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A viewer at my first meetup told me my DIY videos look 'too easy' and now I can't stop thinking about it
I make woodworking tutorials and a guy named Dave came up to me after a small meetup in Sacramento 2 weeks ago and said the sanding segment in my floating shelf video made him feel like a failure because it took him 3 hours and I did it in 4 minutes. I keep fake-timing my cuts so the videos don't look slick, but now I'm second guessing whether that's dishonest or just good editing. Do you show the boring parts and lose viewers, or keep it tight and let people feel bad about their own pace?
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diana2026d ago
Ran into the same thing with my sewing tutorials last year. A lady messaged me saying my zipper video made her cry because she'd been fighting with one for two hours. What helped was adding a quick text overlay like "this part took me way longer the first time" right when I speed through something. Takes two seconds to add and nobody's lost. Now I also film one messy segment per project, like the part where I mess up a cut and have to redo it, and people love that stuff. The tight edits keep folks watching but the little honesty notes keep them from feeling like crap. Dave probably just needed to hear that 4 minutes was your 50th try, not your first, lol.
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