SomeGuyDude
Just some guy, dude.
- Joined
- Jan 27, 2015
- Messages
- 477
- Reaction score
- 263
- Age
- 38
- Channel Type
- Gamer
One of my minor... complaints in the YouTube world is how often it appears that smaller channels' viewership bases are really just giant networks of all of these channels subscribing to one another. Especially in the gaming world. It's like when I worked at a bar, I noticed that most of the bartenders would spend their nights off at other bars, and they'd always leave good tips. It made me wonder how much money existed in the world that did nothing but travel from one bar's tip jar to another, never actually spent on anything, never deposited or used for goods.I feel like getting to 100 is the hardest milestone, because I consider YouTube like a small business. The next milestone that would rival this is finding true fans of what you are actually creating, and not some other creator who just wants you to sub to him/her and leave the generic "nice" comment on your video to gain your viewership. I was able to get to 500 on my old channel. but that first 100 was rough, and to find true ans was even tougher.
I think, for the most part, small YouTubers do want to band together, and genuinely do want to support one another and probably really do just subscribe to the ones they honestly like. However, it does leave you wondering how much work it takes to start amassing a following of people who really are just fans from the outside, and not PART of the little ecosystem.