How to Make an Actually Good Tutorial

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[Miziziziz]

Couple things:
This is a great idea idk why I didn't think to do this before.

Bunch of people have said putting the length of the video in the title is redundant. I disagree; 99% of videos titled something like "How to Make A First Person Shooter in Unity" are just a 10 minute intro to a 300 part series. If you put "in 10 minutes" in the title it lets people know it's a one shot

[Erik-kiir]

YouTube hates him: find out how one man chose to not waste people's time for ad revenues

[ooi]

"Nobody cares who you are! Stop wasting my time!" - that's a guy who understands me

[bortverde]

I like how he says "first five seconds get them to stay" and he pulls a "nobody cares who you are" right in 0:04
I guess it worked

[apigeon]

"Here's WHY we're doing this" is a step a lot of tutorials miss. If you teach me the how without the why, then you've told me how to do one specific thing and that's it. Tell me why and I can use it for many things and that's far more valuable and also lets me change and fix the project to my liking, instead of relying on ANOTHER tutorial to specifically tell me how to do what I want.

[skibbl_dev]

I love how this tutorial follows what you are telling us.

1. You didnt waste our time, straight to the point
2. got our attention first 5 seconds
3. advertised at the end.

great job!

[theunidentifiedchannel]

I think Miziziziz just doesn’t want to say his name in the tutorial because it forces him to confront the fact that he doesn’t know how many “iz’s” there are

[stopmakingeyesatme]

The worst of these are when you're trying to watch a tutorial on how to *fix* something. Usually in that kind of situation I'm stressed out and impatient already.

Clicking a tutorial in that state and hearing "Alright guys I'm back with another tutorial today, seems like you all liked the last one. If you didn't watch it feel free to go check it out. I apologize for being so quiet I've just been really busy lately..." probably takes years off my life.

[steveopenshaw]

My pet peeve...
After 3 minutes of intro waffle:
“Okay, lets get straight into it.”

[CrownAcademyEnglish]

One of my pet peeves is clicking on a video that says it's a "tutorial" in the title but when you click on it, there is no commentary at all. It's just a time-lapse of someone working on their PC.

[EricWilliamsCG]

Obviously, the thumbnail should be a picture of the creator with his mouth wide open with a very surprised look. That always makes me want to click...on a different video.

[adc]

See the thing is, this actually requires effort, which many people aren’t fond of doing

[WolfmanZach]

I love how meta this is. The tutorial about making a tutorial is actually a good tutorial.

[nousername]

I’m guessing there’s a story behind this

[Balloonbot]

"I know you've been wondering where i've been" No...no i havn't.

[ThinkBeforeYouSleepYT]

This is my favorite video on the internet right now. I can't tell you how many stupid videos I go through that take 20 minutes to teach some super basic editing skill. Half the video is them advertising something, introducing themselves, talking about what they had for breakfast, throwing up their 45 second channel intro and talking about other irrelevant crap. I'M TRYING TO RELEASE MY VIDEO! I DON'T HAVE 45 MINUTES TO LEARN HOW TO BOUNCE TEXT ACROSS THE SCREEN. Jeez, I absolutely cannot stand that.

[Zvox]

my favorite thing is when i look up a tutorial for something, and instead of someone telling you what to do verbally, they have notepad open and type the steps extremely fucking slowly making mistakes the entire way, making sure to wait a full 2 seconds between each backspace before correcting each mistake.

[ShinyVeggie]

You know you're doing it wrong if the tutorial's description says something like "The tutorial starts at 3:40".

[Larry]

The best tutorials are where they don't talk at all, and open up Wordpad to type in the tutorial, constantly deleting and re-typing when they get a type-o.

[joppekim]

What really annoys me are when they ask me to "like" the video in the beginning of the video.
I will watch the video first and then rate the video based on my experience with it, or forget about rating it because you asked me in the beginning and not the end.
God I hate that