TheDutchTexan
I Love YTtalk
A little background: My main channel has been established and is a pretty solid hobbyist automotive channel. I dusted off my gaming channel and posted a video of some test footage I captured on my new capture software. Getting back in the GAME! I am used to seeing at least 25 views in the first hour. Now I saw 3, 2 of which are probably my own. I posted it on my social media but it didn't do jack. No engagement, no nothing.
And then it registered. A feeling I haven't felt in a long long time. New channel blues. You put some time in content, upload it. Ask questions in the description and comment section of the video but get no response. And that view counter? Less than 10. After 2 hours.
What can you do about it? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It is your first video in a long time. You are starting from scratch. It's frustrating and it sucks. But the only thing left to do is push past that and create. Views and subscribers are a part of what makes YouTube fun. But if you don't have any fun during the creative process you might as well quit. The views and subs? They might come. They might not.
I've already decided that it's a strictly for fun channel just like my automotive one. Something to throw up gameplay videos and have fun with it. And I believe that is a mindset you need to have when you start on YouTube. Start because you have passion for something, not because you think you are going to be the next big thing.
It still is an enormous eye opener. To be down there again, back at the beginning. 0. It's going to be a fun quest. I already know it. And it will be the ultimate test to see if it is still possible to get a channel to 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours nowadays. And if it doesn't go anywhere? It was a lot of fun to at least try!
And then it registered. A feeling I haven't felt in a long long time. New channel blues. You put some time in content, upload it. Ask questions in the description and comment section of the video but get no response. And that view counter? Less than 10. After 2 hours.
What can you do about it? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It is your first video in a long time. You are starting from scratch. It's frustrating and it sucks. But the only thing left to do is push past that and create. Views and subscribers are a part of what makes YouTube fun. But if you don't have any fun during the creative process you might as well quit. The views and subs? They might come. They might not.
I've already decided that it's a strictly for fun channel just like my automotive one. Something to throw up gameplay videos and have fun with it. And I believe that is a mindset you need to have when you start on YouTube. Start because you have passion for something, not because you think you are going to be the next big thing.
It still is an enormous eye opener. To be down there again, back at the beginning. 0. It's going to be a fun quest. I already know it. And it will be the ultimate test to see if it is still possible to get a channel to 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours nowadays. And if it doesn't go anywhere? It was a lot of fun to at least try!
