I’m very thankful and of course anyone else who wants to have a go - do it! It’s not an easy option and as well as working really hard, there are always elements of luck too. Everything I use and have learned through doing YouTube was all self-taught. One thing I will say though is that I’ve had to work really hard on learning to edit, write and conceive stories, make soundtracks, teach myself about digital marketing, SEO and more. In terms of becoming a content creator, it is a pretty incredible job and one I love. You can be in the comfort of your own home, finding like-minded people across the globe to communicate and learn from. In this sense, as a kid watching, I can totally see that it feels meaningful and important to engage with. It transcends countries, languages, time zones - and in that way it’s a truly amazing platform, able to bring people across the world together. Search a person, a game, a question and someone, somewhere will have posted a video about it. Toca Magazine: It’s commonplace for kids today to aspire to be content creators on YouTube. What is it about YouTube that draws so many kids in?ĭanTDM: YouTube is such an accessible platform. Ahead of the Bay Area stops for the DanTDM tour, we asked DanTDM - aka Daniel Middleton - about what parents should know about their kids and YouTube. With so many young people finding inspiration in DanTDM - at 14.9 million subscribers he’s one of the most popular YouTube creators in the world - we thought parents might also find inspiration from him. “It’s a way to model oneself after an iconic figure.” “Creating Let’s Play videos inspired by DanTDM is a little bit like a kid playing basketball pretending to be LeBron James or Stephen Curry,” he said. One of the most popular motivators?: YouTube creators they admire, according to Randy Kulman, Ph.D., of LearningWorks for Kids. Kids are motivated to create content for YouTube by a variety of factors.
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