A few of my Speedrun videos are going to remain indefinitely unlisted, you can watch them here if you want but I would prefer it if you did not as I don't feel like those videos are a true reflection of who I am.
If that's all you care about then you can stop reading, but I figured I should explain why I'm unlisting these videos, which is what I am going to do in the rest of this article.
One major issue I have with the videos that are now unlisted is that it doesn't feel like me. I'm aware that almost all YouTubers aren't genuine when they make content, but I don't think that can be me.
I'm not talking about click-baiting here, I'm talking about how I actually appear in the video. Not just physically but also how I talk.
All the videos that I've unlisted were fully-scripted and you can very easily tell that even without me mentioning it. One of my biggest pet-peeves when it comes to YouTube videos is when the person speaking sounds like they're talking from a script. You can tell when they do it; they either speak almost completely flatly or they speak like they're reading a book to a child. In either case it's unbearable to listen to becuase of how fake it feels.
I fell into the "reading a book to a child" category, which is weird because when I made Yugioh content that was scripted I don't look back on it and feel the same way despite the fact that I had far less experience with script writing and script reading.
I also am not fond with how those videos were edited, the early videos especially are not very eye-catching.
So yeah, all my scripted videos with the exception of the Purple Plants video (because I still really like that one) are going to be unlisted.
The unscripted videos I made are videos that I still enjoy watching even though all of them boil down to me just teaching the viewer how to do something. I think for most of them I still had some short notes, but my talking within them was just me talking normally. Because I really like them and a couple of them are still kinda useful I'm going to keep those videos public.
To this day, I think unscripted videos is the way to go if I ever get back into making content for YouTube. Not only does it mean I don't have to write scripts (which I find very tedious and boring) but it feels more...natural to me, like I can really be myself when I talk. I'm not sure how else to really explain it.