If you get frustrated you have to reflect on yourself. Why do you do this? Does the creative process do anything for you? Or are you in it 100% for the fame? If the latter I have the best message for you: Quit.
It will only get more frustrating the longer you go on. If you don't grow to 100K in the first 6 months it is unlikely that your channel will all of a sudden blow up. It can still happen, but it becomes more unlikely the longer it takes. I have been at it for just over 3 years and that is the time it took me to get to 3200ish subscribers. That is another thing, you look at the numbers of others but do not realize how long it took them to get there. For me growth was (and by all other standards still) is slow.
0-100 -> one year
0-1000 -> two year
0-3000 -> three years
You might think: Oh hey, that's exponential growth, you'll be at 7000 when year 4 rolls around! Nope, the numbers do not support that at all. So the message is clear. You do it #1 for your own pleasure. If you do not gain pleasure from it invest your time into something else. It is a labor of love, no matter if you have 100 subscribers of 100.000. It will take the same amount of time and effort to make those videos. Frustrating that typically only 300 people seem to watch my MotoVlogs that I take hours to edit? Nope. Otherwise I wouldn't do them. The creative process is awesome. The comments that I get from those 300 viewers are awesome. I do other videos that typically hit 1000 within the first week (think my car reviews and cars and coffee). Nothing compared to those YouTubers that hit 100k views within the first hour. But hey? I don't care. I love what I do, and those comments, views and subscribers? Icing. Delicious icing on the awesome cake that I already have. And the cake and icing still seem to grow slowly every week. And that's awesome.
