 well it's been a while so I'm gonna apologize right now this was not the video I was actually working on I was working on some Nintendo news but I decided to get this one out the door because I checked Twitter today now I don't check Twitter very often I admittedly should be using Twitter more often than I do but I had a notification and this notification came from a particular Twitter user I'm going to white out his username and stuff because I don't want you guys go heading over to Twitter and attacking him I know what the internet does sometimes defense forces come out I don't even know if I have a defense force but I whatever basically this person tweeted at Arlo stuff you know Arlo the youtuber his Twitter handle and he said so I've discovered a youtuber that can't come up with original content and then obviously he says at Ninti Prime which is our our Twitter handle and he says he puts screenshots which I believe he took with his phone just based on the style of him and his first one has a news flash it's time to take the Nintendo switch seriously a review tech USA video that was posted on September 12th as he so conveniently points out in the screenshot and then the next image he points to my video published on September 14th that's it's time for all gamers to take Nintendo switch seriously now obviously those titles are very very similar and I did take inspiration from Richard review tech USA's thing but the the thing was I was already working on a video very similar to what Rich made especially with all the new third-party announcements that came out of the Nintendo Direct I feel like it's an easily defendable point why we both had similar videos Rich and myself actually have a very similar style to how we do things but I also don't think it's a crime to take inspiration it's not like I went point-by-point through the things he said and just repeated what he said it's not like I I oh here's what Rich said here's what I said they're the exact same things about about a boom like that's not the way it works right it's okay for youtubers to be inspired by other youtubers or for multiple youtubers to cover the same topic I mean let's be real how many like even when I post a news piece how many other youtubers have posted that same news piece and I know that's not comparable to like rants and original content but it's still it is something that is I think okay to do I don't think there's anything wrong with making a video on a topic that somebody else already made a video on I don't know maybe that's just me then he goes on to point out a video published back in June 29th where Arlo posted up a video says Nintendo's back baby it's really weird that this is being brought up several months later but whatever and then he points to a video I posted on my birthday about Nintendo is finally back and it feels so good and that video did perform pretty well for me in 19,000 views and yeah I didn't really reiterate many of Arlo's comments on it obviously I saw Arlo's video I'm aware of Arlo's video when I made that video but yeah obviously I was inspired by what Arlo said to make my own video on the topic and I don't think there's anything wrong with that but what's really set me off isn't so much his accusations that I can't come up with original content right because coming up with original content is something that is very hard to do but I mean let's even address that that point that I can't come up with original content so I decided to actually see how valid his points are that I do not come up with original content on my own because it's very important to me that this channel has some originality to it while we do things similar to other channels I want to make sure that that we're doing this correctly so I went through my most popular videos and I kind of I ignored any videos that were basically older than say six months when when this channel officially became Nintendo Prime so we're not going to even count the eight month ago we battle Ocarina of time or the step talus thing that was all under the gaze of Zelda Informer even ten months ago is the no breath while the dragon break again that's all stuff that came when this channel was Zelda Informer but under Nintendo Prime our most popular video we've ever created as Nintendo Prime is Sony and others can't understand who switches core audience really is an original content piece I created based on some news out of Sony that blew up on the channel and is by far and away our most popular video you saw the Arlo thing you know that that that one video for 19,000 views this is 79,000 but forget viewership wise that's some original content right there what if the Wii U was the Wii HD and released in 2010 I don't think I've ever seen any other video ever on that what whatsoever it was a what if scenario I literally pulled off the top of my head 49,000 views you know we can go further you know the time of switching is our bending but it's not likely what you think I did some research I read a bunch of articles on it made what I felt was a informative news report on it and that that blew up you know just looking at some other stuff one month ago lawsuit shouldn't threaten to shut down Nintendo there's a original news report switch online app fears are realized some more news switch a set an example for the industry with 60 FPS on 80 percent of titles again I felt like that was an original content video for me right there 31,000 views devlames Nintendo for Iowa to death a touchy topic I didn't like me making that video but I still made it anyways because it happened you know why the Wii U failed and the switch is succeeding again completely original content of my own and I decided that just looking at some of those popular videos might not be good enough so let's just look at my videos on the whole now I'm not going to sit here and say I never take inspiration from other youtubers or if a youtuber covers a particular topic it doesn't make me want to cover that topic as well of course it does YouTube is an area where we all borrow from each other we all feed off of each other's ideas to make what we feel is compelling content for our audience so let's just look at some of the stuff that that that is more original like an honest conversation about the taxis taxicity in gaming a video I put up today it was based on Richard review text video about about dealing with some of the sourness on YouTube where people make short yeah assumptions about you based on your age or dismiss you as your age and other stuff ageism I think is what he called it but I did that topic and expanded it to talking about toxicity in all games I added a heck of a lot more context to a completely different conversation on top of that that that was an original content that wasn't news so I'm not going to cover news because I don't necessarily think the news is wholly original news is what it is even if I have an original take on it there is let me see here the right and wrong way for third parties to treat switch again completely original content NBA 2k18 switch first PlayStation 4 vs Xbox one that again was not news that was completely original content why Mario plus Kingdom that right you know my Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom metal is so good part of our podcast our podcast is 100% original content so original content pure SNES classic telling our personal stories again original content it's time to take the switch seriously again that's the one that I admit that I you know I got the idea from Richard review Tech USA Nintendo direct reactions again completely original content our direct live show original content switches voice chat just got better that's news but then examining Mario Odyssey's map original content so how many of these videos just in the past all I don't know 14 videos or so that I literally just say that's completely original content half I mean it's it's baffling to me when someone grabs two specific examples where I clearly drew inspiration from other channels and then goes on to say that I don't have any of my own original ideas or that I don't create anything original I mean look at other others review for Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom that I steal that review from somebody else too did I steal my viewpoints on NBA 2k18 from other people it's it's baffling to me when people take what you do grab really small sample sizes take it completely out of context of the rest of your channel and then accuse you of doing something that is you know on the surface deplorable if all I did if every video I'd made was just taking topics from every other YouTube channel out there and read regurgitating those topics and not just regurgitating the topics but literally point-for-point saying the exact same things those people are doing which is a that's plagiarism right like you can always use somebody else's no one owns an idea but if you take the idea and you make the exact same points in the exact same way you're literally just copying content right and that's not what I did at least I don't feel like that's what I did in the two videos I'm being accused of doing that kind of thing with and even if I had those are not a majority of the content on my channel nor are they a majority of the original content in fact in the time span between July 5th and like September 14th or 15th whenever that video was published I've produced over a hundred videos so the fact that there was only two examples brought up out of a hundred videos a hundred or more videos lets you know that that can't be true if that was true my channel just wouldn't be here now what set me off what maybe want to respond is his own reply to his own accusation where he says look I get you need money to feed your family and Nintendo addiction but you're 30 and have kids get a real job this bothers me because I don't do YouTube exclusively for a living right we're a small YouTube channel you can look at social blade and get estimates but I'll give you a round figure now I can't give you anything exact and obviously it fluctuates up and down but we make roughly $400 a month off our YouTube channel and that's it combining it with Patreon and everything so everything surrounding Nintendo Prime is roughly $400 a month no I'm not supporting a family of five three kids and two adults on an income of $400 a month I mean come on so clearly I have another job and just because that other job also enables me to work from home which is really convenient for making content at Nintendo Prime doesn't mean that that I view that other job is my future right that other job is how I support my family I make a vast majority my income at that other job and I appreciate having that job I appreciate the work it takes to do that job well and I am obviously making enough money to support my family off of it but it's not it's not something that I view as my future right it's a job I do not like doing it's a job I do reluctantly but it's a job that I'm good at and I do because it supports my family YouTube is not a job I do because it supports my family YouTube is a job I do because I love doing it I love creating videos I love building something at Nintendo Prime that is me I spent you know the last 10 years or eight years of my life building up a website in Zeldinformer.com that is not mine I built it up for somebody else to turn around and sell it for several tens of thousands of dollars and then for the current owner of it to basically boot me out the door without much of a conversation because they want to do they want to turn into as big of a cash cow as they can or whatever the reasons might be and that's fine they own it but I spent like a huge chunk of my adult life building that place up for somebody else so it feels good here at Nintendo Prime to build up something that's wholly mine I own Nintendo Prime the website the Twitter handle the Facebook page the YouTube channel these are mine any followers any viewers any subscribers any likes I get at any of this stuff are things that are wholly for me it's an entity that I'm building up for myself and I would love to just do Nintendo Prime related stuff whether it's news posts on the on the website whether it's making editorials whether it's making videos or what have you for a living I would love to have YouTube be my job my only job there are so many youtubers out there that have YouTube as their only job and I would love to be one of them but we also have to realize when people say get a real job that is a complete disrespect to the medium of YouTube and it's a disrespect to all youtubers in general because any youtubers that make a living off of YouTube or make any sort of revenue I view I view YouTube as a part-time job because I make a revenue off of it it's insulting to so many people I mean it's really insulting to me because he's saying that that what I do at YouTube isn't a real job I why because I enjoy it I I don't get it because I enjoy what I do it's not a real job so do you have to hate what you do for your real job or is it the fact I work at home that makes it not a real job is it the fact that I'm self-employed I work for myself at Nintendo Prime is that what makes it not a real job as the fact I rely on ad revenue that makes it not a real job then I guess like everyone at IGN it's not a real job because their money's from all ad revenue I it's baffling to me when people talk about what's a real job and what's not I was editor-in-chief of Zelda Informer for like the last three years and I got paid a wage to be editor-in-chief of Zelda Informer that was a job likewise I'm being paid by YouTube to run this YouTube channel that to me is a job and no I don't always enjoy it there are days I really do not want to get a upload I've been sick for the past week and yet I still got a video up every day because I know what happens to my channel if I skip too many days of uploading that they start to take your channel away from the recommended areas and there's certain things you have to do to maintain a YouTube channel that isn't always fun so if it's that I enjoy my job sure I enjoy it but I don't enjoy every aspect of it so yeah it's it's just a interesting conversation when people accuse what I do as not being a job I've seen enough people out in the world not view what youtubers do as a job not view what what I even did at Zelda Informer as a job not viewing what I do at my other job as a job people don't really understand the amount of work that goes into these things for them to be as good as they are and I'm not saying my channel is not perfect and it can't be better it can be and it will be and I hope that it continues to grow and continues to improve but it's really hard seeing accusations like this and I'm not gonna be talking like every time someone accuses me of this I'm not gonna make a video obviously this is the first time I've been accused of anything like this in a long time I've dealt with these accusations back at Zelda Informer as well and I don't know it's just weird YouTube's a different place it's more personal and it's more there's more insight you guys know more about my family than anyone ever found out at Zelda Informer even the staff and that's because I feel like YouTube is just a more personal place it's a more personal conversation I have between you guys and me so yeah I I'm not gonna apologize for taking inspiration I didn't steal any videos I created my own content that happened to be on the same topic so I I don't know two videos out of a hundred plus I don't see what the big deal is and I have so many examples of original content I always say if you're someone out there that's looking to get people or looking to make an example of them trying to make a stronger case you know to talk about how I can't come up with original content in a sea of original content is just really mind-boggling to me and never make it personal and I just said that YouTube channels are personal but never tweet at someone or DM someone and bring up their kids okay it is never okay to bring up their kids to make accusations about not being able to support your kids seriously if someone ever comes to me and tells me that my kids are not being supported because of what I do it's a very upsetting thing to be accused of something you know isn't true but someone out there actually thinks because I make YouTube videos I can't support my kids it's anyways folks I'm Nathan rubber dance from the tenor prime if you like this video you know what to do and if you dislike the video hit that dislike button subscribe for more and I'll catch you hopefully in a Nintendo related video in the next one