I Reached by first 500 subs!!!
So I started my YouTube journey a little over a year ago. At first, the channel was mainly focused on podcast-style interviews. The first 10 episodes were long-form videos where I interviewed different kinds of people — sometimes celebrities, sometimes sports figures. I was only uploading about one episode per week, and sometimes it even took me two or three weeks to upload because it was honestly difficult to coordinate interviews and get guests consistently.
After a while, I realized that format was becoming too hard to maintain, so I decided to rebrand the channel and name it after myself. From there, I started creating videos around things I genuinely enjoy — sports, relatable topics, hobbies, and basically anything I found interesting. During that phase, I was uploading constantly, sometimes even posting two or three Shorts a day while also working on longer videos.
Eventually, though, I hit a wall. About halfway through the year, I started feeling burned out. The editing, filming, posting, and trying to stay consistent became exhausting, and honestly, I crashed out for a bit. I stopped uploading for around a month and a half.
When I came back, I started looking at YouTube differently. Throughout this whole journey, I’ve tried everything — improving thumbnails, changing titles, testing tags, experimenting with upload times, and constantly learning how the platform works. And honestly, I still feel like I’m figuring it out.
Some videos get 5 or 10 views. Others get 1,000. Some hit 5,000. I even have one with over 30,000 views. So one thing I’ve learned is that the algorithm can be unpredictable. Sometimes a video performs way better than expected, and other times a video you believe in barely gets pushed at all.
But if there’s one thing I’ve learned from this experience, it’s this: you have to do YouTube because you genuinely enjoy it. If you only do it for money or fast success, you’ll burn out quickly because growth takes a lot of time, patience, and consistency. I’m definitely not a huge creator yet — I only have around 500 subscribers — but I’ve learned that success on YouTube is really about continuing to improve and refusing to give up.
The biggest advice I’d give anyone starting out is:
Do what you’re passionate about. Keep learning. Don’t be afraid to experiment. Try different styles, different ideas, different formats. Most importantly, don’t give up just because things grow slower than you expected.
Every video teaches you something.