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i'm an artist (painter) and i can't show my art here ( i'm living in africa) i tried so many times to make a youtube chanel for my art  i ofc presents myself in my chanel as any other guy i start to get a lot of subscribers and amazing comments from people telling me my drawings are good, but ones i make a tutorial video ( when i need to talk and explain) people notice my voice and the questions start and then all the chanel become hate comments and my inbox full with questions about my gender i tried this a lot  over and over and its always the same end ,i really want to start a career on youtube i always heard my art is great and i quickly have followers and people asking me for more but always being a trans guy stop me from that cause as i said its always end a bad way,anybody here  knows a trans guy pre-T who is a youtube famous ? i mean is this even possible?!

Alex Bertie and Jake Edwards are a queer couple and are both artists/musicians - and pre T transmen.

They have seperate channels where they discuss art, music but mostly issues faced being transmen.

I recommend them :) there are also Skylarkeleven, alionsfears and Benton who are ftm and make YouTube videos

a lot of trans youtubers become famous pre-t, maybe not by art, but by vlogging about their life. i think your problem is you want to present male when your voice doesn't pass as male yet, despite your looks. if you came out being trans, it may be different. it is possible to be famous in general and trans. i know a lot of trans men representation isn't out there, but the one that comes to mind is tom phelan. he played on the fosters as a pre everything trans man then came back after he went on hormones and had surgery. it was a good presentation of it i think and the most noticeable trans man playing a trans man character. i really liked the fosters for that alone.

You can sell your art on a site called Society6. Some people say it's hard to sell on their but since you have followers you might be luckier than most. You can do T-shirts, canvas, etc.

Basically everyone who's been mentioned here have had few problems but eventually make it through.

There's also Ryan Cassata, who chose not to go on T. He still has a pretty decent fanbase, although he gets the odd bit of hate...

To be fair, doesn't every big youtuber get hate? I mean, youtube comments are the cesspool of the site, so you can't expect much.

I don't know anything about YouTube but try putting your art up on tumblr! It's a great way to gain followers since there's a huge art community on there! I've had great luck with it.

Quote from: schwarzwalderkirschtort on March 23, 2016, 06:34:50 AM
Basically everyone who's been mentioned here have had few problems but eventually make it through.

There's also Ryan Cassata, who chose not to go on T. He still has a pretty decent fanbase, although he gets the odd bit of hate...

To be fair, doesn't every big youtuber get hate? I mean, youtube comments are the cesspool of the site, so you can't expect much.

This ^^^ present yourself however you want to, and ignore the comments... it's only the vids with next to no views that don't get hate. it's just something about youtube

My professional art is on Youtube in my videos and I just don't put my voice/body in them and I use an artist's pseudonym. I just show the art.

I don't know anything about selling art or youtube or much of anything else as far as trying to sell something , but I would say art speaks for itself. I really don't think that if Salvador Dali was trans it would matter to anyone and the idiots that said stupid things would just be showing themselves to be fools.

Hate usually means that it's working and you're going in the right direction for sure.
Also try different websites to sell your art and advertise it, also coming out could be an option, of course if you feel comfortable doing it. You can also continue without coming out, I mean, it's your life and your channel and you choose the content you want to show!

I can't speak for YouTube or that sort of fame, but I'm extremely well known in my field and the vast majority of my fans have been supportive. If someone hasn't been supportive, I haven't heard of anything directly. But I think it depends on the kind of art. YouTube invites a lot of negativity.