This seems like a weird thing to advertise but I’m doing it anyway.
A couple of months ago, I had an idea for an Instagram Reel and decided to make it. But I am not really a short-form content kind of girlie. Like I don’t watch Shorts/Reels/TikToks unless someone sends them to me. And usually if I am posting an Instagram Reel, it’s a pole or aerial video which I wouldn’t count as a Reel because to me it’s just a video.
But in February I sat down to film a proper Reel and I didn’t hate it. Now, when I say I made a Reel, it’s not me doing any dancing or memes or anything – it’s literally me colouring lol. But I thought it would be a fun video to make and it was shorter than a YouTube video so a YouTube Short it will be.
Now I know you’re confused because I said it was an Instagram Reel idea but I just said I made it a YouTube Short lol. Well, they’re all the same thing, and yes this initially was just for my Instagram but because I have a YouTube channel, I thought why not put it there too?
So after the first video I decided to make a few more and I have been enjoying it. Although I will say, it’s weird for me to be filming vertical video content, back when I first started YouTube I always detested vertical video because there was nothing worse than watching a YouTube video with the horrible thick black bars on the screen lol.
But yeah so I am making this content but I haven’t really been advertising it, usually when I post a new YouTube video I would post about it because that’s how you let people know about it but for Shorts, I feel like that’s not a thing. So I’ve just been posting it without really saying anything, and while people have been seeing it (thanks algorithm!) it feels weird not to share it?
So that’s why I am making this post, to let you know I’m making Shorts now so if you’re interested then check out my YouTube channel! It is currently all journal-related content because that’s what I am enjoying. I don’t think I’ll branch out to make other Shorts, mainly as there is nothing else that I think would be interesting to make at the minute. But who knows? That could change.
Also, just because I am making Shorts doesn’t mean I’ll stop making other YouTube videos, I like yapping too much for that lol. Again, the only content I’ve really posted is journaling things but that’s just what I have been enjoying this year. Not sure what other content will be on the horizon though I am planning to go to Australia with my fiance at some point and it seems like a wasted opportunity if I didn’t at least try to vlog. So we’ll see what comes of that, if not vlogs there will definitely be blog posts haha.
Anyway yeah, I am making Shorts now, that’s all I came to say. It could be something I continue doing all year or it could fizzle out next week but it’s all a bit of fun. Now I’ll leave you with my most recent Short which is a haul of some stickers I got on AliExpress!
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