So, let’s talk about the founding of Strawhat Hackers… but if you want to know that story, then there’s no option left for us we have to go back a few years, back when I was studying in 10th standard.
But the cause started much earlier. I think I started my first YouTube channel in 8th standard, and it was on topics like knowledge sharing. But what I really wanted was to create a YouTube channel that told horror stories in Malayalam. I got a lot of inspiration from Beypore Sulthan, a Malayalam YouTuber. But the problem was that it felt too advanced from my perspective and it actually was. I couldn’t afford that kind of equipment at the time, and I wasn’t interested in asking my parents for a huge YouTube studio setup.
So I continued, but the content quality and video quality were too low in my point of view, and the background of my videos was just my house, which caused a lot of disturbance for viewers and other such issues. Another problem was that I was studying in ICSE, and the syllabus was so tough and bookish, it felt tough because of how bookish it was.
During exam time, I couldn’t create videos, and eventually, I stopped posting, as I was concerned about the video quality and the huge gap between my dream and the actual output. Now, you might wonder, why the horror category? Why didn’t I just continue the current content and improve the video quality a bit?
The thing is, I genuinely enjoyed telling horror stories. In fact, when I was in 4th or 5th grade, I had a hobby of narrating horror stories to my classmates and scaring them. Most of the stories I told were taken from Churulazhiyatha Rahasyangal in the Balarama magazine.
I realized that, at that time, I couldn’t pull off my dream. But I had already decided, I wanted that fame, and I wanted to be someone who stood out from the crowd.
Yes, I will be a YouTuber.