Ha ha yeah I made a few AI videos experimenting around really, trying out tools and learning how everything works, then decided it was a bad idea. Then I pivoted to trying to start my own blog site, now I've decided that is a lost cause as well, so now i'm looking into newsletters on substack which I think might be more my thing lol. The problem is the the time commitment to actually do it properly.
Back in 2008 I did start my own games website, put a lot of time and effort into it and was doing pretty good traffic (in my opinion) 4-5k uniques a week . I was getting invited to small blogger press events alongside sites like Destructoid for example would attend. Managed to get a fantastic interview with Ralph Fulton who was the chief game designer of Codemasters GRID at the time (now game director and GM at playground games), on mailing lists for review copies at small publishers.
The problem was between that and my real job I had no time to do anything else at all, I was pretty much doing two full time jobs. The games site paid about £15 a month from ads, because it was pay per click and noone ever clicks them. So it probably paid about 10p an hour even before costs. Had youtube been properly around and I thought about it more at the time and we went for that instead of a podcast, maybe I could have turned it into something.
In the end I gave it up and let it all expire. Someones sitting on my old domain now and trying to sell it for thousands, it has a backlink from Eurogamer and all sorts of proper big sites who covered one of my news stories back then.
