IceTwig
Well-Known Member
So, you actually PAID adsense? I am very reluctant to give YouTube any money at all, because I don't trust that business ... even though I'm using it. I think some really shady crap is going on behind the scenes. I have videos where the likes seemed to have decreased, and how is that even possible unless YouTube is doing it? I do not believe the same people who liked them turned around and disliked them; I just don't believe that at all. My followers are loyal, and my vids are only interesting to my kind of people. I joined this site to see how to improve my channel, but I see there may be too many phobic people on this one (LOL). Anyway... No, I don't think you're over-thinking when it comes to YT. Anything is possible.
I'm not so sure youtube(google) is doing anything quite that shady. Hell I don't think they even give a care about smaller channels or ones that are just starting.
I've heard some really great things and some really bad things about paying youtube to advertise your channel. So I wanted to try it for myself and see. Whether it was just me going at it too early without learning the ins and outs well enough or it actually is that bad, I really don't know.