Do You Think Youtube is Unfair to Newbies?

I think YouTube is increasingly becoming more hostile towards small creators, with the leaked potential redesign of the subscriptions feed, which will change it from newest-to-oldest upload order to just a randomized grid of videos from both accounts you've subscribed to as well as recommended channels YouTube wants to shove in there as well. Who knows what the future holds, but YouTube's dwindling relationship with smaller channels is concerning at the best of times.
 
Gerald Z said:
just makes the success of smaller channels that much more potent and stronger in my opinion.
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This.
I believe that it was only a matter of time before these new rules were set in place. Getting 10,000 views is all too easy to falsify. 1000 subs and 4000 watchtime - not as easy.
 
Personally yes, because the ability to gain exposure now is either through virality or friendship... or money. Lots of money. Put I think that the more time we spend victimising ourselves, the less time we spend actually adapting and using what has happened as a means to succeed..
 
Hey!
I've just joined here again and started posting again and totally revamping my channel.
I started back in 2013 and one of my videos got 72k views and was able to gain 729 subs which is amazing to me.
Obviously I stopped uploading for 4 years and I do regret it now because I could of gotton somewhere with my channel and a lot of people say I had potential to get big. Now restarting and completely changing my niche I find might end up becoming very difficult for me but I feel more confident as the videos I plan to make I would feel passionate making! Hope it all goes well for you:)
 
I just started my channel two weeks ago, and don't feel there's anything unfair about it. I guess I went into the whole thing wanting to learn some new skills, and have researched a lot both before I put up a video, and since I started. Gaining some views and subs has been amazing, and I've been able to connect with some awesome people both on and off-line while doing this. If I never get over 100 or 1000 or 10K subs, I really don't mind (though I really want to reach 100 so I can have a custom URL!). I'm not planning on ever seeing any fame or fortune from creating content, so it doesn't really matter to me.
Perspective is everything!
 
Sadly yes. Back then you can become popular just by uploading any random low quality funny videos. It much more easier to get views and subscribers too. I wish I have started it sooner, who knows I might be able to become big by now. YouTube now just promoting famous people who have ton of subscribers back then while the new people who started it are being ignored. Go and check the trending videos and all you see is people who started YouTube many years ago.

I wish sometimes that YouTube have a competitor so many new people can go to there instead of YouTube to build up their popularity. I heard IGTV might be able to compete with YouTube but that will take a long way for IGTV to overtake YouTube.
 
No, I dont think youtube is unfair to new users. First off, your late to the party, so you gotta work harder. The early bird gets the worm or in this case the early adopters do. However they also faced the risk of youtube never becoming a successful platform, so they get rewarded by having no competition when they started. We face more competition now, but we do know that youtube is a great platform and sustainable.

Also you need to change your mentality. With that kind of entitled mentality, your not gonna go very far. Just focus on getting the job done instead of focusing on why others have it easier, even if those thoughts are misplaced.
 
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