So...FRIGGEN...FRUSTRATING!

[oscarflowers]

just keep swimming~

 

[Melanie King]

Everyone grows at a different rate so don't compare yourself to others and don't get discouraged. That was one of the first things I was taught when I was doing my research before I started my channel and I believe it's one of the most important things I know. If I constantly compared myself to others I would of probably quit months ago.

I can definitely agree with this. I too am very guilty of constantly comparing myself to other channels I feel "aren't on my level" and I'm trying to get out of that habit.

And actually, it can be rather beneficial to see what it is about those videos that people like and why they are subbed/keep coming back. Which can easily be found by scrolling through their comments. Once you figure out the most popular reasons, run with it.

But man, it takes wayyy too much time and energy focusing too hard on how other videos you find to be "krap" are doing better. Take those videos as a learning lesson and just ignore them.

 

[Sibernethy]

It might help to remember what Youtube actually is and what it was always meant to be. It's a video-sharing site, but over the years, people have warped it into some kind of twisted popularity game.

 

[nad]

I understand your frustration but imagine were you can be at in 2 years if we keep on doing it!
I mean...if there is a market for this kind of videos and if you serve the best videos on that market, then on the long run you will definitely get the most views.
If however, there is no bigger market for that kind of videos then you won't grow much more, unless you manage to make a viral video that interests the "normal people" as well.

 

[TheVlogTheory]

We put a lot of time and effort into our videos.. 3 people on the team, up to 8 cameras, 3-5 days of editing - all for a final product that WE think is pretty darn good..
Then, I go do a few searches for similar videos in our niche and I find a bunch of poorly lit, bad sounding, shakey piece of boring-junk videos that get 2,000,000+ views and channels full of similarly krappy videos with 10's or hundreds of thousands of subscribers - all while we can't even break 2k subscribers or a few thousand views per video..
Maybe people's standards for youtube are much lower and quality isnt in demand?

I totally feel you there.. I'm a YouTuber of 8 years and have made well over 1000 videos. I have put in so much hard work and dedication but I've never had crazy growth. I hope you keep making stuff..it's all about recording things down, making an impact on someone, somewhere. I've never ever let the numbers get me down, I look at the ones who are there and go from there. I'm wishing you all the best!

 

[MostShockingEP]

We put a lot of time and effort into our videos.. 3 people on the team, up to 8 cameras, 3-5 days of editing - all for a final product that WE think is pretty darn good..
Then, I go do a few searches for similar videos in our niche and I find a bunch of poorly lit, bad sounding, shakey piece of boring-junk videos that get 2,000,000+ views and channels full of similarly krappy videos with 10's or hundreds of thousands of subscribers - all while we can't even break 2k subscribers or a few thousand views per video..
Maybe people's standards for youtube are much lower and quality isnt in demand?

You forgot to mention how much you have invested into channel/videos promotion?

 

[Doom Video Vault]

that's why it's easier (or atleast imo) for a gaming or makeup youtube channel to blow up because they're aimed at little boys or girls

I'm still under 1,500 subs (1,200ish atm) and I've been doing this on and off for six years. Maybe because I don't add commentary because I'm awkward at it. That and it's a specific niche mainly (the Doom series games).

That and the majority (70%) of my audience is 18-34 as well since the 13-17 group is under 5% so you can't say all gaming channels are for kids lol

 

[Aryssa]

I'm still under 1,500 subs (1,200ish atm) and I've been doing this on and off for six years. Maybe because I don't add commentary because I'm awkward at it. That and it's a specific niche mainly (the Doom series games).

That and the majority (70%) of my audience is 18-34 as well since the 13-17 group is under 5% so you can't say all gaming channels are for kids lol

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most, not all. you can never say that any channel is aimed at only kids or only adults. Just how documentary channels don't have a lot of kids watching it, ofcourse there must be some that wanna be educated but mostly no.

even videos for kids have adults watching it

 

[Hirudov]

people follow you because they are sheep and want to be part of a big club. My sub gain has been stagnant for a couple of days now. Views are down as well. I think I might be nearing the end of this hobby thing. I don't seem to enjoy it as much anymore.

That's pretty low view of the people who watch your videos. Probably this is also the reason why you are feeling depressed and going to give up.

Soon I will have 10K subscribers and I value EVERY view and value even more EVERY subscriber, because I don't force people to subscribe with pop-ups, anonations, cards, end screens, auto subscribe links or whatever other annoying tricks. Every person who subscribed to my channel, did it because he wanted to, and my views/subscribers ratio is much higher than the views/subscribers ratio of the popular channels.

 

[TheDutchTexan]

That's pretty low view of the people who watch your videos. Probably this is also the reason why you are feeling depressed and going to give up.

It's a fact. Example: No one gave a darn about Chris Pratt when he went to high school but now he can't walk into a dollar store without being recognized. Not because he is such an awesome person. But because he is well known and everyone wants to be a fan to be liked by someone like that. The same translates into YouTube. When you are a smaller YouTuber you are followed by real people. But as soon as you start to get beyond a certain point those real people start to be crowded out by sheep.

And giving up? I think after a solid 3+ years on YouTube I have given it a proper shot don't you think? That isn't giving up. That is making a business decision.