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I was very silly today and I do not know why but I was misbehaving all day in school and my teacher actually had to kick me out of class because I was very disruptive to the other students. Now, I’m very embarrassed that I was such a bad student today but while it was going on I was actually having a great time. I kept interrupting the teacher and asking him about what kind of comedy videos he likes to watch on the Internet when he goes home from school after work. The teacher did not like these kinds of interruptions because they’re completely off-topic and they were very inappropriate. The truth is that I really just want to connect with my teachers because I really love to watch videos online after school and I want them too share the same laughs. It is frustrating because they do not understand me.

I recently had an encounter with a woman who is running a web series festival. She claimed that her festival should be appealing to all content creators. We’re talking drama, comedy videos, sci fi, everything under the sun.

Her festval was not expensive to enter, so that was a huge plus. But the biggest problem for me was that it was an ‘audience choice’ situation.

By that, I mean that the winning videos were chosen by the number of otes they got online. I spoke up, because I thought this was a pretty lousy idea. I mean, if you keep this decided by the audience, you are severely limiting the number of entrants you are going to get.

You are taking a huge pool of potential applicants (every single creator, probably well over one hundred and three thousand creators out there…) and limiting it only to those who feel enough confidence in their audience to win a contest like that.

I was pretty thrilled because the person who runs the message board that I posted it at agreed with my post. He said that I had a point. Well, that is not a whole sale endorsement of my theory, and really, who cares about who supports you in an online forum, but I felt good.

I know that I had a point, because I have run many festivals yourself. Once you limit the size of your market, you start to see a negative return. The trick is to create something unique, but not limiting.

A festival just for comedy videos would be a perfect example of this. Most web content is already comedy, so it’s not limiting. At the same time, it feels more niche, and gives people that feeling that it’s a touch more exclusive and tailored to their series.