Yes. In fact, it got me a lot of attention. I got into a bunch of newspapers, interviewed on NPR, etc. Then my audience started drifting away and on to the next thing… and then YouTube decided to monetize. My account was monetized for a while. I made a grand total of $100 before it was demonetized again.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 11 months ago
May I ask what kind of stuff you created?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My big hit was “The Skeletor Show.” It’s still on YouTube. But I did many other things on the account before deciding I didn’t feel like making comedy videos anymore a few years ago. Occasionally people post asking me to please come back, but I don’t know that I ever will.
I will say that it did get me some jobs when I needed work, which was the original goal of the show anyway.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Oh I remember this! A buddy of mine was making a similar style show during roughly the same period using the classic Star Trek cartoon. Similarly Sealab 2021 influenced.
Very nice and thanks for the reminder.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I actually did that too…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-DYY9mdme4