People are excited by the title “YouTuber” and nothing that goes with it.
For reference, I’ve been at this since March and I have just under 20k subs, so I’m in a bit of a grey area where I’m not new but not old, and not small but not huge.
Every time I’m on this sub I see posts with people asking everyone to give them a niche to post, asking what would give the most views etc.
In the nicest way possible, if you don’t know what you want to do, why are you here? I’m not saying you shouldn’t ask for help or advice, because that’s the whole point obviously. But if you genuinely have no interests that you’d want to post about, maybe this just isn’t for you.
Then when people do eventually start making videos, they complain that they didn’t turn into Mr Beast overnight. YouTube doesn’t owe you anything. Of course there are exceptions, but if a video has flopped, chances are the video just wasn’t very good. Either that, or you’ve packaged it badly.
I’ve seen people quit over this, and I think this shows that the passion wasn’t fully there from the start. It can be demoralising when a video doesn’t perform, I’ve been there too, but surely if you enjoy the niche then you should have enjoyed the process anyway?
TLDR, some people on this sub are attracted to the prospect of being a YouTuber, but want everything handed to them on a silver platter.
Obviously, there’s lots of hard working individuals here who I respect, and I’m only describing a group of them.
Keep pushing.