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03Roam Editorial

Every Legend's First Post Is Embarrassing

Before the drone shots and the sponsors, every travel channel starts as one awkward upload. A short column in defence of posting it anyway.

Scroll to the very bottom of any big travel channel and you'll find it: the shaky first vlog, the wrong microphone, the thumbnail made in Paint. Nobody starts with a masthead. The most famous first post in internet history is five words long and does absolutely nothing:

The first tweet ever posted. It did not go viral for sixteen years.

The lesson for anyone sitting on an unposted first video: the archive only looks inevitable in reverse. Post the embarrassing one. Issue 3 of this magazine exists because five people once did.

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