YouTube vanlife drama

Making decent watchable video is not easy at all. If you need to make a living on clicks I imagine it is quite stressful. If you take off and get a huge following the earning potential can be massive, but there are so many abandoned channels that are testament to how hard it is.
 
Jim said:
Making decent watchable video is not easy at all. If you need to make a living on clicks I imagine it is quite stressful. If you take off and get a huge following the earning potential can be massive, but there are so many abandoned channels that are testament to how hard it is.
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Absolutely true. If you look at Camper Vibes their videos are pretty much professional level programmes, and Yorkshire Pop Top Adventures and Life is too Short are also both very well done. But there are lots which aren't.
I know I couldn't do it! Certainly not consistently on a weekly basis. Life IS too short!!
 
Jim said:
Making decent watchable video is not easy at all. If you need to make a living on clicks I imagine it is quite stressful. If you take off and get a huge following the earning potential can be massive, but there are so many abandoned channels that are testament to how hard it is.
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Does anyone actually know how many active YouTube subscribers are needed to get say £100k per annum in income (gross)?

Is it 20k, 100k, 500k, 1M subscribers with average viewing habits of the content you are making?

Just curious. TBH thee are some quite good channels out there.

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chaser said:
Anyone watched ," those happy days" on YouTube lately, they just get more stupid by the day, finished in UK, going on a European tour , got as far as Germany to a bear festival they couldn't get it, moaned about the campsites, found they had a leak and condensation.
Guess where they are now, back in the UK trying to sort there van out once again for free.
In her intro she says they have been living in the van for eighteen months, but they have spent half the time living in hotels and other people's houses.
He has come down now to flogging Chinese knives.
Totally bonkers.
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Two if the most useless van lifers I've ever seen. But, if you need him to cook up a plant based pile of vegetables he's your man.
 
Tonks said:
It seems to be a trend to post alarmist headlines on YouTube vlogs at the moment, and you usually find out that it's not any sort of drama as I did with one which shouted 'This is the End for us' and it turned out that they were talking about the end of a trip, not the end of their #vanlife journey, as implied.

I used to watch These Happy Days, but I very rarely do now because I got so fed up with all their artificial dramas, and their (his) strops. I also loathe the way he tries to 'have his cake an eat it', ie. - he gets upset somewhere because the van is seen as a commercial vehicle and charged accordingly. Then he gets upset because it's NOT seen as one, and is charged accordingly! He needs to decide whether they want it to look like a commercial vehicle, or a camper, and stick with that. He moaned about getting a fine which was entirely his own fault. Annoying, but his own fault. But I predominantly got bored when they decided to buy a van which appears largely unsuitable for what they want to do, and the main reason for change was because Liam was having trouble with the bed in their previous van. So they buy a massive van, and then build the bed transverse, and have to compromise the insulation to fit it in that way. They could easily have bought a lower profile van, and started the conversion process by planning the bed arrangement. Nuts. And even more nuts that they didn't seem to plan the layout very well before starting the build, and had no 'shakedown' provision
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Also the builder they chose was a bit dubious. They don't talk anymore.
 
Carpmart said:
Does anyone actually know how many active YouTube subscribers are needed to get say £100k per annum in income (gross)?

Is it 20k, 100k, 500k, 1M subscribers with average viewing habits of the content you are making?

Just curious. TBH thee are some quite good channels out there.
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It varies. But I suspect that you leverage your youtube audience for things like affiliate links and sponsorship to make the real money if you have any sense.
 
csd4t said:
They seem to all have suddenly acquired starlink equipment lately. Used to be poweroak/jackery/ecoflow things
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The Travel Troll muppets used the free Jackory they got to show how inferior is it to their new free EcoFlow battery 🤣. Fantastic brand ambassadors 😂
 
I won't watch them, too much effort goes into trying to make non-events 'interesting'.

Same with canal blogs, most of which can be summarised as 'person does something unremarkable that's been happening for hundreds of years', like going through a tunnel.
 
csd4t said:
They seem to all have suddenly acquired starlink equipment lately. Used to be poweroak/jackery/ecoflow things
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The price of those things is outrageous and I don't really see the point in them either. I could understand folk going for a picnic in a car and maybe wanting something to charge phones or drone batteries etc. But for a camper you can buy better fitted equipment for the price of one of those .

The only folk raving about them are those who got them free ....to rave about them

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And we have the vlogs about the Motorhome show to come……..
 
Trevor Wbm said:
I won't watch them, too much effort goes into trying to make non-events 'interesting'.
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So you don’t find watching people go shopping at Dunelm and buying a coffee exciting ?🤣
Honestly it’s getting worse . They can’t seriously think this is good “ content “
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I’m fascinated that so many who dislike you tubers know so much about them. I do watch a few, but if I don’t like them I don’t watch them. It’s like having an on/off switch on the television!
 
Tonks said:
Absolutely true. If you look at Camper Vibes their videos are pretty much professional level programmes, and Yorkshire Pop Top Adventures and Life is too Short are also both very well done. But there are lots which aren't.
I know I couldn't do it! Certainly not consistently on a weekly basis. Life IS too short!!
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I agree with you about Camper Vibes and Life is too short. I’m no expert on editing but both are very good vlogs. Lou from Camping Vibes is excellent i I could listen to Ken’s voice all day.
The only others I watch regularly are The ExPawers, although they are stuck in the south-east at present with a back axle problem.

As for the couple with the ‘removal’ van, they drive me nuts so I avoid them. For a 40 year old woman she knows nothing about the country she lives in, her knowledge of geography is dire. one of the last videos I watched had him trying to drive his van down country lanes and moaning because he got stuck - hasn’t he heard of sat nav, and preparing your journey?
 
hja said:
I’m fascinated that so many who dislike you tubers know so much about them. I do watch a few, but if I don’t like them I don’t watch them. It’s like having an on/off switch on the television!
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It's called forming an opinion by what you have viewed, and yes, I have an on/off button and it's called not watching any more of their drivel having formed my opinion. (y)
 
hja said:
I’m fascinated that so many who dislike you tubers know so much about them. I do watch a few, but if I don’t like them I don’t watch them. It’s like having an on/off switch on the television!
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It's fascinating to see how much worse it can get, there is only so many things you can do in a van, I started by accident watching those happy days, and I came on here posting how I admired their lifestyle but from then on I have had to admit I was well wrong, and come to the conclusion they are nothing but a pair of freeloading tossers, I'm afraid.
There is now one on called jammy gits, I actually know these two, and they are from uttoxeter, these two have really sold up and gone off around Europe in a vw van and although she is trying the YouTube thing they havnt got anything but their savings, and what they have put on up to yet is genuine.
Give them a look if you are interested, better than a lot of others

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Swifter said:
Measurements were checked by 4 people 😆
Imagine if the window had been on the side with no door !
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Given how much that video has been posted and discussed; it must be one of his better paying videos.
My dad used to have a saying. "You're a fool, for thinking he's a fool"
 
Jim said:
Given how much that video has been posted and discussed; it must be one of his better paying videos.
My dad used to have a saying. "You're a fool, for thinking he's a fool"
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I think the video did make enough revenue to pay for his new door in the end .
And I am definitely a fool 😆
 
Swifter said:
One of the comments was interesting from a YouTuber that also runs another Motorhome forum . He said he doesn’t attend rallies anymore from his own company . That’s very telling . I know Jim attends as many of the Motorhome fun rallies he can because obviously he’s very proud of the business model he’s created . It’s seriously best to leave YouTube out of any forum based business!
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