Popular YouTube Creators Getting All The Attention?

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BetaFur

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PewDiePie gained an average of 24,837 subscribers per day in the past 14 days. That's my channel (128 subscribers) times 194. That's one days average. It took me over a year to get 100 subs, it takes him less than 10 minutes. Call this a rant, or hate thread on popular YouTube creators, but it's frustrating when I get 1 subscriber in a week when popular YouTubers get many more. All my subscribers say I'm a rather good YouTuber, It feels like all the popular Youtubers create more than half all the traffic YouTube gets. People get on Youtube to watch only popular YouTubers, not to find new entertainment. YouTube is full of awesome content creators, but very few get the attention they deserve. I ask you this, I don't care if you check out my channel, but make sure to go check out other YouTubers who don't have tons of subscribers and help get the attention they deserve!
 
Because things change. PewDiePie started out just making random videos of him playing Call of Duty and other mainstream games, only amassing what most people (or in this case gamers) on YouTube aim to get: a small crowd. For a long while he only had around 100~ subscribers, and then he released his gameplay to Amnesia and his reactions were funny enough to make one video viral and the rest of the series popular enough to gradually create his audience until the viralness of "that Swedish dude screaming on camera" got so big that he got millions and millions of subs in such a short time. That causes a lot of ad revenue to be generated for YouTube, therefor promoting him more freely and so more and more people get subscribed to him.

Good content is another thing. The already popular YouTubers started out with good content or a viral video that lead them to make good content, and they are still popular because people think their content is good. Most other channels that get that 1 subscriber a week are only streaming out modest to decent content. And to those channels with great content hidden; as long as you have a good little crowd of subscribers that love to watch your videos you should be happy. I'd rather know that I will never get #1 YouTuber status popular while only amassing to a small subscriber count then to not have either. Basically my philosophy is to just keep pushing out some good content, it might take a while but people will begin to look forward to new stuff from you and that's how you slowly create your own army of "bros."
 
I kinda just concentrate on my own content rather than envy the big ones. Helps me not to lose my sh!t and do what i love. Whatever happens happens. I learned if my videos don't get enough exposure that means either i've tricked myself into thinking my content is good or my SEO sucks and i just work on that.
 
That''s how being popular works. Somebody has to be at the top and somebody has to be at the bottom and it isn't always fair. YouTube would be stupid if everyone had the exact same number of subscribers. Also, it took PewDiePie months when he was starting off to get 100 subs. There is a thing called exponential growth and it is really interesting. What I've noticed is a lot of YouTubers it took them a longer time to from 0 to 100,00 then 100,000 to a million 1,000,000. Every big YouTuber started off with zero subscribers and at one time (even if it was for only a few months) they were a "small" YouTube channel.
 
The surest way to be unhappy is to constantly compare yourself with others. There's always someone who has more.

It's a long way to the top but it's a short way down, just ask anyone who was famous a few years ago who isn't now.

Concentrate on what you can do with your own channel and don't worry about others, learn what you can from them and move on.
 
Its the reality of this. YouTube promotes people that will advertise more on their behalf and now a days you wont get big only by content that was the key 4 years ago and this does not work any longer. Most people now partnership or join to groups that have lot amounts of fans but its hard to make alone now a days with a Viral video. I have seen people with viral videos but still low sub and view counts so that is not the key any longer at least from my perspective.
 
Grow up...welcome to YouTube, no reason to keep whining about it. Unless you've deleted/removed videos, you only have 30 uploads on that channel from a year's worth of YouTube. That's not worthy of a large number of subscribers, especially with the kind of content you upload. It shows inconsistency, a lot of your thumbnails are also cropped weird and seem a bit strange, and your mic quality isn't all that great.

Not trying to be rude, just trying to show you the reality of how it is. There's a LOT that separate you from PewDiePie, or a lot of the other YouTubers on top. If you've been making content that are at his level for almost 2 years, then I'd see you getting upset, but you still have a ton of work to do before you can make the argument that you deserve a large number of subscribers. Stop comparing yourself to others number-wise, and work to improve your own problems, and maybe someday you'll see significant growth. And longevity does not equal numbers. I don't understand why people say "I've been on YouTube for a year and have no subs". Time is important, but so is quality. Fix your quality, then come back and complain.
 
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