Picking up from yesterday –
I’m also realizing literally as I went to the video type out what Hank said at the top of his sound… I accidentally didn’t do captioning of the voiceover!!!
I really try to keep my social media accessible to the extent that I understand how to do it. So, I try to never forget captions. But I guess I was just going fast enough that sadly I did forget.
However, I did have the most important text written onscreen – explaining what I was doing, and how long it took. So, hopefully anyone who relies on the captions has still been able to enjoy it – especially since it’s such a visual thing to begin with.
So yeah, I put it all together, and put it under Hank’s sound, and before you knew it, 10k+ views.
At the time I’m drafting this, it’s been up for about 12 hours, and is at 38.5K views.
All that to say
a) It seems the mad dash to get the coke, and try to avoid detection in the pool and all was worth it. People are seeing it, and most importantly they’re commenting that they enjoy it and are grateful I satiated their curiosity.
I am to please on the app (and really in many places)! So, I’m very happy it was successful enough.
At the time of this drafting, nothing insane has happened. It hasn’t gone ‘viral’. Hank Green himself didn’t comment on it or anything. But I made a bunch of people happy, and I had my own curiosity satiated, and that was great.
b) I learned something new! Even though I rely on comment replies to find things… in some cases, some people rely on the sound. So, that’s definitely something to think about moving forward!
c) I just loved the collaboration element with strangers. When I thought the angle wasn’t wide enough, my insecurity on that was (rightly) strengthened immediately, as soon as they saw that haha. They gave good ideas on how to make it better. And we all worked together maybe not to make something perfect, but to make something good.
d) I’ve talked before on here about whether it’s good to just ‘post with abandon’ and all that stuff. And I think maybe sometimes it is. I posted a first video that I didn’t get right. But people helped me along the way. And that was cool!