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Hey guys!
Now, you may have noticed that for the past year, my channel has had a very,
unique name.
And while it's never been a question I've gotten in the comments section
I have had this conversation in person with people quite a few times.
Yeah, so I actually really enjoy making YouTube videos too!
Really? What's your channel?
"Instantaneous Velociraptor"
Oh, uh...
How do you spell that?
Yeah, it's just...
Actually, no, I'm not going to remember it... uh...
Yeah, no, it's okay, I can just send you a link or something...
And so people pass my channel by...
But most of you guys, my awesome subscribers, have stuck with me
this whole year through having my crazy, weird, different name.
And I figure I owe you the story of how that name came to be.
Our tale starts back in high school...
When I was hanging out with my best friend Kim at her house.
We were currently in physics together and learning about instantaneous velocity.
Which, besides being an important thing we needed to know for science class,
had a really cool ring to it.
And I think we ended up talking about it in conversation at some point.
Now somehow, this lead to me thinking about how
"velociraptor" and "velocity"
sound very much the same.
And of course, following the LOGIC of this,
I thought, "Wow! Instantaneous Velociraptor
is such a cool sounding combination! It's just like,
Poof! There's a velociraptor."
My brain continued, "Someone should make that a YouTube channel!
That's such a good YouTube channel name!"
And I thought this for a few reasons.
Probably the biggest reason would be,
it reminded me just, of all the cool
awesome, older screen names people used to come up with because
you can't just use your normal name or anything like that. That wasn't a thing people did.
(And even if you did, your name was taken, so it ended up having to be
"something something 1324"
Something like that.)
The second reason I thought it would be an awesome name for a YouTube channel
is because, something as random as Instantaneous Velociraptor
means that whoever is making the videos on that channel
will make random and awesome stuff.
Which, in my book, was a great thing for a YouTube channel!
And finally, I just thought it would be really funny if someone would
put together: "instantaneous velocity... instantaneous velociraptor...
<gasp!> oh I see the connection, that's kinda crazy,
That's different, that's random."
And I liked the thought of that.
Fast forward to last year when I finally destare....
uh. destarted.
I destarted.
Fast forward to last year when I finally decided I was going to
start a YouTube channel of my own.
Now when I was first starting my channel, I vehemently DID NOT WANT
to just use my name as my channel name.
When I was growing up watching YouTube, I witnessed the transition
between a lot of those cool, unique, random channel names
like nigahiga or meekakitty,
and then Google really pushing you to use your own name
as your channel name. Like,
that was the first thing they'd put up there, it would be like
"Use your name! It's easy. Just go with your name."
And as a kid, I despised that.
I was like, "You are taking away people's creativity,
you are not letting them use those random awesome names
that I grew up with and I love."
So I kinda had like,
a prejudice, built in I guess, against using my name.
So I didn't wanna do that.
And then I remembered that conversation from high school.
And I was like, "I wonder if anyone ever has
made a channel
called instantaneous velociraptor.
So I go on the computer,
I look it up,
No one has made a channel
called instantaneous velociraptor...
Now I had no other ideas!
So obviously, this was what I should name my channel.
I had no idea what sort of content I was going to enjoy making yet,
so a name that random,
and me having no idea what sort of content I was going to make,
so it was sure to be random,
seemed to fit together really well.
So it's what I went with, and I think it was pretty awesome.
And while it may not have been: Poof! Velociraptor.
It was very much, poof! Vlog.
Poof! Sketch.
Poof!
Random, cinematic, vlog... recounting,
of your day...
It was pretty random.
And I had a lot of fun figuring out what I really enjoy making.
And now you guys know how that channel name came to be.
Here's the thing though...
I'm figuring out more and more what sort of content it is
that I enjoy making.
And for this year, I'm really excited to make more vlogs with me
talking to a camera, dialoguing with you guys,
disscussing things I think are important, hearing your point of view on them.
And then I also want to do more with music. I want to learn my mandolin better.
I want to cover more songs, I really want to write original songs of my own.
And the name Instantaneous Velociraptor doesn't really reflect
the sort of content I want to be making this year.
Something more personal,
like, MY NAME,
actually reflects that sort of content a lot better.
So, in the near future I'm actually going to be changing my channel name
to HeatherBrookeiv
Heather Brooke is my first and middle name
so it's very personal it means, ME.
So my thoughts, like in vlogs and my talent,
like in the music I'm going to make.
I shouldn't be so uncomfortable in saying, like, that I have talent.
But when you know that you're not that great at an instrument yet,
you just want to be like, "No, no, I don't have talent."
But everyone has some sort of talent, and you've gotta be gracious with yourself.
But anyway, the name HeatherBrookeiv actually represents that content
in a much bigger way than Instantaneous Velociraptor does.
And having that iv in there? I feel like
that's kinda cool! It's like we all remember
exactly where I came from, and that's a sly little reference to that.
Or something like that.
Plus, IV is also the Roman Numeral for 4, I was born in 1994
so that's kind of cool and personal as well.
Or it could be like, you know, a medical iv like,
you're just getting a straight up dose of Heather!
So you can take it all sorts of ways.
But I think it would be really cool having just you guys, my original subscribers
knowing like the full background of that,
and exactly where it came from.
Especially since you'd have been there with me through it.
And let me just thank you for being with me through this again. I LOVE
having the chance to entertain people.
I want to bring you joy, I want to talk with you, it just makes me really happy.
And sounds really cliche!
But it really, huh, it's true, I'm sorry,
I am a cliche happy person who loves making other people smile!
Okay?
That being said, if you guys could help me get to 100 subscribers
so I can be: youtube.com/heatherbrookeiv
instead of youtube.com/ randomly generated numbers and letters
that are not easy to share with family and friends,
I'd really love that. You guys are great.
So thank you guys for joining me for this story, announcement,
video today. I love you so much,
and I will see you soon!
(Love you!)
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