THE DIGITAL SHARECROPPERS - MY OWN CONTENT

It's time for me to take a little more control of my content.

Prior to steemit, I never really did anything online. The opportunity that steemit presented was too incredible for me to pass up, though, so into the web I jumped. Interestingly enough, by creating a fusion of crypto with social media, steemit did a lot of the normal "up front" work for us.

Traditionally, a person would have to build up a blog first and get a lot of followers prior to being able to get a tangible financial ROI, and that was usually through advertisements, or so I'm told. With steemit, things were different. Over the past almost two years (my two year anniversary is tomorrow) I've poured a lot of content into this platform, and it has been a huge blessing. Unfortunately, I haven't always done things the best way possible...

BRINGING IT BACK

Prior to steemit, I never even had a YouTube account. The only reason I got one was to share videos on steemit. Unfortunately, my internet is rarely over 3G and a lot of things (like uploading a photo) can take several minutes or even hours to accomplish. Because of some technical issues, I began uploading a lot of my YouTube videos to someone else's channel, and never bothered to put them on my own. Not any more though!

When I uploaded that video on how to accurately identify a Copperhead snake onto someone else's channel, I had no idea that it would hit over 78K views in just over a year. Lesson learned, I now downloaded it and have published it on my channel now.

This is another one, that hit over 5.6K views. Due to not being able to trust the person who's YouTube Channel I had uploaded this videos to, and because I no longer have the originals, I'm in the process of downloading as many as I can right now and getting them onto my own channel.

If you subscribe to my YouTube channel already, you'll see a large amount of these being uploaded right now. Once I get them all up, I'll create some playlists to better organize them. If you don't already subscribe to my YouTube channel, feel free to start. I think this link should take you there: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8GJap7-XxIrSQqByPQG0SQ

I'll be sharing new uploads on steemit as well, but if you want to check out some of my older videos or the playlists, you'll have to check them out over there. I'm just trying to less of a digital sharecropper and at least keep my stuff on pages or channels that are actually mine these days. It may not be perfect to have all of my stuff on YouTube & Steemit, but at least steemit is amazing and I'm close to monetizing my YouTube Channel.