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[TFU] Thegoon84

[TFU] Thegoon84

[TFU] Thegoon84

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After some advice.

My 9 year old loves Roblox, i've set her up an account on my PC. She loves it, chats away to herself while playing. I do monitor the account closely.

She's asked if she could have a camera for Christmas as she wants to create her own youtube channel of her playing and chatting about the game. Its crazy to see how quick she's picked up WASD and mouse acceleration w I'm considering it as it think it could be quite a creative thing to do. We only limit her to an hour at time 2 - 3 times a weeks. So the upload would be straight forward, have an intro and end etc.

Whats the best way to do this? I was hoping to use twitch play back recorder as there will be a window at bottom with her face playing. I've used twitch in the past to understand how it works... But notice you must be 13+, is there any private mode she can use and we download and edit after?


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As above. OBS optimised for recording (on set up) is perfect. Simple and easy (relatively speaking)
If you’ve not already got her a camera the Logitech’s c920 is one of the most popular choices and has a brilliant image.
 
@[TFU] Thegoon8 My daughter is 8 and loves Roblox etc too, she's been watching youtubers play Minecraft etc since she was 4 or so on my tablet with me and has played her fair share of Minecraft with me too. I've noticed she narrates pretty much constantly when playing, does your daughter do that too? Can't just type into chat - also says it aloud and reads everything aloud too!

I've told her she can have a youtube channel when she's older, but if I did let her I'd put the channel comments on approved only and ensure I was the one vetting them..
 
Raumarik said:
@[TFU] Thegoon8 My daughter is 8 and loves Roblox etc too, she's been watching youtubers play Minecraft etc since she was 4 or so on my tablet with me and has played her fair share of Minecraft with me too. I've noticed she narrates pretty much constantly when playing, does your daughter do that too? Can't just type into chat - also says it aloud and reads everything aloud too!

I've told her she can have a youtube channel when she's older, but if I did let her I'd put the channel comments on approved only and ensure I was the one vetting them..
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I could help her out with adding some really good celine Dion moments if you ever wanted

You know your tempted.


As above OP Obs is a good call for this :)
 
OBS is super simple, and if she really gets into it, you can create some really easy 'scenes' where she can change camera off/on with a button click, a 'slash screen' when shes away from the desk. All sorts.

As said already, but you'll need to be sure to heavily moderate the videos/stream. There are some seriously sick people on the internet and as mentioned, make sure you approve comments and just keep an eye on what she says and to make sure people aren't trying to reach out directly.

Good luck and have fun! Sounds like she'll have a blast of a time.
 
Raumarik said:
@[TFU] Thegoon8 My daughter is 8 and loves Roblox etc too, she's been watching youtubers play Minecraft etc since she was 4 or so on my tablet with me and has played her fair share of Minecraft with me too. I've noticed she narrates pretty much constantly when playing, does your daughter do that too? Can't just type into chat - also says it aloud and reads everything aloud too!

I've told her she can have a youtube channel when she's older, but if I did let her I'd put the channel comments on approved only and ensure I was the one vetting them..
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Yes haha, she narrates everything she does! My plan was the just let her play for 30mins and save. Relook at whats been said/done and upload with an intro and end.... Be nice to spend creative time with her anyways!

Thanks for the all the replies guys, appreicate it.
 
I'd recommend recording locally with OBS rather than streaming. You and your daughter can then work together to edit the footage into a video. Editing would be a great skill to learn.
 
bloodiedathame said:
I dare not introduce this to my 7 year old. :D
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Haha. i'll be honest i'm getting like proper freaked out by it... Thought it was a good idea etc. But what if it becomes fairly successful.... there some sickos out there.... plus i'm worried about the "welcome to the internet"... See how it goes! I've asked her about nasty comments, she says she'll just ignore them "because they're jelous they dont have youtubes channel" haha
 
Its one of those things which always fascinates me about kids today, I remember when I was young how uncomfortable people were when on camera, you know, clamming up, actual stage fright etc. But kids today are increasingly growing up in a world of social media and facebook/Instagram videos etc and youtube and so on... kids are just so comfortable on camera today.

Watched it for a bit and its pretty good really, I see that she is effectively just narrating as she plays but its good that she speaks to the viewers, asks them how to say words and interacts etc. She seems to have whats needed to be a good streamer.

But as people above mentioned, there are an enormous amount of sick individuals out there and a young girl of this age (and for upcoming years of age) will be like magnets for them, so do be very careful.

But, dont want to end on a bad note, so well done to her !
 
Tombstone said:
Its one of those things which always fascinates me about kids today, I remember when I was young how uncomfortable people were when on camera, you know, clamming up, actual stage fright etc. But kids today are increasingly growing up in a world of social media and facebook/Instagram videos etc and youtube and so on... kids are just so comfortable on camera today.

Watched it for a bit and its pretty good really, I see that she is effectively just narrating as she plays but its good that she speaks to the viewers, asks them how to say words and interacts etc. She seems to have whats needed to be a good streamer.

But as people above mentioned, there are an enormous amount of sick individuals out there and a young girl of this age (and for upcoming years of age) will be like magnets for them, so do be very careful.

But, dont want to end on a bad note, so well done to her !
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Appreciate the kind feedback! Couldn't agree more about the kids on camera... Its almost like she's role playing other youtube kids she's seen! I was quite impressed when i first did a video, she just started talking and was off haha!

And yeah, 100% i've had a sleepless night contemplating taking the channel down! But for now, we'll just take it video by video!
 
You could always just put the videos as unlisted. That way she could share it with her friends, but it limits the amount of people that could stumble across it.

Obviously not something you want to do if you want to get the videos out there.
 
I know one thing, I certainly would not post links to my sons youtube channel on a forum that can be seen by god knows who. Getting videos out or not this is a sick world we live in, especially at that age. But hey just my opinion.
 
The only reason you did not subscribe is because people might think something funny? You are a fully grown man you should not even think about subscribing to a kids channel.

One to look out for.
 
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