From Reusing Random Videos to Recording Gaming Videos
I'm MrJacon000, I upload gaming videos in the sim genre, I occasionally record Automation & BeamNG.drive videos. I started my channel on February 23rd, 2011. I started out just posting comments on people's videos, liking them, and subscribing to them, nothing special. On July 11th, 2011, I uploaded my first video about a car crash from the TV show, Most Daring. Back then, I uploaded videos using the YouTube Editor program and took people's videos that had a Creative Commons license. Those videos include:
For my name, it's pretty interesting how I came up with my channel name. When I was in elementary school, I was one of those people who acted "hard" to gain notoriety in the class and my grade level. Although I never got into real trouble like getting suspended, juvie, etc. Obviously, the first two letters, "Mr" or mister is a male's salutation since I'm a guy. The "Ja" is the first two letters of my name. I'm not going to disclose my name at the moment. Maybe if I get famous or something? The "Con" part of my name was part of my school nickname because of my soft, hard actions of being the bad boy in school. That means that "Jacon" is a hybrid of my first two letters of my real name and being the "con artist" in class. That name stuck with me throughout the rest of my days until high school. And lastly, the three zeros were at first, just pointless channel name fillers. Like some people back in the day where they had usernames like XxSmokeBombxX555 and all that. Since people needed that name so badly, they added at least 3 consecutive numbers to make themselves original. Like what I did to my name. Last year, I managed to come up with what the three zeroes meant without doing a total rebrand of my channel. The three zeroes meant that I came from no views, no subs, and no fame. That's why I later came up with the channel slogan you see in the intros and channel art, "From 0 content until now." It's strange how I named my channel, but it hasn't changed to this date.
A couple of my popular videos that I haven't deleted was, To Anacreon In Heaven and Tourette's Guy - Lottery. Those videos have a combined view count of over 580,000 views. As I was making the Anacreon in Heaven video, I recorded the audio using my old laptop's microphone and covered up the webcam with my thumb because I didn't know how to screen record. I obtained the audio file from the Smithsonian Institute and recorded it from there. (SOURCE) For the Tourette's Guy video, I used the YouTube Editor of someone who uploaded the same exact clip and renamed the person's video so it can be able to be seen from the search results. During the 2016 Powerball billion dollar drawing, a couple of popular Reddit users shared my video on their threads which caused a massive surge in views. Before it went mainstream, the view count was at around 90,000. The day after, it jumped up to around 370,000 views. Roughly a 2.5x increase in views in a short period of time! I also made a blog post about which is located HERE.
On December 3rd, 2011, I uploaded my very first gaming video of a Sim on The Sims 3 getting electrocuted. It's a very short video of what it appears that my Sim is fixing a laptop with a screwdriver which causes him to get electrocuted. Unfortunately, the video has no sound. (VIDEO) After uploading that video, I began to publish more and more Sims 3 videos to my channel. After 2 months of making those videos, I began to upload cheat code videos and glitch showcase videos of me finding a bug or glitch in a game. When I recorded those videos, I used a cheap Flip video camera since I didn't have a cell phone, and pointed at a CRT TV which looks HORRIBLE to this date! My first commentary gaming video was uploaded on August 25th, 2012 of me recording some Easter Eggs in GTA IV. Again, I had one hand recording the TV, the controller with my other hand, and my pre-puberty voice making the video hard to watch and listen to. That video can be viewed HERE.
On February 11th, 2013, I uploaded my first ROBLOX video of me recording a crash compilation of cars jumping off a parking garage roof. (VIDEO) This also made me publish only ROBLOX videos as I did with the Sims. I also published a few videos that weren't related to ROBLOX such as a couple (now dead) meme videos, Just Cause 2 Fails, the infamous Super Bowl XLVII power outage, and even more glitch videos. None of my ROBLOX videos didn't have any commentary because I wasn't comfortable doing so since I was going through puberty and I also thought no one would want to hear me talk because of my voice. A few months later, I began to be inconsistent with my uploading schedule because of school, I began uploading videos a couple of times a month, or even a video in two months. As I was realizing what I was doing with my channel I began to change it up a bit.
On February 28th, 2015, I uploaded my first real commentary gaming video of a mobile game, Drunken Wrestlers. It's just a simple 11-minute video of me having fun with the game. (VIDEO) I uploaded another mobile gaming video, but it never caught onto me. I hit another gaming video break as I uploaded my last PS3 videos for another 8 months until I got a PS4. My first PS4 video was yet another glitch video of a character in Warframe named, Darvo stuck running in place. (VIDEO) Two days later, I made my first PS4 commentary gaming video on the version of FIFA 16. (VIDEO) It's just a simple video of me playing a couple of matches on the game. What was unfortunate about recording gameplay videos on the PS4 was that there was a recording limit of 15 minutes long. I solved this by live streaming all of my gaming videos on Twitch and upload the entire stream to YouTube. I've been doing that for over a year until they supported 60-minute recordings which helped out a lot.
On December 27th, 2017, I purchased my first gaming desktop computer. Even though it was a high-end work computer in the early 2010s. I bought a Dell Precision T3500 for $120 which had an Intel Xeon W3580, a decent 250GB HDD, 12GB of RAM, and a mediocre Nvidia Quadro FX580 which was worse than my laptop's internal GPU. Because of the poor graphics card, I bought an EVGA Nvidia GTX 750 Ti for around $86. It made a large improvement on the frame rate of most games running on medium settings, but I could not achieve over 60FPS on the games I play. I saved up my money to buy my equipment and my new graphics card in 7 months. I bought my Corsair keyboard, Samson mic, a more powerful CPU, a new SSD and HDD, and my graphics card which cost me $564.92. (Not including shipping.) Here's how much each item had cost:
From copying people's videos to making my own content, I think this was quite interesting as I was managing my channel throughout the years. It was a slow start since most of the videos on my channel had underwhelming content like TV logos, brief news headlines, silent gameplay videos, etc. Since I'm heading on the right path to grow my channel, it would take this channel some time to get noticed, but there is a lot of potential. Not because I have all of the fancy professional recording equipment or a decent gaming computer, it's the time and effort put into each video. From the time I play the game, record the gameplay, and publish it on my channel, I'm doing my part in entertaining an audience of the gaming culture.
- TV/Studio Logos;
- Certain Viral Videos;
- Game Theme Songs;
- Major News Headlines.
For my name, it's pretty interesting how I came up with my channel name. When I was in elementary school, I was one of those people who acted "hard" to gain notoriety in the class and my grade level. Although I never got into real trouble like getting suspended, juvie, etc. Obviously, the first two letters, "Mr" or mister is a male's salutation since I'm a guy. The "Ja" is the first two letters of my name. I'm not going to disclose my name at the moment. Maybe if I get famous or something? The "Con" part of my name was part of my school nickname because of my soft, hard actions of being the bad boy in school. That means that "Jacon" is a hybrid of my first two letters of my real name and being the "con artist" in class. That name stuck with me throughout the rest of my days until high school. And lastly, the three zeros were at first, just pointless channel name fillers. Like some people back in the day where they had usernames like XxSmokeBombxX555 and all that. Since people needed that name so badly, they added at least 3 consecutive numbers to make themselves original. Like what I did to my name. Last year, I managed to come up with what the three zeroes meant without doing a total rebrand of my channel. The three zeroes meant that I came from no views, no subs, and no fame. That's why I later came up with the channel slogan you see in the intros and channel art, "From 0 content until now." It's strange how I named my channel, but it hasn't changed to this date.
A couple of my popular videos that I haven't deleted was, To Anacreon In Heaven and Tourette's Guy - Lottery. Those videos have a combined view count of over 580,000 views. As I was making the Anacreon in Heaven video, I recorded the audio using my old laptop's microphone and covered up the webcam with my thumb because I didn't know how to screen record. I obtained the audio file from the Smithsonian Institute and recorded it from there. (SOURCE) For the Tourette's Guy video, I used the YouTube Editor of someone who uploaded the same exact clip and renamed the person's video so it can be able to be seen from the search results. During the 2016 Powerball billion dollar drawing, a couple of popular Reddit users shared my video on their threads which caused a massive surge in views. Before it went mainstream, the view count was at around 90,000. The day after, it jumped up to around 370,000 views. Roughly a 2.5x increase in views in a short period of time! I also made a blog post about which is located HERE.
On December 3rd, 2011, I uploaded my very first gaming video of a Sim on The Sims 3 getting electrocuted. It's a very short video of what it appears that my Sim is fixing a laptop with a screwdriver which causes him to get electrocuted. Unfortunately, the video has no sound. (VIDEO) After uploading that video, I began to publish more and more Sims 3 videos to my channel. After 2 months of making those videos, I began to upload cheat code videos and glitch showcase videos of me finding a bug or glitch in a game. When I recorded those videos, I used a cheap Flip video camera since I didn't have a cell phone, and pointed at a CRT TV which looks HORRIBLE to this date! My first commentary gaming video was uploaded on August 25th, 2012 of me recording some Easter Eggs in GTA IV. Again, I had one hand recording the TV, the controller with my other hand, and my pre-puberty voice making the video hard to watch and listen to. That video can be viewed HERE.
On February 11th, 2013, I uploaded my first ROBLOX video of me recording a crash compilation of cars jumping off a parking garage roof. (VIDEO) This also made me publish only ROBLOX videos as I did with the Sims. I also published a few videos that weren't related to ROBLOX such as a couple (now dead) meme videos, Just Cause 2 Fails, the infamous Super Bowl XLVII power outage, and even more glitch videos. None of my ROBLOX videos didn't have any commentary because I wasn't comfortable doing so since I was going through puberty and I also thought no one would want to hear me talk because of my voice. A few months later, I began to be inconsistent with my uploading schedule because of school, I began uploading videos a couple of times a month, or even a video in two months. As I was realizing what I was doing with my channel I began to change it up a bit.
On February 28th, 2015, I uploaded my first real commentary gaming video of a mobile game, Drunken Wrestlers. It's just a simple 11-minute video of me having fun with the game. (VIDEO) I uploaded another mobile gaming video, but it never caught onto me. I hit another gaming video break as I uploaded my last PS3 videos for another 8 months until I got a PS4. My first PS4 video was yet another glitch video of a character in Warframe named, Darvo stuck running in place. (VIDEO) Two days later, I made my first PS4 commentary gaming video on the version of FIFA 16. (VIDEO) It's just a simple video of me playing a couple of matches on the game. What was unfortunate about recording gameplay videos on the PS4 was that there was a recording limit of 15 minutes long. I solved this by live streaming all of my gaming videos on Twitch and upload the entire stream to YouTube. I've been doing that for over a year until they supported 60-minute recordings which helped out a lot.
On December 27th, 2017, I purchased my first gaming desktop computer. Even though it was a high-end work computer in the early 2010s. I bought a Dell Precision T3500 for $120 which had an Intel Xeon W3580, a decent 250GB HDD, 12GB of RAM, and a mediocre Nvidia Quadro FX580 which was worse than my laptop's internal GPU. Because of the poor graphics card, I bought an EVGA Nvidia GTX 750 Ti for around $86. It made a large improvement on the frame rate of most games running on medium settings, but I could not achieve over 60FPS on the games I play. I saved up my money to buy my equipment and my new graphics card in 7 months. I bought my Corsair keyboard, Samson mic, a more powerful CPU, a new SSD and HDD, and my graphics card which cost me $564.92. (Not including shipping.) Here's how much each item had cost:
- (Used) Corsair Strafe Keyboard: $64.00
- (New, open box) Samson C01U microphone: $39.99
- (New, open box) Sennheiser HD280 Pro V2: $56.89
- (New, open box) Crucial MX300 525GB SSD: $97.99
- (New) Western Digital WD4000FDYZ 4TB HDD: $99.00
- (Used) Intel Xeon W3690 3.46GHz processor: $62.00
- (New) Silver thermal paste: $2.95
- (Used) EVGA Nvidia GTX 970 SC: $142.10
From copying people's videos to making my own content, I think this was quite interesting as I was managing my channel throughout the years. It was a slow start since most of the videos on my channel had underwhelming content like TV logos, brief news headlines, silent gameplay videos, etc. Since I'm heading on the right path to grow my channel, it would take this channel some time to get noticed, but there is a lot of potential. Not because I have all of the fancy professional recording equipment or a decent gaming computer, it's the time and effort put into each video. From the time I play the game, record the gameplay, and publish it on my channel, I'm doing my part in entertaining an audience of the gaming culture.
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