Seems to be just counting on a lucky viral success as there is no theme/niche, I generally only sub where there's a track record of content that is both quality and multiple videos that interest me
Reflections on 1 Year of (Trying to) Become Successful on YouTube
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#12Earlier 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
Probably em-dash in a formatted document rather than pair of hyphens like I'd use here. I'm pretty sure there are some stylistic recommendations about parens vs. em-dashes. I probably used to overuse parens but, in spite of being on my company's style committee for almost 15 years, I'm not sure I was ever all that consistent and I'm not sure we had hard and fast rules.
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#13Nitpick - 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.
Nitpick to your nitpick:
You've offered a linguistically prescriptive interpretation that ignores nuance and flexibility of language.
While it may be the case that the canonical "point" of parenthesis is what you've described, the purpose only remains for as long as we culturally accept that definition.
The usage of parenthesis as an aside to indicate a certain emotion somewhat playfully is not only acceptable, it's entered into the cultural zeitgeist. We all understand the meaning. The sentence is complete -- regardless of the rules you've cited -- because the reader doesn't eliminate the parenthesis from their context like a robot, and we have a common understanding of what the aside is trying to communicate.
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#14Nitpick - 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 appreciate the nitpick. I am certainly not the strongest writer but hope to write more articles in the future. Thank you for the feedback.
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#15Seems to be just counting on a lucky viral success as there is no theme/niche, I generally only sub where there's a track record of content that is both quality and multiple videos that interest me
They seem to imitate the MrBeast format. But they are missing the storytelling, pacing, execution and scale of MrBeast videos. (And also the banter that makes MrBeast videos feel a bit like a sitcom episode)
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#16Seems to be just counting on a lucky viral success as there is no theme/niche, I generally only sub where there's a track record of content that is both quality and multiple videos that interest me
Sincerely appreciate you checking out the article. Thanks for your feedback.
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#17Seems to be just counting on a lucky viral success as there is no theme/niche, I generally only sub where there's a track record of content that is both quality and multiple videos that interest me
They seem to imitate the MrBeast format. But they are missing the storytelling, pacing, execution and scale of MrBeast videos. (And also the banter that makes MrBeast videos feel a bit like a sitcom episode)
Luke used to work there so I think some of that style may bleed in, especially during the editing process. Appreciate you taking the time to read the article. I'd love to hear more about how you think we could improve in any of the areas you mentioned.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
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..."
I think these are all really good points. I certainly need to improve at my article writing abilities. I have removed the parentheses from the title.
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#19Nitpick - 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…
you’d normally use square braces [for this kind of thing]
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#20with all due respect i find the type of content you (and the myriad other people who post the exact same type of mr. beast-molded content) tiresome and repulsive.
Moreover, every single video is about “I”. An “I” video only works if people care about who “I” is, otherwise it’s just self centered, unhuman content creation.