I don't know honestly, this whole month of March has been a wild ride for me and I'm trying to cool down and be level headed again - I'm a very excitable person and I know this isn't good for my mental health in the long-term, so I'm taking steps to curb my excitement.
I've blown up since March 1st, my video from Februrary 25th went viral on YT Homepage, it's at almost 40k views atm and still getting 500-600 views/day. My last video from 4 days ago is getting a steady 100-200 views/hour, most of it coming from Homepage. It's slowing down a bit today, but I suspect it's gonna keep getting 1k views/day for a while, maybe a week, maybe even more, who knows, I've never had viral videos blow up like this before... Even some of my old videos from 2019 suddenly shot up to 100-200 views/day.
I can only suspect a lot of those views are from people self-isolating, bored at home. Some of those people that play Dungeons & Dragons in their free time anyway, now have even more free time on their hands. And lookey lookey, I bring them the best-produced videos I've ever uploaded to my channel - the thumbnails are clickbait as frick and the videos themselves are relatively short, dynamic, fast, snappy and to the point while delivering a ton of information, unlike my old videos that were up to 2 hours long and lulled people to sleep.
I predict I might be winning in the short-term. I even got 10 new patrons this month (3 of them left immediately - Patreon is a chaotic beast). My YT ads CPM dropped below $5 throughout the first half of March, only to recover on March 15th, hitting $7.5 just as my latest video blew up as well and earning me $17+ that day, my best day yet.
Long-term? If lockdowns occur worldwide, businesses will go out, supply chain breaks, food and necessity prices go up, millions of people lose their jobs, economy goes to crap and what happens to my Patreon? Well, the first thing people cut down on is spending money on fun things, so that's gonna hurt my earnings for sure. The YT ad earnings will tank too most likely, unless I somehow start getting even more traffic, something I'm not counting on at all - I always try to prepare for worst.
I am gearing up for that possibility, I've been looking into one side hustle for a while now, even before all this craze has taken over the world. I'll most likely divert some focus to it to weather the storm, but I will make sure to keep pumping out new content as mercilessly as I can, because I want to keep my current growth snowballing even faster.