Did sub for sub kill our channel?

[Ran4yt]

We had a great original idea but it is 4 parents on the channel. Twins squared friends 4life is about our 2 sets of twins growing up together and enjoying friendship. They are 1 month apart. Moms are close. Dads are close. Yet early on we sub for subbed some. That was very early on. We stopped but can never get success via the algorithm and have tried every trick you find to achieve optimization.

Can we recover or should we just give up on the channel?

YouTube.com/twinssquaredfriends4life

 

[mirrorlessNY(youtuber)]

Hi, congrats on 1st post and welcome to the forum.
Your channel looks fantastic, lots of great family memories. What kind of "success" and "optimization" are you looking for and what is there to "recover" from?
Still lots of things to improve on if you want the channel to grow faster.

 

[BeyondTheDarkYT]

Your view's in comparison to your sub count is pretty low, With all those dead subs it can badly effect your channel, I'd say start again.

 

[Newusaa]

Your view's in comparison to your sub count is pretty low, With all those dead subs it can badly effect your channel, I'd say start again.

Just give up, don't start again.

I have been in yt 4 years now and all i can say, is if you insist on making a yt channel, make it something you love and you are able to make videos about. So if you love your garden and gardening that would be something.

Anything else just forget it. I honestly believe the algorithm chooses based on random. Not everyone, but many it picks up their channels at random (ie luck).

The reason I think it does this is yt does not want people to think only Casey Neistats can have a successful channel. They want to make people think "I can make better videos than that". You CAN make better videos than that, because many channels are promoted based on chance.

Just imagine what would happen if yt really based it on retention and video quality. What would happen is the quality of popular channels would be so high, nobody would feel like they could do it. In that case, yt would not get what they want, which is maximum content creation. Believe me, youtube wants the maximum number of people creating content for them, and promoting channels at random is the only way to achieve this. This is why you see complete schmucks with popular channels all the time.

It all makes sense if you think about it under this theory. This is why yt "drags" people along. You will notice almost every channel will have one or two successful videos in the first few months. It is kinda like slot machine theory... give them a little something as you are in fact robbing them. Trick them into believing with a lot of noise and flashing lights.

The other successful channels are those that have a "manipulation network" going in. You see these all the time. So, a person starts a channel and they already have maybe 1000 or more "friends" watching or sharing their videos, no matter how bad they are. Imagine competing with that from scratch! It could take years to get the same signal they got overnight.