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Not that I ask an interviewee what he’s wearing, but when he communicates with a serious football blouse collector, he thinks it’s appropriate.
“Porto, the yellow of a few years ago”, is the answer of Ellis Platten, a football addict born and raised in Norfolk who will do wonderful things on YouTube.
“I have to pay attention to the shirts I wear,” he says. “I have a cat and every time you grab a shirt infrequently, you can pull out a ten. “
Ellis, who is 22, loves football shirts, football culture and, perhaps most importantly, making videos about football, as his passionate pastime continues to envelop his young life. Such is your good fortune and your confidence in your own talents that, starting below. week, offers daily paintings to a full-time YouTuber.
“Whether it’s the right thing to do or not, I don’t know,” he says.
“I leave my homework full-time on September 18th and that’s when I’ll just make videos. I think it would be negative right now to juggle both, so I’m going to take the step. I don’t need to wait to be older and then look back and think it wasn’t the right thing to do.
“The university was a imaginable path, however, I sought to be more complex in 3 years and I think I would delight more if I was given the start. I saw a sports and streaming class, but I think I probably do more on YouTube now.
“I’m 22 now, the first videos I made were when I was 17 or 18 and they gave me a lot better. The fact is that they take time to make them and you have to spend a lot more time generating them than filming them. At the moment I don’t have time to make the effort I need to make, they say that anyone can make a YouTube video, which is the problem, anyone can make one, but it’s about looking to shine in a saturated market. . »
Originally from Hemsby, but living until recently in Gorleston, Ellis moved to Ely during the summer to be with her friend Jodie when she began her college life in Cambridge. From there, you’ll continue to paint on your YouTube channel, which has some virtual resume.
Online content
Ellis’ YouTube videos are largely divided between watching games and filming total delight: traveling there, from the ground, fans, even football cakes and blouses. Some of the videos on the T-shirts involve trolling at the many charity outlets in Norfolk and Suffolk to film their football blouse quests, others showing him opening mysterious blouse packages he bought online. Naturally, he hopes that with more time to focus on the videos, he can do a much more orderly job.
“I need the videos to be bigger and some of them don’t meet the popularity I need, I’m very critical, you have to be. I take constructive criticism into account and even when I make a smart video that attracts a lot of positive feedback, I have a tendency to forget about them and focus on unmarked negative comments. I think that’s the only way to get better and I’d be very naive if I forgot about them. Look not to take them seriously, however, it’s hard not to.
“I never learned to provide, but I’m learning. Being in front of the camera is very different from what I normally am. I communicate a lot with my hands and when I watch my videos I check where my hands are to make sure I do. I don’t move them too much. I’m critical enough not to touch my face or cross my arms. “
The Away Days videos have taken Ellis to Europe: Portugal, the Czech Republic and Italy in recent years, however, it has been filmed on all sorts of terrains, from Carrow Road to King’s Lynn. Last weekend, I want to make a video after six months. With no football to watch in person, he traveled on vacation to Sporting Khalsa outside the league in the West Midlands with his friend Ben Gibbs. He still recorded 22,000 visits.
Your challenge
Its Away Days channel has almost 90,000 subscribers and some videos have a lot of perspectives: one day on MK Dons last season got almost 350,000 perspectives, but interspersed between all the jokes about jerseys, players and the culture of football fans, there are videos that show their utmost seriousness.
Last year, he appealed to increase the budget of two charities, Boots to Africa and National Children’s Football Alliance, encouraging others to donate T-shirts that he would auction and in August courageously posted a video about his intellectual fitness issues.
Despite being a popular YouTuber, Ellis, who excels across thousands of people, admits that he has done so with his appearance.
“I have a dysmorphic frame disorder, which means I don’t like my appearance,” she says. “For example, I don’t like other people seeing me without a top. Today, for example, it’s 10:30 and everything I’ve had a glass of water and I feel complete and heavy.
“I was afraid that if I record a video and upload it to YouTube, it doesn’t resonate because I find out that when other people communicate about intellectual fitness online, it becomes a ‘me, me’ video instead of “that’s what I have and how it feels and how to get out,” that’s what I was looking to do, help other people.
“For this video, I didn’t care how many people saw it, I just sought to help a user and it would have been valuable.
“I don’t mind what I do, I live with him because it’s for the smartest people I’m on YouTube making videos, but I looked for other people to know he’s there. “
In fact, the video titled My Mental Health Struggles has been viewed more than 22,000 times and has had an incredibly positive reaction, with many others congratulating a 22-year-old for speaking so openly.
Most of his other videos tend to be a little lighter, which he needs to rely on, as one day he looks for a full-time role as a presenter.
“It’s about being natural, but about other people who need to buy you as a person. Take a look at the light, I like the way James Corden was in A League of His own. I think other people go to YouTube to laugh and escape, which you don’t get on other websites; it’s not as political as, for example, Twitter.
“As far as the existing football market is concerned, the online page I’m in favour of is the 90 Cup, the YouTuber I like the most is Spencer FC. We all create similar content, but it’s about searching to place anything in the crowd. area of the football market, anything else that enthusiasts understand. “
Do online
“You can earn cash on YouTube by 1000 perspectives. The more perspectives there are, the more money there will be; it would allow me to make a living, but real money is earned on the site through brand donations and sponsored content. an agreement with a football app called Fotmob that consists of creating videos for them and mentioning their app in my own videos. I have to be careful because I don’t need the audience to be discouraged from plugging them in for 60 to 90 seconds, so the possibility is to leave a mention of the video to keep them satisfied and also to keep the audience interested.
“Revenue varies greatly on YouTube, it’s fueled through advertising. Therefore, although December is a wonderful month, as there are many ads similar to Christmas, the products of January and February can be lean months. But with this year and the way the streets run out has been affected, this can end up being very positive for YouTube as more money will be spent on online advertising in the run-up to Christmas. “
Although he is from the Norfolk coast, Ellis is a Leeds fan and very excited for the first game of the season against Liverpool, the first time he has seen his team on the most sensible flight from a young age.
”I’m a leeds fan about my mother’s look in the family circle: it’s a wonderful season for me and them, since they’ve been out of the Premier League for 16 years, but I think they’ll stay and finish 16. The coach (Marco Bielsa) is brilliant, I’ve never met a coach who creates a club like he does with Leeds , the fear is that he will leave after a season perhaps because of his age, but I hope he can remain Leeds instead.
“I have some Leeds T-shirts, but I only collect T-shirts from foreign and foreign groups because I wouldn’t need to wear a shirt from another club in England and be accused of supporting them. I have a Norwich T-shirt, the one from the early ’90s given to me by my grandfather, it was his and I used to wear it in games, I used to go from North Walsham to house games.
“I have about 110 T-shirts in total and I include them in the Depop app, which is very popular for selling used garments online.
“With the football blouses right now, it looks like we’re going through a little bubble. A blouse worth about 60 euros five years ago is now worth three hundred euros for the smart collector. Something from the early ’90s that wasn’t. Designed to be collected now considered a design classic. They have become vital design elements, not only appreciated by hipsters, but are now considered sustainable fashion items”.
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