My Youtube Past

 Welcome back to another wacky adventure of mine! Today I'm documenting my past making videos for Youtube. Enjoy.

Part 1- Japanese Happenings

Back in 2010, my step Grandma, who's Thai, gave me two Thai masks. One was yellow, and the other was red. I was 12 years old at the time, and my friend Colton and I were looking for something to do. Smart phones had just become a thing, and his Mom would always get him just about whatever he wanted. So, he got a Droid. Having interest in making use of his new phone's camera, and wanting to play around with my new masks, we decided to make some videos. These videos would end up being apart of a series called "Japanese Happenings". Yes, we called it Japanese when the masks were Thai, and no, it didn't have anything to do with what was happening in Japan.

The first video was taken in my bedroom. With our masks on (I was red, he was yellow), we started pretending to make out and fell onto my bed. We didn't plan this out at all, so we must've been unsure how to progress from there. That's when Colton started to hump me, and me not knowing what to do about it, I hit him. Except I hit him on the butt lol. That was the whole video. Nothing really interesting, but it sure did make us laugh. We posted it to Youtube straight from his Droid.

The second video was about a place called Lothson's Chicken. It's a small fried chicken place in Dekalb that my Grandpa and I used to get food from kind of often. I loved it so much, I decided it would be our next subject. The goal of this video was only to spread awareness about this nice little place and talk about it (in our masks of course). So, we went on site to the corner that the building is on. Colton filmed while I talked about the place, informed what street it was on, and said how much I liked it. The real funny part of this video was the camera work. For the last video, the camera was stationary on my dresser. This time, Colton was filming, and he did a great job. While I talked, Colton constantly shook the camera around and kept turning it around to point it at himself while he goofed off. I didn't notice until the end, and wasn't too thrilled about it at first, but it was funny. Plus, he didn't do that bad, he even pointed at the intersection when I mentioned what roads the building was on. Lothson's Chicken still exists, by the way. I actually edited this video a little bit through Youtube, and put annotations on it saying to "get out of here" every time the camera pointed at Colton. This is where I first got a taste for editing and posting a video to Youtube, and I liked it.

That was the whole history of "Japanese Happenings". Eventually, we deleted the channel because Colton didn't want anyone seeing him like that. I wish we hadn't done that, I would love to still be able to watch those. I'm unsure if we ever planned to make more videos like that. Sadly, I don't even have the masks anymore. I've moved a ton of times since then and the masks are now lost forever. It wasn't until 4 years later that I considered doing Youtube again.

Part 2- KadeGaming

It was 2014, Youtube gaming was really big, and I wanted a piece of that cake. Anyone that knows me knows that I play a lot of video games (or at least used to). If other people could get big by recording themselves, why not me? Before this, I was able to build my own gaming PC, and had a huge library of *totally legit, non-torrented games* and was looking for stuff to play. Going forward into Youtube, I had a lot of fun learning everything I needed to do to get started. This mostly included video editing and using GIMP to create images. Once I had enough of my channel put together, it was time to get started.

Phase I- The Innocent Years

I started by playing some of The Wind Waker, and made it to the tower of the Gods. It was fun, and I definitely knew that I wanted to keep going. I particularly enjoyed editing videos. It even got to the point where I would sit down and edit an entire video in 7 hours straight. I treated it like a job, even though I barely had any subscribers. This went on until about 2015. 

Phase II- Forgetting My Roots

Eventually, making videos became less fun, and more of a chore. Still not having many subscribers, I decided that I needed more videos if I wanted to reach a larger audience, regardless of quality. I started livestreaming a lot, which I was not good at. Before I knew it, my channel was full of joyless livestreams that weren't any fun to watch. It was around this time that my now-sister, Callie, made a channel called CadeGaming to go along with my channel, and did basically the same thing I was doing. After letting that go on for a while, I finally realized my error in all this, and decided the only way I could continue was to start fresh under a new alias. KadeGaming was abandoned, but still existed to serve as a reminder of my past mistakes.

Part 3- McChiken753

As I went forward starting fresh, I decided to adopt the name I had used since 2010 for my Xbox Live Gamertag, which I was unsure of why I didn't use in the first place. The goal of this new channel was simple, quality over quantity. A motto I still apply to every task I do to this day. Though I hadn't exactly learned from all of my mistakes, I made a point to try much harder with the content I was putting out, and the amount of views and subscribers I got served as proof that it was working. The first night putting together my channel and recording videos felt great. I felt like I finally reached the moment I needed to become truly great at what I wanted to do. At 4am, my younger brother Darian and I sat down and recorded 4 sessions of Super Mario 64 multiplayer.

Phase I- Finally Hitting My Stride

The content on this channel varied quite a bit, with me never really knowing what I wanted to do. I ended up copying a lot of formats that other people were doing at the time. The only constant with my channel was doing small, but in-depth tech reviews of stuff I bought or already had. The first was a review of my keyboard. Little did I know, I made the perfect move starting there because the audience I found with my Chinese keyboard was totally untapped. That was the most views I ever got, with it being about 60k when I took down my channel this year. My favorite video from around this time was a skit I did called "This is Me When I Get Money". It was a roughly two-minute parody of a SoFlo Antonio video, where I used money to get Weed, got high, ran out of drugs, and went on a downward spiral into shooting myself in the head. I still love the way this video was set up. Around this time, I decided to spread out more, and found a group of creators to join up with called Galaxy Clan. I liked video editing, so I lent my abilities to my new group of friends and helped create videos for them. I wish I could tell you what these videos are, but I don't remember. The group eventually disbanded, leaving me and two others that were the core parts of the group. We tried to make things work and had a couple more projects, but we didn't really accomplish much before we had our own lives to attend to.

Phase II- TheFool753

Throughout 2016, as I continued to experiment, mature, and think about what I wanted my channel to be known for, I decided to make some changes. I wanted to be taken more seriously, and to set the mood for the change in my channel, I changed my name to TheFool753. Eventually, I decided to sink my teeth into doing my first real project, a video series. The series would come to be known as "The World We Leave". The thing is, I didn't have any help making it, most of it took place in the Winter, making it very difficult to actually do, and I wasn't good at writing at all. I think I took too many leaps in thinking I knew what I was doing when I really didn't, and being unprepared. I got two promos made, episode 1, and even a sneak peak of episode 2. Episode 2 never came though. It was just too difficult of a task for a still-maturing teen that didn't have any help. 

Phase III- Falling Out

In 2017 I graduated High School, and my priorities were set elsewhere as I had to think more about school, my future, and making money. I only made a few videos from then til 2019, when my channel finally became completely defunct once I decided I had no plans to return to making videos. The last ones were good though. I created a Pokemon music video for a Videography class my only year of college, which had me laughing uncontrollably as I edited it in class. Then, I did a video about moving out and getting your own place, and I still think that one is hilarious. My last video was me letting people send documents to my printer open to the public, and showcasing what was sent. It wasn't that good of a video, but I still love the premise of it.

Conclusion

Well, that's it. My videos will soon no longer remain on Youtube, as I have been working on creating new main emails to use for the new decade. KadeGaming has already been deleted as of the making of this article, with no videos from it saved. There's only one video I wish I had saved, that being my "100th Video Celebration", but it's okay, it won't be missed that much. I've managed to backup all videos uploaded to McChiken753/TheFool753, but some of them are in terrible quality thanks to Youtube's asinine way of storing videos that have been privated. I'm currently working on getting them uploaded, maybe to a Mega cloud or something, where they will be viewable again just for fun. When I have done this, a link will be placed here for anybody to enjoy.

https://mega.nz/folder/nEZ10AxQ#un1i_gyHl-PG10Ts4QxH0w

And that's the end of my Youtube past. Some of it was fun, and some of it still tortures me with cringe just thinking back on it. Thank you for tuning in, I hope you enjoyed this story. As always, please check out the rest of my blog!