r/NewTubers

I will be honest. I initially started YouTube because I thought it would be easy money. Make videos, go viral, and then passive income. I wanted a side hustle even $50 a month I’d be happy.

I realize I don’t like editing. I don’t like my screen time being double digits a day. I don’t like dealing with creepy comments from perverted men asking about for marriage when my video is nothing about that. And even if it were that still isn’t ok to me. I like speaking but I realize don’t like my voice and face being online. I know people are like “why the hell did you start”

I guess I sold myself. Everyone has a price and this was mine. I was willing to give up my values for a chance at money. It didn’t work.

I was gullible and fell for the “yap” and upload. 100 videos in 100 days.

I so wanted to be monetized by Feb 1. I have 2100 watch hours. But I feel like my health deteriorated. I’ve become more impatient with things, grumpy, and not a good version of myself.

All this to say, it’s time to end. I tried. I failed. I could persevere and try again, but it isn’t for me. My content attracts people from very low RPM countries. Even if I get monetized one day, I think the most I’ll get a month is $1.

At least I wasted only a year. I didn’t invest in gear or software. Now it’s time to move on and get my life back.

If you read this far, thank you for listening. Wishing you success with your channels.

EDIT thanks everyone for your words. This community is great. I’ve gotten many perspectives. I won’t delete it permanently for now as I might want to try again in the future. For now, it’s a hiatus.

As the title says, I'm curious how many people here are doing this because they want to make it as a youtuber one day, vs how many people view this as a creative outlet/fun hobby and are content making videos even if they get 10 views.

I just got my first fan two weeks ago, he would comment on my videos daily and give me tips it was awesome. I was looking at my subs and I accidentally clicked “hide user from channel“. I unhid him but it deleted all his comments. I screwed up so much how could I fumble this bad

Hey everyone!

I recently started a YouTube channel focused on psychology and simple hand-drawn animations. I spent quite a bit of time working on my first video, including the script, visuals, narration, and editing. After uploading, it only got around 33 views, and most of those were from friends and family. I'm not expecting thousands of views overnight, but I'm genuinely curious how YouTube discovers an audience for a completely new channel.

For those who started from zero:

• How long did it take before YouTube started recommending your videos?
• Did your first few uploads barely get any impressions?
• Should I focus more on thumbnails and titles, or just keep uploading consistently?

I'd appreciate any advice from people who've been through this.

Thanks!

If you've been on YouTube for more than a year, you've probably heard things like: “Why are you doing this?”, “Can't you see it's not working?”, “Just give up,” and so on. How do you deal with the negativity?

I’ve tried out a lot of hobbies over the years, and I’ve tried to monetize a few of them. Of course, I can see for myself that some of my ideas are too simple and probably won’t work. But I just give them a shot, because you never know if they’ll work or not. I’ve often come across products in the media that are objectively simple. That’s why I think it’s better to try and fail than to regret a missed opportunity. Plus, I’ll gain experience along the way.

So, what do you think about that? (I mean, I really need some help, because I've already lost track of what I'm even doing, haha.)

And the fear train keeps on rolling.

I just watched this video by a YouTuber who had a video get age-restricted by YouTube and he mentioned that it's because YouTube is all A.I. That being said, it scared me a lot especially since I'm a small YouTuber with only 51 subscribers and that means YouTube could go after my channel for absolutely no reason.

Now in my previous post, I know someone told me that most YouTuber speech is hyperbolic, which I am aware of, however, I don't know if this guy is speaking hyperbolically and I am freaking out because of this. Keep in mind, I am autistic and some aspects of sarcasm, hyperbole, and tone goes over my head.

Please help.

I’m hoping to launch my channel soon with 3 initial videos. I’m realizing now that I’m up to the editing phase that I may have been overly ambitious. It’s a series of tips videos with lots of b-roll. Professionally, I’ve done rough cuts before, but nothing else. I’m trying to learn about the basic features of Premiere Pro & it’s a lot. I’ve started an Essentials course and am about 60% finished, but it’s starting to feel discouraging how much I still have to learn to get to the basic level. I had to learn some stuff for ideation, scripting, thumbnail creation, filming, lighting, etc., but none of those felt this difficult and unfamiliar.

How have others pushed through that learning curve to get enough skills to edit their videos? I’m so excited to start my channel! I think I’ll enjoy the editing process much more once I actually know how to do more things, but it’s a real struggle in the meantime — and of course I have a day job.

Its a cozy gaming channel with long form format. It is edited but very lightly, I have taken about 3 hours of recorded video and trimmed and combined clips and condensed to an hour to make a somewhat hopefully coherent video for relaxing gameplay content to put on in the background. It is pretty much a Lets Play but those are the kind of videos I like and its what I thought would be best to initially experiment with. I am a female content creator who is planning to do faceless cozy gamplay- my commentary especially needs work but this is my first time ever recording myself play a game so I do lack experience and I am hoping I can get better!

I am currently doing Genshin videos but I want to branch out while keeping the same vibe. Could I get any feedback so far? Or is this all just a waste of time? I have done two videos so far. Want to know if audio and video look and sound decent etc

Youtube channel is Cayriss

I recently launched a new YouTube channel. My very first video got tested right away by the algorithm and hit ~300 impressions within the first few hours.

However, I uploaded my second video today, and it is sitting at 0 impressions.

Thanks in advance for any insights!

Hey all. I have a new channel. It has been a mix of some shorts and 8 longer form (2-5 min). My longs have received the following amount of views in order of upload since Oct 3. 79k. 11k, 29k, 40k, 1.9k, and then the last 3 in the last 4 days 15, 43, and 40 total views.

I have 3700 view hours on the videos. total.

The most recent with 40 views has 69% average view, 3:30 view time, and 13.6% CTR..

Does anyone have an idea why my first few kicked ass and the last few died..they are very similar in style and thumbnail etc. The only thing i really did different is started using hash tags in the description and tags in the section to put tags.

It just seems weird to have such a weird falloff. Any thoughts?

I started posting shorts on Sept. 4th and I have 138 subscribers and a total of 70 shorts and only 6 videos. I think I have around 28k views total. I love doing the shorts and they’re getting views. I’m 69 and I’m having fun but being monetized would be amazing. What would your advice be?

Recently I change my YouTube channel to a more gaming channel , because I’m in the process of becoming a Mexican gaming streamer ( I’m 5 months constantly.

But my videos are flopping so bad I don’t know what to do , any advice would be amazing for retention or anything really.

I’m super frustrated :( but also I know I WON’T GIVE UP

Gussogaming for any feedback

My dad has started a Youtube channel where he essentially just does drum covers for songs, and he always seems so happy when he gets a few viewers, and so sad when he doesn't get any. I want to make him happy and get him views, likes and maybe even some subscribers and I just dont know how. What can I do to help my dad get more views, and maybe likes? Is there a way I can give him advice or make the algorithm more favourable to him?

I think the main problem is, the video is just audio with a flat background, I encouraged him to try making a lyric video, but it totally flopped after he spent hours working on it and it really bummed him out. It sucks because I have absolutely zero clue how to improve Youtube or do stuff to improve that type of social media growth. Does anyone have any advice on how to help him? Thank you.

Hi. Just turned 41, living in a foreign country where I can’t practice what I studied for. Finding a job has been impossible (4 months already). I will be able to cover my expenses until January .
Any advice?

So I want to do a channel about solving riddles, and I was thinking how does one make a video look not that amateur. I basically don't know anything about social media or editing, I recorded myself with my phone and the screen with my laptop, and tried cutting it together with EasyCut.

One thing I noticed was that without a thumbnail it looks very unprofessional. Also I say way too many uhhh-s. But what else can make a video look well-put-together?

Channel name: KlaudiaRiddles

Hello,

Why can't I select my game that I'm uploading in the game title section? The game just won't pop up but it did for the videos before.

Thanks in advance.

Look, I don't want to sound like a complainer but I used to be guaranteed 1-5k impressions on almost every video I uploaded last year. Now I barely get 100 within the first 2 days.

I love editing videos a lot, I really do. I don't want to give up on youtube because I love when people watch my content and then say "this video made my day" but I don't know how to keep pushing forward when youtube doesn't even give my content a chance anymore.

Maybe I blew my chance a year ago. Youtube gave me so many impressions but my ctr and retention was bad so maybe youtube gave up on me.

I am desperate for some sort of advice, if I am being honest youtube gurus have pissed me off because I have used all of their advice and none of it has worked for me. This is a shot in the dark at best, but if any of you seasoned youtubers have a single genuine piece of advice for me, I would appreciate it.

I know 3 languages, so I've been thinking in dubbing my videos. But I don't know if the extra effort will come with improvement in the reach, like more views. Is it worth it? Or should I only just focus in 1 language?

I want to start streaming my art process on YouTube. I try to sync my tablet through OBS by using Super Display app. But when I draw on my tablet, there's latency issues? I figure it's because my laptop is too outdated (RAM 2gb Corei3 AsusX455L) so it couldn't handle opening CSP + OBS at the same time. I'm using Samsung Galaxy S9 as my tablet though, do any of you have suggestions on what apps/workaround that might work?

Everyone here (me included) spends hours on thumbnails and titles, and yeah they matter. but I keep noticing the small channels that actually stick around aren't always the ones with the best packaging, they're the ones where the creator replies to basically every comment like they're talking to a friend

When I was really small I did that and people kept coming back, a few of them commented on almost every video. now that more comments come in I've started skipping some and i'm not sure if that was a mistake or just normal

So curious where people land:
do you still reply to everything or just the first hour or so?
did you notice a difference when you stopped (or started)?
or is this overrated and the time is better spent on the next video?

genuinely want to hear both sides