Worst YT advice you've received?

Idec Sdawkminn said:
"Don't upload videos by ___ because they will take down your video and give you a copyright strike."
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As someone that unfortunately has to file a lot of copyright claims, I'd actually consider that to be very good advice. Why risk losing your channel by using other people's work? Unless that's all your channel is, someone else's work with your own flair on it.
 
PositivelyBrainwashed said:
I hear this one a lot, even in business which frustrates me, "Just keep working hard, don't quit and eventually you'll make it." Hard work and dedication without direction and strategy will not guarantee success
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Came here to say this.

Hard work and dedication WILL make a successful YouTube channel, but only if you actually know what you're doing in the first place. If you just keep posting videos with no SEO whatsoever, then you could be here a year from now with little/no growth.

With a working strategy, and time and patience, you'll grow - but you do need that working strategy, otherwise you're just relying on luck (which is also why forums like this constantly get people asking "Is YouTube just all luck?" etc)
 
It wasn't advice for me but I once overheard in my College Film Class that if you Spam someone on YouTube you will become famous. I laughed so hard in class I had to excuse myself.
 
DBA said:
As someone that unfortunately has to file a lot of copyright claims, I'd actually consider that to be very good advice. Why risk losing your channel by using other people's work? Unless that's all your channel is, someone else's work with your own flair on it.
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That is all my channel is. The advice wasn't to stop using other people's stuff. It was to stop using stuff owned by a specific company because they were known to be more aggressive with claims and takedowns. I think that advice is invalid because the aggressiveness of a copyright owner doesn't make the use any less Fair Use, just as the passiveness of a copyright owner doesn't make it okay to use their stuff in a non-Fair Use way.
 
LizetteGaming said:
That I couldn't do a gaming channel w/o a facecam. And maybe it would mean more people subscribed and my channel grew faster or something, but I'm not really comfortable with it, and I'm so much more at easy when I only have to worry about my voice.
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I don't do gamer vids, but back in the day i used to watch a youtuber that did call of duty videos and i actually preferred not having the face camera. . .What is the point of watching someone playing video games? When i used to watch my friends play super smash brothers (they were intense), i wouldn't stare at them i would stare at the game
 
I'd say the worst advice I have ever received is the sub for sub method, and upload only "quality" content. Why yes it's good to promote better videos instead of half-assed content, there's always this thing in peoples head that "quality" content is going to be what makes you big, and it's not. It's all about getting your points across, and making sure you are entertaining people no matter how bad the quality is. I've watched high quality, unique videos that are actually worse in some cases, than a generic person talking about his feelings on a specific topic.
 
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