Reflections on 1 Year of (Trying to) Become Successful on YouTube
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Reflections on 1 Year of (Trying to) Become Successful on YouTube
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#2Nitpick - the point of parentheses, as used in the article title, are to add optional extra context without being required to make the sentence complete. The sentence "Reflections on 1 year of become successful on YouTube" isn't complete. Either remove the parentheses (thus making those words part of the title), or consider a different sentence structure.
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#3Nitpick - the point of parentheses, as used in the article title, are to add optional extra context without being required to make the sentence complete. The sentence "Reflections on 1 year of become successful on YouTube" isn't complete. Either remove the parentheses (thus making those words part of the title), or consider a different sentence structure.
Probably become=>becoming whould help
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#4Nitpick - the point of parentheses, as used in the article title, are to add optional extra context without being required to make the sentence complete. The sentence "Reflections on 1 year of become successful on YouTube" isn't complete. Either remove the parentheses (thus making those words part of the title), or consider a different sentence structure.
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#5Nitpick - the point of parentheses, as used in the article title, are to add optional extra context without being required to make the sentence complete. The sentence "Reflections on 1 year of become successful on YouTube" isn't complete. Either remove the parentheses (thus making those words part of the title), or consider a different sentence structure.
Probably become=>becoming whould help
"Reflections on 1 Year of (Trying to) Becoming Successful" isn't correct either.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably become=>becoming whould help
"Reflections on 1 Year of (Trying to) Becoming Successful" isn't correct either.
People write like they read and speak, which is where this mistake comes from
The right way is to replace the parentheses with a pair of dashes, one before and one after the deemphasized clause
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#7Nitpick - the point of parentheses, as used in the article title, are to add optional extra context without being required to make the sentence complete. The sentence "Reflections on 1 year of become successful on YouTube" isn't complete. Either remove the parentheses (thus making those words part of the title), or consider a different sentence structure.
Probably become=>becoming whould help
OP has been "trying" for 1 year, not "becoming" for one year.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Reflections on 1 Year of (Trying to) Becoming Successful" isn't correct either.
People write like they read and speak, which is where this mistake comes from The right way is to replace the parentheses with a pair of dashes, one before and one after the deemphasized clause
Or just remove the parens. They don't really add (much of) anything. (See what I did there?)
Or maybe:
"... trying (unsuccessfully) to succeed..."
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#9I wonder if they have a specific goal in mind that they use to define success. Maybe it's a more general "we will know we are successful when we get there", or maybe it's a specific metric like the number of views. The latter feels like a real grind.
Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549649 - How to succeed in MrBeast production (2024-09-15, 1352 comments)
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#10Nitpick - the point of parentheses, as used in the article title, are to add optional extra context without being required to make the sentence complete. The sentence "Reflections on 1 year of become successful on YouTube" isn't complete. Either remove the parentheses (thus making those words part of the title), or consider a different sentence structure.
I love this nongrammatical/idiomatic use of parentheses actually. Language is a tool, and its rules can be just as powerful when violated as when upheld.
In this case they convey a subtext you can’t get as gracefully by being a slave to syntax— that the author hoped the post would be about how they did achieve success, but that didn’t happen, forcing the parenthetical qualifier. I don’t think another treatment would express that quite as well; you can almost feel the wince.