7 Idea Repositories to F5 Your Idea Stores
At the end of your creative thread or just stocking up for rainy days? Here are 7 places you can go to for ideas.
The inspiration of a creative nature, to communal man, comes most often under the influence of interaction. With nature, with its elements, with fellow humans. Wordsworth and other Romantics wrote masterpieces like “Daffodils”, “Tyger, Tyger” (truly a masterpiece), “La Belle Dame sans Merci”, etc. have gone out and observed or mingled with the pastoral; Agatha Christie’s reported to have observed people milling about their ways, overheard snippets of their conversations, and spun off her genius, extra-temporal tales off of them; and I’m sure we’ve all heard of singers and poets in contemporary times responding to their personal or collective experiences in their art. Artists of every shape and size and stroke must contend with this truth that themes for works are brought about most commonly through the individual communicating in some way or another with the external.
So where does the modern-day artist with a regular commitment, like a video content creator, go for inspiration? The modern-day muse, the internet — that’s where you go to. Here’s where, for starters that can do as main-course too, on the internet you can visit for idea refreshments.
1. Twitter, twitter
This birdy reveals most real-time trends on the internet (or at least as representative reality is on the internet). From politics to general current affairs to entertainment, you’ll find it all on Twitter when it’s happening. And since it’s mainly reflective of real-time happenings, you’ll always have something to build a video on, and most likely something new every time.
2. Celebrity tweet fuel
Celebs can sure provide a lot of inspiration. It’s like a secondary work of art, a copy of the Mona Lisa or a remix of Bohemian Rhapsody. Regardless, discussion of prominent persons’ tweets or other posts gives much matter for content creation. And the more controversial, the greater the chance for more views.
3. Reddit posts
A lot, certainly, happens on “the front page of the internet”. Wikipedia calls it a “social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website.” If you’re about to pounce on this bold statement, hold your horses; this website has discussion forums for anything from world news, politics, to the entertainment industry, to jokes, to life tips, to funny animals.
A way to surf this turf is through (if you’re a complete noob about Reddit) navigate through the many smaller Reddit communities or “subreddits” that appear as r/<name of the community>. For instance, there is r/movies, r/minecraftsuggestions, r/politics, r/birdswitharms and, r/Showerthoughts. So much to choose from. The front page of the front page shows you the most popular posts and communities by default. And you can sort your results by “Controversial” to give a bit of your mind on the debated posts through videos.
4. Take a writing prompt
Or any prompt’s a good prompt for your video idea. You don’t need strictly a “YouTube idea” to make a YouTube video, of course.
5. Read aloud funny Tinder profiles
Without mentioning names, of course. I foresee some good laughs.
6. Summarise a long, popular video
Using a popular video may help your video be recommended to viewers of said video. And since we all know the importance of summaries in this fast-paced world, I’ll assume you get it and move to the last tip.
7. Make a listicle of tweets on any topic
Oh, I can imagine the fun you’ll have when doing this. Memes, funny cats, personified llamas, politics, boy band moments, girl group craze, black hole images, particle accelerator success, school, you name it. And have fun!
This concludes our idea bank for you to refresh your stash. Let us know which are your favorite ones or if we missed any great repositories!
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