- Joined
- Mar 12, 2016
- Messages
- 22
- Reaction score
- 7
- Age
- 25
- Channel Type
- Cartoonist
Straight to the point.
My channel is completely frozen in terms of subscribers and views. In the few months that it's existed, I have gained four subscribers by posting a billion 'sub for sub' messages, then one more simply because they liked my stuff, then lost one for whatever reason, then gained two more by showing the channel to two people I know. All in all, six subscribers. And it has stayed that way for at least two months at this point.
Also, I'm having a weird thing with views. The first few videos I put up, I watched them myself eight or nine times, simply because I wanted to see how they turned out. Then the views started racking up to thirty, twenty, ten, all from other people. Here's the thing: I haven't touched my latest few videos (save for an accident where I clicked on two once, and they both now have 1 view each), they've been up for two weeks, and absolutely nothing has happened. Nothing.
Except, somehow, my total views keep going up. It was at 60, then it went up to 61, then to 65, and it's now at 66, all while the views on the individual videos stay exactly the same. I have no idea why this is happening.
First question: I understand YouTube recommends videos on the basis of views, but would it really happen for a video with like 10 views? Probably not, right? But that's the only explanation I can think of for why the views on my first few videos are around 20-30.
Second question: WHAT DO I DO?! I love making these videos, but to put in massive amounts of effort and have absolutely no one see it - not even the six people subscribed to me - is really, REALLY depressing and disappointing. I put in hours of work on my latest big video, and absolutely no one has watched in over two weeks. Is this just a natural part of starting out? I don't want to whine about how I deserve attention, but do I just not have entertaining content?
PLEASE BE BRUTALLY HONEST. BRUTALLY. Please check out my channel, review the content, let me know what's wrong. Or give me general tips; anything at all would be nice. I have absolutely no problems with criticism, so let it loose. I would just like outside opinions, because I've tried everything I can think of by now.
Some things that are probably holding me back: I'm not someone who, in the time that my channel's existed, has done a good job of keeping to a consistent schedule. Sometimes I didn't make it in time, a few times I was completely derailed by an outside problem. I understand this may have contributed a great deal, but I am not sure if it's the main reason (my channel is practically nonexistent, after all, so it may be that no one even noticed).
My audio also kind of sucks and I sometimes have moderately long pauses in my videos. I've been working on improving the pauses, but I can't do much for audio.
My channel is completely frozen in terms of subscribers and views. In the few months that it's existed, I have gained four subscribers by posting a billion 'sub for sub' messages, then one more simply because they liked my stuff, then lost one for whatever reason, then gained two more by showing the channel to two people I know. All in all, six subscribers. And it has stayed that way for at least two months at this point.
Also, I'm having a weird thing with views. The first few videos I put up, I watched them myself eight or nine times, simply because I wanted to see how they turned out. Then the views started racking up to thirty, twenty, ten, all from other people. Here's the thing: I haven't touched my latest few videos (save for an accident where I clicked on two once, and they both now have 1 view each), they've been up for two weeks, and absolutely nothing has happened. Nothing.
Except, somehow, my total views keep going up. It was at 60, then it went up to 61, then to 65, and it's now at 66, all while the views on the individual videos stay exactly the same. I have no idea why this is happening.
First question: I understand YouTube recommends videos on the basis of views, but would it really happen for a video with like 10 views? Probably not, right? But that's the only explanation I can think of for why the views on my first few videos are around 20-30.
Second question: WHAT DO I DO?! I love making these videos, but to put in massive amounts of effort and have absolutely no one see it - not even the six people subscribed to me - is really, REALLY depressing and disappointing. I put in hours of work on my latest big video, and absolutely no one has watched in over two weeks. Is this just a natural part of starting out? I don't want to whine about how I deserve attention, but do I just not have entertaining content?
PLEASE BE BRUTALLY HONEST. BRUTALLY. Please check out my channel, review the content, let me know what's wrong. Or give me general tips; anything at all would be nice. I have absolutely no problems with criticism, so let it loose. I would just like outside opinions, because I've tried everything I can think of by now.
Some things that are probably holding me back: I'm not someone who, in the time that my channel's existed, has done a good job of keeping to a consistent schedule. Sometimes I didn't make it in time, a few times I was completely derailed by an outside problem. I understand this may have contributed a great deal, but I am not sure if it's the main reason (my channel is practically nonexistent, after all, so it may be that no one even noticed).
My audio also kind of sucks and I sometimes have moderately long pauses in my videos. I've been working on improving the pauses, but I can't do much for audio.