A lot of people post here asking for advice, feedback, criticism and wondering why they aren't getting lots of views so I figure it's easier to just make one post that'll be brutally honest with everyone.

1. Your thumbnails are the most important part of your video. There's TONS of really, really dull and uninteresting thumbnails that get posted here. Whatever niche you're in, look at the most popular channel in that niche and see how their thumbnails look, then make yours just as good or better. Anything less isn't good enough.

2. This whole "shadow-banned" excuse for not getting views is desperate and lame. You aren't shadow banned. Your videos just aren't entertaining or good enough to get viewers' attention. Or, you're just not patient and looking to find an excuse as to why the videos aren't doing as well as you'd expect.

3. It's 2025 everyone. Edit your videos. Unedited videos will never get views anymore. Unless you already have an established audience and you want to upload stream VODs on a second channel, then just don't waste your time.

4. Retention editing like MrBeast sucks and is a really cheap way to "retain" attention. Don't try to throw something on the screen or having something move, flash, blow up, or transition every second. Pacing is everything. Your viewer should be taken on a roller coaster ride throughout your video. Not sent into an epileptic seizures from all the unnecessary editing bs people push these days.

5. Simplification and dumbification is important. Everyone has the attention span of a goldfish these days, so if you want them to be invested in your videos, you gotta dumb it down for them and make it entertaining enough to stay throughout the whole video.

6. Money isn't everything. If you're doing YouTube purely to make money, and you complain after 2 weeks wondering why you aren't making anything... then get off the platform and get a real job. Creators spend years to build their channels into actual full time jobs. If you're looking for a "get rich quick" scheme, then YouTube isn't for you.

7. AI is garbage and always will be. If you have AI generate your content 100% start-to-finish, then you aren't a creator and never will be. AI, when used as a proper tool to assist you in creating what you want to create, is a helpful tool that can increase your productivity and efficiency. That's the only way it should be used.

8. Real artists and creators will ALWAYS be true heros. Never lose sight of why you started and why you continue to make the content and art that you do. Your time, effort, attention to detail, and hard work does not go unnoticed no matter how many views you get. Keep it up, never lose your passion, and if nobody else will say it then I will. I'm proud of you. Keep going.

9. NEVER respond to hate comments. That's the quickest way to submit yourself to your audience. Always respond to positive and proper criticism comments. Drown out the morons by drowning them out.

10. Do this because you love it. Not for the money. Not for the fame. But because you're passionate and you love what you do. Keep that as your reason why at all times and stay consistent, and I guarantee you will find success.

And I already have 'goodbye metrics'

I'm aware this may come off as sounding rude but, are there any people in this sub who actually go out and film content, then edit that content into a video? 99% of the posts here are just people using AI to create shorts. Or just straight up stealing other creators stuff and adding a voice over and calling it theirs. It's just garbage. There's almost no long form creators here either. What's the deal?

We are doing gym/fitness content from 5 months, however it is extended to healthy lifestyle and going out from the comfort zone just to move the body. We are usually recording at 4-5am at the gyms so we dont bother other people and because its always not comfortable to record it in front of others.

Today however I invited me brother to be part of the video and we were recording something that we planned for a long while: Parkour Video. We used to train it and wanted to make a video to see if we still got in after 12 years of not touching it, in our 30s. For obvious reasons we couldnt do it at night and had to go out to public. We still tried to find places without people, however I was really positively surprised of how warm people were towards us. We had few interactions like for example security of the building who came out, ask us if we are influencers, had laugh with us etc, or some random guy who came and said he used to train parkour back in the days too, he was watching us from far, asked about youtube channel name and said he will be happy if we would include him in the video (when he spotted camera).

From behind the screen, we are not fully aware that those 40-50 views are really 40 people who are genuinely curious about what we do and support us in our journey. I think we are forgotting about it and this is something that should get us going. Today it was motivation boost to continue what we are doing and reminder that YouTube is not just for creators but more important viewers who enjoy what we (all of us) produce 😉

I am struggling a lot please help me 🙏😭

Hello everyone!

I'm sure this question comes up a lot, but I'm very interested in your opinions and feedback.

Can posting shorts (daily) have a negative (or positive) impact on the visibility of our long videos (monthly)?

I'm lucky enough to have 1400 subscribers, in 6 videos with the best at 40k views. And after taking a break to think about the next steps for my channel, I'm planning to resume posting shorts on other social networks to increase the visibility of the long videos on the YouTube channel and I'm wondering if it's relevant to post the shorts on my YouTube channel?

I'm worried that this will have a negative impact on my long videos. (Subscribers who don't like my shorts or subscribers who are there because of the shorts but don't watch the long videos, etc.).

What do you think?

Thanks for your feedback.

Style 2 is what I have currently. I was trying to make them look more mysterious but professional looking. Sorry I had to collage them.

Hi! I’m a YouTuber with 2.4K subs and 1.4 million lifetime views and I recently took a break from content creation, starting up again on a bi-daily shorts schedule roughly last month. Many of my videos get ~5k - 20k views, yet I’ve barely gotten any subscriber growth at all. (40k views, 2 subs). How can I organically obtain subscribers? (Channel is DroidProg if you’d like to review my content). Open to any and all criticism.

After 7 Months of starting my YouTube letsplay gaming channel, I finally reached 200 subs! Even though the growth was slow. I am very happy to finally reach this milestone!

Yeah my most recent Video is my worst.. And i dont understand why its over the April Fools Event in war Thunder which just started, I used Key Words etc good Description and inspired myself on Thumbnails of the big Ytbers in the scene still I got 5 Impressions for recommend and 102 search and yeah thats it it doesn't even get recommend to my subs 🫠

So im rn 100% the game Little nightmares 2 and when Im done with that I wanna turn my expirience into a video essay but I never did a video about 100 % a game so I got some questions.

1: Should I only cover the achievements in the video or also the story of the game what , what I did between each achievement etc

2: Is it smarter to first explain a achievement and then show how I did it or should I just do the achievement and then say and thats how you get ( achievement name) (or smth like that

3: How long should a 100% video be . my last video essays all were around 45 minutes to a hour,but those videos were smth else ( for some context : the game has 5 chapters , takes around 5 hours to complete and has 35 achievements)

4: and what do you as a viewer expect from a video where someone 100% a game . Do you just wanna see the achievements or also how I died 20 times during that part of the game , do you wanna hear the story or not etc

So I been doing Yt now for like 2 or 3 years. I dindt uploaded 3 years straight I sometimes did longer breaks. ( lack of motivation , personal stuff etc)

I would say that I improved alot . My first videos were "interesting " and my content now takes alot more time and has more quality .

But my videos still perform horribly . I get zero new subs . My video essays that took weeks to make get a few views but my other content like just playing a game gets 2 views or mostly zero.

Never had a audience and almost every video has zero comments.

I dont do yt because of views / money etc I do it for fun but seeing that the video that took weeks to make just gets no attention is just sad to look at and I thought alot about quitting because of it .

but now my Idea : Would starting a new channel be a solution to this problem? and when yes should I keep my old channel up or should I completly delet it with all of the videos . ( I rn got a project on my channel and the first 2 videos for that project are already uploaded , I would save those and reupload them on my new channel)

Im not trying to get attention by saying oh look at me everyone is so mean . I just need some help rn figuring out what the smarter move is.

I rn have a new video essay in production plus the 2 that I already uploaded . I would then start this new channel with those 3 videos and if I do it should I make a video on my old channel saying that I made a new one?

Any help is appreciated

When you are not biased you'll be hated by both parties of conflict. Even though the video wasn't about the current politics in any way and no political agenda was implied.

It's been a long 2 year road but we are SO SO close to having our channel monetized!!! SO Excited you guys! Been such a great learning experience!! It Continues to drive my passions. You guys are amazing. thank you for all the support so far!!! less than 150 hours watch time away now!!!!!!!

I started working on channel since Oct 2024 before that i just watched videos...i think im moving to slow but maybe im wrong?

OK So I've been playing around with trying to make a thumbnail for my Spiderman 2 video and I would like to ask opinions on which one to use or if I should change anything?