r/YouTubeCamp

I highlighted my favourite music track from Mina the Hollower in a Youtube video that's 3 minutes long.

Check it out if you're curious and see if you agree with me!

Link:
https://youtu.be/lS5Mv78Xrmo

I’m currently working a job that pays around ₹12,000 per month, but I also have a YouTube channel with around 92,000 subscribers.

The channel is monetized and still makes money even though I haven’t uploaded a video in almost 2 years. My last video is still generating revenue, and I make around ₹10,000 per year from the channel without actively working on it.

My biggest problem is that my current job takes up most of my time, so I don’t have enough time or energy to seriously work on YouTube.

I’m thinking about quitting my job and giving myself 6 months to work on YouTube full-time and see if I can turn the channel into a real income source.

I also have support from my brother, so I wouldn’t be completely on my own financially during those 6 months.

But I’m honestly unsure if this is a smart decision or if I’m being too optimistic.

**What would you do in my situation?**

Would you:
Keep the ₹12k/month job and try to do YouTube on the side?

Quit the job and give YouTube 6 months full-time ?

Find another job with better hours and build YouTube alongside it?

For people who have actually gone full-time with YouTube: **how did you decide it was worth taking the risk?**

I’d really appreciate honest advice, especially from people who have been in a similar situation.

Estou desenvolvendo um universo fictício de ficção científica contado em um formato semi-verbal/experimental, usando artes de IA contextualizadas, música e narrativa inferencial. Resolvi compartilhar aqui caso alguém tenha interesse.

O projeto funciona quase como uma mistura de literatura visual, curta cinematográfico e worldbuilding audiovisual. A história é contada principalmente através de imagens, ambientação, textos dentro do universo e montagem, em vez de diálogos tradicionais.

O universo se passa em uma Terra invadida por uma civilização alienígena extremamente superior. Mas não é uma história sobre heróis salvando o mundo ou aliens caricatos. É uma narrativa de colapso, desgaste e sobrevivência, focada em como os seres humanos continuam lutando mesmo quando a lógica aponta que não existe mais esperança de vitória.

A série aborda temas como:

• existencialismo;
• horror cósmico;
• sacrifício coletivo;
• sobrevivência da identidade humana;
• o que resta da civilização quando tudo entra em colapso.

Os episódios são curtos e acompanhados por música, mas fazem parte de uma cronologia não linear, onde cada vídeo funciona como uma peça de um quebra-cabeça maior.

Por enquanto só lancei o episódio 1 (“Prólogo”) e a lore inicial do universo, mas tenho muitos outros episódios planejados.

Espero que gostem.

At the beginning, people may click because of the topic.

Later, some viewers seem to watch simply because they like the creator.

Do you think personality eventually becomes more important than the niche itself?

Which video will get more impressions and views ?
A. Video with avd 5 mins and video length 7 mins
B. Video with avd 5 mins and video length 14 mins

Views are cool, but gaining a bunch of new subscribers from one video feels like a bigger win. What happened with yours?

it takes me about a week lol

The style that works at 5,000 subscribers may feel limiting at 500,000.

But changing too much can also make longtime viewers feel disconnected.

How much should a creator evolve without losing the identity that got them there?

How content you didn’t really want your channel to be centered around?

I notice my fitness related content performs the best on my channel and I have a feeling if I post nothing but fitness content consistently, my channel will experience massive growth. The problem is while I like fitness, I don’t want to center my channel around that niche. I honestly didn’t think my fitness content would perform well because the fitness space is so saturated but after posting for nearly 10 years, I’m willing to lean into anything that might get this channel monetized.

Finding the right track sometimes takes longer than editing the actual scene.

Do you use a specific library, save music as you find it, or just search whenever you need something?

I know creators sometimes remove videos because they don't like the quality, the views are bad, or the video no longer fits their channel.

Did you ever delete something that later made you wish you'd kept it?

Would you immediately make another video on the same topic, try to turn those viewers into subscribers, start selling something, or just enjoy the moment?

For creators who've already had a video blow up, what did you actually do afterward, and did it help your channel keep growing?

Don't understand my Facebook page is doing very well but my YouTube Channel is struggling really bad. Same content and same niche

Am I doing something wring

33 videos, 81 subs, ~10.8K views. 2 videos = ~40% of all views. The other 31 average ~200 views each.

Quick background: my channel makes MS Paint-style animated explainers on animal behavior/predator psychology — mostly "predator paradox" videos (why an animal capable of killing you chooses not to). Started in the ancient-humans/prehistory niche, pivoted a couple months ago after this niche clearly outperformed it in the data.

What I ruled out with actual data:

• CTR — correlation with impressions: -0.01. My best-CTR video gets barely any impressions.
• Retention — correlation: ~0.07. Same story, best-retention video is my worst performer.
• Repeating the same topic — did 4 more videos in the same lane as my top video. Views collapsed after the first one. (yes i did differentiate between each one)
• Thumbnails — no visual pattern separates my 2 winners from the rest. (all vids follows similar thumbnail pattern)

What I did find: my 2 winners got pushed hard into "Suggested" within 48 hours of publishing. My underperformers got almost nothing in that same window. So whatever decides this happens early before CTR/retention data would even matter.

Also: 99%+ non-subscribed traffic, and Studio flags "returning viewers: Low" on almost every video, winners included.

So the question is ?:

1. Why am i not growing?
2. Doing more of what gets views does not work
3. Doing less of what get views (vids on different topic) does not work
4. 2 videos worked are similar to rest of the vids on the channel, so no way of knowing what works.

it almost feels like playing slot machine with every new video. Please help.

Not looking for "make more/better content" — trying to figure out what's left to actually test to figure out what am i doing wrong.

Hi everyone, I’m having trouble with reaction videos based on my content. I operate in a niche where many streamers upload clips of their content to YouTube. My content is "faceless" one where I provide narration; I tell documentary-style stories about events within that specific niche. I use supporting clips, images, plenty of motion graphics, and so on, but the core of the video is my narration. Each video takes weeks of research, sourcing footage, recording, editing, etc. I started a few months ago and managed to monetize; my videos consistently gather views over time as YouTube finds the right audience for them. The problem is that whenever I upload a video, the very next day, five other channels upload reaction videos covering it. They upload the whole thing from start to finish, adding only occasional commentary. While they do interrupt the video, these interruptions are often infrequent or insignificant—for instance, in a 40-minute video of mine, they might only contribute 10 minutes of commentary. Even so, their audience doesn't go on to watch my original video after seeing the reaction because they’ve already seen the whole thing. At first, it didn't bother me because the channels involved didn't get many views (between 1k and 10k), but for my latest video, a channel with 15 times as many subscribers as mine reacted to it. I noticed my metrics plummeting; their video almost matched the view count of the original. The reality is that I feel like I'm competing against my own content. When they react, they always mention my channel, send support and shout-outs, and ask their community to like and subscribe to me, but it doesn't really help much. When their followers hear I've uploaded a new video, instead of watching it directly, they wait to see it on the streamer's channel because they know a reaction video is coming. Honestly, I don't know what to do. It bothers me to see my videos on other channels, but the worst part is that I feel it ruins my metrics—especially my CTR. I know a lot of people say it’s free promotion, but I’m not so sure about that; I’ve never seen a huge spike in views after a reaction video—which makes sense, since the people who watched the reaction have already seen the full video. What do you think I should do? Do you think reaction videos actually hurt you? I’d like to ask them to stop reacting to my content, but I’m worried I’ll get a ton of hate and end up with ten streamers badmouthing me in the community. Still, it’s really discouraging knowing that every video I make is going to get a reaction video made about it. Has anyone been in a similar situation? I’d love to hear your thoughts—I’d really appreciate any advice! Thanks!!