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Post #4100512

2026-07-25 23:17 UTC

I tried a few things last year to find a groove with this YouTube stuff. To find what made sense to me. What am I sharing? What do I actually have to say? What is useful to other people? Most of those attempts didn't go far. Then one did. Then nothing else did. Mostly you spend a day making something that never gets seen. It becomes invisible very quickly. Most of what I do is invisible. This is the opposite of how photography made me feel. When I was younger, you might take a camera to a protest and capture a few shots and weeks later when you finally processed the film, that moment would return to you. And that photo was one of a dozen in the entire year that you held onto. A handful of photos defined my experience of learning and sharing photography. It felt real. There were no numbers. 3/

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  • @ewen@social.ewenbell.com 2026-07-25 23:22

    The problem with the world right now, for me at least, is that everything comes down to numbers instead of people. And for me, nothing about numbers ever really makes sense. There's is no "correct" number. But when you can sit with a person and share experiences and inhabit a little of the same world for a moment, that makes life worth while. And the great appeal of YouTube for me, was the idea that maybe you can share something nice with lots of people. But most of the feedback is just more numbers. 4/

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