Whatever happens just try not to feel down if the views drop, if anything use that to work harder! I rememeber when we first started getting a super huge boost from YouTube getting 1M views a day, I was over the moon! Then 2weeks later, views drop at least 30% out of no where and I was heartbroken. It was going down slowing every day for a month after that and I thought there's no hope....and out of no where again the views spike up even higher than before! I started when the giant eggs were in its prime time so That's what I tried to focus on while also doing things my son loved! I honestly still don't knows which videos will succeed and which will be a flop. Sure I knew some video might have a higher chance then others because of the topic, but there are videos we spends so much time on and it barely gets any views, then there were videos where we didn't spend as much effort on, it will get way more views!
I think those parents who email us were just concerns of what their kids where watching. It was coming from a good place saying like their 3 year d daughter loves watching Ryan but this joker video really scare her and ask us to not use joker anymore. Our audience are also at the stage where they just copy what they see (I know because my son will copy other kids he watch) and we will get so many hate from doing those bad baby videos so we try to keep our videos the most kid friendly as possible. There's nothing wrong with bad baby videos if the kids watching knows it's just a skit and for entertainment but not with our target audience! I'm seen many successful smaller channel rise to the top by doing those and that's good for them!
Yes it feels amazing to get where we're at but the truth is there are a lot of hate being on top. Being a kid toy channel doesn't help either...people thinks we are exploiting our son for money and spoiling him...etc...and think we are viewbotting because they don't understand the views to like ratio or why there are so many random keystrokes like " fjigcjl". My son loves making videos and it's such a great bonding moments for our family. He wants me to record him doing stuff 24/7 if it was his way. When I first started YouTube I didn't even know there were money involved! I was just doing it because he asked me too and we had so much fun filming together! Then when I did knew about money, I thought I'll just work hard so I can make enough money just to pay for the toys so we can continue to do this Youtube thing because my son enjoys it so much! Now Yotube is my full time job and I just pretty much pay myself what I would of made at my other job before and the rest goes back into the company to pay for toys etc...and my kids future and college fund. As for the toys, we donate them when we are done and my son is happy just playing with those $1 hot wheels toy car. Not everyone gets that, and we actually hate the attention. (Yes I know I shouldn't care what people think but it's hard, we don't have much support and fans like other bigger adult channel Youtubers )That's why I started a second channel and hoping to bring some of my views over there. Of course I don't want my views to drop because no one stay this high forever so we are saving up the most we can for my kids future as possible! I'm hoping to shift my audience slowly to the new channel. So I want some of the views from the main channel shifting over to the new channel since its focus more on vlog type than toys. It will be a long process since I can only upload 2 videos a week at the momen being busy and our lives isn't very interesting sadly. ( and of course kids don't subscribe so doesn't help either lol) So I'm hoping to maintain the views just shifting it to a different channel. I know it's crazy but my husband gets excited when channels like Toy Freaks beats us in views. He hates the attention! When I check out Toy Freaks channel, it seems like either they are good at blocking out negative comments or they are not receiving as much hate as we are.
Anyways sorry to rant but that's how it feels being us lol....I'm bless with what we have and wouldn't change it any other way, just wish we didn't get so much hate lol...we did a science experiment video and we got a comment that said we're wasting water even though we barely used any...lol [DOUBLEPOST=1480564615,1480564536][/DOUBLEPOST]
Kids chain watch with auto-suggest ON, they rarely stop to like, or comment, especially if they are under 5 or 6 (they have no idea what that is). Also the kids app, which many watch in, does not have access to comments. And rightfully so, with all the hate, swearing and abuse that kids videos get.
Just want to say I'm starting to notice lots of channels copying your careless dad videos! Think you might be on to something! Nice job!
