Originally Posted by MarioD
Did you make any money?
Did you win any [awards]?

What a crappy outlook.
That was the point Adam was making.

Adam starts out by saying he'd heard the phrase four years ago on a podcast featuring Freddy Wong. Freddy was a hugely successful YouTuber, but Freddy said that 1.8 million viewers meant nothing to people in the industry.

Adam's explains that a YouTube "career", no matter how successful, isn't sustainable and often seems to end in burnout.

Originally Posted by Adam Neely
My goal is not to be a YouTuber until the end of my life. My goal is to be a musician until the end of my life. My goal is to be Roy Haynes. I want to be shredding until I'm 98 years old and beyond. Because you know, "1.8 million subscribers and no one cares."

But I don't give a [censorsed], I kind of just want to play bass and hang out with my friends and share in that community. Because I think that's the thing that really matters and the thing that I really am passionate about.

So after watching Freddy's video, he moved his focus to playing with his band, and expressed regret that he hadn't done that years ago.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?