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“I didn’t have a DSLR. No mic. No studio. Just a phone, a cheap tripod, and an idea I couldn't shake off. I hit record, uploaded my first faceless video, and waited. My first video felt like screaming into the void. I stumbled over my words. The background music was too loud. I rewatched it twenty times before realizing… it wasn’t perfect. But I posted it anyway.”

“Well, that’s exactly how it felt when the idea first came to me. So I opened my laptop, set up a channel, adjusted the settings and all those little things. I gave it the same name as my Medium handle: whispersbyiqra. The next step was recording my voice. Before doing that, I watched a few YouTube videos about how to record better audio using just a phone, because I can’t afford a mic right now. And honestly, I had never tried recording my own voice before. I felt shy at first. But that entire day, I kept practicing. The next day, I finally managed to record it. After that, I spent the next two days editing the video. Surprisingly, editing your own video is actually quite fun. I kept the editing simple. Then I uploaded my first video, one of my free verse poems.”