I truly admire women on youtube because it's a very difficult place for women to get their point of view across on the internet without being smothered in hate, not just from men but other women as well saying things such as "You should be doing beauty vlogs" or "You are a female, your opinion doesn't matter" when in fact most women on youtube bring up incredibly important subjects that need to be heard and spoke about. These subjects include consent, feminism, equality and youtube culture. By putting your yourself on the internet in such an intimate way that it's just you and the camera means that apart from the content the audience is also concentrating on your appearance which gives viewers to comment on this and put you down on your appearance rather than listening to what you have got to say. This means as a woman on youtube you have to be thick skinned more so than a guy because they are more likely to pick out your flaws rather than a guys, this would be due to the fact that femininity is seen as weak which means you are an easy target.
By female youtubers being able to totally blank the negativity on their body image/appearance they are then able to fully concentrate on their content which ends up better for the viewers as well as the content creator because this encourages both parties to concentrate on the content and not about appearances.
I admire beauty gurus as much as other female vloggers but i really do urge females not to go down the beauty route if that's not what they want to do. It's good to step out of your comfort zone and do something different that viewers would not expect the average girl to do this in the long run will get you more respect and satisfaction. I am not subscribed to many beauty gurus but find more female youtubers that do other things such as comedy, film making, general vlogs, daily vloggers, lifestyle and educational because i find there's a lot more passion in these types of videos. Maybe they feel the need to put an extra effort into these videos because they are females doing videos that aren't about make up or they generally extremely passionate about the content they're making but whatever the reason i certainly get so much more pleasure from watching these videos than making a male youtuber playing games constantly for videos or a guy who is obviously only popular because of his good looks. I also find the beauty guru's i do watch are extremely passionate about make up and have an incredible amount of knowledge and even though i don;t really like wearing make up i have total admiration for them because they find so much passion within make up.
I personally watch a lot more female youtubers than male which you may find odd as i am your average female viewer. I find that female youtubers have a lot more educational, important content that i really feed off and get passionate from. I'm not saying that all male vloggers are pointless, i'm just saying that there are a lot more amazing female youtubers than you think. I find that bigger youtubers don't have the most important messages in their content which is extremely sad because they have a wider audience.
If you're female and watch to make content on youtube just remember to just be you and not go into something you don't want to such as beauty. Make video's that you want to make, talk about things that you're passionate about because the viewers will be able to sense your passion and be more likely to listen and take in what you are saying rather than what you look like. It's about looking beyond the face and listening intensely to what is being said.
