i agree with the 2 above! you should try and share your content around social media, ALL of us have to grind our butts off and work the hard/natural way, its only fair. Also i saw somebody actually get a shoutout and they gained around 7,000 subs and this person only had a couple hundred subs before that too, after many weeks, they began losing around 20-30 subs a day, the video views stayed in the hundreds, there were so many dead subs because of the shoutout and so many people didn't watch their videos, sometimes shoutouts help but sometimes they don't. If you can build yourself upto a couple of hundreds/thousand subs WITHOUT shortcuts, then that shows your hard work and dedication!