10 Rules for BookTube
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Not sure how original my commandments are, but I couldn't resist the concept
This video was inspired by a video on this topic by @Shellyish check out her video here: • The 10 Commandments of...
Jim from @jimsbooksreadingandstuff also made a video with his commandments watch his video here: • The 10 Commandments of...
@saintdonoghue set ten as the standard number of rules in his video which you can watch here: • The Ten Commandments o...
@GrammaticusBooks is the originator of this idea. See his original here:
• The Three Laws of Book...
1) *Work and Play Well with Others!*
Amen!
Something I fail at far too often.
@@BookishTexan _YOU?!!?_ I was referring to my own short coming 😉
thanks so much for this video. I don't yet make videos but I do agree with everything you said. I love Booktube. It has expanded my reading so much and taught me about books, publishers, prizes, and recommended books to my interests and expanded those as well.
YES! BookTube has opened my eyes and mind to so many new and great books and my reading is so much richer because of it. Thanks for watching. I hope you start making videos if you want to.
Excellent, Brian. All of the “rules” videos I’ve seen have been so inspiring. I especially appreciate that you and others have underlined that frequency and consistency are not actually necessary, even though they might be helpful for the algorithm or whatever. As someone who is still struggling to get fully back in the booktube saddle, I am always reassured when viewers tell me they don’t care!
Thanks Hannah. Your subscribers and loyal viewers are the best.
@@BookishTexan I agree! ♥️
I remember hearing that advice about a regular posting schedule. That does work for me, but when i look through my favorite channels, they are regular, light, heavy, occasional, every type of poster and it doesn't affect my viewing. I guess it might affect the invisible mysterious algorithm but yeah, do whatever makes you happy!
Yes. I’m pretty sure regular posting is favored by the Algorithm, but it’s a hassle sometimes,
These are great, Brian. I like your emphasis on doing what makes you happy. Otherwise, what’s the point? I really still don’t even understand what the algorithm is! Thanks, Brian! Always enjoy what you have to say….Im feeling a little tempted to jump into the fray on this one, but I’m not sure I’ve been at this long enough to be creating my rules.😊
Everyone can create their own rules. Just remember that I Have Spoken⚡️🤓
@@BookishTexan I shall not forget! 👍🏼
I love this! I've seen a lot of videos that are sort of geared about what you should do to get people to watch your videos, but the truth is that this should be what makes us (the creator of the channel) happy.
Absolutely!
Solid rules for many content creators. I don't comment enough. But I've been meaning to say, I love how varied your channel is. I enjoy when you do explination/real life/context vids as much as your bookish content.
Thank you very much for the kind comment.
I would come to terms with the algorithm if I had even the slightest idea what it was!
I’m down with all your other rules and I think I follow them all quite well.
Thx. Cheers 🍻
I love you newbie video! Now let’s watch the others…☕️🫖
Thank you Tess.
very good common sense advice also enjoyed the visual and sound effects⚛😀
Thanks Frank.
Me too!! lol
It’s interesting how we make our own rules to things like this. Good rules here, Brian. 😊💙
Thanks Jolene.
Welcome to the rulemakers bandwagon, thanks for the mention.
I jumped on that wagon late but happy to be here. Thanks Jim.
@@BookishTexan It might not be so late, I think this might be an idea a lot of booktubers want to explore, you might be one of the pioneers.
Boom! Best set of rules yet.
Thank you Olly.
I dunno if it’s the beard or the thunder, but these rules certainly have gravitas!
I was channeling Moses!
Yes, I am guilty! (making rules for Booktube) Love your rules Brian! Especially rule #1. Definitely talk about what you like!
Thank you!
1. You can only read books that personify inanimate objects.
2. You can only eat raw egg yolks while reading if participating in the comment sections.
3. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT eat the books!
4. If someone asks you out on a date you may oblige, but if you like it, you're out.
5. Go down to the nearest store, buy yourself an ice cream, don't worry, you won't be eating it.
6. Make sure that all of the comments you leave are 100% serious.
7. All bribes must be sent to the paypal of username: Cooking With Silence
8. Don't ask what that smell is, we all know it's there, nobody can figure it out, it's frustrating.
9. 10 rules sure is a bunch, wouldn't 9 be easier if we turned one of them into a question?
10. Idk.... just make the most out of life.
Love this. Definitely in the running for comment of the year!
Very nice and well thought out video. Enjoyed watching. Thanks.
Thank you very much.
Amen, Brian of the Bookish channel!
Thank you.
Great video, though I'm not big into following rules, so I'm certainly uninterested in making them (pretty much the entirety of my Rules For Life are: Be kind, give and receive love at every opportunity, and find happiness where you can.) So when I saw the title of your video, the only Commandment For BookTube that came to mind was: Have fun!
Yep, Have fun is all there is to it. I got a chuckle out of you not following rules considering how many games with complicated rules you play.😀
@@BookishTexan Ha!! Good point! It's mostly a combination of no longer being willing to unquestioningly follow rules after being more or less blindly devoted to Christianity for the first few decades of my life, and the increasing knowledge that our "justice" systems are mostly about criminalizing poverty, mental illness, and non-white races.
Love these rules. Also love the thunder 😂😂⚡️🌩️
Thank you Charlie.⚡️
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The thunder really sells it. I agree with everything you said. No notes. 🙂
Thank you Priscilla
A video talking with friends about a book while eating popcorn sounds like a great idea! 😊
Haha I did watch the rest of the video too though 😅 sounds like I missed the entire point, but the rules are great as well!
Respect, being true to yourself and doing what makes you happy are good rules for any aspect of life.
Thank you Ellen. I love popcorn so that’s often what pops into my head🤓
@@BookishTexan that’s so corny ^^
Great points! Although I don’t have a book channel, I love BookTube because, well, I love books. Brian, what are a few focus areas of the algorithm that you find most helpful in growing your channel?
Thank you. My channel growth has been steady with a few big bursts of growth centered around just a few videos so I’m not sure I’m the best to ask. A good title and descriptive or entertaining thumbnail seem to be pretty important though. Also, I think if growth is what you are interested in concentrate on getting views more than subscribers. It used to be that subs drove views, but now I think it’s the other way around.
Hear, Hear👍
Thank you.
Do what makes you happy! Wise words for all areas of life including booktube.
Agreed.
I like these rules! 😃
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Thanks!
Loved this! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Thank you.
I agree with these commandments!! But I do have a huge struggle with the comparison one. 😩
Thank you. That is a tough one. I’ve definitely struggled with it.
I can go with those rules. I just ignore the algorithm and do what I fancy.
And you do it very well. Thanks Roz
Do whatever the hell you want and be nice about it, got it! lol great video.
Haha! Yep. Thank you.
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Thanks.
I accept these ten rules as truth. 👩🏼⚖️
Thank you for your endorsement Elle.🤓
Got it! 👍🏻
Good🤓
Can I get an AMEN? (*Well, not really my thing, but a hearty 'here! here!')
You are a great example of someone who does what they want, but does it in an entertaining and consistent way. Yet another fun video, I'm glad you joined the rest of the Moses(s)? on the mountain top. (Insert Mel Brooks joke in here and don't drop the tablet!!)
Doing what you want and coming to terms with the popularity meter that is the algorithm is the secret to having a happy and long booktube existence. I just wish I was a faster learner!!!
That algorithm thing is such a minefield. I still find myself confused and sometimes frustrated. Thanks for the kind words Jay.
P R E A C H - 👏🏻👏🏻💛
Thanks MJ
I’m sorry you’ve been having weather there in Texas! ⛈️
Ha! We have been having more than out share of storms. Maybe that’s what inspired the lightning
Come to terms with the algorithm! That’s good. ❤
Thank you Shelly
Interesting.
Thanks.
1. Thou shalt honor thy mental and physical health. Consider whether thy reading / posting slump is a symptom of something bigger, and treat it not like a stubborn pack animal. Guard, also, against the opiate of escape and endeavour not to read thy life or problems away. Readest, occasionally, outside thy comfort zone, but do not lose sight of oneself. And treatest not advice on the internet like advice from a trained professional who knows thy personal situation.
Excellent! Particularly that last one.
Will your book on wwii be in the shops in uk? For some reason I can't find your anouncement and need the link to order it. I read so many books I wanted to read in the last few years that I haven't read that many books this year. I needed a project and was thinking of doing Balzac series but there are about 80 of them! Love your vids and always watch, but I wouldn't do any videos myself. I saw someone do a video on the algorythme and because its AI it promotes men over women because the data set it learnt on was skewed in favour of guys channels and that just like the Amazon recruitment AI it exagerated that bias.
It should be available in shops in the UK, but I don’t know how widely. I checked the Waterstones website and it is available for pre-order there. I made a community post recently showing the full cover design and it has the link to the publishers website where you can order it. I have a video called “Where Not to Start with Balzac” that also has a list of some places to start. Old Goriot, The Black Sheep, and Cousin Bette are good places to start. I think AI is only going to make the lack of diversity of CZcams/BookTube worse.
@@BookishTexan Many thanks. I was trying to avoid the postage fee so I'll pop into Waterstones and order it.
@@angelacraw2907 Thank you.
Hm, did I miss something? Why do we have to point this out so clearly now?
I think the most important point you made was "it may not be a big audience."
I have been so neglectful with commenting regularly on all videos I watch. I have become a lurker in bigger channels so often, no matter how much I love getting comments.
Nothing happened. Just seemed like a fun video to make in response to the others. I have a tendency to lurk with the bigger channels too.
1. Don’t take an “unsubscribe” personal. I’m just doing me. Don’t read into it.
Yes! That is a great one. I do get a laugh out if people who feel like they have to tell me they are unsubscribing though. They seem to intend something personal.
Support comment.
Thankful reply.🤓
rule number zero needs to be to provide some form of evidence that all these booktubers have actually read all these books - people are saying that it's okay if they don't want to do reviews of books and all that stuff and that's fine but how many videos I see where somebody says oh these are the 28 books I read this month this one was so good if you really like horror blah blah blah 😂
I dislike the line “this book was amazing”
Sometimes when filming a video adjectives are hard to come by and you get stock on one.🤓
I tend to just trust people when they say they’ve read something and if I come to doubt them I just stop watching their channel.
It's almost as if the suggestion is that a channel operator has agency over their channel. We live in mystifying times...
It’s not a suggestion! I Have Spoken!⚡️
Bookish, why are the comments paused on the book review of A Hundred Years War on Palestine?
I make the appropriate videos for my imaginary audience.
Who are you calling imaginary?!?!?
We apologize for the technical difficulties and hope to resume our regular broadcast schedule sometime in the next century.
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Nobody here but us disembodied voices.
I'd like to add another commandment. Thou shalt not push thy religion on thy channel. I've seen that turn offensive and generally yucky very quickly. Mentioning a religious background is one thing, but soliciting people to join said religion with a threat of a bad afterlife or something if they don't is quite another.
YES! I avoid and unsubscribe to channels that do that.
Rule 62
Good one.
LOL this is one of those comments that is just ... a comment
Thanks!
All these people booktubers making rules. 🤪
I Have Spoken!⚡️
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not a great comment *ploink*