Mildsoss: Taking a Risk on What You Love

What's wild is that a year ago, Mildsoss had never written a script, never edited a video, and wasn't even really thinking about content creation as something he'd pursue seriously. He was a software engineer who was good at his job and had a stable income. Soss was always a gamer, but content creation was more of a background thought than anything else.

And for the longest time, he had grown dissatisfied with his job and wanted a creative outlet of his own, something he could use to express his creativity. Then, one day, on a road trip to Oregon with his wife, he had a pretty simple realization: there was literally nothing stopping him from trying out content creation. So when he got home, that's exactly what he did.

The Beginning

He launched his TikTok and YouTube in March 2025. The early videos weren't great. The scripts were rough, the editing was basic, and he was figuring everything out as he went. But he kept posting, which is honestly the thing that matters most at that stage. A lot of people never even get that far because they're waiting until everything feels perfect. Growth was slow but consistent for the first few months. Then, in July, he started his Instagram, and things changed pretty fast.

Only five posts into his Instagram journey, he uploaded a video about a game called Bum: Revenge, a co-op game where you play as homeless people. He almost didn't make it because he thought the concept was too ridiculous. It ended up going viral and getting him 102,000 followers almost overnight.

He covered the game with genuine curiosity, and people connected with it. They sent it to their friends, their friends sent it to theirs, and suddenly Soss had an audience he needed to figure out how to appeal to.

Finding His Groove

Growth kept going through the summer, but Soss knew something was still missing. He hadn't really found his angle yet. Then, in October, an indie co-op game called RV There Yet? blew up. Everyone was covering it, and by the time Soss sat down to make his video, just explaining what the game was felt pointless because everyone already knew.

So instead of talking about the game, he talked about how it got made. And that video really stood out compared to everything else being posted about it at the time. More importantly, it made him realize that the behind-the-scenes stuff was genuinely what he cared about. Stuff like how studios make games, the teams behind them, and the stories that most people never hear.

When you watch his videos, you can tell he's actually interested in what he's talking about, and that comes through in a way that's hard to fake. That became his whole thing, and he ran with it.

Taking a Risk

As the channel grew, balancing content creation with his full-time engineering job was getting harder and harder. Videos take real time to make, and doing both properly while still being present for his family wasn't really working anymore.

Then he got laid off.

The obvious move was to find another engineering job. He had the skills and experience to land one pretty easily. But he decided to go all in on content creation instead. He even made a video about it, talking through the decision openly with his audience. It was a real risk. He had a family depending on him and no guaranteed income, but he made the call and committed to it.

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Not long after going full-time, the brand deals started coming in properly, and he even got signed by RightClick.gg, the same talent agency that represents creators like Jynxzi. Then Jestr reached out to him.

Jestr is a platform that pays gaming creators between $5 and $10 per 1,000 views for making videos about video games in their own style across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts. Between Jestr, brand deals, and ad revenue, he ended up making more than he had been making as a software engineer.

In about a year, Mildsoss went from someone who had never made a video to a full-time creator supporting his family by doing something he actually loves.

He had no experience, took a huge risk, and it worked out because he started before he was ready, kept experimenting until he found what worked, and genuinely cared about what he was making.

Now, he's able to focus on what really matters in life: his family.