Well to be honest, that's why I changed my video strategy, and now I primarily do 4 minute selfie videos that are more off the cuff. I was putting hours and hours and hours of time and money as well into doing cosplay tutorials and parody videos. I figured that's what I could do on here. There were a few problems with this though.
First, my videos didn't do well. It seems like the less time I put into a video, the better it does.
Second, the people doing best on here release daily content. I can't possibly keep up with that. Even if I didn't have 3 kids and an additional full time job, there is no way I could make quality videos every single day, but this platform very well expects that kind of consistency.
Third, why should I dump so much time into Steem specific content when it can't be monetized past 7 days? I guess the allure of YouTube is that you can produce content, and keep adding to it, and hope one day a video goes viral and then people go back to all your old content and make it money. That can't happen on this platform, so really, as far as videos go, it encourages spur of the moment content, and somewhat shallow content as opposed to well thought out ideas and lots of time spent on them!
I'm sorry if you feel slighted for your work. I would like to eventually get back to doing better projects, but I want to get my SP and such up first, so for now, daylight selfies for the win!
There are all kinds of reasons that some people do not want to turn the camera on themselves: don't speak english, deaf/mute/blind, poor health, skin disease, disfigurement, extortion, blackmail and libel/slander just to name a few. I guess if everyone is encouraged to make shallow content, just to post something, DTube will get boring fast, besides, it's the exact opposite of what they stated they wanted when I joined in December. We'll see what happens. Greetings!
Edit: not slighted; not presented to the right audience. If my work is good enough to copy (steal) and reposted to FB for far more views than my original, it's about manipulation and not the quality of the work.