I think my YouTube channel is dying before it even started… need honest advice
Hey guys, I honestly need some real advice because I’ve been overthinking my YouTube channel a lot lately. I recently started a Roblox gaming/story-style channel and I’ve genuinely been trying hard to improve everything editing, hooks, thumbnails, pacing, titles, all of it. A few days ago, one of my Shorts suddenly got around 1.4K views and gave me most of my watch time and subscribers. For a moment, I thought the channel was finally starting to move. But after that, everything just completely slowed down again. Right now the channel has around 1.7K total views, 4.9 hours of watch time, and only 8 subscribers. Most of my newer uploads barely get views, and some videos feel like they don’t even get pushed at all. What’s confusing me is that one video clearly performed better than the others, but when I tried making similar content again, it didn’t repeat the same result. My content is mostly Roblox horror escape games with a suspense or story style vibe, mainly Shorts but also some longer videos. I genuinely can’t tell if the problem is my content, weak hooks, bad retention, the niche being too saturated, or if this is just how early YouTube normally feels. I’m willing to improve and stay consistent, but I also don’t want to keep repeating mistakes without realizing it. So I wanted to ask people who’ve actually grown channels before what would you focus on if you were in my position right now? Should I keep pushing Shorts, switch content styles, focus on longer videos, or just keep posting and trust the process? Any honest advice would really help because I actually want to make this work long term.