The last five years as a content creator for ADtheTribalChild Productions has been one hell of a journey. Not the most "smooth sailing" of journeys mind you, but a journey nonetheless. I honestly though I'd be burned out making YouTube videos at the half way point. Initially, I started making videos as a hobby back in my college years and when MySpace was a "thing."
Before graduating from Cincinnati State, my younger brother El introduced me to YouTube. After making vlogs on MySpace and eventually Facebook, I decided to give YouTube a shoot under the name "DreadZeppelin1" (the number was included due to the name was taken by the reggae-skit Led Zeppelin cover band of the same name). Then boredom kicked in and took down the channel after only a year, but I didn't stop making videos though. Fast forward to 2010, long after I graduated from college and burned out from MySpace, I've been watching more and more YouTube videos. At the time, I was amaze of how much original content there are that isn't a movie/TV clip or AMV. After much though, I decided to open another YouTube account under ADtheTribalChild and there it began with my first series, TRIBALCHILD TV. Normally, this is the part where I say "and the rest is history." Turns out, I learned allot from becoming a content creator and it takes more than just making a video with a camera and call it a day. I learned from the videos I watch of the tool of the trade in making videos like using a video editing software, how to edit and balance sounds, adding my own overlays and effects and that's just name a few. I also had a chance to work with some talented content creators including Steven Page (Balena Productions), TheDragonSuperfan (formally TheDragonSuperman), William Smith (Sonic the Ghetto-Hog Productions), Coodoo17, Richard Hunter (DJ U.N.C.L.E.), Lawrence Glimer (LG) and many others. Eventually, I've been recruited to the "best network in the league," The Dynasty Network, and I owe them plenty to help spread the world of ADTC Productions. Despite personal problems and working between two jobs, it hasn't been an easy road for me especially as of late. Still, if I can turn back time to when I starting making video blogs to meeting and networking great people to setting many milestones on my YouTube channel, I would not change a thing. That said, thanks to my friends, networking partners, collaborators, viewers and subscribers who stick with me for the past five years of my YouTube journey. Here's to another 5 years. Cheers!
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