Hi guys! It's Olivia from Olivia's
Catastrophe and today I'm here to give
you the booktube real talk tag. And in
this tag I'm going to be sharing the
truth about booktube that I have
experienced. I would like to thank Noria
Reads for tagging me and I have a link
down to her channel down below. And as
well as that I've got the original video
also linked down below, with the
questions. So you can do this tag too. So,
before I get started I'm gonna do this
new thing in my tag videos... because you
know tags are all about sharing tea and
all of that! Where I feature one of my
mugs that I have because I do collect
mugs and I just like to have some really
cute mugs. It's just something I collect.
So this one is my Raven Cycle mug to get
us started. And it starts with the crow
from The Raven Boys. Then it goes to
Ronan and then it goes to--I don't know
why it jumps to The Raven King but then
it ends with Blue Lily Blue. This is my favourite
side of the mug because it's so artistic. But we've got some like, darkness here
too.
So that's one of my favorite mugs. Now
let's get right down onto the questions! Question number one: what's something
nobody told you when you started your
channel. And for your information nobody
told me anything because I didn't know
booktube existed when I joined YouTube.
So a little bit of background on my
youtube story. Five years ago I joined. I
uploaded harp videos don't go and watch
those . And then I decided that I was
going to just do some like, random videos?
So for like, three years ago? I was doing
like, random videos and then I did a book
video here and there. And then I
discovered that booktube was a thing. So
then for like, two-ish years I kind of
non-committed-ly did booktube. You know, the kind of youtuber who posts a
video and disappears for months, then
post another one. And I say like, a year
ago I started to become committed to
booktube. And I actually started to watch
booktube because before I joined I
didn't actually watch booktube. I'm not
someone who really watches stuff. I
watched some movies but not that many. I
watch some series but it can take me a
whole year to finish the single season
sometimes. And I watch booktube but
here's the real tea guys, I wouldn't watch
booktube if i wasn't part of booktube.
I'm just not really someone who watches
stuff. But because you guys all so lovely and because I actually enjoy your
content, and because I post to booktube I
now watch booktube. Sometimes I don't
feel like watching booktube. I have like
a week way with you just don't want to
watch anything. But mostly I watch
booktube while I'm doing something else.
While I post on bookstagram I watch
booktube. Or while I'm
doing the dishes I watch booktube so I
don't actually ever say like: I'm gonna
sit down and watch a video. I just do it! So that is a really long-winded answer
to the reason why nobody told me
anything. Because I did not know booktube
existed when i joined booktube. What is
your opinion on the typical booktube
videos. So the ones that they give you to
suggest here are like hauls, wrap ups and
TBRs. So hauls! I love them. I am a book
hoarder so I just love to see people get
new books. I've been on a book buying ban
for like, six months and watching book
hauls has helped me because I feel like
I bought the book myself. That doesn't
make any sense.
But I think it's a great way to learn
about more books because let's be real
it takes us a while to get around to
reading them, and we can see which books
interest you from your book hauls. And as
well as that it's just... it's just
something nice. Wrap ups are the best.
They're my favourite booktube video
because I watch booktube to get
recommendations for books to read. And
then wrap ups you just hear everybody's
opinions on everything that they've
recently read. So I absolutely loved them.
And then TBR's, I do enjoy watching a TBR
when it pertains to a read-a-thon so I
can see what people's reading that fits
a prompt or something like that.
Generally, I've decided to stop filming
them unless it's for a read-a-thon
because I feel like I feel pressure to
stick to that and I'm such a mood reader
that I rarely ever do. So TBR's I kind of
have a love-hate relationship but you
know, let's add some tea to this video
because I love being honest and I love
tea. So the videos that are popular that
I don't like are bookshelf tours. I have
no interest in what's on your bookshelf. Like, it's just, for me when I watch
booktube I'm either wanting to hear your
opinion on the characters or the book or
just why you picked it up. But bookshelf
tours are literally people just showing
you a book and then moving right along. If you are a booktuber that I watch
regularly and you've done a book tour--a
bookshelf tour--and you've seen me
comment on it it's mostly because I like
you. Generally, I don't watch bookshelf videos.
Question: what is an assumption you had
about booktube before you joined. Was it
proven right or wrong. I had no
assumption again because I didn't know
it exists. I guess if I was gonna have an
assumption. I don't know what assumption
I would have had to be honest. I didn't
have one. Bit of a boring answer.
What is something you've done that's
actually helped grow your audience. So I
find this one a very hard thing to
answer because I don't consider myself a
big booktuber even though I've hit over
1k because I know that some of those 1k
are pretty inactive. So what makes--what
helped grow my audience and this might
be the book blogger in me speaking
because this is generally how you grow a
book blog... is commenting commenting
commenting. If I take a while to reply to
your comment on my video it's because
for every comment I receive I like to
take the time to go to their channel and
leave a comment as well. And with some
booktubers it means you develop a back
and forth where you just forget about like,
who owes who a comment and you just
comment on all of their videos because
you love them. But generally if you're
just someone randomly coming to comment
on one of my videos I will go and check
out your channel and check out one of
your videos too. Because I post more than
I watch I guess, it means I'm always a
little bit behind. Probably about a week
behind on replying to comments, sometimes
longer if I haven't been in the mood to
watch booktube. But yeah, I just think
commenting and interacting and being
part of the community is really so
important. If you just post videos and
you never comment or never interact with
somebody else's channel, they won't know
you exist and it's so nice to be seen by
people. Book Twitter is also a great
place to get interactions. Not only with
booktubers but with book bloggers and
bookstagrammers. As I am one of each
it's always nice to me to be on there
because I feel like I connect to all of
you guys at once. What's a common
mistake you see new new booktubers
making or that you made. And that was
assuming that you needed something
expensive to make a booktube good. So
my main problem when I started was that
I have this lovely DSLR camera and
it's on the cheap spectrum of those type
of cameras. So it's not the most
expensive one, it's not the most pro one,
it's quite a cheap one. And my parents
kind of splashed out for that so I was
really grateful to get it. However, they
got it for me for bookstagram
purposes. So it's very very good at
making photographs and very very good at
making beautiful bookstagram pictures. However, it's kind of
terrible at filming. It can not judge
lighting and it's really terrible
balance. So if you watch any of my old
videos, again, don't do it-- Thanks, man, thanks! If you
watch any of my old booktube videos, like
again don't do it, the lighting is
absolutely awful because even though I
had a phone I believed that I needed to
have an expensive... like, I should use my
expensive camera over using a phone.
Doesn't that make a logical sense? However, some time last year I decided that I
was just gonna, you know, try out using my
phone. And the lighting balance on my
phone is just so much better. So I film
with my iPhone now and my camera is just
used for taking my bookstagram pictures. One day I would love to get a camera
that does both very well. Like filming
and taking photographs. However, that is
outside of my price range. I am a student
guys, I can't afford that right now.
But maybe in the future because that
would be nice and iPhones do tend to
fill up on storage very quickly. What are
your thoughts of working with publishers
and sponsorships. I say do it do it do it!
This is coming from someone who does it
for book blogging quite often and I have
done it for one or two videos but not
recently... However, I have been
gifted things to do a video which
promotes their book. So I've been gifted
a book to talk about in a video. I think
it's perfectly fine. Booktube is not a
place where you're gonna make a lot of
money from it but as someone who's a
student every little counts. And you know,
if you can get some money for all the
effort that you put into your booktube
channel I say go for it. Always be honest. Say that you've got this product from
who and that it's paid or not paid. And
then you're just fine! Go and live your
life, honey. Make some money! Do it for the
rest of us!
Do you think booktube is dying? Has
anybody answered this question with a
yes? NO. Nobody has because the answer is
no. Booktube is not dying, it's growing
all the time. I try my best to at least
once a week, if I am watching booktube in
that week, at least watch for booktube
newbies kind of videos. When I say
newbies I mean smaller channels and yeah,
I just try to discover more youtubers
all the time. Booktube is great guys, I love this
community. And thank you so much for
watching this video. Please let me know
in the comment section down below a
booktube truth that you haven't really
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