random blabbering about queer stuff and life in general that doesn't make it onto my YouTube channel or Tumblr? iono...
where YouTube shines
24 hours later my latest video has 29 comments on YouTube compared to only 5 comments on Tumblr, which is actually a Tumblr First for one of my videos. even if i had posted the same content as a text post (which i might do, i'm still undecided), said text post would still never see the amount of actual interaction that the video has gotten. it'd just get more notes because people are quicker to reblog & like text posts than videos for whatever reason.
in the past someone asked me about the difference i felt between YouTube and Tumblr as a vlogger vs a blogger and at the time i think i said that Tumblr has more of a sense of community or something like that? but i'm kind of taking that back now. it often feels like more of a "community" exists on Tumblr than on YouTube, but it also seems harder to get people to actually engage with you on Tumblr where most people reserve their commentary to tags. when engagement does happen on Tumblr, it's easier to have an ongoing conversation through reblogs than it is through comments in the comments section of a video on YouTube, however actual conversations are less likely to be initiated at all on Tumblr compared to YouTube where they're readily initiated but usually short-lived.
anyway, i feel like i shouldn't knock YouTube as much as i do sometimes. i have the awesomest subscriber base full of people who are always really supportive and who are happy to respond to my random questions and conversation prompts. my followers on Tumblr are equally awesome, but there's nothing like putting a lot of effort and thought into a video and being met with 29 other people in the span of 24hrs throwing their thoughts back at you and even translating your work into other languages for you so that it's accessible to an even wider audience.
Tumblr will never give me that.
and now to tackle the task of responding to everyone. what ungodly hour will i go to bed at tonight...?



