I started my youtube channel in 2011 and it’s got over 2500 videos and its at over 300000 views, which is lovely but id run it anyway, even if it had nothing around it, because I perceive it as an archive. It has got to the point where its become too big though, and a bit unruly, with the admin around it, so this year I’ll begin taking some older videos down. Some will likely go to be archived at the National Poetry Library in London. https://www.youtube.com/user/fowlerpoetry/about

The channel was actually mentioned recently in an article in Vice magazine, which is unfortunate but it happened. Its very Vice in tone, accidentally patronising if not meta-hipster a decade out of sync, but I gave a few fake bio details so all square https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/akww7j/hidden-youtubers-vlogging-for-no-audience

Steven Fowler, 29 from Leighton Buzzard, who has over 2,000 poetry and literary videos on his channel, takes a different tack. “I don’t have any utopian goals of reaching new audiences and ‘converting’ them to weird literary performances and experimental poetry readings. But the bigger the archive has got, the more it seems people do find something in it that makes them interested – maybe.“