Tyler Oakley Quotes

By using the digital platform YouTube, I have been able to build and grow my content-creating business and am proud to call myself a successful female entrepreneur.

It is very difficult to 'make it' as a top broadcaster or YouTuber.

With social media, the gatekeepers are our followers. It has opened so many doors for me not only musically, but fashion-wise as well.

I've just always been making videos. And then I just put them online and, luckily, they all took off.

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.

The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.

It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

So many of my friends have 200,000 subscribers, and they make around five to six K a month, which is completely cool.

Even in the days of early YouTube, we always focused on narratives, and we always focused on franchises. We didn't do a lot of vlogging and stuff like that.

I didn't take a lot of the videos seriously; making videos was one of the most tedious things that you can imagine.

There's no longevity on YouTube. You have to keep pushing boundaries.

Since developing my blog and YouTube channel in 2013, Little Lights of Mine, I've connected with some of the most passionate people around the world.

I'm a YouTuber; I want to share my information. I want to share my tips and tricks and hacks and everything I possibly can with my audience because they've done so much for me.

Creating content on YouTube played a huge role in helping define myself, as making videos was and still is a creative outlet for me - a way to express myself.

As a content creator, all you can do is do your best work and then hope that it resonates somehow with an audience.

I was doing Facebook comedy videos; then I moved over to Instagram, and then I hopped on Twitter. That is where I really was a master. That was the first place where I could go viral.

I want to see more people push what it means to be a web show... because it's very difficult to make a living making those types of shows.

Really study what types of formats have been working online that you resonate with: get a feel for what works in the current ecosystem of online video. Sometimes, that passion-project you really want to do is not the way to start.

I went from basically filming in my bedroom by myself, filming some funny videos, and then overnight, I switched into filming in some studios and some warehouses and family homes. I started filming with directors and producers and editors, and there were so many people in the room, so it was definitely weird.

No. You know what really bugs me about my videos? When they can't figure out what to do, they just have me change clothes five times.

I started making videos to post just for my friends to see, and people really liked them. One day, I realized they had a couple thousand views on YouTube - I hadn't even known other people were watching them.