[00:01] going to suck. It's one of the best life advice I've ever learned. The best way to improve at anything is to make mistakes. We talk about that. The cost breakdown of my model. All in all, it was about $2,500. Yeah. And Twitch
[00:13] viewers than you would on Twitch. In fact, you'd probably get more viewers on this episode of Marshmallow Mondays, where I answer your viewer questions. of your own to be answered on stream, check out the link in the doobly-doo. Is
[00:27] that okay? Hello. Let's get started, shall we? With our first question. When cost of your model? I've always been really curious and love your YouTube videos. Thank you so much. I started Vubing on April the 3rd, 2021. So, it's
[00:43] been 4 years, over four years. For anyone new to the channel or haven't anyone new to the channel or haven't seen uh my stuff recently, I did my recent 4year anniversary stream just uh last month, and it was very exciting at
[00:55] about it. And the cost of my model is quite substantial, but compared to nowadays with model inflation, it's not it's not with model inflation, it's not it's not too bad. Copium, but it's in total about
[01:09] $2,500, $2,500 USD. And that's everything, including Vbridger, the art, the rig, the add-ons, the extra thing I added like the the toggles for cat mode.
[01:22] All in all, it was about $2,500. Yeah, the rigging itself started out at 1,400. Uh, and then the art itself was 700. So, that's the breakdown. But now, dude, VTuber models cost so much more now. Vtuber model inflation is is quite
[01:37] a thing. I've seen like models go up to 10 grand and it was insane. I mean, it's awesome the fact that people are getting recognized for their work and, you know, and then people will pay top dollar for it. But oh man, I would not be able to
[01:51] afford that if that was the price when I first started. You know what I mean? But at the same time, the quality, the sheer quality of the models has improved significantly. So, I think it's justified, especially if you want the
[02:04] big super skilled rigers and artists who work for the big YouTubers out there. If experience. If you want their time, and experience, then you have to pay money think that's fair. Next question. Here we go. How did you decide what to do for
[02:20] your first ever video and your first ever stream? This one is from Milo. Thank you, Milo, for your question. Um, it's this is such a funny question. So, it's this is such a funny question. So, my first ever video was a Genshin
[02:34] tutorial. You can see it in my channel. It's still there. It's a it's at the very bottom. And that's before I became a VTuber. My first video as a VTuber was when I did the wind bloom event in Genshin. I can show you actually. Hang
[02:49] on. Let me let me show you. You can tell it's such it's such an old video. Got it memorized. [ __ ] Let's go ahead and continue. I cursed like way more here. Wind bloom grind. How how many days do we have? I sound Oh no, I sound so
[03:04] monotone, bro. Yeah, you got to start somewhere, right? Next question cuz I think my thing reset. Okay. Hey Zos, love your videos. Wanted to ask what is the one what is one of the best life advice that you got
[03:16] or you learned along the way which has helped you to get a different question. I don't know who sent this, but whoever you are, thank you. This is a really really good question. I won't delve into like everything that I've
[03:29] learned, but this one is definitely one of the best. And it is the best way to improve at anything is to make mistakes because you don't know what you're doing wrong if you're only succeeding. If you only like play it safe, then you're not
[03:46] going to unlock the true potential that you have. It's all about falling, getting back up, and then learning why you fell and then improving on that. That's an interesting perspective. Yeah, I feel like so many people are so scared
[04:00] of failure. So many people are like, I don't want to do this thing because I don't want to start a YouTube channel because I might suck. I don't want to start making videos because they might flop. I don't want to be a musician
[04:14] because I suck at singing. You can do a lot of the things that you doubt yourself if you give yourself the allowance to fail. Right? Let that sink in for a second. Because when you allow yourself
[04:27] to fail, then that means you give yourself the leeway to explore. And giving your yourself the leeway to explore means that you can just you can look at different options that might work better for you. You can try out
[04:41] different things that other things may not have really resonated with you. You ways. You kind of just have to find the thing that works for you. We're all cutter thing out there. So, you really have to experiment. Throw things at the
[04:57] wall. See what sticks. Be okay with failing. When you're starting out, you're going to fail so so much. No matter what it is. If it's vtubing, if it's content creation, anything. Playing a sport, you know, picking up a new
[05:10] hobby, learning a language, you're going to fail so much. But that's fine. That's okay. That's part of the process. You're not going to succeed if you don't fail. There is a ying and yang to it. There is no light without darkness and there's no
[05:24] darkness without light. There's no success without failure. You have to yourself that. Be kind to yourself, you know. Don't be so strict with yourself. when you're not a child kind of. Yeah, exactly. Everyone's allowed to fail.
[05:38] allowed to fail. I feel like we're all kind of conditioned to fear failure because in school we're taught you have to like pass this exam or else you're don't think that's fair. I feel like that's kind of weird. But then again,
[05:53] maybe my take's a bit weird. There's so much pressure in the teachers in the education system being like, "You have to pass this. You have to get an A. You have to score high in these exams. And if you fail, you're going to get
[06:07] punished with summer work, with with detention, with whatever." And it teaches kids to be fearful of failure. And that sucks because that goes into failure, you don't want to push yourself. You don't want to explore
[06:21] things. You don't want to experiment to see what works. You're just like, I want that's a lot of the reason why people are stuck in 9 to 5 jobs they hate because it's safe. Because people are like, I want to stay in this one because
[06:35] better, but I'm going to fail at it? What if I get fired? Then I won't have a What if I get fired? Then I won't have a job anymore. And then they stop trying. And I think that's really sad because so many people have passions,
[06:49] chance because they're too afraid to fail. I mean, school itself is so really need to update the system. They need to put in a new patch. I'm a band teacher and I tell my students a lot
[07:02] about low stress environments where we are allowed to make mistakes. Exactly. Exactly. That's good. EP, good [ __ ] man. Good on you. People should be allowed to make mistakes. Blame the education system for being stinky and
[07:15] not allowing people to be okay with failure. If there's anything to take to fail. Make as many mistakes as you can because that's how you learn. That is how you learn. And you know the saying, it's not about how many times
[07:29] you fall. It's about getting up. As long as you get up after every fall, then you're doing good already. You're good, man. Don't worry too much about it. Next question is, firstly, I love your work. I was wondering though, is there like a
[07:42] can do? Well, at work today, I came up with like a dozen different questions for this. Okay, so very quickly, yes. Uh, sorry. No. No, there is no limit. Please submit as many as you want. I'll go over them
[07:57] questions you want from my understanding. Next question. From someone who wants to start streaming, do you recommend doing it on Twitch or YouTube? Twitch has really good culture
[08:09] and I really enjoy the Twitch culture. It's full of people who like to chat, who like to get along with the streamer, who like to get along with the community, you know, like you guys right now on the Discord. You're like
[08:22] interacting with each other, and I'm so happy to see that. That's like the thing that I've always wanted to see uh from a community that I've cultivated. You are asking me questions. You're very interactive. You're inputting your
[08:35] thoughts on the things that I say in the Q&A, in my YouTube videos as well. I The community and the culture is very tight-knit, if that makes sense. And also, people use a bunch of emotes on here. It's great. Thank you for using
[08:52] emotes. Don't ever worry about spamming emotes. I I love seeing emotes. I want to say that's not to discourage the lurkers. Lurking is a completely fine thing to do. You can lurk and that's okay. Don't ever feel pressured to speak
[09:08] or to chat in a stream, no matter who the streamer is. If a streamer, okay, let me be real with you guys right now. If a VTuber or streamer or whoever tells If a VTuber or streamer or whoever tells you to chat on stream and like forces
[09:21] you to do it and makes you feel bad for not chatting on stream, [ __ ] not chatting on stream, [ __ ] them. Screw that person. Screw them. I At the end of the day, people are here to watch your stream to be entertained.
[09:36] background. They might be doing other things while they're uh in your chat. You know, not everyone can chat all the time. Chatting is engagement, and engagement takes time and effort out of that person who might be doing something
[09:49] watching the stream. You could have them on mute while you're doing something else. You could be doing laundry. You know, you have to be understanding. And I feel like it's just a dick move to be like, "You're a lurker and you suck
[10:02] because you don't chat." I think that's such a dick move. A wise bird once gave the advice to not call out the lurkers. Exactly. Exactly. I made a whole video on it. I made a video on it. That's how you know it's important. It's also just
[10:18] potentially scare them away for what? Don't you want people watching? Exactly. All you're doing is scaring them away. It stinks. So, we talked about Twitch. What about YouTube? So, YouTube is great if you're in it for the revenue and
[10:33] you're in it for the viewership. But let me tell you right now, the viewership on YouTube will only be there if you have an established audience already. If you don't have an established audience on
[10:46] YouTube, then you're not going to get any more viewers than you would on viewers on Twitch than you would on YouTube. and there'd be not a whole lot of people chatting because that's just the culture in YouTube. You know, people
[10:59] to alert. And that's fine. That's just how it is. Of course, unless you're freaking Holo Live and everyone is just spamming anything all the time. But most of the time for everyone else, all all the normal um not
[11:16] godly beings, uh you're not going to get much you're not going to get like much okay with that then that's fine. Twitch has more of a community like involvement because of just how the platform was cultivated over so many years. There is
[11:31] a thing where you can multiream. I haven't really tried it myself and I'm kind of hesitant to because I'm very much actually no that's a lie. I did try to multiream one time and it was confusing and I didn't really like it.
[11:43] But hey, different strokes for different folks. You know what I mean? So if if interested in, give it a go. Give it a shot. Why not? you might as well. It's free. There's no repercussion to it. See if it's a thing for you. And if it's if
[11:57] if it is, then great. If it's not, then also great. You know, you can just focus on one thing. And that's what I like to do. I just I like to focus on Twitch. Put everything I have into Twitch so I can give it the best quality that I can.
[12:10] I feel like if I split my attention too much between Twitch and YouTube, then And that's not something that I really want. And plus, after multireaming on viewership is from Twitch anyway,
[12:24] despite having what, 21,000 uh subscribers on YouTube. I get more viewership on Twitch, despite having 10% of that number. It's crazy. It's actually uh uh really funny to think about. All the live streams that you do
[12:39] on YouTube is going to be automatically saved as VODs. And VODs can still net you money if people watch them because of ad revenue. But again, this is all that you have. If you have a small following, you're probably not going to
[12:54] get much. And nobody's really going to watch a 5h hour VOD unless they really, really like you. But no harm in trying both. See what you like. If you vibe with YouTube more, great. This is really just find what works for you, what you
[13:09] just find what works for you, what you feel more comfortable with and what you have more fun with at the end of the day. Next question. Next question. I think this might be the last one. Well, I think it is the last one. So, this
[13:22] question asks, how long does it typically take you to make a full 10-ish minute video on YouTube or YouTube video and for shorts? For a 10-minute video. to preface it by saying it all depends on complexity. If you have a 10-minute
[13:38] video like these Q&As's doesn't need much editing, you kind of just put it in there. You do some cuts and then you put it out. Takes about 4 to 5 hours depending on how long the clip is. Now, for a 10-minute complex video, we're
[13:54] talking about a video like my how I learned Life 2D in 7 days video. That learned Life 2D in 7 days video. That one would take me anywhere from 20 to 30 hours, maybe even 40 hours. It all really depends. Uh, but you can already
[14:09] see the huge difference in time it takes to make a simple 10-minute video to making a complex 10-minute video. Planning helps reduce that amount, but it takes a lot. The shorts end of that, the YouTube shorts, a Tik Tok. So, okay,
[14:22] this is where you get like a really, really big difference depending again on complexity. If it's a simple short, then it literally could take me like 30 minutes. And that could be a short from a game play. You know, I just put it in,
[14:36] put some subtitles, cut it up a little bit so it's nice and concise and has the funny moments front and center, and then send it off. 30-minute job. Easy peasy. send it off. 30-minute job. Easy peasy. This is why I can manage to upload semid
[14:50] This is why I can manage to upload semid uh shorts. But the complex shorts can take depending on what it is. This can be like my tutorials or my like Genshin edits. This can take anywhere from 2 to 3 hours. And my my complex shorts aren't
[15:05] even that complex. If you want to see complex shorts, look at my storytime shorts like my chess video or my um airport video that be edited. There's a reason why I there's a reason why I send those videos to be to edit. Number one,
[15:21] I don't have the skill to edit a short like that because Bee is very very good to her. She's very good at what she does. And I I don't edit that well like that or at least I need more time to
[15:35] that or at least I need more time to edit uh that well. And secondly, those things take so long. those t those things even though like they're like a minute long, they would take as long potentially to make as a 10-minute
[15:49] video, right? It's it's actually crazy cuz they're so dense. They're so compact with information and and quick fun edits and all this kind of stuff. And on top of that, you have to script it out. You have to do the the uh narration for it
[16:02] and all this. Oh man, it's it's a lot. It's a lot for those videos, which is but there is a couple that I really want to