Page 49 - 2022 Kaleidoscope Volume 8

Pride Goes Before A Fall

GROUP B 2ND RUNNER-UP Yong Yoong Jian - 190048 - 4E Zhong

ichard was once an ordinary Joe like One day, Richard had the bright idea of

R everyone else around him. He had a making videos reviewing other people on the
job and worked for a local telecommunication platform. He got to work, eventually releasing a

company. Despite having a stable source of video reviewing fellow YouTuber Snazz. Snazz was

income, Richard was not satisfied; his position a channel where Sally reviewed shoe brands, it was

came with the gruelling task of sitting in a quite a large channel with over a million
cubicle all day, staring at the monitor of his subscribers, so as you can probably tell, making a

computer as he answered call after call of video talking about Snazz would likely trick the

customers complaining about various YouTube algorithm to recommend your video to

communication errors when calling someone Snazz’s viewers. That was exactly what happened
else. Suffice to say, Richard despised the to Richard’s video, it blew up beyond his wildest

mundane task despite it putting food on the dreams, eventually surpassing over a hundred

table for him. thousand views.

However, Richard had a YouTube Once Richard saw that, he quickly got to

channel. It was not big by any means, only a making more, pumping out video after video of
few tens of people subscribed and watched his reviewing other YouTubers. His subscriber count

random videos wherein he reviewed things like skyrocketed to a thousand, ten thousand, twenty

candy bars, shampoo brands and video games thousand, thirty thousand and kept increasing. It

he found during clearance sales. If he got lucky, was absolutely wild for Richard. However, he
a hundred people would watch one of his realised he could produce more content to

videos. He got a dopamine rush everytime that continue riding this wave if he resigned from his

happened as that was the minimum of what he job at the telecommunication company. The

considered his videos blowing up. Richard only money he had earned from the videos were
ever uploaded in his free time, meaning about sufficient to pay the bills and making videos was

two videos get made per week. much

50