 Today we have a special guest who will host the George show, Ninja Joe 10. He will teach you how to grow instead of me, so please give a warm welcome to Ninja Joe. Roll it! Hello Ray, this is Ninja 10, but you could just call me Joe. From what I understand, I'm on the Freedom Channel. Yes, you are Ninja. I will let him teach you, but first I will introduce Joe so you know who he is. Ninja Joe recently left a comment as a joke saying would it be cool if he could host an episode of the George show. I replied saying why not, send me a video. And he also introduced himself or reintroduced himself on the Freedom forums. The link is down there in the description below. He is 17 years old, he is from Latvia, and he enjoys playing video games, and his biggest dream is to actually do YouTube full-time. How many of you have the same dream? Well that's what freedom is here for, to help you reach that dream and grow together as a family. So without further ado, I will let Ninja Joe take over the George show and present what I hope you will find a helpful tip about thumbnails. Roll it! Today I guess I'm like a guest to something like that, and I'll be talking about how I make my channel thumbnails. And after that I'll also talk about my journey on YouTube. And hey, maybe I'll even give you hope on maybe starting your channel, maybe continuing your channel, I don't know, we'll just see. Okay, so first, first of all, how I make my thumbnails. I don't use Photoshop or anything like that, I use a free website, pixel herb, how I make my thumbnails. Let's see, so first of all, I forgot what I clicked. Okay, so yeah, create a new image and let's go to 720p, transparent because I like it, I like that. Okay, so first of all, we need a good background. So what I like to do is go to my videos and, I don't know, just find a good, find like something that would be a good background, don't mind this layout. It would, the best would be if it's something like really bright or something like that. Okay, yeah, I do use Premiere Pro for my editing and from what I understand, someone else is gonna be editing this. So yeah, that's really interesting. Yeah, I do it, I do like a real weird version where I basically, yeah, I basically just delete, I basically get one frame, just get one frame. Okay, so yeah, let's just get rid of the layout and let's have that because with the layout, it might look a bit weird, I guess. That doesn't really matter for my kind of way. So what I do is I export it, oh, Premiere Pro, no. Deg, deg, I said export. Okay, there you go. So I don't know, just, this is some stuff, H, hold up, so the format is H.264 and this doesn't really matter, just go for YouTube 1080p I guess and with the output, I have a special kind of, I guess, kind of folder like in other and what I like to do just for fun is I just like to go crazy. I don't know why, anyways, you export that, that's not gonna take a long time and I use a special kind of thing with basically video to JPEG converter. That's why it's best to just keep it at one frame. Again, going to the special folder and it makes new folder and looking at how many frames you have, it's gonna show how many images and since I only had one frame, it's only gonna be one image. So yeah, control A and control C to select all on coffee, then I'm gonna make this a bit smaller, so more of the stuff gets in. I'm gonna box blur, which basically blurs this in the background and also I'm gonna put the saturation up. Okay, so anyways, yeah, we got the background now in the foreground, so it depends on the series, like this is my Pixelmon last year's Topaz series, so what I like to do is basically get the logo in, so this is like a special kind of map with a special kind of logo, so yeah, I'll just have that in. Okay, oh also I probably should have checked what the episode is, oh yeah now I remember, because this episode right here is about defeating a special kind of dude, Maxi. So I mean obviously you can do whatever you want as long as it's in the YouTube community guidelines, but try not to go for clickbait stuff. I guess maybe a little bit clickbait is okay, but not full on clickbait. Okay anyways, what else? Oh yeah, I do have a channel logo, so yeah, I can use that as well. Okay, and you know what? Okay, so I defeat Maxi. Oh come on, yeah. So yeah, I defeat this dude. Okay yeah, the best images are usually PNG because then the background, you don't have to worry about the backgrounds I'll say images, I'm just gonna save it as Maxi apparently. Okay, oops, typo but all right, typo's okay, if you remember what you typed, I guess. Okay, so yeah, boom, Maxi let's go. I'm just gonna flip it, transform, transform his body, I guess. Oh yeah, let's just make him dominant, like, oh, alpha, oh, let's make Maxi a big chat. Yeah, you can get pretty meme-y with all this stuff. Okay, so eyes, let's see. Okay, I have a pretty good idea of what I'm gonna do. Obviously you don't want to go too small because then you might, the people might not even see it so what I'll do here, flip. Okay, never mind. Actually what I'll do is I'll make the eyes be a bit close to each other, that might help. And now give Maxi some eyes, I mean he already has eyes but like, wow! Okay, and also if I remember correctly I had a brow, yep. It's good to have like, basically, I don't know, it's good to like have full unfolders upon folders. Okay, so yeah, I'm just gonna give a brow there, also make this brow a bit closer. Also this isn't the best program, oh yeah. Okay, I guess Maxi's gonna have a uni brow, that's okay. You know, accidents can happen and hey, you can work with accidents. Okay, and now I gotta make myself look real scared. Okay, so yeah, obviously the same eyes because why not? Again, you can just keep on experimenting with all this. Until you, I guess, like I've been making thumbnails for my videos for over like, four years? Almost four years now. See, it's been pretty crazy. Okay, do I have sweat? Yeah, I do. Although, I guess I can maybe use that. Yeah, I mean if you don't have something that you can usually get from Google, they'll be careful about the copyright stuff. I don't know. Okay, so I do have a special kind of way of doing stuff with The Last Restore Pass, so I'm just gonna go quickly to my YouTube studio to see. Okay, yeah. And this is episode six. I don't know if they even need a spade. Okay, so yeah, I found that I really like is Comic Sans because Undertale and the sand. I don't know. Again, pre-Mimi, now for funny Mimi. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so yeah, to edit, I guess, to like edit the text size more, we just rasterized the layer. I don't even know what that word means, so just use it, I guess. Although, okay. I mean, it's best if the thumbnail doesn't really have much text. I'm just going with what I've been doing for some time. There's definitely better versions of doing this. I'm just going to doing it my way, my way. Okay, I guess, yeah, I can go a bit there, maybe add a little bit bevel, though not too much. Okay, yeah, like a pretty cool effect. Actually, hold up, let's go back to Maxi's eyes, yep. And again, just experiments, like, what could be pretty cool? Yeah, there could definitely be pretty crazy effects. Oh yeah, red eyes, like full on red eyes, maybe a bit darker, maybe a bit saturated. Again, the thumbnails are mostly just experimenting until you find something that works. Me, you could spend hours and hours on this. I'm just going with a specific rhythm they're made in my mind, I guess. Actually, let's go. Okay, oh yeah, although with this, it is kind of hard with the layers, hold up not. Okay, I wanted to copy that, now I can add even more sweat. I mean, it's okay, I don't know if it's okay if the sweat is, yeah, like over here you can kind of see how, when this image is small, how well you can see it. It's not that easily, it's not that easy to see it, but I don't know, I just like to add some little touches here and there, and a special kind of, yeah, I do have a special kind of folder for that. And again, you can name these files, whatever you want, just be careful and be and be careful about it if you remember them. And yeah, you can also, you know, obviously, add the thumbnail, I'm just gonna do it right now so it wouldn't later. Okay, so, and now the camera is, and now it's only the camera. No, turn it, now it's only the camera, boom. I don't know, I don't know how this is gonna work. Okay, so yeah, now it's, I guess time for me just, just talk about my experience with YouTube, so I will be using a little bit of YouTube Studio just to, I don't know, check, but the viewers don't need to see that or whatever. Okay, so yeah, I started making videos on the, on 2014, the 5th of December, although my first ever video, first of all was in Latvia, and second of all I actually made a video in like the summer, but I only uploaded it in December because, I don't know, it's late. I have been pretty lazy here and there, like yeah, after the first video just, first four videos were just daily and after that a bit of a, I don't know, break or something like that, I did have a little bit of school, but then winter break started, so boom. Yeah, I was able to upload more videos, but then school started again and I kind of went a bit monthly, like one or two videos monthly, experimented with some stuff, gaming, animation, a lot of gaming, okay, and 2016, okay, I can actually pinpoint the exact date. First of August 2016 was when I first started to make thumbnails, they were not good, they were terrible, but, but hey, it was something, like I almost, I did almost two years of YouTube without making any thumbnails, because back then I started YouTube when I was 11, I don't even know if I was allowed to do that, I guess maybe with my parents' permission or something like that. Look, YouTube back then was a bit different, maybe a bit edgier and that kind of stuff, I don't know. Okay, now 2017 is when my channel kind of started blowing up a bit more, I got 100 subs, I started collaborating with some people and actually two of the people I started collaborating with, I did find through freedom and that definitely helped me, especially in like 2017 June. Yeah, I won't name them because I don't know, their channels are kind of like dead or something like that, I don't actually know if they stopped making YouTube videos, that is also a possibility that the people you work with might soon at one point stop making YouTube videos, but also the main point is just not giving up, like yeah, I've been on the 200 subs for like four years and I didn't give up, I uploaded, there were times when I uploaded daily, there were times when I uploaded weekly, there were times when I missed some weeks, there was even one time when I missed a month, like a whole month I forgot to upload because I was lazy and school and other stuff, but yeah, I still didn't give up on YouTube, maybe I basically went through the laziness, I don't know, I bowled the laziness I guess, and yeah 2018, I started a new series called Rotor 100 where I tried to make one of her episodes in the same world, and boom, that went pretty well, yeah the first episode right now has over 250 views, so yeah that went a bit higher, and that was like the first series where I actually made a lot of episodes, like before that my most episodic series like that, where I had the most episodes was Troll Vanilla where I tried to I guess troll other people in Minecraft, that only had 13 episodes, so yeah, that was back in 2017, but yeah, I started some Pokemon because I really like Pokemon, I mean that didn't do as good as Minecraft, but still, that still did pretty good, I even started my own subreddit which is right now dead, but I still experimented, like yeah, I did like a tier list when that was popular, I guess, more Pokemon, I started a series called So Bad As Good where I tried really bad games that were actually so bad that they were good, like funny good, yeah, yeah, memes, yeah, like last year 2019, 5th of December, that was the five year mark when I did, basically when I, again I saw YouTube in 2014, 5th of December, so I did my first video again like a redo, yeah that was fun, that was fun I guess, and then 2020 even bigger now, I don't actually remember if it was 2019 or 2020, I think it was 2019 when I got over 200 subs, yeah, I started a couple more series here and there, I also tried like challenges, like the Rumi, some Rumi challenges, that's got some, although yeah, obviously my singing is not good, again more, now Pixelmon, said Pokemon, it's Pixelmon, joining my two favorite things, Minecraft and Pokemon, joining them together, Pixelmon, let's just hope, and then Pokemon, I actually got sponsored and actually got paid for like making seven videos on a Pixelmon server, and that's basically where I am right now, yeah if you like Minecraft, if you like Pixelmon, maybe like what the gulf, I might do a bit of that, or maybe something else, you can tell me in the comments, in my comments though, I'm not gonna read a lot of the freedom comments because it's not my channel, I don't know, sorry, yeah, the main thing to take from this is just not to give up, okay let me just quickly open social blade, actually I think with details stats it's easy to see, so yeah, it goes as far back as 2017, I know that earlier it went even further back, not anymore, so yeah like back in 2017, boom, I had like a bit over 100 subs, and my views less than 5k, less than 10k total, but then July 2019, boom, around 200 subs, and then my channel started growing and growing, now I'm here over 230 subs, and over 30k total views, I basically like I had 10 more 10,000 more views to my total view count in just like less than six months, less than six months, oh jeez I cannot talk, okay yeah, again don't don't give up, experiment, experimenting is good, obviously also find your niche, like what you like to do, but what also people like to watch, that's like a really good combination, like you do something that you like, but also people like to watch that stuff, I don't know, I don't know how to end this, I guess I'll just use my normal outro that I always do on my videos, so I hope you enjoyed the video, if you did please leave a like, subscribe, and subscribe, press the notification bell to know when a new video comes out, and on my channel I guess maybe comment what I should do, comment for more ideas, yeah always at the end I ask for the viewers to comment for more ideas, and I do sometimes get ideas, and I do write them down, I just a lot of time forget, yeah I should definitely get on that, yeah biggest challenge for me is battling laziness, school, and other stuff, like the only time when I record videos is when my parents aren't home, because then I feel the most comfortable, comfortable actually recording videos, I don't know, yeah, anyways bye partner with freedom and join the freedom family so we can all grow together, you get many perks, like position music, you also get epidemic sound, a lot of other access to royalty-free videos, sponsorships, and many things to help you grow, just click the links down there in the description 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