entry 3 : why i delete and reupload my videos

i've been doing a lot of reuploads recently and i thought it'd be nice to share why i reupload constantly. one of the few reasons is me being too lazy to check my edit on sony vegas and i just don't want to be bothered with it. so i tend to reupload videos where i don't check my edit often. one of the other times is me actually going through it, see where i made mistakes and i begin to re-edit the video if need be. if i know i'm incorrect yet i don't have enough to correct with the little information i have, i tend to wait it out until someone decides to decipher something. granted, i'm on a time crunch, so some speed on my part is needed.

that was just me explaining my re-editing situation along with reuploading. but why delete the videos? i don't want to be misleading with my content. confusing is what i don't want when it comes to my videos. sometimes i'll see creators and they'll upload a video the minute the song comes out and then a few hours later, there's already corrections being made. random_k has done this many times before and i just find it annoying. some people don't check and see if the video has been corrected or not, they're most likely going to go for the one that has the most views. that's pretty much why i delete them too. just to avoid confusion. i don't have the videos on private or keep them unlisted as that could cause more confusion.

i do worry sometimes about the views my videos have gained altogether when deleting a video, but i would rather have a video that is correct, than one that is incorrect. for long time viewing especially. like if people are new to kpop and such. i'd rather have that than anything.

from, dear moon (shelby)

entry 2 : how and why i started making color coded lyric videos

i think i was aware of ccl videos when i joined kpop. even before, i understood them, as someone i knew sent me a ccl video a month before i got into it. i didn't start wanting to make them though until may of 2018.

one color coded lyrics channel, who was really popular of her time, was af taehyung. if you're a long time kpop fan, you probably are familiar with that name as she made videos for so many groups and soloists within kpop. she was on her way to becoming the most subscribed kpop lyrics channel back in 2017-2018.

she inspired me, and in a different way. my fuel back then to get me started on something was through jealousy, which to say the least is pretty weird. jealousy as in like, "if she can do it, so can i". that was my mindset at the time. watching any videos i could find at the time to make ccl, which back then were very little like there are now (hundreds upon hundreds these days).

my previous experiences with photo editing came from roblox. yep... started playing in 2010 but i was introduced to the world of gfx in 2016. gfx is just graphic roblox art, you take your roblox character or someone else's and you pose them to your liking and add cool effects to your picture. much more tiring than it sounds, easier when you get used to it. that was also started from jealousy and obviously didn't last long. however, it got me comfortable with a paint program i still use to this day and it's paint.net. if you have ever used a windows computer before, think of it like microsoft paint but better in certain ways. the downside to do more stuff is that you need plugins.

why i bring up my very short lived roblox gfx past is because i had the knowledge (not really) of photo editing (again, not really). i was comfortable enough to use paint.net, but not too comfortable using whatever i could get my hands on. i knew photoshop was used, and i didn't have the best experience at the time with finding really good ways to pirate pay to use programs like adobe products, but i was eager to get my hands on it. not immediately though. what i used originally was fotojet which was a collage maker, google slides, and camtasia, an old video editing software that's also pay to use.

first video i edited was oh boy by red velvet. awful choice. ad-libs every place you look and that's awful if you're just starting out. infact, if you're beginning ccl, don't do red velvet. all of their songs have ad-libs and they can be hard to follow. if you have more experience in editing, knock yourself out. but if you're new to it, you have been warned!

why do i keep making them? i guess i just really enjoy showing what is correct. whenever i see an incorrect video made by a channel and it's a group i like, i sometimes get jealous because why are people viewing the incorrect video? why not the one that has more time put into it? i mainly make them not only for other people, but also for me. if i don't see a correct lyric video for a group i like, you bet i'm making one correct to the best of my ability.

even when a video is incorrect and it's mine, i'm sometimes in denial and i don't want to work on it but i do it anyways because a correct video is a better video i guess (i just thought of that as typing this out). but you know that's the trial and error of songs that are sometimes too confusing. it's fun though to see how correct a video can be again.

from, dear moon (shelby)

entry 1 : intro post

i decided to start a blog on my lyric videos. i saw a rather influential yet problematic person with a blog and i thought it'd be nice to do the same, just with me not being as problematic as him.

he's an artist and i recently realized that me talking about my videos is like me talking about it with such passion, like i'm really an artist (though i'm not).

a lot of other channels i see on youtube that also do lyric videos, you don't see this from them at all. incredibly passionate and into the idea of making lyric videos as if their life depends on it. guess i'm the only one.

as of right now, i have no job and never had one. and i have no idea what i would want for a job. this, i don't think i would want as a job because i could lose interest at any point. might not be anytime soon as i've been making lyric videos since 2018 at 14 years old.

i do treat this as a job which is ironic. i don't get paid which i'm fine with, and i absolutely love making lyric videos, despite me struggling on some songs. this is a hobby i'm completely into and i don't know how i haven't gave up on it yet. there were times when i thought about stopping but i'm glad i haven't.

i've always wanted to make some sort of mark on the internet in some way, shape or form. i wanted to be a singer as a kid but then i got older and realized that might not be a viable career path for me with my lisp and everything.

something to do with pop culture, that's what i wanted to do. but video editing is just as good.

anyway, i'll be talking about my videos more in depth here. i have information and i like to share it because it feels like i'll explode if i don't. this is what sucks about retaining information i guess.

my next post will most likely be on my first video and why i started making them. if you find this just by searching on google or through my channel, thank you for reading! ^^

from, dear moon (shelby)