u/Accomplished-Comb335

Hi Everyone,

I've been trying to figure out the answer to this question for awhile. I have 150k subs now and get around a million or so views on average on each short. I only make shorts at the moment due to not having enough time to make long form videos.

My full time job takes up about 60 hours per week, while i also spend about 50 hours per week making shorts.

My niche is tech, and I engineer and make unique pieces of tech from scratch on my channel and in my shorts with high quality editing, story telling, and cinematography.

Because of this, one short usually takes me about a week to make. I work 12 hours per day Monday through Friday at my 9-5, i then get home from work and go right back to work on YouTube until I go to sleep. On the weekends i usually spend about 10 to 15 hours on Saturday and 10 to 15 hours on Sunday working on YouTube.

I am at my absolute maximum, meaning, it would be physically impossible for me to optimize my time more efficiently so that I can free up more time to work on YouTube.

I did have about a 4 month run where I was making more on YouTube than I was at my full time job, but that happened because I decided to grind until i couldn't anymore, meaning I was getting off work at like 6:15pm then working until like 2am to 3am on YouTube then waking up at 6am to go back to work.

It was unsustainable for forever, which I knew. I can only get 3 to 4 hours of sleep every night for so long before my body starts shutting down.

So, I'm now at a sustainable point where I get about 7 hours of sleep per night, but that doesn't give me enough time to make more money than my job.

So, it seems I would have to take a risk and quit before YouTube income surpasses my jobs income.

I have tried getting another job, something part time, but there just aren't very many jobs in my field in the united states right now. Only maybe 50 total, and they all have thousands upon thousands of applicants so im not betting on that.

I have about $20,000 saved up which should cover my expenses for about a year with no income if I'm very frugal.

If I quit, i plan on moving back in with my parents so I'll have no rent payment. My car is paid off so I'll have no car payment, and all my debt is paid off so the only payments ill have is food, water, and a few subscriptions that I use to help with content.

If you're wondering why my shorts take so long to make, its because creating a unique piece of tech from scratch takes a lot of time. First i have to come up with the idea, then i have to research how to do it, then i have to purchase everything I'll need to make it, then the actual building process takes a long time as I'm usually learning as I go and failing multiple times and having to innovate new ways to do things.

The tech I build is 100% unique so there's no blueprint on how to make what I'm making.

Then i have to condense about 15 hours of footage down to 1 minute, then write the script for the voice over, then film additional shots to supply the story, then keyframe clips for motion, add text overlays, go to sound design and add multiple music tracks for tension building, then do sound effects for everything, then add captions, then make the thumbnail, write the post caption, write the post description, then finally i can post

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share my discipline journey, and hopefully this will help or inspire someone.

For the past 1.8 years, I've been working about 20 hours per day 5 days a week. Because of that, I've accomplished nearly all of my dreams at 25 years old.

Less than two years ago I was stuck working a job I hated, I was extremely unhealthy, addicted to video games, just in a terrible place mentally and physically. I had been in that place for basically my entire life.

Most of my life, I've always fantasized about being a YouTuber, I fantasized about having a great body, about being someone respectable. But, I always gave up once it got hard or required any amount of real effort.

One day, I had a terrible shift with my boss. I got yelled at for something going wrong that wasn't my fault, and I had spent months designing and implementing a site wide change that would improve everyone's workflow. I then finished the project, and one of my co-workers that I trusted stole my work, and presented it as their own.

I went to my boss who I thought I could trust, and told them how the change was my doing, that I had designed and implemented the changes, not them. It ended in me getting yelled at and almost fired.

That just... awoke something in me that I never knew I had.

I made a promise to myself from that day forward, I was going to change my life around. I deleted every single video game off my computer, wiped my entire drive, threw out all my slop food, and got a gym membership. I then went back to one of my old YouTube channels that I gave up on.

I told myself I was going to do whatever it took to make it. I didn't care at that point what it took. I didn't care if it meant I would off myself from no sleep and to much work. that would be a better outcome then having to work another day at that terrible job and live another day in my excuse for a life.

From that day forward, I went to the gym 7 days a week, and to this day haven't missed a single day. I went from 120 pounds at 5 foot 11 to 165 pounds today, hitting my goal of benching 225. I ate 4,000+ calories per day of food to gain as much weight as possible.

I also started grinding on my YouTube channel, putting in at least 8 hours per day on top of working 12 hours per day 5 days a week at my job.

Eventually, everything paid off.

I'm now a full time YouTuber with 100k+ subs making more than my boss at my old job. I'm also in great shape, looking and feeling better than I ever have, working on my own time. This has now led to me starting my own media company, where I now have multiple clients bringing in more monthly income.

I know this post may seem like a ChatGPT slop post but I promise its not. This is 100% true and what has happened to me.

I acknowledge I may have had some luck in my success, but the vast majority of it comes down to just working hard, staying disciplined, and focusing my anger and emotions towards a real outcome.

I hope this can inspire someone. You're never too far gone, and everything you want is truly within your grasp, just a few years away if you can learn how to stay disciplined, and target your emotions towards those goals.

EDIT: Correction. I worked about 20 hours a day for 5 days a week. On days I worked on my youtube channel/business and my full time job. on weekends I did about 8 hours sometimes more when needed. A lot of you are saying this post is bullshit, its not. I don't really know how I would prove to anyone that doesn't know me personally that its true, but it is. I thought this community would welcome a story of success but maybe I was wrong? idk.

You can believe what you want, but its real. There are many people who have worked as much as me and had great success. It's been done before in documented cases. So... its possible.

I’m on my 3rd month of doing UGC and just signed a 6 month contract for $4,000 retainer plus commission. It’s $200 per video and about 20 videos per month.

It was also an inbound, meaning they pitched to me. I also don’t have to write any scripts or edit anything. They send me the script, and I literally just film my face and talk then send that clip back to them.

literally 5 minutes of work for $200 how is UGC even real bro.

You can make an ungodly amount of money off UGC.

The only issue I see is with getting banned. I have a personal youtube channel with 100k subs so i’m a bit worried about getting a circumvention ban and having my personal channel get hit

Hi everyone,

I officially launched my business and got my LLC after almost two years of working on my business solo.

My media company holds one major asset, my youtube channel over 100k subs that does about $3k profit per month, and I also take on UGC clients which totals about $4k per month at the moment.

I also still work a 9-5.

My question is, does anyone here have any experience with running a small media company, and if so, do you have any tips? What are some unforeseen issues that could come up in the future?

Hi everyone,

I officially launched my business and got my LLC after almost two years of working on my business solo.

My media company holds one major asset, my youtube channel over 100k subs that does about $3k profit per month, and I also take on UGC clients which totals about $4k per month at the moment.

I also still work a 9-5.

My question is, does anyone here have any experience with running a small media company, and if so, do you have any tips? What are some unforeseen issues that could come up in the future?

Hi everyone,

I've built my short form youtube channel up to over 100k subs, and I'm ready to hire a video editor so I can focus more on the content itself. I've been doing all of the video editing up to this point on my own.

I make on face, story driven shorts in the tech niche, and would like someone who is able to copy my editing style as closely as possible as i have built my community around my style.

I edit my videos now in davinci resolve, and it takes me about 4 hours to edit one of my 30 second to 1 minute shorts.

I upload about 4 shorts per month, but would like to increase that number once I bring on the editor.

I average about 1.1M views per shorts, a big reason for that is my quality of editing. If I decide to bring someone on, I do not want the quality to go down, so it needs to stay as high as possible.

Please let me know if you'd be interested and you can shoot me a DM. i will share my channel with you and we can go from there.

Budget: $1k to $2k per month

Edit: Hi everyone, thank you for all of the applications. I am reviewing every single persons submission. It will take me a few days though as i have received well over 100 DMs

Hi everyone,

I've now officially graduated from small youtuber to medium size after reaching 100,000 subscribers, so I was hoping to chime in here and share my thoughts and something I've learned overtime.

Firstly, YouTube is hard. It isn't easy for 99.9% of us. Getting to this point has taken me almost two years of consistency.

It took me an entire year of 100+ hour work weeks (I'm doing YouTube on top of working a 60 hour per week job) to hit 1k subscribers, then by year two, I crossed the 100k sub mark.

The reason why the vast majority of new youtubers fail is because it always takes more work and effort than originally thought. Most people start out thinking they can just upload whatever they feel like for that day and if they are consistent they will be able to do it full time in a few months.

That just isn't the case. More often then not, it takes literal years of seeing no views and no likes before you really start getting somewhere. It takes time to learn the platform, SEO, great editing, how to speak on camera, etc.

I see too many posts here, and on the newtubers subreddit, where people are complaining about not getting a ton of views or subscribers after a week or month of work. Again, it takes significantly longer than that on average to see success.

Also, you don't have to enjoy every little process of being a YouTuber to be a successful YouTuber. I have over 100k subs, and I hate filming. I like the editing part, but the vast majority of the time im filming or doing other things, which is the one part i hate.

But, I like seeing big view numbers, I like editing, and I like money. In order to do the part I enjoy, I have to get through the part I don't enjoy.

I think there is a huge disconnect between what people think YouTube is, and what it truly is in reality.

YouTube is simply a platform in which you are starting a media business, similar to how shopify is a business platform where you start an ecommerce business.

running a business is not always sunshine and rainbows. It's going to suck a lot of the time. It's going to be hard, and when you are starting from scratch, it takes a very long time to build + scale a brand and a loyal fanbase.

I hate when people say "im starting YouTube to follow my passion", but what exactly is your passion? is it video editing? Filming? Playing video games?

Because on YouTube, any one of those things is just a small piece of the pie. Sure, you'll edit videos, but only maybe 20% of the time. the rest of the time you'll be researching, writing scripts, conducting competitor analysis, looking for outliers, designing thumbnails, doing keyword research, etc.

If you only ever want to do one thing, and you can't bring yourself to do more, then you should focus on getting a job in that thing you want to specialize in. If you only like video editing, maybe just focus on that and edit videos for other YouTubers.

You might not enjoy doing all of those things, but it has to get done to run a successful channel. If I only "followed my passion" I would only ever upload videos I care to make, whenever I want to make them, and not put any real effort into anything else other than the video editing.

If I did that, the channel would not be successful.

EDIT: This is not meant to hate on anyone who is doing YouTube as a hobby. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, and you can have a ton of fun just doing it that way.

This post is more so meant for those who are looking to do YouTube as a career. It is not a get rich quick scheme.

Hi everyone,

I've now officially graduated from small youtuber to medium size after reaching 100,000 subscribers, so I was hoping to chime in here and share my thoughts and something I've learned overtime.

Firstly, YouTube is hard. It isn't easy for 99.9% of us. Getting to this point has taken me almost two years of consistency.

It took me an entire year of 100+ hour work weeks (I'm doing YouTube on top of working a 60 hour per week job) to hit 1k subscribers, then by year two, I crossed the 100k sub mark.

The reason why the vast majority of new youtubers fail is because it always takes more work and effort than originally thought. Most people start out thinking they can just upload whatever they feel like for that day and if they are consistent they will be able to do it full time in a few months.

That just isn't the case. More often then not, it takes literal years of seeing no views and no likes before you really start getting somewhere. It takes time to learn the platform, SEO, great editing, how to speak on camera, etc.

Also, you don't have to enjoy every little process of being a YouTuber to be a successful YouTuber. I have over 100k subs, and I hate filming. I like the editing part, but the vast majority of the time im filming or doing other things, which is the one part i hate.

But, I like seeing big view numbers, I like editing, and I like money. In order to do the part I enjoy, I have to get through the part I don't enjoy.

I think there is a huge disconnect between what people think YouTube is, and what it truly is in reality.

YouTube is simply a platform in which you are starting a media business, similar to how shopify is a business platform where you start an ecommerce business.

running a business is not always sunshine and rainbows. It's going to suck a lot of the time. It's going to be hard, and when you are starting from scratch, it takes a very long time to build + scale a brand and a loyal fanbase.

I hate when people say "im starting YouTube to follow my passion", but what exactly is your passion? is it video editing? Filming? Playing video games?

Because on YouTube, any one of those things is just a small piece of the pie. Sure, you'll edit videos, but only maybe 20% of the time. the rest of the time you'll be researching, writing scripts, conducting competitor analysis, looking for outliers, designing thumbnails, doing keyword research, etc.

If you only ever want to do one thing, and you can't bring yourself to do more, then you should focus on getting a job in that thing you want to specialize in. If you only like video editing, maybe just focus on that and edit videos for other YouTubers.

You might not enjoy doing all of those things, but it has to get done to run a successful channel. If I only "followed my passion" I would only ever upload videos I care to make, whenever I want to make them, and not put any real effort into anything else other than the video editing.

If I did that, the channel would not be successful.

Hi everyone,

I've been searching for a good solo game for awhile.

I want something with good character building, some kind of campaign/narrative, combat, etc.

I'm a huge gloomhaven fan, but I'm currently playing through all the games with a group and would like to have something I can play solo.

The only downside to BOTSE I've heard is the barrier to entry is pretty big, it might take some time to actually learn the game and how to play which is the only thing putting me off from pulling the trigger.

Is it worth the time investment and the money investment?