u/irinipini

studied chinese in uni for 4 years but due to lack of practice forgot a lot of it after 5 years. doing some revision exercises in my spare time (haven’t checked the answers yet 😂)

just got my first sub on a brand new channel in a completely new niche which is my lil hobby 🎂

Hi everyone, i hope you’re having a good day today. If not, i hope it gets better for you soon

This is my favorite dinner. Spicy ramen with salmon and green beans (they’re all at the bottom i promise). Sometimes i do broccoli as well. Could eat this every day

Anyway, I’m struggling with immigration issues. My husband is American and i’m not. We lived together for 4 years in a different country but last year he moved to America for work. I can’t come because my visa is not being processed. The processing is completely stalled. The timeline keeps getting extended. New restrictions keep coming in.

The time zone difference is 7 hours. When i wake up, he’s asleep, and when he finished work it’s midnight for me. He’s wonderful, I love and miss him so much. I just want to be together.

As i’ve said, my timeline keeps growing. I was hoping to get approved this fall, but the current official processing time for my visa type is 20 months. 20 months for a spousal visa.
So many families like mine, it just makes me so depressed. I feel the life being sucked out of me every day.

I have my own life, goals etc. But it’s hard. Every day i obsessively check for updates hoping for good news, any movement or changes. It’s been like this for months and it’s only got worse.

edit: thank you very much everyone for the support and kind words! i can’t respond to all comments because there’s a lot but i appreciate everyone’s kindness.
I’d like to reiterate that this decision was made by us together and he didn’t just leave me selfishly. It took many years deciding where we want to be and for our personal situation it made the most sense. It’s just unfortunate how it’s got so much more difficult with time.

edit 2: there’s nothing we can do at this time legally, this is not an isolated issue with our case, everyone is in the same boat right now. and i am not from a country with a strong passport so i can’t travel freely. so this is purely just a rant but all your support warm messages make me feel better!

Following up on my recent post…. What are they doing over there?

Ah yes, the M

any reasons why this happens or tips that might help? 🥲
i try to use hooks, make original content, keep it dynamic throughout the video but this always happens

niche: language learning skits for a foreign audience
stayed to watch: ~80% on all these

I’ve had many attempts at youtube throughout the last 5 years, but gave up MULTIPLE times because of lack of visible growth, shorts very rarely getting over 2000 views, long format not getting over 100-300. Classic.
Now I’m finally sticking to it and it’s paying off!
So close to my first 1000.

Most of my content currently is YT shorts, but i’ve started doing long form recently too.
My niche is English learning for a non-English audience (in my native language).
The biggest helpers were thorough niche analysis, finding my own style and being consistent without worrying about perfection.
I try a video, analyze its performance, and apply what i learned to my next one. Every time. Usually there are clear reasons why a video doesn’t do well, but sometimes it’s a bit of (un)luck.

My advice is to not take anything personally and be very analytical and consistent, as little emotion attached to the outcome as possible. It also obviously helps to find formats you actually enjoy filming for your niche.

Goodluck to everyone!

almost all of my videos (YT shorts) have the exact same graph, some better (like this one), some worse. some will start gaining more views after 24 or 48 hours, but others will just stay at a flatline. what determines whether the video will get another push?
why do they always flatten out?

hi everyone!
my channel is small, i’m only approaching 1k. my niche is language learning and these are completely unrelated to my channel. why are these so weird?
not a single one has anything to do with the video.
all my videos are consistent to the topic, i have tags both in my channel settings and a couple on the videos, but it’s never anything related to what i post. why would my videos come up when someone searches these? 😭
is there any way to improve this?

i’ve been told i look like a couple of people a few times irl and id love to know if anyone here would mention them too! or maybe some other ones
thanks!