My Personal Mini-TV Station on YouTube
Today, anyone can launch their own TV station — all you need is a YouTube channel. That’s exactly what I’ve done. My channel serves as a little experimental space, a lab of everyday life, and each video reveals new surprises: sometimes clips skyrocket past the 10,000-view mark like a rocket launch, while others barely manage a couple of clicks and quietly fade away.
This interplay between viral hits and modest results is equally fascinating and instructive.
With every upload, I feel a mixture of curiosity, impatience, and a quiet sense of wonder — how differently my content is received. Understanding the algorithm is not always easy. But it’s this very mystery, this unpredictability, that makes it so appealing. My channel is a stage for the small, the unfinished, the authentic — for whatever is happening and presenting itself right now.
A Small Contribution with Big Impact:
Life in a Day at the Berlinale
A highlight in my channel journey was participating in the global project Life in a Day — an impressive documentary in which people from around the world contributed their perspectives on a single day. The film was created from over 300,000 submissions from 191 countries, all filmed on July 24, 2010. (Read more at Wikipedia)
My video submission succeeded in being included in the film — and thus indirectly also screened at the Berlinale. For me, that was an amazing moment: a tiny snippet from my everyday life became part of a global dialogue about our experiences, fears, and hopes — on the big screen, in the festival program, and in the global consciousness.
YouTube as a Creative Playground
- Experimentation encouraged:
My channel is an open stage for ideas — sometimes bold, sometimes subtle. - Unpredictable and wonderful:
Successful videos aren’t guaranteed; often, the unexpected resonates the most. - Bridging global boundaries:
Through my contribution to Life in a Day, my perspective became part of a collective story — and on a platform like the Berlinale.
YouTube enables everyone to claim a small piece of visibility. It’s a medium that invites us to reveal both the visible and the invisible — and to leave our own footprint within it.