Let me start off right way by saying that I am in no way an expert in this process. But I figured I would come on here and discuss my initial results on this platform and how I got here. I began building my brand The Booze and Bullshit Show on YouTube, having the tagline "Shit happens... we make fun of it" I gained roughly 3,250 subscribers. With YouTube's infamous adpocolypse all of my videos began being unmonitized. Plus facts outside of the YouTube world, I had to take a break from creating content. I never intended to quit YouTube, I always had the intention to come back and make videos when it was the right time for me. My watch time in the year and a half since starting was roughly 20,000 hours. But since I was inactive my watch time had fallen to roughly 1,100 watch time hours in the past year. When YouTube implemented the new watch time requirement of 4,000 hours to keep my ability to ever make money on YouTube, that was the last straw. I began looking into alternative ways to earn money from the brand I invested so much time establishing. Then TJ Kirk a Youtuber I've been a follower of since he had only 200 subscribers, now over a Million decided to jump to d.tube. In my research I had heard about it's potential, but having a performer that I was a fan of for so many years was a great motivator to join. Once I registered and got my account approved I began up voting the posts I liked and of course my votes really didn't have much of an influence. But I wanted to contribute to the community, I began commenting but not really getting much of a response. A few upvotes here and there giving the comment a few fractions of a cent. Based on what I've read there is a minimum threshold for reward payouts, about $0.02. So most likely those posts will not give me any rewards. Then I got 1 comment up vote worth upwards of $2. I was psyched at how much I received so much for just posting a quick comment. I began re-uploading my videos from YouTube. Not really getting much results, but at least something. $ 0.07 and 17 up votes was a start but nothing spectacular. It was understandable I haven't even advertised it on my channel yet and many of my subscribers aren't even on d.tube and steemit. I figured I'd just keep uploading videos and trying to get some more recognition. Next I uploaded a satire I did making fun of feminist Anita Sarkeesian. This time she was protesting how cups with straws are sexist. Having over 10,000 views on YouTube I was hopeful that it would take off. Unfortunately it didn't get a single up vote... well besides my own, which I know is sad but hey I was desperate.

(If the video sounds interesting to you can check it out

and up vote if you would be so kind) After that I was certainly disappointed, I figured it just fell through the cracks, ok it's a bit of luck at this point. I need the followers so I should do an 'introduceyourself' post. I wrote a brief summary of myself and got a few up votes. Nothing crazy, but something. I posted another video of mine, one that had been screwed over by YouTube's Content Id. The video was about Smugglypuff breaking down the events that occurred that lead to his/her fame. I used footage from the protest and The Rebel claimed all monitization on the video, which sucked seeing it was shaping up to by my most popular video in all metrics. So I figured even though it's a little dated posting it here it will still get some attention. (