How I Became a (mild) SUCCESS on YouTube in Just 4 Human Years

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Yes I said the very first word in this video wrong, after spending an entire day editing it, then rewatching it three times to make sure there were no errors. 2013 was not, in fact, last year.

[@Lbf5677]

I remember my 70 year old boss asking for records from 1960, when he meant 1990. So you're not alone lol

[@RetroSteveUK]

😂 .. I rewound to the beginning twice to double-check I wasn't hearing you wrong.

[@SmoMo_]

In a way all the years ending in 3 are the same year, just held apart in the time continuum by a decade of calendars.

[@bajinaji]

I just thought I'd missed a decade of your content and thought l should go search for it!

[@arostwocents]

Janky Joe in Retro Hell & Manic Pietro are hidden modern gems! Glad you are growing still ❤ i think half your subs spread word of mouth so it makes sense it would exponential growth

[@DieWeltIstSchlecht]

Do what you want, don't go after the algorithm, that's why I like you so much! Stay awesome!!

[@davidmylchreest3306]

I can confirm that I am a subscriber who does not own a spectrum, has never owned a spectrum, and has barely played a spectrum. I just really enjoyed the Xenon 2 video and have been watching ever since.

[@ctrlaltrees]

All hail Rosie's brain arse! Seriously though, top work over the last year and the success is well deserved. I see big things for you in 2024! 😁

[@bradyobrien5544]

I've been loving RTS videos this year! I'm from the U.S. and was born in the early 90s. I have zero nostalgia for microcomputers, British or otherwise. And yet I've fallen in love with exploring their libraries. Thank you for continuing to share the brilliant and bollocks alike.✌️❤️

[@iantellam9970]

I think the whole 'retro gaming' scene has changed over the years. When it first emerged as a 'thing' in the mid 2000s it was basically just 20 something Gen-Xers talking about the 2d Nintendo games they liked when they were younger. Because everything you enjoyed as a kid is nostalgic, even if it was only 10 years ago. But now that subject is exhausted and there are plenty of grown-ups around today for whom the PS4 was their childhood system, so it doesn't have quite the hold it used to. I think a large part of retro gaming now is looking into the history of gaming, including some of the more esoteric parts of it. I don't have any nostalgia for Japanese home computers for instance, but I find it interesting because it's a whole alternative world of gaming I know relatively little about. I think the 80s and early 90s was an interesting time in general, because gaming and computing was still pretty localised around the world, whereas today its just more homogenised internationally.

[@pochan2006]

Thanks for all your hard work on this channel, RTS. I really enjoy your videos.

[@Tmrynr]

I've been watching RTS for a couple of years. I suppose when i hit 40 the retro bug really kicked in hard, but i can't remember how i first came across your channel (likely searching for a playthrough of some old Spectrum game). I was always disappointed how few views your videos received back then. I must admit i was slightly worried you'd pack it in. I subscribed after the first video and have been following your content each time it's uploaded. I've seen your video editing slowly getting more ambitious and more impressive. I think it was the Addams family video where i really stopped and realised just how good you'd gotten. There was a long pull shot where you were showing us the size of the map. I knew how long this tiny sequence would have taken and how easy it would have been to take a shortcut. But the one thing you have that so many other retro YT channels don't is your sense of humour. It's perfectly pitched and never sounds forced. The writing is spot on. Funny and self deprecating and always very honest. Final compliment, you also manage to keep it real and keep us on the journey with you. For example, when you were asked to give a talk at the retro game convention, and there were technical hiccups/over running time etc, you showed us every spit and cough. There was no ego you were protecting and i liked you more as a result. It's admirable to be so honest. Anyway, please continue what you're doing and good luck in 2024.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Thank you man, much appreciated!

[@ThisIsPete]

Thanks so much for the shoutout and the kind words. Now I just need to get over the remnants of COVID so I can actually make some vids again!

[@uttridge]

I'm here because RetroBytes told me I'd like it in one if his videos. Subscribed because Breaking Bad Influence is amazing!

[@honoredshadow1975]

Well done! Your videos are just up my street! Love em'.

[@ggbarnum765]

I literally just found this channel 3 days ago, and am enjoying it. Funny and entertaining.

[@JetsetMiner]

World of Spectrum scratches head over the sudden interest in Colin the Cleaner

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

Great video. I especially liked all of it. But my most favourite bit was when you gave the shout outs to smaller channels. No, of course I didn't suddenly realise in a cold sweat that going past you in subs meant I no longer qualified for these juicy bits of cross promotion. You sunnofa...

[@cantonasghost9]

Whatever is projected from your brainarse will be greatly received and passed on. Thanks for the hard work shifting it out

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

My pleasure!

[@CerberusLives]

I found you through the Knightmare Revisited vids (my favourite kids show ever) and when I saw the Breaking Bad Influence series I was immediately onboard. I don't have a lot of experience with the Spectrum - we had one off a friend and had minimal luck getting much to work on it - but your vids on the games are brilliant, informative and every notification I get for your channel always improves my day. Cheers!

[@yogyog]

Thanks for the shoutout! Now I'll have to find time to finish Streetlights, Rainbows and the Limits of Human Vision!

[@faenethlorhalien]

Honestly, I do respect a lot that you take this as a passion project and not a numbers game. HOWEVER, you still deserve way better numbers.

[@onlineamiga]

Your dedication to keep doing it is incredible. So many people want to be a youtuber and expect the millions of views straight away and give up. I always thought your channel was a best kept secret and you should have way more subscribers due to the quailty of the videos . So its great to see it finally getting some much deserved traction!

[@Quimbyrbg]

The PC reviews are always a treat because they are long form, and you always put on a good show for the long form stuff. The ZX playlist is what I throw on to wash the dishes. I've seen it all, but I appreciate the banter. All the best for 2024. I'll still watch you after you sell out and start flogging energy drinks, cereal, and mobile games.

[@mattsmith4536]

I'd totally watch RTS progressively getting more pumped and more sarcastic as he drank his way through a sponsored energy drink.

[@hazy33]

I started watching your vids in 2023 and have come to think of your content as immensely quite good. Here's to 2024!

[@KingSidJames]

Discovered Rosey while I was on Holiday...why he was hiding in my Spanish villa I will never know.

[@nomadbitmad]

I stumbled across your videos over a year ago by searching for Minder of all things (I think you'd reviewed a Minder game . . .) and I'm forever grateful to the randomness of the KZbin algorithm. Great to see some love (or frustration) for this shitty little computer which my parents first bought nerdy little me back in the eighties. Thanks for the shoutout to other channels, after discovering your's it's been a great introduction into what is such an awesome community of channels and creators.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

A rising ship lifts all... Tides.

[@nomadbitmad]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum Great channel, but take a break, have a breather, I think you're malfunctioning

[@holdingpattern245]

I have never been to the UK and I think the Spectrum is exceptional.

[@bajinaji]

I was puzzling over the 2013 comment ... very glad you cleared that up because I thought I might be mad! I love your UK humour and general downplaying attitude ... I'm Australian and only the NZ team can appreciate the "lost the world leader crown" vibe more than the humour from the UK or its passed on version that we desperate Australians still cling to ... we somewhat recently had the opportunity to kick out the sadly passed queen but could not separate oursleves frm our past. Basically of all of that is just to say I really enjoy your channel, thank you :)

[@bajinaji]

Ps - if this appeared stilted... It was, l was on my phone and l am awful with anything but a keyboard.

[@RetroSegaDev]

Onwards and upwards. Still one of my favourite channels keep it up fella!

[@jessragan6714]

Yo, token American here. Rose Tinted Spectrum helps fill the gaps in my knowledge of video games, so it certainly serves a purpose, even if the Spectrum isn't one of my favorite retro gaming platforms. British gaming is an undiscovered country from my perspective, and I want to explore it.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

It's always good to expand your horizons and find new islands of interest, even when the island you find is full of inbreds.

[@PooperScooperTrooper]

wow thanks for the youtuber suggestions! How have I not seen yogyog before!

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

He's great!

[@biggsywolves3279]

Stumbled across a Spectrum review last year, really made me laugh. Then found Knightmare and your PC reviews, really made me laugh. Have since binge watched a whole ton of your videos, and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Can't imagine the crazy hours you must put in, but I think it's fair to say a huge number of people benefit. For me, it's a great way of relaxing after a hellish day at work, or when drinking too much at the weekend. Anyway, cheers mate, hope that this year is a lot less stressful for you.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Glad to hear it!

[@jayme69]

You are a very decent person Sir! Keep up the awesome work :-)

[@gregor]

It's been another year of high quality content - and your jump cut edits are definitely a highlight. Reckon you hit nirvana with Clarissa Explains It All the other week, but, I'm looking forward to seeing how you could better that in 2014 ;)

[@onlineamiga]

haha yup i thought he said 2013 at the beginning!

[@MrMeow-xl7pd]

You made it!

[@Ashley6100]

Dang, didn't realise the last year was so tough for you. Hope you're managing ok.

[@theotherbigfoot]

As a (mild) youtube success myself it's really encouraging to see a channel putting out excellent content and seeing comparatively similar success to what I'm seeing. I tend to think we are both on the right track. I had a commodore 64 growing up, which on your wealth scale probably puts me somewhere between the spectrum and amiga. We had a floppy disk drive for it. Now that was luxury. If you ever fancy getting addicted to factorio hit me up.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

I've already weened myself off Factorio, hahaha

[@theotherbigfoot]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum At this point I'm gonna need rehab to get off it

[@cthulhuhasrisen1009]

Congrats on ur success! Hope this year is better than the last. Keep the good stuff coming. That guy Pete sounds EXACTLY like the guy from curious Droid. I have to go into work now and I don't want to. Kill me. XOXOXO

[@iainreid6292]

You deserve it bro. Happy New Year, much love.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Same to you!

[@251TheMechanizedSingfantry]

What a difference a year makes: 2023 - 5k subscribers and 200k+ total views 2024 - more than double the subscribers and 200k+ views on a single video I may not have found this channel until Gamesmaster, but now I have I'm boarding boats left, right and centre. DON'T Stop The Boats!

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

What a difference a MONTH makes - I went from 6,000 to nearly 13,000 in August alone, hahaha

[@Infamousuk]

Violet Berlin sent me here and I am glad she did.

[@TomMannCenturia]

Congratulations on your channel doing okay.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Big if true

[@tonyp3824]

I look forward to every one of your videos.

[@craigab1976]

Best channel on KZbin. There, I’ve said it. Fantastic work, sir 👍🏼

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Well that's an accolade! Thank you buddy 😁

[@hotdogsoup-nl]

Thank you, I myself have 100 things to talk about so every video I get as many subs as unsubs 😮 because the topics change so often. Anyway I’ll keep doing it because you have proven it is possible. Now if only I had the energy to write scripts…

[@TheEagleXIII]

I don't know why it's taken me 6 months of binging your videos to actually bother to log in so I could click subscribe, but I finally did it. To screw up your analytics further I'm one of those weirdos who didn't find you through your GameMaster reviews but only found your channel cos I wanted to learn more about ZX Spectrum games despite only ever experiencing it once and growing up with an Atari ST and a Mega Drive instead. Anyway it's been great stuff, and you often have me literally doing a genuine audible laugh instead of the slightly heavier exhale through my nose most KZbin videos do when amusing things come out of peoples mouths, so that's gotta be worth something!

[@retrogiftsuk4812]

Loving all your videos (since I've only been watching for about a month I've got a lot to catch up on.) and loving the variety. If you find it interesting, then the video will be interesting.

[@mochunk]

As an USian... I never had a Zee (:P) Ex Speccy, or a c64, or a tandy. I started in 94 on a dos PC, and got into it via the art/demo scene. And then later got introduced to c64, Amiga, and ZX Spectrum. I now am waiting on my ZX Next (ks2) and in researching speccy stuff all this time stumbled in here. Yeah, via Speccy stuff. I guess I'm the exception.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Gravy!? On biscuits!? Not in MY house

[@ramenlover334]

Any chance you can do a video on different ways to play zx spectrum. Whether that be pc emulation, consoles, clone machines etc. I play zx spectrum on my pc but would love a cheap clone or maybe risk buying an old 48k on eBay. Even then I’ve no idea how to load games from my phone.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Not something I'd likely cover on the channel, mostly because I don't have half the equipment myself, but I'll put forward your suggestion to the hardwarey channels and see if anyone fancies picking it up as you're not the first to ask for something like this!

[@ramenlover334]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum cool thanks ☺️

[@ramenlover334]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum Game related any chance you can review mailstrom or death wish 3 on spectrum please. Lol

[@TheCultofshiva]

Wow you got a lot of great content. You should have more subs, but most people are just not interested. Great Work, thanks for sharing this all.

[@AmigosRetroGaming]

Just for the record, I'm in Hurricane, West Virginia...USA...and I LOVE the ZX Spectrum! There are ZX fans here...several. I also hate our gravy....I'll give you that one.

[@fattomandeibu]

Coincidentally, I found this channel a few weeks ago through a video pretty much exactly like this by Retrobytes.

[@plisskensghost2951]

Ha i found your channel a couple months ago and have fired through a good load of your videos so i have contributed to the rise in 2023 onwards. And I'm an Amstrad CPC fan but there isn't a shit load of 8 bit micro content that is decent so here i am enjoying the enemies content ha Cheers mate, heres to many more.

[@NeUrOmAnCeRAI]

Now the Commodore 64, there's a real computer. I would watch that 😉

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

I have at least a number of C64 games reviewed... Somewhere... At some point.

[@2010dame]

I'm waiting patiently for this year's charity 24hr dizzy re-attempt 😆 BIBLEEEEEE !!

[@Steve_UK77]

Congratulations to you! I love the fact that you do what YOU want to do, not just follow trends. Wise man say 'KEEP IT REAL' (or was it Ali G)

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Well said!

[@SonicAlpha]

Will forever thank the algorithm for farting you into my recommendations.

[@neilmcgrory1720]

I greatly enjoy this channel and hope you have plans for when you hit 48k!

[@richieWWS]

games

[@delmonti]

new sub here..... been binging your stuff (oo-er missus) for the past week or so, and, as you put it.... you're right up my pipe!

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@mysterycrumble]

"so let's talk numbers, nerds!" ...keep talking...

[@GenerationPixel]

So glad you mentioned Sir Richard, and the other lads too, of course, but Sir Richard is grossly underappreciated 😎👍

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Absolutely!

[@davidmay268]

Don't change

[@WojciechPietrzok]

I'm sure you'll find some new and exciting ways to alienate your current and future potential audience! BTW this video contains so many numbers, and numbers, and numbers I couldn't help myself but shout "That's Numberwang!" several times

[@andrewphillips6436]

I came for the Speccy, I'm come back for the Speccy. Carry on RTS. 🤔😂

[@iananderson2777]

Gotta love the brain arse.

[@princemegahit]

"I don't ask people to like or comment or ...blah, blah, because I personally don't like being told what to do..." and also I don't like it and my reptilian brain activates himself exactly with these words..and I push the thumbs up! 😝

[@martinr3993]

How quickly you forget Bethel Park Gaming, who appear to have lost subscribers between you making that Breaking Bad Influence video telling me to watch them and me actually watching it. Congrats though!

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

I keep an eye on them every so often, but they went through some issues with their channel I believe - something to do with stuff either being deleted or removed, or not in their control any more? Hard to fathom as it was all rather spotty info from Facebook, bless them.

[@primokarmasilver]

haha, fair enough

[@plisskensghost2951]

In fact I've seen you do reviews of other 8 bit micro games like c64 and BBC, what's the chances of some Amstrad games, see what you were missing lol

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

To be fair, I've been thinking of doing Amstrad for 2 years. I just forget every other day.

[@plisskensghost2951]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum brilliant look forward to your sarcastic views on push scrolling, chunky sprites, glorious colour pallette and generally brilliant games with some utter shanners lol

[@ZombiWorkshop]

I'm claiming that all the 'success' is from a shiney new logo... right? RIGHT? :P

[@PooperScooperTrooper]

I am hear 'cos of the speccy stuff...but I enjoy the rest the vids too. Keep going! (if you want)

[@RoulDukeGonzo]

Neeeeeeeeeerd!

[@RoulDukeGonzo]

Please do an arse reveal at 10k... All the famous KZbinrs do it

[@ItsCrapContent]

Well done.... X...... Still one of my favourite youtube channels to watch next to those hilarious screaming goats.....no one can be that.. Lol x

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Hooray! And thanks for the lifebelt, Rosie!

[@vinnythemackem]

Keep it up, ya mad fanny. 😁

[@elfreak0na1eash]

I stumbled across you whilst trying to find the game Streaker, which was a bizarre half-remembered game from my childhood. I stuck around because you're a genuinely funny chap. I know you get it a lot but you deserve all of the success you've had and way more. Love your content and can't wait to see what falls out of your head in 2024 😊

[@elfreak0na1eash]

On a similar note, does anyone remember a Speccy game called Gopher Run? Kind a Boulder Dash meets Dig Dug game that seems impossible to search for. Again, I don't know if it was actually a game or some sort of fever dream. What a wild place those 60-in-1 cassettes were.

[@mr.a8315]

👑 🤗

[@TeZXSpectrum]

Don't change ever. I mean change your pants and stuff but don't change. Remember when I thought you worked in telly and thought you were a Geordie but you weren't. Yeah that was funny. It's your fault that I changed from a star wars creator to a Speccy tuber thingy. What I'm trying to say is don't change n' stuff. It's fine that you never ever mention me, ever! It fiiiiiine😘👏👏👏👏

[@ashleykingston1980]

Been watching for about a year. Love the videos. They make me howl! 😂 Was great to see you at PlayEXPO Blackpool this year also. 😀

[@SebsPlaceYT]

The king of the midly successful ❤ may your brain farts continue to stink out 2024 in the unique and quite frankly fecking awesome way you look at shit games and such like. Thank you for my shoutout, my youtube journey has peaked xxx

[@Larry]

No shoutout for Stu the Brummie? UNSUBSCRIBED :D

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

He's currently incarcerated for being shit at games.

[@StuNewnham]

I'm with you Larry.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

He's in your cupboard, Larry.

[@marcgoesblindgaming2076]

Congratulations on hitting the 5K milestone , You truly have proven you can be successful by just making the videos you want to make And not trying to guess what you think will be popular But what do you mean who searches for Colin The cleaner For the ZX Spectrum? I have many times it's a classic ha ha, I wish you all the best with your continued success and look forward to seeing more ❤

[@vidarlystadjohansen9829]

Happy New Year. hope you grow more and putt in more zx spectrum as I am a new fan of it