There are things I thought were universally understood about storytelling. I believed that stories generally had a beginning, middle, and an end, and often an overarching thesis. Or a general point, one could say.
At least that’s what I thought until I started listening in on Joe’s YouTube feed. He’s got a rotating selection of YouTube channels that are esoteric to say the least: bike vloggers, running bloggers, and a guy who talks about fly fishing and opens every single video by saying “Howdy friends,” and I strongly believe that his mullet may be sewn into his trucker hat.
More than half of the time, these videos feature people facing the camera and just chatting for 15 minutes and counting, no particular end goal that I can see.
It’s usually info that could seemingly relayed via text in a few sentences. I don’t get it. But people watch it! They’ve got major views!! What do I know, I guess. Same thing with Instagram Stories when it’s just a bazillion videos of someone’s inner monologue.
But the one thing they often say is something along the lines of “Sorry I haven’t been posting. From now on it will be back to daily vlogging, I swear.”
I always ask Joe: Why do they promise a daily vlog? Why not instead of 7 crappy vlogs a day that they can never keep up with, they just combine the best info to make one good video a week?
Anyway, all this is to say, I am going to start blogging again. Smash that like button!
