Starting a Youtube Channel

"*Today, since this is an introductory lesson of sorts, I thought it would be smart to start at the beginning and teach you guys how to create a YouTube channel that's full of both success and respect.*"
―Erik
Starting a Youtube Channel is the 20th lesson of Internet Comment Etiquette. It is the first official lesson following letsGotoClass and the first Open Beta. It was released on February 24, 2015.

## Summary

Erik welcomes his students to the introductory lesson, and he teaches a four step lesson plan to create a YouTube channel:

1. Registration
2. Branding
3. Promotion
4. Upload

To demonstrate this, he creates an example account called Nude Celebs for Free. To brand his channel, he creates a channel banner with his free copy of Photoshop. Then he promotes his channel by creating social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

He realizes that he doesn't have any followers on these platforms, so he goes on Reddit. He could spam links to his channel, but he decides to be clever and makes an Ask Me Anything thread from the perspective of someone that survived a bear attack. He gets five responses, so he replies to them with the link to his channel. This successfully earns him five new subscribers. Finally, he uploads videos of himself playing Call of Duty.

## Comments

*Hey everyone, my roommates convinced me to submit this AMA after a drunken night of telling them this exact story. I honestly don’t think it’s that exciting as obviously I did not die and wasn’t necessarily mauled either. I’ll let you all be the judge. Plus, maybe I can educate some folks on proper etiquette when encountering a bear so you don’t make the same mistakes I must’ve obviously made in hindsight.**My bear attack was on April 18th 1996. The night before was my girlfriend’s birthday, we went to that Marky Mark movie where he stalks a girl and kills her dog. (Fear?) Horrible date movie but I digress; Her name was Susan. I dated her for three whole years, and my bear attack was smack dab in the middle. We met during our freshman year in Cal Poly, California. I’m born and raised in SLO, so I’ve always seen stuff on the news about about bears going through some trash and through my rival high school’s neighborhood. It’s funny as a kid how we take for granted what it’s like to be chased by a staving 400 pound beast.**Now the way Susan and I started dating says a lot on how this bear got me. Basically, she was a friend of a friend who I’ve been flirting for weeks at various parties, and we’d gotten especially drunk in my buddy’s backyard one night. Everyone went to sleep and it was just the two of us. When she moved in for the kiss I tensed the fuck up immediately like an idiot and literally pushed her away. Now I know that this is like the one stupidest thing to ever do in that situation, but I was scared and acted on instinct, which I now know is the greatest betrayer ever. The thing about Susan though, she saw through all my weird shit, and we actually started dating, which has a lot to with why I’m confident about anything to this day.**The day after Susan’s birthday we drove to her parent’s place in Mono county. We listened to a lot of shitty ass Sheryl Crow, which was all I could remember about that. We also argued about sleeping in different rooms, which I thought was ridiculous at the time, but as a father I can completely understand where she’s coming from. But, hey, I was 19 and horny and also about to be attacked by a bear, and I was literally was aware of none of those things at the time.**It took just one, goddamn hike. Susan and her folks went to her aunts for brunch and it left me with two hours to do some sick hiking action. I was actually was uninvited to the brunch, because Susan and I got into a big fight. She said some nasty shit to me which I said some nasty shit back to. Anyway, so I needed a hike to clear my head and hope that I wouldn’t be stuck for the rest of the weekend with an ex-girlfriend and her two pissed off parents. Now I’m not even shitting you, I took about ten steps beyond the tree line before I saw the bear dash towards me, and you know that since this California, this is a Black Bear, and a Black Bear doesn’t mean play dead, it means fight for your life. I did not know this so I ran. It ran right after me, despite one painful stumble I was able to outrun that ass fucker.**I made it all the way back to the parking lot, dodging cars and shit. The bear had retreated long ago. I was just some asshole breathing heavily, and stopping a family from parking. I’m not even sure how long the bear had been chasing me in the first place. I told the guy at the parking booth, “I had just seen a bear.” He looked shocked, he told me to show him here it was. I told him on no uncertain terms, to fuck himself, then left. It wasn’t until I called Susan that I realized my ass was wet. “Why is my ass wet?”, I thought to myself. It’s funny how blood takes a different color when its coming through something like jeans. It doesn’t look red until you let some drip onto your hand, otherwise your pants just look wet. It’s a lot to process but, in my case led to me deducing that the bear had in fact bitten me, helped by the torn fabric all around my left ass cheek. In fact, what likely happened is the bear immediately ran up to me within seconds of the initial chase, bitten my ass, and ran away.**It was difficult to explain to her parents that they needed to sacrifice their fine Mercedes tan leather interior so I could have my ass stitched back together. But they were nice enough about the whole thing, and wrote my parents into the hospital process which I appreciate, as I was getting tired of telling people I got bit in the ass by a bear. By the way, rabies shots are not that bad at all. One in the arm, and one in the butt, once a week for like five weeks. Small price to pay for not dying from a rage infection. All in all, I was happy to be alive.**Susan on the other hand, became a mess. Her last words to me before the hike were, “Oh go to hell!” The only reason why I remember that is because she made a point to remind me of it as a way to punish herself. I guess her stance was it COULD have been her last words to me, my stance was it was not her last words. Susan was always bad about punishing herself for stuff as if the universe was always paying attention to her. If I thought that way, it would mean the universe sent a bear after my ass. I don’t think the universe gives a shit what anyone’s last words to each other are, but when I tried to explain that to Susan it caused a weird rift. Like this bear attack had suddenly put a divide between our belief systems and created a metaphysical Wall of Jericho. The relationship limped forward, the two of us having already had our moment when we realized that we’d be seeing other people not too shortly thereafter. The thing that sucks is I loved her, and I believe if it wasn’t for that bear attack I’d be married to her right now.**Anyway, ask me questions about anything bear or Susan related.**TL;DR BEAR BIT MY ASS, COST ME THE LOVE OF MY LIFE. AMA****My Proof:** https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuWs2vAuDqhwUA3h5yeiMNg/feed*
- AttackedByBearAMA

*have you been in contact with Susan since?*
- 311fan69

*https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuWs2vAuDqhwUA3h5yeiMNg/feed*
- AttackedByBearAMA

*How did you not realize you were being bitten by a bear? Was it an adrenaline thing?*
- BigOLlumpNIPS

*https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuWs2vAuDqhwUA3h5yeiMNg/feed*
- AttackedByBearAMA

*So exactly what mistakes did you make in dealing with the bear? Are you seriously supposed to fight a black bear?*
- grandpajameschen

*https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuWs2vAuDqhwUA3h5yeiMNg/feed*
- AttackedByBearAMA

*how's your butt now?*
- aintgottimeforthissh

*https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuWs2vAuDqhwUA3h5yeiMNg/feed*
- AttackedByBearAMA

*Was it your bear ass or did you have pants on?*
- says\_preachitsister

*https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuWs2vAuDqhwUA3h5yeiMNg/feed*
- AttackedByBearAMA

*Why does your "proof" link to a nude celebs youtube channel?*
- johnwickfan42

*https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuWs2vAuDqhwUA3h5yeiMNg/feed*
- AttackedByBearAMA

*Still linking to the nude models page.*
- thatredditguyonfire

*try this https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuWs2vAuDqhwUA3h5yeiMNg/feed*
- AttackedByBearAMA

## Comment Quiz of the Week

HOW MANY DICKS DO YOU THINK TED CRUZ SUCKED WHILE YOU WERE WATCHING THIS VIDEO?

A) None. He probably doesn't do that.

B) Five.

C) That's not any of my business

D) "I dunno, how many dicks ya got?" -direct quote from Ted Cruz haha jk but really though I bet he sucked a couple stay tuned for weekly content please like and subscribe LMAYONNAISE

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