u/TheMiracleKid

Hey team! I had a quick question I was wondering about!

I currently have a kind of crappy Amazon tripod right now, and I'm starting to get frustrated during shoots. I hate having to like bend down and undo 3 latches, hope I did well, check the level, go back down and do 3 latches again, and hopefully have it right.

It just takes time where I feel like the production is waiting around for me to futz around with equipment. I'd love something faster and easier!

I started looking into monopods (primarily like the smallrig and neewer ones), but I have some concerns with the form factor - specifically that they're kind of tiny bases.

I guess my question is - it looks like the base might be too small to support holding the camera by itself with falling over? I would want to be able to like, walk away and mess with lights, etc, but I can't tell if I can actually leave a camera sitting on a monopod without my support

Does anyone have any experience or thoughts on this? I just hate to spend hundreds of dollars for a pole I have to hold all day.

Just need to evolve a palafin, if anyone is able to join and help!

Hey team - I'm sure this has been asked many times but i couldn't find a super recent one, since after TikTok changed management.

I'm a new YouTuber who is only putting out kind of highly-produced sketches once a month (as a hobby). I have some clips I know I could chop up for short forms, and have done that on Instagram, but I'm not sure if it's worth it to make a TikTok to advertise in 2026.

I have been off TikTok since the change, due to not loving the new owners or AI features, so I'm skeptical of going there, but I also think it's a pill I could swallow if it would help to grow my YouTube channel... Any thoughts?

Hey there team! I'm a comedian who's started a channel where I'm posting digital sketches. This is only a part time/hobby gig right now, and so I'm only posting a, like, well-edited and produced sketch once a month, as I try to balance this with live comedy and my day job.

Is there a trick to gaining traction when you're posting REGULARLY, but not necessarily constantly? Or should I just give up on seeing success in this aspect and continue making this for fun?