It is an unfortunate thing that I currently do not have a video camera nor a proper smartphone. If I would have one, I would try (and probably use) threespeak as a content creator, but I have not even tried it so far. I currently have a shitty smartphone (Huawei Ascend Y300). The video quality of this smartphone is very bad.
To be honest, I would be very happy to earn less than a quarter of this ($500) amount. Especially in less than 2 months. I mostly earn less than $1 with my Steem blog posts/comments. I rarely earn more than $1 with a single blog post/comment. Congratulations on your success!
You can always use free footages and edit them and add your voice there, you can share you screan talking, you can start with a simple phone and buy an other later. In fact everything is in our hands. I don't only record videos with my face, you can take a look at other videos and you will see. I baught the phone I have from making videos on dtube and now I need a good pc to edit my videos better and in the future I will buy also a cool camera. I hope you will be able to join the platform soon. Thanks for congratuating. ☺
To edit videos, you need a proper PC, and I don't have one. I have a 13 years old laptop (Toshiba Satellite A110-110), which is not even good to properly browse the internet. I am typing this comment from eSteem Surfer 2.2.0, and sometimes even the text I write is appearing with lags. The whole program is lagging. The Firefox browser is also slow, and sometimes even crashing. The HDD of the laptop can also fail anytime. According to the Hard Disk Sentinel, the health of the HDD is 8%. I will not edit videos on this laptop. I would have bought a new laptop since years, but I don't have money for it. Why laptop? Because I currently don't even have the physical space for a desktop PC in my room.