I got a YouTube Play Button #172

But rather, it's a self made play button

Jul 04, 2025

I work in the Founder’s Office at Fueler. I also create content on YouTube where I share my processes and learnings.

Every Friday, in this newsletter, I share my process, thoughts, stories, ideas, and weekly recommendations.

When I started making videos on YouTube in April 2021, I was always fascinated by the Silver and Gold Play Button YouTube gives to creators. But I was just starting, and it was a long way to 100K for Silver. So what, I decided to make one for myself.

For this, I took inspiration from this video of Mad Stuff with Rob. If you watched POGO in the early 2010s, you might know him from the show M.A.D. who did art.

I started making this play button after uploading a few videos. So, it denotes a lot of things I used while making the videos.

If you see on the left,

The yellow scissors type icon is the cut icon from a video editing software. Since I was learning video editing, I drew that as a reminder.
The Purple icon is the Vita App I started editing videos on. It didn’t have a watermark and was simple to edit.
The table lamp was gifted to me by my friend. I used to keep my phone on that lamp and record the videos. The lamp acted as a good source of light for me.
The Yellow rectangle shape is my mobile. And I didn’t have a mic, so I used to plug in earphones and used their mic to record the audio.

On the right:

It’s the yellow Post-it notes. I used to write pointers on it and stick it under the phone for reference for the video.
Then it’s the notebook in which I used to write my notes for the video
Then it’s Canva, I made my thumbnails in it.

Lastly, I cut out each and every letter from the newspaper and stuck it in order. It spells like, ‘Congratulations An Inquisitive Storyteller for starting a YouTube Channel’.

I always keep it on my table. Always reminds me of the start.

Weekly Recommendations

See all the precious weekly recommendations here: weeklyrecommendations.super.site

One of the best podcasts of Boman Irani, were he shares his story and how he got into the film industry: Watch here

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