Major struggles gaining views/followers
Just for context: I'm currently running a podcast on all platforms, Youtube, Spotify, Apple, and the list goes on and on. in addition to this I post shorts on all platforms, I upload weekly newsletters, bought a mic, use the proper video edits. I bought the full CapCut package to ensure my video quality isn't bad and I do lots of research and scripting before content. Yet, still I barely get any following. the views I get are either silent likes or people who just wanna troll. I wanna be taken really seriously for the content I put out and I want to amass a great following but after almost two years of running my platform which originally started just on YouTube, I'm starting to lose hope. The last thing I want is to be viewed as "another random influencer" who cares only about superficial crap, because I'm honestly extremely passionate about the stuff I talk about, and even if it may not look like it, it takes me a significant amount of energy and time to put out the content that I make.
All I'm asking for is your guy's honest criticism. I won't take it personal, not one bit. I just want to know what I'm doing wrong, where I'm going wrong, why I'm maybe repelling viewers, why the algorithm isn't in my favor. and what I can do to actually scale as much as possible. I have really big aspirations for my podcast, when I set my mind towards something I do not give up no matter how much negativity I experience. So please, anything you have, no matter how upfront and brutal, I need to hear it to fix my content. (I've linked my YouTube channel to this post, and thru my YouTube channel there's links to my content on other platforms too)