A few years ago, I ran a successful Youtube channel. I had a
few thousand subscribers, and posted videos which were kinda a personal Vlog
about what was going on in my life and talking openly about various subjects. I
would smoke and talk about things current and overall, and promote my webpage –
which – frankly – takes a lot of time and energy to maintain. Videos were in HD
and I spent quite some time adding titles and credits to each one when posting,
and posted probably once or twice a week. I really enjoyed the interaction from
subscribers and getting to vent or just talk about life.
Then someone reported the channel to YouTube as being “Spam”
in 24 hours they reported every single one of my 80+ videos individually. It
could have been a number of people – probably a gay-hater or something – but definitely
some nameless, face-less coward who’s sensitivities were hurt – probably because
I was gay. So despite having been on Youtube for about 10 years total, the
Youtube ‘authorities’ not only deleted my entire channel, they banned me from
Youtube. And not just for a year – “for life”.
Despite numerous pleas and petitions for a review, they refused to
provide reasons or any other course of action.
This all occurred about 5 years ago now, and I have made no
real efforts to revive any form of Vlog until now. Thanks to a friend who
shouted out his channel, I kinda have the bug to do something similar again,
but this time so much has changed and I have so much of a different focus. But
I do miss it. I miss that interaction and feedback and the medium itself. And I
kinda feel like I need to do something – you know?
But what are my options? Youtube is out. Vimeo seems viable,
but with limited resources unless I pay for it. Dailymotion is another – but I
had never heard of it until I did a google search. So where do I go? What do I
do? Definitely open to suggestion here…..
