It’s been amazing to be able to interview and get some behind the scenes insight on some bigger channels. Meeting the people behind some of my favorite channels that have gone through the grind and have established themselves and building up their audiences to 50,000, 100,000 and more! I’m just as excited this time around interviewing an amazing channel that still has less than 1,000! YouTube recently changed their monetization requirements increasing the number of views and subscribers required to qualify. In response the community came together to share fellow creator’s work! On twitter during all this love is where I found TomatoGhost. After watching a few of his videos and finding myself immensely entertained I reached out to him and am glad that he responded! We had a fantastic conversation about being small youtubers just trying to make a name for ourselves.
TomatoGhost started his channel after a long period of desiring to start something and after watching a Panel and receiving the advice to “just start” he grabbed a camera and started shooting the next day! Having the benefit of being in school for film at the time gave TomatoGhost the jumpstart he needed to get things off the ground. He even was able to incorporate an episode as a class project for school. Now he’s finished with school, hovering at just under 1000 subs, a whole heck of a lot of promise and no signs of stopping.
The thing that stands out most about TomatoGhost is the overarching story that exists across multiple episodes. This is all shown through skits and bits, featuring multiple locations, angles, and even a cast! It all points to a production value and effort more similar to a tv show production than a small youtube channel. Which fits into his vision of it being more of a series of short films that happen to review games within them. TomatoGhost also takes his production to multiple locations even going through the effort of gaining permission to shoot in a historical Fort! Listen to the interview to hear more about that, its a particularly entertaining story about how it all happened and the response they had.
TomatoGhost’s ability to weave his shortfilms into a review of a game is pretty impressive! Combining his short films with game footage, and with his review portions shows a solid writing and planning process which unfortunately tends to translate into delays… As his Halloween special came out late, and his Christmas special isn’t going to come out till close to Easter! The tenacity! Holding true to the plan is important though in keeping to his narrative series like structure. Unlike myself who delayed a video a whole year because I missed the holiday it was supposed to go to… but I’m also not nearly clever enough to plan out videos up to two years in advance!
TomatoGhost is worth your time and if you start following him now, I think it’ll be awesome to see his channel grow and get better as time goes on. He’s shooting for Nostalgia Critic, and that is no easy feat, but from what I’m seeing he’s got what it takes and is well on his way. To hear more about his story and thoughts on various topics in YouTube and Gaming listen to the interview here! Note: Unfortunately a large portion of my half of the conversation did not get recorded and I had to re-record myself into the interview
Now knowing that there is a specific order to watching these videos, I’m going to ignore all that to feature a couple of stand-out videos of TomatoGhost! Don’t forget if you enjoy yourself SUBSCRIBE! Lets help him hit that 1,000 sub milestone!
