big possibility knowing our history with live stream startups yeah cool thanks no problem man all right says the stream is offline good good is that is that proper okay oh it says we're live actually oh let's do another refresh hey we're live that was easy enough I don't have to do anything oh we're live hold on I'm gonna let's see if I have check yeah how about you listen to the sound and see if we sound like a person what I'm just like slash help I didn't I don't know what mod commands are so I'm not even gonna try yeah we'll just pretend you did it and it worked okay yeah it worked I mean oh man look at all these chat commands all right and it is public correct it's not unlisted like we have had the issue in the past um I don't know about I mean I see it people are commenting so it looks yeah we are good I see hi hello sweet hi everyone how's the audio freedom live streams my name is Estie Mike this is impulse should I like move my lips to you yeah yeah you should this is impulse walk of everybody as you can see the the sign behind me says impulse look at my hair it's fabulous here I'm gonna run my fingers through my hair and I'm gonna I'm gonna shake it back and forth oh man look at me I'm amazing okay wait why is my channel on ice okay well all right did you check the audio yeah audio sounds good awesome both of us yeah for once just you um I mean I might be a little biased but yeah I think we're pretty good all right cool so yeah guys this sees this is the live critiques that we do here whenever we can I've been sick for a while so it's been kind of postponed but I could talk for the most part now without coughing that was mostly yep so if you guys have a video you'd like for us to critique leave a comment in our chat over here and let us know what video you want to watch because you can't submit links right why so late because we had things to do today we have live well he has a life I have games to play yeah and like I spent this morning in bed say maybe you should grab a cough drop or something I have a bunch of cough drops in front of me actually so they're gonna be like powered through by the end oh you got water okay you're good yeah oh yeah okay all right so anybody submit your channels don't submit the links we can click on your name to go to your channel just say if you want us to check us check you out there we go wolf jinx wolf jinx jinx k oh jinx okay check out my channel I was that mean a okay so what that symbol means it kind of looks like a turkey with its head cut off anyways don't worry about it okay all right I added you to the description so if you guys refresh that scared me train literally made me jump I was like what's in my house I heard that it didn't sound that loud my heart's pounded okay back to the stream I'm being attacked by trains all right as I was trying to say it's in the description here so if you guys want to watch any videos with this feel free there does not appear to be a what would you call it landing page video yes it's ad video so so what what video are we checking out here I can do the latest one okay so first off real quick in regards to the channel page here I'd recommend doing a channel trailer because currently there's nothing mm-hmm and also let's go to another channel real quick just for fun whenever you go to a channel there's home videos playlist channel discussion about and then when you go to yours there's actually nothing and I've never seen that before mm-hmm is yours the same way where it takes me right to videos or underneath the name where you'd have the tabs oh like the videos tab or the playlist I've I've got tabs oh really yeah okay well I don't that's weird um try okay nope still there try it try it because you can probably just go up to the URL add a forward slash videos and take you to the yeah I know how to do that just no I know I'm just saying that's like I don't know if that's bugged for you or if that's a way it's yeah I mean it took me to the videos but there's still no tabs huh everything is going so well today I mean I don't know I have them yeah when I go to anyone else's page it's they have all the tabs there but that one doesn't for some odd reason okay well that aside we'll just pretend it's set up correctly and I'm screwed up somehow and watch the latest video okay all right so you got blacks blacks ops to trick shot clip hmm okay okay so um so for starters it's uploaded in HD but it doesn't look like it was recorded in HD yeah this does not look 720 so I try to figure out your recording settings and try and get that set up properly so when you export it in HD it's actually truly HD and you don't have quality loss you're not scaling it up and you don't have these black bars on the side now that being said it was a cool trick shot that's something I would never be able to do and that's the type of stuff I get killed by every single time I play which makes me stop playing because I'm not good at the game yeah what I would recommend is if you can do crazy stuff like that record a bunch of it and maybe record for a week or something and then put it into like one fun video with music or something so there's a bunch of really crazy cool stuff to watch instead of just one yeah I think it'd be a lot more fun to watch if it were longer than a 15-second clip yeah just a lot of these put together but you could also do like a highlights thing like your favorite moments from it and you could do these short clips if that's something you like but I wouldn't focus your channel on clips you could still use them but I'd recommend trying to find a way to formulate that into a video if that's the type of thing that you're focused on since it was just a clip let's see if there's this longer yeah it looks like this actually is his channel are a bunch of clips that he's okay he's got a couple montages about a month ago here okay so this is a you have a watermark down here in the corner that says like it was made with this editor and just a couple days ago I released in a tutorial over a free editor that has a lot of editing power it doesn't have water marks or anything like that and you could do multiple layers and a bunch of other cool things so looks like you actually did what we were just talked about one of the clips that we saw was in this montage hmm is this yeah it looks like a majority of these are letterboxed and I don't know if that's a matter of you know maybe you don't have a HD monitor which could perhaps be why these are recorded this way but the quality of the actual recording needs a lot of work that being said though it does look like the game is at least running smoothly yeah well that's why I'm confused the game doesn't look like it's running bad yeah so so if you have the ability to run the game this smoothly I just recommend playing with your recording settings and even if you do have like an old square monitor that makes you record in square you can still record it at a higher quality and like scale it up so there's no bars here you would have some quality loss but there's like you could play with your settings to make it look a little bit more pretty it's it's all trial and error if you don't have the proper equipment because there are ways around it it's just you know you have to really just play with it until you find something that works and showcases your work for the best of its ability yeah so anyone that can do this stuff multiple times not just like once in their life they should record that you know in a nice way so you can actually show in all of its quality lastly music it looks like it's a copyrighted song because it's actually claimed in the description down here so I'd recommend using something like epidemic sound or something that you know freedom offers tons of different libraries that you can go in and actually download music that's free to use and royalty free so you can make ad rev on it you're not gonna get flagged and if you have like three occurrences of copyrighted music your channel gets deleted so yeah which is not good yes no one wants that epidemic sounds I use it now it's super awesome I even had a tea derpy yesterday I had no idea that was a thing and Mike showed me and I was like oh super simple you literally just go to it and click login and then you click the MCN option it didn't take me there but then you get a go in and download all the different songs and stuff right yep all right so that being said a lot of talent just figure out how to record that talent and I'm still confused as to why the page is like this this is so weird do you see what I'm talking about on the stream though yeah I'm looking at it yeah I don't that's why I was trying to I have no idea why it's doing that it just shows the that's the about that's the channel description isn't it yeah yeah which by the way would recommend maybe adding a bit more to your channel description maybe try to say a little bit more about what you do if you're doing trick shots kind of explain you know hi welcome my channel I do trip shut trick shop shut I play Call of Duty good and I record it and put it on YouTube I hope you enjoy your stay God all right that means let's give you the next one okay thank you we're gonna do rogue games rogue games I think I've heard of this before yeah first impressions it looks really nice I love the thumbnails yeah those look very very professional and very well done like how the avatar and banner go together the like if you just said the thumbnails look they do look good we were talking about this the other day these are the type of thumbnails that when they pop into your subscription box whether you're interested in it or not it catches your eye which is the goal and you're encouraged to click it yeah yeah I'd say these have like a similar impact to what your channel does actually you want to do the compilation that's what I'm watching now yeah all can talky two weeks ago doubt it's changed too much from that what is this game so audio is not bad I think it could be improved but we can at least hear you it's not scratchy it's not peaking how do you think it can improve that I think it just needs more I want to use the word impact but I feel like that's kind of a word that is kind of difficult to explain yeah I guess not so much louder but just fuller like I guess what do we talk about normalizing it make it to where it's because right now it sounds like your volume level is kind of on the same as the game itself maybe even just turn down the game a bit so your voice stands over top of it yeah I do have it we'll see I've I've maxed volume on YouTube and then I actually have my system sound at 50% my here I'll put interface volume at 50 so we're about yeah game sound is great I just think you need to be a little bit louder when you when you yell that's an appropriate level over top of it but that's only when you yeah it's kind of even with the game other than the audio you know it is entertaining you have a lot of energy it's fun to watch it's engaging it's nothing that I want to like click off I actually want to finish it yeah oh Jesus oh my sound is so creepy okay sorry what I just had a giant clown jump up the screen yeah I think the biggest thing with your channel would just be if you could improve your microphone quality then this be a really really solid channel oh wait hold on hold on hold on hold on okay around three minutes that sounds pretty good like his voice over I mean watch the plosives a little bit on the microphone possible pop filter or just like aim your mouth away from the from the capsule but so I really like that audio see I don't like to use the word impactful too much because it kind of leads into chucking more bass into your voice which is not what you should do all the time but like for me with my audio I like to compress it which is pretty much just take the really high end and bring it down and take the really low end and bring it up and it makes everything sound more full like even when you're whispering you can hear it as well as when you're yelling like they kind of equalize on the same volume range so I think limiting and compression if you're really into if you're wanting to get better with audio if you're wanting to learn how to do audio like to me this channel seems like you're really trying to aspire and and strive yourself to to get better at every aspect of making videos and I definitely think there's a lot of aspects you've mastered you've done really really good at if audio is one of those things that you're looking to improve I definitely recommend looking up a certain voiceover tutorials or commentary narration tutorials again compression and limiting are two things that I do find really really help voiceovers obviously you don't want to do it to an extreme but even the slightest bit the slightest change can really help bring out a person talking and make make yourself stand out more in the video but I really like this this end bit where you're doing this narration saying you know hey if you enjoyed this subscribe like share I really like that and I actually kind of want to check here if this is no okay I didn't know if that maybe was an old video if you recently have actually haven't uploaded in two weeks okay I know the feeling buddy no worries it happens so but other than that no I'm I'm really impressed by by this channel I'm this is really good yeah it's definitely a solid channel that's just like kind of getting it picky so we could actually show something that we think you can improve yeah everything I notice does look really good I notice you seem to have a very big horror scene to your channel here which I perfectly fine nothing wrong with that if that's the type of genre you like no cool stuff god yeah all right well I don't know just trying to find something else to nitpick on I mean your description is detailed you've got you know talking about who you are what you're doing yeah no this is really good very well done cool all right well next channel okay the Scotty dude 94 um so he said he recently restarted his channel and would like some advice and the direction that he's going with it okay sure so this is something that a lot of people have to go through and a lot of different reasons is to do like a creative revamp and kind of put all their cards on the table and see what they've been doing see what they can improve on and really think about things so it's now my question is where is the threshold here like when did you quit the channel and then reboot it like what's the video on here that is your reboot that let's talk channel relaunch I'm assuming maybe it's probably the new month hiatus where there's nothing yeah there's new nails there so well I mean I look at the bottom of the first page and it's two years ago so I'm assuming that yeah because he's got the new thumbnails he's got sort of a little I guess watermark would you call it bottom I just want the number one so it's death skid marks or follow three okay um I've no idea what death skid marks is let's check it out so all right to a key mailer video today we are checking out death skid marks a bit of a weird title to be honest is the music added in afterwards bird's eye view game where it's like I don't like it yeah it's excellent in combat tech yeah okay since it's added in afterwards I'd recommend turning it down so it's not as overpowering but it it does have a nice fit to the video now let's go ahead to mystic oh it doesn't keep going it stops about 37 seconds I completing these missions here on the right okay yeah which we'll pick up and change when I show you now let's go ahead to mr. kill gunshot this is his intro song it's actually a fun intro song he's not as good as he said we can't get up skid because that's learning his friend like the last one I think the audio could be improved upon but given the equipment you have it sounds like you're doing well to do that because it's very rare it happens if that makes sense the missions I've got I'm pretty happy with at the minute okay this is more this is more personal opinion than anything really um I think top priority for you should be to try and get like a really really good microphone um this is not bad by any means but like I don't say this often this is weird I really like your voice like I don't know it's extreme it's well and it might be a little bit of the accent but it's like I don't know it's it sounds like a voice that would be like actually like a voice over voice like yeah it's it's different I really haven't heard anything like this in a while um and and I think good huh no I definitely think you have that potential to really capture an audience just by sitting there and talking and ranting and rambling on about what you're doing and so like I'm not saying that your audio quality right now is is bad in any way like it's actually it's actually very it's actually quite good I just I definitely think that if you're going to focus priority on anything in growing your channel I would definitely focus on trying to find the funds to get a really good studio quality mic because that would just I think that would change the entire game of this so basically what you're saying is his strong suit in your opinion is his voice and he needs to find a way to optimize on that to make it really stand out in the video because that is yes and that's probably more opinion based but you know I I've always been a big fan of voice so it was in voice work so no I'd have to agree with that um he does have a really good fitting voice for the video and it makes it fun to listen to I just want to listen to it more yeah than where it's at right now um that being said though you know one of the great things for any youtubers to be able to work with what funds they do have and what equipment they have and I feel like you kind of push this microphone to its max because it does sound really good for the quality mic it is but it sounds like you've also really really worked at it to get it to sound like it is because it sounds like that's a mic that could potentially also sound really bad if used incorrectly if that makes sense I'm curious if it says anywhere what microphone was used maybe he'll say let's check the check possibly I'm gonna check the about section oh my god you put it in the about section I love you not enough people put their equipment and specs in the about section on their channel yeah oh my god you are fantastic okay so it is actually a mic that is a part of his headset okay so that's why there's not enough yeah so that's why it's like it's not bad quality people can hear you they can understand you well it's just the I think when you get into the realm of studio microphones it's actually not about quality it's more about presence and those high-grade microphones really really give your voice a sense of presence which when you're doing game commentaries like this can really change the entire mood of the video and as Mike said you know already we're sitting here going yeah we really you know this is entertaining to listen to and so I think capitalizing on that is that's cool too because then that means you could literally do anything because if your voice is what's carrying the video yeah you play anything that you want because it's your voice that really stands out and it's different from the rest so yeah there's some limitations to what it is but it doesn't really matter what you know the game is that's being played it's more so just you know what you want to show and it looks to me here you've actually got a fairly powerful computer um core i5 might be a little bit limiting when it comes to video editing but you know that's a small hurdle considering you've got a gtx 970 which is not by any means a bad car that will run most of today's games that's what I have yeah um use adobe premiere all right I won't comment on that um using photoshop okay so you do have photoshop knowledge that's good um yeah I see a really strong foundation here definitely see I think that'd be your biggest thing is just to kind of play with uh maybe some different condenser mics and try and find something that's in your price range that sounds good throw it um whatever you're looking at whatever's in your price range though under YouTube and put like audio test or something just see what you think of it and if it sounds good to you that might be worth investing in whether that's like Christmas or your birthday or you know one week's paycheck or whatever um if I if I might make another uh small recommendation is to be a little bit careful with the video times here um because I see you do have a fallout three series which there's nothing wrong with that but um I see it kind of goes from roughly 16 minutes to way over 16 minutes to like 22 minutes um and especially with the games that just fall out three that's kind of I guess no pun intended fallen off the radar a little bit um it might be difficult to get these videos views when they have really long watch times such as that so you know again I think I think you talking can really carry a video I just unless someone clicks on that and I don't know how many people are going to want to click on part three of a fallout video they'd have to be there for the first one to make their way through I would just be a little bit careful um with those watch times and not overdo it too much um personally I don't even think 22 minutes is that bad but it is the world of YouTube so I don't I'm I'm not an expert by any means when it comes to video watch time I make like you know 26 to 30 minute videos nowadays and I stopped caring so uh you know if that's the way you want to do it power to you but yeah it's got one of those things on an early stage of a channel you kind of have to do what you can to keep the viewer around from beginning to end as much as possible and then as you do it more and more then you can play with the times like when I first started vlogging I think our vlogs are like four to like six minutes and that was a long yeah and then now I post up a half hour vlog and people are like cheering in the background but if I did on I first started their channel like nope bye but uh um yeah it's you know at the beginning just kind of focus on building your core community and then from there you could do what you can too I remember in the olden days of YouTube I actually used to make fun of how oh you weren't allowed what was it you weren't allowed to upload longer than 15 minutes is that it yeah I always used to make to unlock that yeah I always made fun of that I was like god that's stupid why did they have that there and now being you know having done the YouTube scene for two years I really actually started to understand oh you know they actually put that there more for your benefit than anything else um so shorter than 15 minutes I'd say is a good like starting channel guideline especially when you're doing a reboot such as this I see you have 119 subs but I'm assuming that since this is a reboot a lot of those are inactive or have you know forgotten that that you actually do this kind of stuff so it is safe to assume that your channel is um I guess how do I want to say this sub 100 sub 100 subs I guess um it's safe to assume that your channel is brand new and at a low subscriber and viewer count and then treat it as such um being with you know shorter as short of videos that you can make without of course sacrificing the content that you want to provide yeah no I definitely think you have a good start there and if you kind of focus on the couple things we said I think you'd be really ahead of the game there um off topic boba vol swung by and asked how long we're streaming for um probably oh my god just boba vol you don't talk to me anymore I'm shat uh maybe another like 40 minutes or so we normally have like an hour time slot to try and get as much critiques as possible in here so I think nick is in here too something yeah I've saw him but he also said he was leaving he's got to go record so I'm not sure okay if he is hi nick hi everyone go subscribe to protacular he's amazing there we go free free freedom promotion how about that all right all right nude channel okay a king alex gaming doki doki he said could you please review my channel I spent a lot of time on my videos and it'd be very appreciated like thanks and you sent me the same channel twice you're welcome there you go let's try okay much better okay so I'm assuming right off the bat by the banner this will be call of duty related um seems like most of the videos or all of the videos should not sure all right he's down the description so if you guys want to watch with us feel free here we go okay I'll just watch the featured video right uh first impressions real quick um I do first impressions I find the thumbnails to be a little bit too busy um on that note I've started doing a lot of thinking and I don't even know if that's a bad thing um when it comes to like I've noticed a lot of uh competitive style games such as call of duty and and uh counter strike and all those do this sort of thumbnail style where there's just hectic everything going on text everywhere a bunch of colors and I don't know I mean they certainly stand out so I think that's that should be noted they do definitely stand out and I do like that you don't reiterate what's in the title on the thumbnail like there's something different when you look up oh that is true yeah because there's a lot of people I just like copy and paste their title on the thumbnail yeah no I actually just assumed that's what he was doing I didn't even look yeah yeah that's really was a one of my friends Tim he owes he has like a YouTube tips channel and one of the things he always says is like don't like by reiterating what you put in the title in the thumbnail you're like insulting the viewer's intelligence uh by like making them reread the same thing over and over again and uh that's kind of one of the studies that they found by doing that it kind of is off-putting so by this showing extra information to the viewer is really useful yeah okay well anyways that's just for this person all right featured video let's go diamond sniper rifles call of duty black ops 3 multiplayer road to dark matter live with king alex so wait is this live oh hey guys this is king alex and today we're gonna be doing the part three of my road to dark matter series this game we're gonna get our sniper rifles diamond hopefully and we're gonna actually try something new we're gonna try to get two sniper rifles gold in one game which shouldn't be too difficult we should be able to do it pretty easy so thoughts there we go can we get actually like your energy yeah I'm actually like I'm listening I normally don't sit yeah listen but eating up the video with um the microphone do you think it's close to peeking um I heard it peeked like the second the video started yeah um so it might be a little bit too close the volume's nice but I think yeah the game might be turned up a little bit too much because if you get excited I feel like it's gonna clip uh like in the intro it's okay to turn your volume down and boost it later because you have more room to push it whereas if you record it full volume and you don't have any chance to uh change it later right so I will say this is like one of the first call of duty videos I've actually adamantly watched pretty easy we have the elos because I guess that's the best side it's it's different than the rest because there's actually a point to it there we go um you know you're trying to get some achievement you're trying to find something you say we're gonna go for you know a certain type of sniper rifle it's like oh you're doing something come on it's like I'm noticing in your commentary I'm noticing a very nice blend of both your reaction to the situation and an informative tone about what you're doing like you're explaining you're explaining like different aspects and what's going on and then you're kind of reacting to you know oh this happened oh I'm trying to do this like yeah this is I think I've gotten way too used to call of duty they just recorded on console and I'm dup over it yeah this is done nicely yeah I could I could actually watch this I can't stand call of duty so I think the reason why is because it's got that like connotation with it that if you make call of duty videos they have to be like this and uh nine times out of ten they are made that way and a lot of people do like that but for us more casual viewers that aren't here for like just call of duty just like watching gameplay I think this is more fitting like tell like the the music came in when he actually yeah you actually edit in the music and it still wasn't distracting it's like oh something's gonna happen yeah that's really good I like the anti-climactic buildup that was funny it started and then you die and then come back in next part of my road to dark matter series which will be out next week it's a weekly series as I said like I even like have a call to actually like next week there's going to be the next episode of the road to dark matter honestly the only thing that I've really noticed that I would say work on is turn down the gain on your microphone so you're not scratching um it's close it's not serious it seems like you're like right at the tip top of maxing and uh I think if you turn it down a little bit and then if you even have the boost at later and post you can you'd have more freedom and it sounds more crisp but uh you have the volume right though that's for sure nice okay sick we're one more kill away from our streaks um stick out the outro I also like that it's not a really really long video I'm happy you know come on yeah it's like we're near six minutes let's go around this way they just got one more kill what you said check out the outro there we go yeah okay but that description make sure to subscribe like this video and I'll see you nice call to action at the end like I actually say bye that's always cool oh there is a fly in my house okay there's a fly in my house sitting here watching for the outro to fly just goes by my face um no I really really like this because one of the things that I've been kind of noticing more and more with the I do personally is that like YouTube videos are hanging out with your viewers it's not just posting a video yeah if you do like a comedy sketch that's strictly like supposed disassociate the viewer just show them like a story that's one thing but if it's something where you're actually recording that on the live for the viewer it's really awesome to include them and you definitely did this throughout you talked directly to your viewers you told the viewers you know uh what's gonna happen you told them what to look for it wasn't just you focused solely on the game and uploading it when you include the viewer in your uh video they feel included it's as simple as that if you just you know are playing a game there's like okay the students play in a game but if you actually include them talk to them ask them questions and you know like this call to action at the end asking them to subscribe and like and be back next week you know they're more up to do it because they're able to actually think of you as a person so yeah I'd say this is a really solid channel that's obviously got some interaction down the comments so I mean this is it's I know this is hard to believe Mike okay this is really hard to believe so you may want to sit down for this one but I don't watch a lot of call of duty videos but this this is probably like one of the best I've seen oh yeah um thousand percent agree with that yeah oh and on top of that it's 1080 60 so that's nice too it is no I noticed the 60 frames like yeah solid smooth 60 frames was very easy to watch well it wasn't distracting at all so that's why I didn't check yeah it was just it's just easy it wasn't 60 for three seconds and then 45 and then 30 and then 60 and then yeah no uh very very good solid video I think you are on the right path there uh biggest thing I would say even the outro is nice um I just say work on your microphone mm-hmm and you got good description your about page too so kudos on that I'm gonna start checking that every channel because that about page is so important oh yeah okay so uh yeah all right let's grab a new channel and also before we start this I'm gonna have to grab a refill on water real quick some okay empty and my throat hurts you're gonna leave me by myself with stream okay all right I'll have to entertain myself I mean entertain them I mean entertain both of us I mean oh god I'm sorry please don't ban me all right so we're gonna do Rob Todd he says I would like a critic and a help from you I'd really appreciate it very much I'd be grateful grateful if you check out my channel sorry for my English it's awful I'm Italian okay um give me one second I'll set it to you link Arunis it is now in the description so if you guys want to watch feel free there is your link Arunis thank you hopefully it is the updated one this time around it's not yeah okay it's updated cool got it all right so I'm just gonna play this on mute and you could talk about things okay wait what did you clash a clan's game oh clash plants channel okay all right well I am uh I'm not a clash of plans expert Mike actually plays a lot more than I well he's played it longer than I have I might play it more just because I have a very addictive personality but um all right well let's go to I'll go to the first video here on the actual landing page um I apologize I do not speak any kind of foreign language so I am actually I'm not even going to try to read the title I will butcher it horribly um but at least I've played clash of clans so I will be able to tell what's going on here hi clash of clans hi yes I said I wasn't going to try to read the title or anything because I would butcher it horribly yeah I think you should though just for fun uh okay all right hmm mil milioni the resource a truce strategy sounds like a nice Italian there we go thanks it does with the with the side of meatballs and all right so you know how you said you're sorry because your English is bad our Italian is worse than your yeah so you're good at least you can speak English I can't even begin to speak Italian so um first impressions quality actually is surprisingly good yeah I'm um it's better than my tablet I know I'm wondering if you like play it on the pc and do a screen grab or something because that's it's really good quality it looks better than my phone displays it yeah so I was like blowing it up to full screen look I was like that still looks really nice um so obviously we can't really uh interpret what you're saying but we can try and get an idea of just what you're showcasing and quality of everything stuff like that um how about let's try and pick a video that we think we might be able to interpret without listening um so not the town hall nine uh that's the thumbnail it says gola loon oh gola loon okay I've never heard of this tactic so let's see what I haven't heard of any of the tactics they all sound like a fourth fourth grader came up with them so first and foremost quality is great normally like I I do play clash of clans and I have looked up some strategies and nine times out of ten the quality does not look anything like this it looks bad so um unfortunately I can't understand it but I think if I was you know if you were like popped up in the search results I'd be able to hopefully skim through and understand how to use this tactic without even understanding Italian so let's skim through the video and see if we can in fact so I would say it may be beneficial to you to get more straight to the point yeah I was just about to say it doesn't seem like something really starts happening until about four minutes here um again I don't know what you're saying but I if I had to guess the uh primary audience on YouTube would be English speaking because even most other cultures that are on uh YouTube they also speak English so if you were to do something you know that's more focused towards visuals than audio that might help I mean are you in agreeance there or yeah no I'm just no I was just trying to trying to see what's going on here I'm so let's see but yeah I mean is this is this supposed to be like a strategy video is that what this is if I had to guess okay judging by the thumbnail because I know some people do clash of clans channels where it's hey come watch me upgrade three structures all right cool see you next week no I mean the thumbnail said you know these five characters combined into one name equals an awesome right attack where you'll get a hundred percent like you did okay so uh I did get a gist of how to use it um again you may need to consider that uh you don't have Italian speaking viewers and you might need to work more with visuals like an arrow and text or something like in the top right like you know place your balloons up here place something over here place something down here and you could even do numbers like what you'll need for this is 10 of these 20 of these five of these and then go into the video and then show the attack show how it actually looks and that way for your Italian speaking viewers you can actually talk to them and then for those who aren't you could still keep them entertained and educated but I mean you you did the attack I haven't seen before and you got 100 percent and the quality looks really nice you did show how to do it so I think you're on the right path just try to think of a way to incorporate more visuals so anyone no matter what their language is can watch it and thoroughly understand yes I I don't really know what to add here I'm not real sure the proper structure of a clash clan channel um but I do definitely agree with the just make it more universal I think is the goal so that no matter who speaks what they'll still be able to follow what you're doing in your video and I will probably recommend try to I don't know if this is again I can't really understand what you're saying so I don't know if it's uh live commentary like I I think you're commenting while you're doing this um I've seen a couple clash of clans channels they sort of record the footage and then they talk over it and so they kind of just play footage of like a raid they did earlier that day while they update everyone and say you know hey I did this this this and this and today I'm going to show you this and then they cut to the video that's the actual raid and then kind of detail it while it's going on and pictures and whatnot I would recommend getting to the point a little bit quicker though because four minutes into the video before any real action starts happening um the first roughly two two-ish two thirty minutes is just spent staring at your base um followed by a minute or so of looking at past battles and I just think the pacing needs to be improved a little bit what we always talked about in film school was you should be able to mute any video and understand what's happening um you know like we did study a lot of silent films but you know you're still able to watch it and still get a gist of what's happening and that is what's really good is when a creator can tell a story using visuals and not have to rely on talking so much yes the talking takes an extra level but step one is to get all your visuals across and for something like this where it's a tutorial that is equally as true um or for anything that's requires a story you know when you're doing like gameplay you have your actual story in the game that tells that there but if you're doing filmmaking or vlogging or tutorials or reviews there should be visuals there so if you were to mute it you should still be able to get the gist of what's happening so that being said if I muted it and watched it seven minutes is a long time so back to what you said um you know kind of keep that in mind I well I definitely and that's actually a good point I think a good way to look at it for yourself is make the video to where you can mute it and still understand what's going on I think that's also kind of a different angle to look at it because I mean you have to understand for us we could listen to the sound or mute it both ways the video would give the same impression oh yeah um because of course we can't really understand what's happening so visuals important important yep all right well we are ready for a new channel um how do we submit you guys leave a comment and ask us to look at it again when we are reviewing a channel we're not checking the comments because we're reviewing a channel so there's no reason to spam your comments over and over and over and over again but whenever we ask for it feel free to uh comment away so which would be now yes go and leave the name of the video you want us to check out so that way we have an idea of what you want to check out see freedom well uh mike how's your how's your day going well it's going okay I crashed my drone earlier oh no is it okay yeah my thumb's not though oh at least the drone's okay that's the important part I got one all right she said her most recent video okay oh whoops the last guy didn't post a link to his channel I just typed his name my bad Rob hmm I I try to credit everyone in the description so if people could watch with it I just put his name I didn't put the I didn't paste the link to his channel oh so Rob you are now featured in the description so anyone that wants to check out his channel that we were just reviewing feel free to click that as well as Shannon all right so Shannon wants us to watch her latest video questions about Star Wars it's better not have spoilers I've watched it already but I'm sure we have a couple viewers here I haven't but I don't care so it's fine so I have never been a fan of Star Wars a few weeks ago Kevin and I went to see the new Star Wars movie so first off uh video quality is nice it's focused on you the background is slightly out of focus it's not drastic um audio I think could be improved upon a little bit for this type of video it looks like normally you do um the vlogging on here but for these type I'd recommend getting a microphone closer to you because when you have a mic when you have a camera across the room you get the whole echo of the whole entire room I don't know why is Han Solo such a dick live questions right there it's the name man Han I want to be Han duo I like the energy of it though yeah I'm gonna make sure this is turned out a little bit for our underage viewers but I feel like I can get the gist of what's going on oh I got this full blast so I really like this um the audio like I was saying earlier you could definitely hear it you can understand it's not bad I'm just saying that that's something you could improve um and that's really simply just get a mic from closer to you but honestly everything I think you're doing is makes a really solid video there's just extra things you could do to take it from here to up here because right now it's just a really fun video but what can you do to make a fun shareable video that everyone wants to show their friends um right now it's close to that and it might even be something like that but you want to take something that's just great and make it the best so um little things that I think would be beneficial to this is like even images popping up because like let's say someone else didn't watch Star Wars or don't like it they may not know who Han Solo is or who the Darth Vader is stuff like that have like little images pop up and even like shake around while you're talking about it and stuff you know you were talking about you were talking about her uh like like hair too yeah you know you want to show that that's a visual representation someone who hasn't seen that yeah like really like look at this hair just zoom in on it and make it shake all yeah yeah because like right now it's it's a really strong on-screen presence and it's fun to watch and you have a lot of emotion and you are like really selling what you're talking about so yeah it's fun to watch but if you took these images from it that means anyone who agreed with you anyone who doesn't like Star Wars anyone who shares these thoughts or never watched Star Wars because of these that's gonna really click with them so much more so if you start thinking about the visuals a little bit more I think that would just take it from here to up here yeah I'm again I love the energy though oh yeah I think it's a solid video I just think there was a couple things you could do to make the other uh person against Star Wars just really click with this and want to share it on their Facebook page because that's what starts a viral trend so this is like real talk on steroids all right this is a solid video yeah you should go tweet this at uh Disney only comment on the video what it ends with Star Wars hates you oh and she said I think Star Wars I feel the same about each other that's awesome that's something that if this was seen on a broader scale you would have a ton of just like in comment wars between the Star Wars fans and the people who hate Star Wars just people going after each other this is one of those videos that could easily snowball into something viral just from being that out there yeah but no I think that's solid except for your tag Star Wars instead of wars just saying I'm looking at her tags right now she put Star Trek in there Star Trek oh Star Wars Star Trek yep and then Star Wars just to make sure anyone that's typing it wrong will pop up wait where's oh Star Wars yeah nice but no I think that's a solid video even though I like Star Wars I'd still laugh and watch that and think it'd be funny I'm not going to get offended and yell at you see I can see you doing this with a lot of really popular films oh yeah for anything your latest Taco Bell experience yeah it doesn't necessarily have to be movies I just I know movies are really widely searched topic oh yeah and if you do it like first when they first come out please please do a video on Frozen I will watch that and I will share that and I know this was a video definitely worth checking out thank you for that any closing thoughts audio and visuals audio is not as necessary as the visuals I think the visuals would really make it a viral video audio is just something that could be improved upon if I think b-roll is a big is the first thing that comes to mind yeah like putting in a lot of b-roll making it to where you know it's not um it's not necessarily bad to have the audience looking at you the entire time but to kind of like when you go to a different topic you can have b-roll related to that topic and it sort of makes a good separation oh yeah between the topics it really lets them know when you're changing gears a little bit um so that's that's probably my main recommendation audio yeah I think it'd be a little better I honestly yeah I don't even I'm just talking about overall quality yeah it doesn't really sound like a camera mic though do you think it does it doesn't really to me yeah you can talk directly into it it's a possibly room echo that gives it away yeah possibly look at investing in like a shotgun mic or something something we're gonna aim straight down and get all the reverb out or you know I mean pay two thousand dollars and soundproof your bedroom it's a completely viable option I oh yeah for yeah what you haven't done that what are you doing come on soundproofed corners of my room yeah I've got a soundproof corner but honestly I soundproof my apartment more to help my neighbors than anything I feel so bad for them all right well I think we have time for like one to two more okay so over time today all right well we did screw around for the first 15 minutes talking about cheese we did when did we talk about cheese I don't know talked about cheese I'm gonna talk about cheese now that sounds really interesting you know I quite like Gouda myself but if like I found this really really good uh spice uh red pepper cheese at high V the other day and did you find a channel yet I'm still looking okay and it was like it was really expensive but I made burgers out of it and they were the most they were the most pricey burgers ever but they were so good um and I would do that again if it didn't cost a fortune for cheese I would do that every time it's amazing all right there we talked about cheese you happy El Boon El Boon okay so he said he has a horror Minecraft video to watch um a horror Minecraft video I'm assuming that's the newest one I believe so oh here's the storm videos well know where I'm going and the description all right we'll watch this custom slasher game mode the stuff got sorted everyone go get a cap nope instantly notice the 60 fps yeah very nice 720p but no big deal again seems like 60 fps is the important factor these things oh my god long as it's hd like the transition addition where's the um yep sound effect very nice oh so hey guys everyone I'm a little unsure as to which one's you yeah I was damn it Mike you keep beating me to it stop yeah I would have liked a little bit of an introduction because I'm not real sure who's who here even what's going on for that matter uh Skype they hear you yeah um I think that's important for any new viewer is to have something that essentially tells you know your audience hello here I am uh this is me this is my channel this what you should expect this is what you're gonna see and uh just kind of assume that anyone that's watching your video has never seen your channel before um now that doesn't mean every single video have like a five minute spiel of what your channel is but like something really snappy and quick like hey guys that's all boon today we're gonna be playing uh the Minecraft custom slasher game mode we have so and so with this and so and so with this as well they both have a channel down the description and now to the video yeah would also recommend maxing brightness because I can no longer tell what's happening yeah um I've noticed that with Minecraft unfortunately you know you're supposed to crank down your darkness so you can get the full experience of the um yeah the scariness but when you're actually recording for an audience like and maybe just dark enough that you can see but for your viewers it's take that and then like divide it even more so because there's gonna be some little quality loss when you post up onto youtube and if someone has a bad monitor like one of those old tube monitors for example this screen would be just pitch black there would be nothing um right now I could see like some lines and that's about it but they would see nothing or any cheaper monitor monitor for that matter yeah I mean I've I've got contrast on this monitor set about I don't even know 60 something granted I do have the power of the sun turned on in my apartment but it's still very difficult to see um if you ever tried and this is more of a question to you Mike actually have you ever tried recording like very dark footage in Minecraft and then bumping it in post like does that work nope okay because I've never tried doing that honestly it makes it like gray okay it always sounded like a bad idea but I didn't want to say anything until I was like yeah because when I first started my game channel I always had the issue of recording too dark um because I did play a lot of horror games when I first started and I was one of the first people to have an HD monitor so whenever I'd watch my channel on anything else other than my monitor I couldn't see anything I was like I just uploaded black it's just a black box yeah I've finally learned with Vegas how to convert the color channels yeah but I don't know what editor or actually it may not even be an editor this seems like this was xbox 360 which I don't I mean just don't capture card yeah no that's true it does yeah it does my bad I completely forgot about that you don't click a button on your controller and do a transition swipe yes you do have you never used an x bone come on Mike um um but no um get some more branding to your channel so we know who you are versus the rest the energy and the group is fun it's fun to watch uh that being said keep in mind that you may be hindered by other people's audio so you need to be picky with who you invite to record with you it's you know if you want to play with them who cares but if you want to actually record and share it to your audience you need to be uh cautious of how your friends microphones sound so unfortunately I have friends that I'd love to play with that may be fun to record with but you know if their microphone's not good enough we'll just leave it to just having fun on saturday night we won't share it on youtube all right uh now if I could make a bit of a side recommendation for something here um I went ahead and clicked on your heroes of the storm video that you made down here so Mike you can just shut up for the next minute here um the like the only thing I'm going to say and this this applies to I am a huge I'm an avid MOBA player um and this this this this accounts for like any kind of MOBA really any game the first three minutes of the video are you waiting for a game with your friend and then the loading screen um and I even clicked to a part here and you said something about you know oh I might just cut all this out okay well do you definitely want to cut that stuff out you you do not want to if a if a viewer is there to see a match of a game such as this you do not want to make them wait through a loading screen um especially three minutes of one that is that's a surefire way to turn an audience off and that's unfortunate if the gameplay is really good I'm not sure I of course it's a 20 minute video I'm not going to sit here and watch the whole thing now but just um as as general knowledge I guess I'm saying for your channel in general definitely cutting out yeah anybody's channel get to the point get to the point I think that's been a big theme of tonight is get to the point figure out what you want to do get to the point plan for that what you're trying to say I am I'm doing I'm saying it now it's get to the point I'm getting to the point it's get to the point but no like the content looks good the quality looks good yeah well I think so many people have tasks for today but yeah um that's that's something to really consider though especially if you yourself feel like you need to cut that out and you actually say it in the video yeah um the the viewer is going to be even more biased than you are for the most well to some extent there there's some things that people don't pay attention to but as far as like the content of the video that's what they pay attention to you are and will always be your biggest critic on youtube I find yeah okay yeah all right let's do one closing one and then that's going to be it and guys we will be back again all right soon I did find this channel okay doki um it's called uh I don't really know how to say this derpy thunder I think you say it I figured you were gonna do that um no you didn't does that mean I need to find a channel I mean maybe so I'm looking for people that aren't copy and pasting the same thing over and over and over again because I can actually see like the same channel pop up in the like 10 times the last minute so let's see if we can see some original comments for the last one everyone desperately trying just copy to pasting um oh man I'm still waiting for something new your comment must say derpy thunder in it in order to get selected that's criteria so if it's copy and past it won't work I like that in the middle of it not in the beginning or end now they're just gonna start saying derpy thunder hashtag derpy nice okay what have you done what the hell have you done oh no I'm still seeing copy and paste ones without derpy thunder in it too all right I picked one okay thank you everyone who submitted their channels today it was a lot of fun hanging out with you guys and checking out your channels if we did not get to you today don't be discouraged I can only get to so many people each and every time but I was thinking about maybe doing another one this week because I missed last week since I was sick I'm still sick now but oh I might try two in one week yeah maybe I mean I don't I can't guarantee anything but I'm gonna try so if not we'll be back next week for sure all right so how about I messed up Minecraft capture the flag okay where's that oh oh number three the recording messed up I want to get a real oh okay it's hoping like you actually like screwed up in the game somehow well how to do the baby wait how did you mess up the video it said the audio didn't work oh okay uh I was gonna say if you uploaded it didn't come out good reuploaded but okay um happy wheels part five okay sure I've been getting into that why not so part five yep so first thing uh for anyone guys if you fail in some way and your recording does not live up to your standards you don't have to post it it's a little bit discouraging to have to re-record it or redo it but I would rather not post a video that I'm not happy with than post something I'm not happy with so um it is okay to redo it it may not be fun to have to redo it but think about the overall quality of your channel and how you're trying to present yourself to the people watching so so first off I'm not not a huge fan of the dubstep intros but that's whatever is there a dubstep intro I'm just saying oh audio quality is not bad I like it a little bit louder in comparison to the music though I like your energy though you seem to have like a lot of fun and uh passion about playing the games that's good I would recommend scaling your screen up so you don't see the actual browser here that's just full screens um of the game here either that's or use your screen recorder just to capture that section um Derpy you just did this the other day how did you record it are recording happy wheels I went ahead and there is a full screen option for it oh really yeah so you can go to uh they were actually just at the menu you can go to options and there is a full screen there is also when you're in a level you can press tab which brings up the menu and there's also a full screen I believe in the bottom right there's a little square that you can click and makes it full screen as well um so there are lots of full screen options for happy wheels oh yeah I see it yeah as far as um now it really depends what browser you're doing it in because I ran into a couple issues where escape will minimize it clicking too far to the top will minimize it um putting your mouse cursor in various areas will make it sit there and go hey uh in case you didn't know uh the game is in full screen well just so let's know that so you do have to be a little careful it's a bit of a weird browser games are kind of difficult to record um but happy wheels actually has a very nice yeah full screen not only that but if you're I see you're recording in bandicam bandicam you can actually select what region of the screen you want to record so you can just do a square over that area and it'll record only that and then scale up your browser a little bit so it takes up more space so if you don't want to do the full screen option you have the software to do it correctly yeah that's usually how I do a lot of browser games and that's why I was pleasantly surprised that happy wheels had a full screen option so I definitely recommend taking advantage of that yeah nice um what's your thoughts on the show clicks animation show clicks animation so like bandicam has an option where if you click oh no no no turn that off no no no that's okay for tutorial um that's something I should probably do for like the click sound and the click animation no so it's it has its time and place but for gameplay not necessarily and also additionally with bandicam you can actually shut off the pointer as a whole so it's not taking up the screen or it's not on the screen um you can just hide everything in regards to that when you're doing this type of thing just remember to turn it back on when you do a tutorial don't be me and record your tutorial without a pointer so you have no clue what you're clicking you've done that I did it on my last video oh I recorded a whole like 20 minute tutorial beginning to end and as I was like already halfway through editing I was like wait I just realized there's no pointer well couldn't you still like use masks or something and and highlight certain areas yeah I use like arrows and pointed to okay but it was just yeah that works yeah yeah but everyone always tells me just turn the cursor off yeah like I think when I first did a video in five nights at Freddy's the main reaction I got was turn the cursor off it looks cooler I was like um oh okay I mean I figured well hey don't you want to know where I'm clicking but honestly in the reality no people people don't care but no I I like you your presence your energy with it I think you're doing a good job you just need to kind of finesse how you're recording and showcasing what you're doing very very excitable personality especially something like happy wheels that's incredibly beneficial and it doesn't feel forced either like you see some people who will just do it and they just feel like they have to yell yeah you don't seem forced you just seem like you're genuinely enjoying it which will make a much more fun gameplay for anyone to watch than someone who's faking it uh lastly let's take a look at the outro okay um you do have be a part of the sham scribers and sham scribe no the fact that you're I love it when people take the time to talk to their viewers um you don't necessarily need a name for your viewers in the early stages of youtube it's something that kind of what I've seen normally is it comes naturally and people will kind of come up with the name for themselves in some way um even if you don't do it they'll do it and it comes more natural um like for instance on on our channel there's a name I always called britney and people kind of start taking that and then that's what we started calling them and that's just what it stuck with so um to say I mean you you can force it and you can come up with it and I like the fact that you're actually taking the time to talk to your viewers but just keep that in mind like there was one channel I was watching that like they just started out like that day and they came up with a name for their viewers and they like like were really emphasizing that name I was like but what if I'm not that I don't want to be that I wanted to be Michael but um but no I think you had a good energy with it didn't feel forced or over the done it was just kind of fun I'm a little concerned about the outro music though um yeah that was the uh I okay I don't I don't yeah I know I'm I'm I'm saying I have listened to that song multiple times in the past I don't remember the name of it but I know that is like someone else's remix yeah so you know just be free be careful yeah just be a little bit cautious if you don't have permission to use that I wouldn't um I've seen cases lately of people using songs from artists that allowed them to use it and then they copyright the music later in their career and then you're screwed yeah so yeah all right well that was fun thank you again everyone for submitting your channels thank you for watching thank you for hanging out with us if you don't get selected today uh we'll be doing it again nothing against you and your channel uh just we can't get to everyone in one day so uh guys if you want to check out Brennan his channel's derpy thunder you can see him in the car you know I think they got that I think I don't know they might not I think that's something they got it maybe not oh and just you said it's non-copy right so okay cool that's yeah then go for it and then you can find me there too that's it yeah I have my on my channel too so you like come to me and then go to him or you know don't see it's fine all right guys hope you all have a lovely day we'll see you guys later bye


Hi, everyone. My name is Francesca. I was part of the content team for WorkCamp Europe 2017. We were in charge of creating the amazing lineup we had this year in Paris. It wasn't easy. We had the 310 applications that were all solid and we loved, I would say, all of them. And we wish we had a seven track event. We had to bring that down to 40. The feedback we got so far is very positive. I hope you enjoyed WorkCamp. We had a blast putting it together for you guys and hopefully we'll see you back next year. Thank you.


Hi students, it's Shayna, your teacher from espressoenglish.net, and today I want to talk to you about mistakes. I know that a lot of English learners are afraid of making mistakes or embarrassed by the mistakes they make in English, but I would encourage you to remember that mistakes are a normal and natural part of the learning process. They're part of the process of learning any new skill. When you learn something new, you're going to make mistakes, so please try to see mistakes not as something to be afraid of or something to be very embarrassed by. Mistakes are not disasters. They are learning opportunities where you can learn something new and improve your English. So in today's lesson, I want to teach you some phrases that native English speakers use when talking about making mistakes. Because you don't just want to say, I made a mistake, I made a mistake, I made a mistake over and over. It gets boring and repetitive. So here are some different phrases you can use. The first one is, I blew it. We use this for making major mistakes. Like let's say you have a boyfriend and girlfriend who have been dating for a long time and the boyfriend forgets his girlfriend's birthday, so he doesn't plan a party, he doesn't give her any gifts, and he doesn't even wish her happy birthday. And of course, she gets really angry about this. Well, he could apologize and acknowledge his mistake by saying, I'm so sorry, I blew it or I really blew it to give it even more emphasis. It's just an informal phrase to say, I made a big mistake. Another phrase you can use is, I messed up. You can use this for both larger mistakes or smaller mistakes. Let's say you're organizing an event or a party and you send out a lot of invitations to all your friends and family and acquaintances, but you realize that the invitations have the wrong date. So it's got misinformation on the invitation. You could say, oh no, I messed up. I sent out invitations with the wrong date.  It means the same thing, I made a mistake, but it's just a little bit stronger. And I would suggest using this one only more with friends in an informal situation. So in a work context with your coworkers, you can say, I blew it. You can say, I messed up, but I wouldn't say, I screwed up. That's a little, it's a little stronger. It's a little slightly more vulgar and so I would use that only among friends. Now these I messed up, I screwed up, I blew it, are usually used for fairly significant sized mistakes. But what if you only make a tiny mistake? So let's say you're talking with a native English speaking friend and you use the wrong word in a sentence and your friend corrects you. You don't want to say, I blew it or I screwed up because that's, it's really not a big mistake. It's just a small one. So in that case, you can use the expression, my bad. This is just a kind of a slang expression. It's a really informal, casual way to acknowledge a very small mistake. So your friend corrected your use of the English language. You could just say, oh my bad, and then just continue. Keep going with the conversation. There's no need to keep talking about that mistake or feel bad because it was such a small one. Okay, so I hope you've learned some new phrases you can use in today's lesson. And if you want to get feedback on your spoken English, one of the best ways to do that is to join my everyday English speaking courses. Because these have speaking tasks, which are opportunities for you to record your speaking and send it to me for evaluation. I will correct your mistakes. I will teach you if there's anything that you can improve. I will tell you what you're doing well. It's a really valuable part of the course. So if you're interested in getting my feedback and comments on your spoken English, come on over to the everyday English speaking course, sign up and do the speaking tasks. Bye for now.


Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything one piece. Today we're going to be discussing a topic that pops up almost every time I mention a certain Charlotte Cardicuri or his devil fruit, the mochi mochi nomi. And that is the extreme confusion within the fanbase over exactly what a special paramecia is because there's a fair bit of conflicting information out there. And to be perfectly honest, it's not something I believe was particularly well explained in the series itself. And as a result, I tend to get a lot of comments on this channel like, dude, isn't Cardicuri a Logia user or mate? Isn't Magellan's devil fruit also a special paramecia? And all of these questions and more will be answered here today. But first up, we've got to discuss the dubious origins of the special paramecia, and this in and of itself is kind of where a ton of the confusion about Cardicuri and the mochi mochi nomi seems to stem from. Because in the initial release of chapter 863 in Weekly Shonen Jump, Jinbei specifically refers to the mochi mochi nomi as a Logia fruit. However, this line was later changed to a special paramecia when the volume containing chapter 863 was released. Now this sort of thing isn't an uncommon practice, and there are often cases where chapters were published in Weekly Shonen Jump containing errors. Although these are usually art based, like someone drawing Zora Scar on the wrong eye, stuff like that. However, this error is a bit more unnoticeable than most because it pertains to the explanation of a character who was and still is wildly popular in the fanbase. So after the initial chapter release, the information was spread like wildfire that Cardicuri was a Logia user, and there was really no recovery from that initial bombardment of information. Once that idea is out there, no amount of retconning can completely eradicate it. However, it's also probably not semantically correct to call the initial definition as a Logia an error, because that would imply that special paramesias had been planned all along, and this situation was a simple labeling mistake. I do not think that is the case. Rather, this situation seems like a glimpse of how the sausage is made, because one piece is absolutely not as meticulously planned as a lot of people seem to believe it is. Oda has a strong general direction and overall sense of pacing, but he is also a master improviser, choosing to draw essentially whatever he feels at the time, adding a lot of nice flair to the story. And the most famous example of which being the Supernovas actually, none of them were planned to exist at all until Oda thought that the Sabati arc might be a bit too flat, and just created them all on the spot to add some dramatic intrigue. And that's more or less what I think happened here with the special paramesia thing. Oda submitted chapter 863 with every intention for Cardicuri to be a Logia user, and then somewhere down the line, he had an even better idea and decided to make the switch in volume format. Now as for what that better idea was, it could be something really simple like wanting to emphasize the similarities between Luffy and Cardicuri a lot more. I mean the whole interaction was an exercise in Luffy encountering a much better version of his own abilities and learning from it. So I think it's very narratively sound for him to be facing off against another paramesia user. Of course the problem with that is that this alleged paramesia user has already displayed some Logia qualities, so what do we do with that? I guess he's a special paramesia. And by the way what I've just explained there does not give Oda enough credit to how he explained the Logia similarities because that would go on to be dealt with very very well. But before that, whether they were planned or not, let's get into exactly what now defines a special paramesia fruit. And in the absence of an official definition from Oda, the conclusion we can draw is that a special paramesia is a fruit that grants the user more than one of the established qualities of a regular paramesia. And what I mean by that is that after the consumption of a paramesia type fruit, a user will only generally gain one specific effect. For example, there are paramesia fruits that strictly modify the user's body, a great example of which is Luffy. He had the gomogomenome and the simple outcome is that he is now made of rubber. Another common effect is that the user of a paramesia fruit will become able to produce something. So I think Doflamingo's ability to conjure strings or Bartolomea's power to produce barriers. There are some further subclassifications as well, such as users who become able to change the properties of their body at will, like Ms. Valentine or Mark Weiss, both of whom are able to freely manipulate their weight. And there are other types as well, but it's not important for this discussion. What is important is to recognize that Charlotte Katakuri, the user of the mochi mochi nomi, is the only paramesia user who has two of these effects granted upon him. Being that he can produce mochi at will, but he can also freely turn his body into mochi and manipulate it. This is what makes him a special paramesia user, because he essentially gained double the powers of any regular paramesia user. And you may be thinking that there are other cases in the series of individuals who display these two qualities, a frequent example of which that comes up is Galdino, better known as Mr. Three. There is an unfortunately widespread belief that he was able to turn his body into wax as well as generate it, but this is not the case. Galdino was only ever capable of generating wax, but to manipulate it he needed a connection with it. Activating the flame on his head and generally coating his hands in wax to mold his creations. So I'm afraid the Dorodoro nomi is a regular old paramesia. The other example that comes up a lot is Magellan and his Doku Doku nomi, because due to the fact that the X-warden of Vimpell down chooses to coat himself in poison, there is a mistaken belief that this means he can become poison. And in fact, despite the multiple times he has been stated to be a paramesia user, a lot of fans even confuse this for a logia type. But the simple truth is that he is neither a logia nor a special paramesia because Magellan can only generate poison, in the same way that Galdino can only produce wax. Similar to the idea that Kartakuri can conjure mochi. However, he can actually become mochi as well. And actually, speaking of mistaken logias, I just want to go over Oda's explanation for the logia illusion that Kartakuri can create. Essentially, Kartakuri's ability to become intangible, or seemingly intangible, is a byproduct of his extremely advanced observation haki. Kartakuri is able to see briefly into the future, analyze where bullets, punches or whatever are going to strike him, and then mold just enough of his body away to perfectly avoid it. And I find this to be a pretty satisfactory explanation and a fantastic get out of jail free card for Oda, because just to take a step back into the real world, Kartakuri was definitely intended to be a logia user at first. And that's why he despised their qualities at the tea party. This sort of change would not have worked with any other character, it really needed Kartakuri's future side to sell it, and in my opinion, it's really gone on to enhance his character. Like it's one thing to just be intangible to physical attacks, but it's completely another to make yourself appear intangible through minute, perfect, bodily movements. But yeah, that is essentially a special paramesia. It's a confusing topic because it was never planned to be a thing. To the best I can tell, Oda published Kartakuri as a logia user, then came up with a better idea, and added another layer to this already expansive world of devil fruits. But regardless of how it came about, special paramesias do now exist in the series, and I'm very much hoping that we see a few more of them before the inevitable end, so that Oda can make some more use of this wonderful narrative discovery. But that pretty much does it for special paramesias. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general, then please do consider donating to the Grand Line Review Patreon, because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. 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