Regardless of if I stay in UK or go back to Nigeria or even end up another country, I’m going to keep working on building my social media platforms and working towards being able to make money from the internet. Luckily this is something that can be done anywhere however in my case, I’d rather stay in UK because I have more freedom here and access to what I need to build my social media. I haven’t been able to keep up with my online presence because of the project, however afterward I’m going to go back to regularly posting on Youtube and TikTok, those are the two platforms I’ll focus on. I’ll still keep updating my instagram by posting clips from TikTok and Youtube as well as my art, I don’t plan to completely abandon my Instagram. There’s not a very specific kind of content I want to make, I’d want to post different types of stuff to see what sticks, but the way the internet works it’s best to find a sort of niche and build an audience around that. Be that vlogs, commentary video, art videos, dances videos, fashion and clothing videos etc. In an ideal world I want to be able to post a variety of content or else I’ll get bored if I’m forced to stick to the exact same thing.
A way I want to work around that is to mix two or more things together to keep it interesting. For example mixing fashion and art, I could draw popular anime characters in the same clothes as me or put together an outfit based on the character. Dance and vlogs, I do a lot of dancing as a hobby so I could just turn it all into vlogs and still post dance videos and some tutorials too. After thinking about what kinda of content I want to make I’ve zeroed in on wanting to mix art, dance, and videos similar to what the “Beta Squad” does on YouTube. To be more specific Art and Dance for TikTok (and instagram) and the “Beta Squad” type of videos for YouTube as well.
The second I’ve submitted everything I’m going to be throwing all my time into continuing to make content. In the end this is where I want to build up my career, I can apply all the skills I’ve acquire from university into my content and from there—if/when I succeed— I will pick up other career ventures, like fashion, selling merch, and collaborating with others etc.
Above is the youtube channel I started last year, my subscriber count was slowly growing when I was uploading regularly, consistency truly is key. Also, beside that is an example of the kinds of “mix media” content I want to start posting more of.