After I was facing declining viewership in late August and early September I decided I had to see if I could get some help from outside. I felt like my plan and approach of choosing a set of formats and games I was personally interested in and iterating on my execution around those wasn’t leading to growth and I needed some outside input on how to proceed. A cry for help Mid October I reached out to my social media network, looking for mentorship and/or peer feedback on my trajectory, strategy, thoughts, and execution in regards to my YouTube channel.

How it started I started my Boldly Unbuffed YouTube channel roughly in February of 2022. I spent a decent amount of time thinking about he formats I wanted to do on the channel before starting it. I knew I wanted to do a short-form game review format, since that was not something I had seen anywhere else before and it felt like a good fit for the Zeitgeist, with short form video formats like Reels and TikTok becoming increasingly more important and replacing longer form video content.

In 2022 I started my YouTube channel Boldly Unbuffed. I had just left my engineering job at a large FANG company and wanted to spend more time doing things I love, like playing video games. At the same time I wanted a creative outlet where I could feel like I am using my time constructively – and not just “wasting” it gaming. Boldly Unbuffed was born out of this desire.