What has been your hardest struggle lately?

Thank the old gods and the new for this website because my daily struggle is having someone to talk to about this hobby and keep my optimism up. At times it feels like shouting at a hurricane. My wife is supportive and understands, bless her, but it isn't the same as having friends who are also doing the same things and having the same problems you have.

My actual friends all raise their eyebrows when I say I'm making youtube videos. People still don't get it.

I suppose it's the same problem that people had 200 years ago when they were walking up into the hills to pan for gold... ;)
 
I latest struggle that took me almost full day working on it, was to check ~500 and fix ~250 videos that YouTube randomly broke for some unknown to me (and to them) reason. After having near two months of conversations forth and back with partner support, they did literally nothing to fix it, evidently didn't even look at it. Zero help. Luckily I found a way to fix the videos by myself, but it was slow, repetitive, many mouse clicks, manual work.My right arm hurts now and my eyes are bloody red. Whatever. I learned that YouTube hates videos with low amount of views, because videos with high amount of views surprisingly were not affected by the bug. Probably it has something to do with the videos with more views being spread on more YouTube servers, while the low viewed videos are kept on single server that had some backup/crash/restore issue, which didn't preserve all the videos settings correctly.
Additionally I learned some basics of YouTube APIs use, that I may implement in the future to avoid such huge manual work. But I still think I would have spent the time better.
 
I would say the hardest struggle for me is retaining subscribers. I have found that many subscriber unsubscribe after a few days only to leave me with the same level of subscribers as soon as i get more new subscribers? . Anyone else have the same problem?
 
Marcello Riviera said:
I would say the hardest struggle for me is retaining subscribers. I have found that many subscriber unsubscribe after a few days only to leave me with the same level of subscribers as soon as i get more new subscribers? . Anyone else have the same problem?
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Not doubting that it could be the same subscribers who leave days later, but isn't it more likely that it is others who leave after having been subbed for a while, rather than the new ones from recently?
 
Finding the time to make vids. I really struggled the past two month, had virtually no time at all. (Though, cheeringly, gained rather than lost subs, which was a small consolation.) Most annoying thing is, I don't think I'm ever going to get better at managing my time; I try, but it's so blasted tricky for me to stay organised over any length of time.
 
Hardest struggle? Trying to get that "it's everday bro" rap out of my head. Like, why! Philip deFranco had to cover it and now its right in my brain and can't get it out... it's real annoying.

Serious though, think its coming up with ideas and as soon as I miss one week I miss multiple. Creativity is hard while you are also trying to do a degree.
 
odabaco said:
Not doubting that it could be the same subscribers who leave days later, but isn't it more likely that it is others who leave after having been subbed for a while, rather than the new ones from recently?
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Yep you could be right. but still really difficult to keep your subscribers. You feel like you have the same problem ?
 
Dewmonic Abyss said:
For me, I just think it's morale to keep uploading. I have to be like one of the most unlucky people of 2017. I started a relationship on New Year's, only to have it end in heartbreak a couple weeks later. Soon after the adpocalypse happens and the whole Wall Street Journal vs YouTube incident, and because I don't make family friendly vanilla content, my average views went down by half and sub count slowed tremendously. And then my equipment breaks, and being the poor sap I am, I can't afford to replace it, and then immediately the day after, my legal guardian kicks me out of the house because of financial trouble, and my neglectful parents refused to take me back (they actually kicked me out the year before because I was having suicidal thoughts and went through treatment), so I was in legal custody of a judge. I was supposed to be in foster care, but because I got kicked out on a weekend when they weren't working, I instead got sent to live in a rehabilitation type shelter for a week filled with violent people of criminal records. In fact, one person even broke a coffee mug just to use the shards as a make-shift weapon. And you couldn't use technology there, either. It was a prison-like environment. I went to court and my parents decided to take me back, and I eventually did get money for new equipment, but I was so emotionally drained to keep up a schedule. And then I started a new relationship. That one lasted for a couple months. Except they told me they had to call it off because they weren't comfortable with long distance. And now fast forward to this month, I'm turning 18 in 2 days, parents are gonna kick me out, and I'm moving into an apartment with a mentally unstable and overworked adult who told me their word is law and if I don't follow it, I can't live there. So it's like, I love uploading. I have so much fun doing videos. And it makes me happy having something up for the day. But I can never really maintain a stable upload schedule. And I tend to delete a lot of the videos I record, too, if I seem unhappy in them. I'm a comedian, so it's like, I want to keep up this funny atmosphere. ...Jesus Christ. I don't know how I ended up ranting about all this. xD
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Find a job, get an app and live the rest of ur days single doing youtube. Work on it and be successful and then rub it in ur parents face. i keep a note with the people that have not help me so far in my channel, after asking for help they normally don't because they think YT is an exercise in futility. So now that my channel is showing some moderate growth im having one hell of a blast telling them all to go f**k them selves and this includes my friends and best.F and familie members ect.
 
CrazFrank said:
Find a job, get an app and live the rest of ur days single doing youtube. Work on it and be successful and then rub it in ur parents face. i keep a note with the people that have not help me so far in my channel, after asking for help they normally don't because they think YT is an exercise in futility. So now that my channel is showing some moderate growth im having one hell of a blast telling them all to go f**k them selves and this includes my friends and best.F and familie members ect.
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Yeah, mate! I think it takes exactly that attitude for YouTube. Thousands and thousands, maybe even millions, of people will start channels, and about 90-95% (I'm making that number up, but it's a good estimate) are going to fail. And people know they're going to fail. But, the people who say 'You know what? I'm NOT gonna fail. I'm gonna keep at it. I'll show you all.' and keep working and grinding despite all odds are gonna be the people to make it.
 
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