For three years, I had been creating my own comic books and selling them to strangers on the street. I tried to build hype around new releases by staging release events – booking a local bar or lounge, booking bands, and treating it all like a concert and my new comic book was the headliner. As the scope of these events grew, I started creating my own little parody short films about my adventures making comic books, begging or borrowing a projector with a bedsheet for a screen, and I soon conceived of these events as episodes of an imaginary TV show.
The original idea was that the new comic book would be the cartoon segment of this imaginary show, but my focus got wrapped up very quickly in making these videos and putting together the screenings.
I started uploading my short films to YouTube just so that party attendees could watch them again when they got home. These short films would be the foundation of my career to come, as many years later The Sean Ward Show would become the #1 most-watched cosplay or comic-con related channel on YouTube.
I basically put all of my other ambitions on hold when my Youtube channel started producing viral hits.
I threw myself into it 24/7 with everything I had, even before I could technically afford to live like that. I Pushed through on Naive Faith and Blind Ambition for 3 years from 2012 to 2015 when the channel exploded very suddenly after I uploaded a video that would go on to become one of the all time top Ten Most Viewed videos on Youtube. From then to now it’s been a wild ride including a few laps up and down the Top 100 channels list as one of the fastest growing channels on the platform.
See what goes on at The Sean Ward Show studio – how we make a video, the equipment we use, how it all comes together, plus hilarious behind the scenes action!
Here is the full story of how I got my first 1 Million Views on YouTube with a Batman video. This was back in 2012 when my previous most successful video had about 3000 views. At the time we thought our lives would be crazy different if we could get 5000 views. And then the video did 1 million views in a week after getting covered on the news all over the world!
Our behind the scenes and outtakes are often as funny as the finished video. We put this compilation together to show you what it’s like and how hard we laugh together when we make a video for The Sean Ward Show YouTube channel.
