Do You Ever Feel Burnt Out?

Doomkey

Doomkey

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Very slowly I've been starting to feel burnt out. I don't know why, maybe I was pushing way to hard in the beginning and now I'm starting to step back and realize that all of my work has been relatively for naught. I just wish I could see some sort of achievement for all of the hard work I put into my channel. I've been seeing slight growth again, but at the same time I'm starting to get a little discouraged. What do you guys do to keep yourselves going? I try to use the comments I get as motivation since they're usually pretty uplifting. I just wish I could see that sub count go up, especially when I'm seeing other channels (Who, I personally think aren't that great) growing faster than me. Maybe I'm doing something wrong with my promotions, I don't know.

Disclaimer: I'm not burning out completely, I'm going to keep doing this and I'm going to keep putting effort into it. I love doing this, I really do and I don't want to give up. I just feel like I'm starting to slow down a little bit and I kind of don't want to. I just want to keep going with the same enthusiasm I had only two weeks ago where I was up until 3 am reading articles on how to improve, but now I pretty much just edit my videos and post them to Reddit and a few other places and that's it.
 
I personally feel burned out at times writing script after script and having to do so much research. It irks me that I put a lot of work in my research and videos and sometimes I will find people commenting about how misinformed I am. They don't realize the amount of work and reading I put into ensuring I get the right information, but since they heard their information from some pop magazine or online article, all of a sudden my information is wrong and invalid. But, like you say, I keep myself going and motivated by reading the positive comments. I just keep reminding myself that my videos serve a greater purpose than just furthering my hopes of becoming successful on YouTube =)
 
Oh yeah definitely. I felt burnt out the second I put out my video cause then I sat there and was like, "I have to put up ANOTHER one?! That was already hard work!!" Especially with comedy videos I'm finding more road blocks that I thought I wouldn't have to encounter. But now that I'm getting into the routine of things, I'm finding it easier to come up with better ideas and while my growth isn't big at all, I think just finding motivation in the small things keeps me going. I look at the likes - even just 1 will convince me that the video I put out is good! Maybe I'll gain a subscriber? Maybe I won't, that doesn't define if the video is good or bad however, it moreso defines how much harder you have to work on your next video. Next video is the same result? Maybe something needs to change? Talk to different people, get input, look around, watch more videos, etc. Motivate yourself to keep doing better.

I also had that part where I was so motivated in the beginning and read everything, wrote down notes, etc. But now I'm like eh. What I found actually excites me now is looking for different and new ways to improve on what I already know. I know about SEO and tags - but what can I do in my videos to improve them? I know about thumbnails - but are they good enough? I know about cards - but how should I structure my videos to include them? Now that we all know the absolute basics of making a "good" video (by YouTube's standards anyway haha), how do we go about improving and growing not only as a channel, but as a person? That's my general motivator. Having a goal as your motivator is awesome, but the steps to get to the goal are even greater and should be your best motivator.

And at the end of the day, I've realized that it is a LOT of work. People do this as their main job, and we're all doing this on the side with real life happening in the foreground. It's difficult to get distracted by other things, but also I personally use this as a distraction from those other things! Make it fun for yourself and don't stress out over growth or numbers - I mean, that's what I'm going to keep saying to myself no matter what LOL
 
Especially when I upload the videos consistently and observe a LITTLE growth makes me BURNT out. But that does not mean that I will give up, I will try to improve my skills and move on. Our target is to be popular, so we will definitely become POPULAR.
 
I like your Superhot video. I'm not sure why you're not getting views if they're all like this. You seem confident and enthused about what you're doing. I would have switched the name on that around if I were you. Superhot Secrets Finale | Levels 25-28 Compilation should rank better because Superhot is the first word in the title. Then tag Pewdiepie (jk on that part).
 
I was pretty bummed out when my subscriber count dropped from 35 to 34. And in a sense, I 'burned out' when it dropped to 33 a few days later: not in a sad way, but more in the sense that it blew my emotional fuses and I stopped being hung up about it (because, you know, staying hung up was going to wreck me).

And you know what? I feel a lot better not being so hung up about it.

I work with some varying guest speakers and an occasional camera lady and a devoted watcher that I regularly discuss my format with, and in this warm feeling of us being a big 'family' washed over me as of late. I want to invite them to my house for a big family dinner with board games, to discuss how we could improve and expand the format, but especiallly to express my gratitude that at least we have one another, and that we have fun together, even if we fail to share this fun with others over YouTube.

This feeling allowed me to take even more distance from the ominous double digit, and just see with more clarity that with my current content quality and upload frequency, I don't even really deserve much more than 30 subs.

And in more recent days, I've been excited to hang around here on the forums a little more: not to skim around for the 'golden advice' to break my stall, not to trick people with niceties to check out my channel and pleeeease sympathysubscribe, but to genuinely try to help people, and just to talk to fresh new minds from across the globe. And though I didn't even really mean to find ways to improve my channel, it turns out that giving feedback on the work of others and trying to figure out their bottle necks gave me some great ideas for myself! Like, up to the point where I lay in bed with my eyes open, processing new inspirations, then getting out of bed and going downstairs in the dark to see if my camera stand could do the things I was thinking of doing with it. Needless to say, I'm feeling somewhat fired up again!



Long story short: maybe burning out is a good thing sometimes, so that we may take some distance from despair and other negative drives and get the overview and soberness to find some new positive inspiration.

Answer to your question how I keep myself going: I appreciate the bonds that came from this project, I've been succeeding in not caring that much about my subscriber count and I get new energy from helping others on this forum (and helping them genuinely, not with a hidden agenda).
 
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Jawad Soomro said:
Especially when I upload the videos consistently and observe a LITTLE growth makes me BURNT out. But that does not mean that I will give up, I will try to improve my skills and move on. Our target is to be popular, so we will definitely become POPULAR.
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Same thing for us. :/
 
Doomkey said:
Very slowly I've been starting to feel burnt out. I don't know why, maybe I was pushing way to hard in the beginning and now I'm starting to step back and realize that all of my work has been relatively for naught. I just wish I could see some sort of achievement for all of the hard work I put into my channel. I've been seeing slight growth again, but at the same time I'm starting to get a little discouraged. What do you guys do to keep yourselves going? I try to use the comments I get as motivation since they're usually pretty uplifting. I just wish I could see that sub count go up, especially when I'm seeing other channels (Who, I personally think aren't that great) growing faster than me. Maybe I'm doing something wrong with my promotions, I don't know.

Disclaimer: I'm not burning out completely, I'm going to keep doing this and I'm going to keep putting effort into it. I love doing this, I really do and I don't want to give up. I just feel like I'm starting to slow down a little bit and I kind of don't want to. I just want to keep going with the same enthusiasm I had only two weeks ago where I was up until 3 am reading articles on how to improve, but now I pretty much just edit my videos and post them to Reddit and a few other places and that's it.
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Keep going hun and don't look at others to much! I've seen people grow rapidly to but they are mostly sub4sub people and their video aint getting watched nearly as much when you generate ever hard earned sub yourself. If you feel tired of making video's already don't do it and put your energy in stuff that you do enjoy!
 
Well I'm felling like that in this period. I mean I always keep up all the things I'm doing, uploading 1 video per day and I always try to make the next video better than the previous one, even if just for a particular aspect only. I always keep reading guides on how to improve, especially on the SEO part, but I read so many of them that now it's always an endless repeating of the same stuff and it's becoming a sterile thing.
I also look to other channels that are about the same age of mine ( and I hate myself for doing this) and noticing that they already broke the 100 or 300 subs and that demoralizes me a lot.
There are a lot of difficulties on the road but I always remember the reason why I want to succeed and I will always keep fighting for that!
 
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