u/HyenaBig8173

I've always struggled trying to push Fallout content on my channel, since I enjoy the franchise and the older games. I've tried to tune the algorithm through keywords and tags, even if they don't matter - and I still can't seem to find an audience.

I've wondered if maybe the thumbnails aren't good enough, or if maybe the titles are bad? I usually have less than a % for CTR for any of my recent Fallout stuff. I've even stopped pushing it to my subscribers, thinking the algorithm is using my subs as a test audience.

Not looking for pity or anything. I just need some clear answers on how I can push it better.

I've struggled in the past to try and make decent Fallout 3 Thumbnails. So, I'm trying a different approach once again, to try to make both an eye-catching and simplistic Thumbnail. I'm hoping doing so, will make it easier to attract an audience who enjoys Fallout-based Content.

I'm pretty sure I caused a couple people to rage quit too. Sorry!

I never see this tank, like ever. But I heard its Flamethrower is good, but the armor looks like paper.

It's a three-way tie between, the LVT, the Captured M1918A2 Squad, and this.

I made mistakes early on, when I created this channel 9 months ago. I initially started out doing Honkai: Star Rail content, but it didn't seem like I could find an audience for it. So, I decided to make three Warframe Build Videos - one of them did extremely well, sitting at 57k Views - and around 300ish Subscribers. However, this was not content I wanted to do as the sole focus of my channel, and I had mistakenly believed that those Subscribers were interested in me - not the video. I was wrong.

So, despite not liking the topic and being told by a couple of YouTube subreddits to: "Do it anyway, if the viewers want it". I made another video, using a similar format. It didn't perform to expectations, and those subscribers didn't end up watching it anyway, so I abandoned the content entirely. This did not help me, as I assume the algorithm was trying to push my main content to people who were not interested in it, because of that one video.

So, after a couple more months of 1.5% CTR and 3:20 View Duration hell, I took a couple month break to save myself from burnout and then swapped niches to something more comfortable. This was a terrible idea. As once again, my current subscribers (although maybe out of the 300+, one or two were active) were uninterested and I was forced to find a new audience.

Within that break period, I did manage to refine my packaging a bit. I even constructed a custom intro, and I felt proud of that. Yet somehow my retention still suffered despite my best efforts, and while my CTR has improved - my AVD has been reduced to an average of 1:30 Minutes at most. It's been NINE MONTHS since I've started, and I can't even reach 500 Subscribers to even have the ability to do memberships (Although that's probably a moot point, since most of my subscribers are inactive anyway), let alone hit monetization (doing it before three months would be impossible, unless I had a miracle).

With this in mind, should I just give up? It feels like there's nothing else I can do to salvage my channel.