see our whole culture.
Christian, your Advanced Aesthetics Series fundamentally changed the way I approached style and fashion. It really added a lot of value to my daily life. Your reach might not be as wide as these other creators, but your impact on the viewers that resonate with your content is undeniable. Honestly hope you continue making good content; your voice in this space is unique and unlike any other.
You are extremely hilarious, so I think you’ve got space to blowup, hopefully there isn’t a fashionlover5 who is more handsome and funnier that shows up! 😅
I love the niche drama 😂 You are charismatic and witty (nvr forget). Consistency might be where it’s at. You never know what’s going to hit. But, it also is contingent on who you want your audience to be, so I hope you did your target market analysis 📝 But this is hilarious and I really think you might want to consider collabing?? Share an audience with your “competition” (we’re all friends here… unless there is money involved, lol). Do some sort of clothing challenge or debate. Do some sort of cultural analysis of PAQ. C’mon!
@@BraveNewWear dude, that’s because you need to make a whole dedicated video! 🔮 srsly, how they ended is like how I used to hear people bitch about the last episode of the Sopranos. Like wtf was that? They must not be forgotten by the youth!!!
I used to watch teaching men’s fashion in high school, and he never connected with me. The style guides can give confidence initially, but in end the results are clinical and formulaic. The introduction you give to fashion includes the exploration of other peoples art, finding the interest or motivation it comes from, as well as learning to create that for ourselves. Your content is genuine, and so your audience may be smaller, but I’ve had great conversations based off of new ideas from your videos with those around me and I’m grateful for your perspective. Your show and other creators who approach fashion this way act as a station people can use to explore deep understanding of options, feel the excitement of learning to experiment and express their ideas, then move in the direction they genuinely want to. This ends up being so much more fulfilling, and is only possible by getting a boost from passionate people like yourself. Thank you.
Aaron your words are too kind, I am thrilled to hear my videos might have sparked a conversation truly. I kNOW that really I couldnt make content like Teaching Men's Fashion because I really do not prescribe to the idea that fashion has "rules" and there are "right and wrong" choices...even if theres a very big audience that would love to have simple answers for this kind of thing.
I once saw a video that talked about art vs consumerism, if you wanna make art it has to be at the expense that not everyone might like it, but if you wanna make consumer content than you have to also accept that the content might not be so innovative or interesting, idk thought it was a cool idea
yeah thats kind of the name of the game right? I think you can do both, or at least I think there is value and artistry in creating something that can be enjoyed by a large audience
christian you changed my fashion journey, i wouldn’t own rick or ccp, bought my first wyatt’s, or have hands full of silver without you your aesthetics series changed my expression forever i’m typing this from a wasilly chair bc of you
As an artist there is a middle ground we have to search for. We can't be extremely popcorn pop, but also we cant be extremely detached from an audience.
Hey man. I Just want to let you know that I love your videos. I literally forced my parents to watch your Virgil Video. They enjoyed it very much. And they are not into fashion. Keep it up man. You inspired me.
this was a great video, not just in terms of honesty and giving platform to other creators, but especially when in comes to questioning oneself. I think you did a great job in captioning what most young males within the fashion community are thinking for themselves in their head. Even though I don't make content I can very much relate to your thought process on a day to day basis when I see other guys wearing or talking about stuff I have an appreciation for and get annoyed by myself, questioning why I wasn't able to do it like that or why I can't be a s nonchalant about the topic I'm interested in. I guess it all comes down to the public perception and image, when someone is really passionate about something the head can sometimes get in the way of producing something completely true to oneself, because of the high standards one sets due to their passion.
i'll say this about high standards - at least for me, my "process" is to recognize I need to create a lot of stuff long before my content is at the level of my taste. Its riffing off a Ira Glass quote about developing as an artist. I hope you don't let social media get you too frustrated / envious because it should be fun and inspiring.
The consistently quality of your videos is enough for me to keep coming back. In subject matter and charisma you’re great¡ I hope you find that success soon with that same integrity ❤️🌬️
two things. 1. consistency helps. drew talks about how he much he has to grind to produce content. at first, he was pushing himselt to post on tiktok daily for long periods of time. now he posts his videos every sunday. dude's doing tiktoks, youtube vids, vlogs, curated instagram posts, collabs, and podcasts. honestly, the amount of work he does, doesn't equate to his viewership, imo. i wouldn't be able to keep it up, personally. 2. some producer was being mentored by i believe jay-z, and this producer kept making really eccentric, new, original sounds in his beats. but none of it was getting any radio play, and he kept asking what's the missing ingredient. the mentor was quoted along the lines of "man you can either cater your sound slightly more to the general public, or you can keep being the only one listening to your beats in your basement" .
so on part 2...this producer you mentioned...who worked on 5 beats a day for 3 summers ( i assume!) so if I just try to be more accessible maybe I can 1 day be like this guy?
After watching this video, my feeling is that you thought you were shouting into an empty void with this video. However, that is not true. There’s a certain group of people your videos have a deep impact on (I am part of this group). When I started developing my own style, I lived off of your advance, aesthetic series. I bought an acne studio shirt because of your summer dress guide (my first time i invested in my own style). I get the frustration of not having to reach you think you should, however I don’t think you realize and appreciate the impact you have on your audience
j'appreciate it Evan, really I mostly thought it would be funny but I dont really have much to be salty about. I know consistently good content would / will bring an audience
I look forward to your consistent content, making the videos shorter segments with the same thought and effort but put into more bite sized ideas that more people can understand without having to think too much might help, frugal aesthetic got big off of smaller and or more basic concepts and only since 2020 has he become abstract and thinking truly out of the box like your content appears to have been for a long time. Consistent probably is the really key, if you need to start a Patreon I’ll join.
Take it from me, getting a lot of views on your videos will not make you happy. I've gotten a few videos with a lot of views but they're pretty worthless in and of themselves. Building a community and making the kind of videos you'd watch are much more important in my opinion. I love your channel, and you're the only fashion channel where I watch every video. Don't be so hard on yourself!
The other content creators are selling to the Amazon shoppers of internet fashion content - their content is a commodity. It conforms to everything else that's out there so that it's easily understood (ie. it's incredibly predictable what I'll get from following one girl come across one day who looks the same as the other 1000 like her I already follow), low-pressure to produce, and with very low barriers to entry (everyone's little sister can become this girl just by doing what everyone else is doing). The issue with this is that those folks are competing with 50 million others to stay relevant or steal a small piece of the marketshare - apart from the people in your example, I'm sure 99% of these soulless creators never stand out and see slow or no growth. Your content, on the other hand, is unique and much harder replicate (ie. requires more smarts to have a perspective worth sharing). The issue is that your market is smaller, because people with a real, almost academic interest in fashion and culture are more rare I hope you don't dumb down your content but I think your value is in influencing and commanding the attention of consumers who really care and will spend a lot, in a places that the teaching fashion guy could never get his audience to patronize. Rather than making money off of views, you'll get the partnership opportunities from luxury and artisanal brands who take notice, because I'm sure you'd drive high rates of conversion from brand deals despite a smaller audience (you probably know this).
Youre one of my favorite youtubers, and your advanced aesthetics series is great quality.... Tbh i think you'll be as succesful when the algorithm lottery picks ur vid up Big ups homie 👍👍👍
I'm echoing others, you have a smaller niche. Part of the reason I subbed is because of your personality, and the killer sense of humor. It also wouldn't hurt to be more consistent. I get it, life happens. Your real fans (lol) will stick around. I watched only one Drew upload (seems interesting) and fashionlover4 is good but he's only 20 or so. He's very young to me, and will have room for growth. It's not a dig, his outlook is youthful.
Ngl I generally don’t care for fashion RU-vid as an outlet for my interest in fashion, with sole exception of your channel. I do watch and am subbed to other fashion RU-vidrs but your videos are the only ones that I actually watch and not put at 1.5x while preparing for gym tomorrow. As a person in content prod I’d say to not make a deal out of it but it’s a slippery slope. Why’d you even listen to me about that anyhow
Oh yeah and you’re 10 times funnier than ALL these ppl. I now have the ‘funny sound effect mixed equally or lower to my surroundings’ thing in my head nearly all the time
Why wouldnt I listen to you Wru, you're probably jacked as hell AND it sounds like you work on content production. I know not to take any of this to heart but my hope is that people will connect with my crazy ramblings.
I'm usually not one to comment on videos, but the way you are DISRESPECTING yourself here is crazy. Fashionlover is a great creator, but the thing he is lacking is humour. Your videos are informative, easy to digest and funny. You also have a wide knowledge in fashion, not just surface level stuff. I've rewatched most of your videos plenty of times and that is not something I can say about other content creators. You are great and I understand depression can make it even harder to produce content. Much love to you!
I'm glad you felt like commenting this time Quistmo! Honestly I'm not actually jealous of creators like Fashionlover4, I'm more excited to see people talking about these subjects on social media and this is my silly way of expressing that
If it’s worth anything, you’re definitely one of the more based fashion-tubers. But I genuinely do love your content, especially videos where you lean into aesthetic/design philosophy cause you concretely put into words the stuff about fashion that have just kinda been vaguely in my head. Hope you keep up the grind bro :)
You think much more progressively than any of these dudes in my opinion and are much more articulate, not to say their content is bad (ya got me I sometimes watch handsome Drew) (for the plot) but I enjoy your videos much more because your ideas and approach are much more unique. To quote the mob the more viewed guys are quite “NPC” and I think that is part of their success unfortunately, it is easier to digest and their sensibilities are for the most part highly trendy your sense of humor is also fantastic and it comes through in your edits very well Also I really like the honesty of this video
Brother, you inspired me to try to be a creative, to study design, music production, art, etc. and yet you suffer from the same shit that I suffer, I don't put myself fully into anything , because that way I can keep lying to myself that I'm only not successful because I haven't tried that hard or I'm just not that dumb to make the same trash repetitive content that everyone else does. This copium mentality makes me feel better than everyone else, but also keep making me feel like a fraud. I'm trying to break this cycle, stop reading so many fashion publications and start building skills that can make the knowledge that I accumulated being a snob useful. In your case you already have great journalistic and writing skills, you have a core audience that deeply cares about what you have to say, just keep doing what you love doing that somehow you will make a living out of it, as Kevin Kelly said, you only need 1000 true fans to make a living out of anything. If I were in your position I would already consider myself successful. Try to keep going, I know it's easier said than done, especially when you're depressed, but trust me, your videos are always one of a kind, I'm amazed everytime you drop a video.
Its really touching to read this kind of stuff Filipe, my hope is that people will watch this kind of silly content and connect with it the way you're describing. When I'm not being self indulgent and complaining I do recognize that there are still a lot of people who resonate with this and I should just keep pressing forward. I hope you do the same
I think there's a nobility in only making content or things that you love and simply not creating when you don't. Scale and the growth that you think you desire doesn't actually fulfill anything in your soul. For what it's worth, I identify with the struggle you're talking about and you probably have a deeper respect from us vs some of the other fashion creators we watch. Your ideas are better. Just because there isn't a big number next to your name doesn't mean you aren't appreciated.
i appreciate that Jon, i know better than to let this kind of thing get to my head bc I do read a lot of very thoughtful comments that make it clear people really connect with what im making
@@BraveNewWear On a more serious note, this is the only fashion channel I've ever been able to tolerate watching. No offense to them, but a lot of the more popular channels you mention in this video are making incredibly formulaic, derivative content that pleases the algorithm (which likely plays a big part in why they're so popular). They all talk about the same brands and trends. They all do the same lo-fi music b-roll. It feels like after all these years people are STILL trying to imitate old GearedTowardsGear content. There's probably enough of this cookie-cutter content out there to make an hour long supercut of all these guys saying the world "archival". Your videos have always felt authentic and unique, mostly because you don't do what everyone else does. There's naturally going to be a smaller viewerbase for stuff that strays from the norm.
Well I hope it doesn’t go overlooked in 2023, but you distinguish yourself with the incorporation of your humour. I feel like with people that know you in real life they probably think you’re funny
Not a RU-vidr but I feel like spamming the algorithm and playing the game could be worthwhile if you see fit. Can’t get lost in the sauce if you keep your perspective and don’t crater down to recycled content, scandals, bad sponsors, etc. the bar is so low these days for genuine value
Lmao my boi has lost his mind 😂but nah this was great. But fr tho what do you do when your trade has become a trend? It feels wrong to join it but also shouldn't those whose true focus is the trade not be the most successful?
head up king just be semi consistent with uploads and talk about trending topics every now and then. I found drew joiner because he made a video on wrangler dress jeans and i found fashionlover4 because he talked about the balenciaga drama. I’m not qualified to give this advice but just trust me bro
you know...ET referenced MY video in THEIR article about Wrangler dress jeans! Lets see Drew top that! (im sure he already has) but you're right probably should just keep working at it and eventually it will click.
@@BraveNewWear at least dont say youre uncharismatic or lose faith in yourself. Just keep up the content maybe post a tiktok or reel every now and then. But youre funny and charismatic af. just have to get your grimy fingers deep in the algorithm but still make content youre proud of.
tbh I think you've got a real inferiority complex (with a superiority complex on top of it) to work on, whether it's for youtube's sake or not, but i'm pretty sure it'd help with youtube.
I used to be like you jealous of TMF before covid then I kind of stopped watching his content mainly because of same repetitive content like How to girls Do this to get girls 10 things that will get you girls How to dress to get girls 5 things to attract girls How to be attractive to girls 10 dressing tip to get girls 10 alpha move to get girl Girls Girls Girls Sponsorship
@@BraveNewWear damn... maybe you should go for a more old school attempt, try paying them - or find someone with same passion and ideas and get them to join the channel and help editing
Christian if you want to pop off on YT, you need to start making alt-fashion-manosphere content and tap into that outrage economy. That's the business moove right there.
