the harsh reality of being a youtuber

youtube payed me embarrassingly little in the last year and it's my fault of course. here is what i learned

copy written material is great to attract a particular fan base, but you need to add more to your channel.

i made a lot of music reactions back in the day, but once my channel got monetized i realized i wasn't going to make any money on the videos that were still getting me views as they contained copywrited material and couldn't make money.

this is when i started to pivot to other forms of content. i was basically starting all over again.

However this is how i learned to love the process and i learned to stop chasing views at all costs and started focusing on the quality of the videos i was making.

i also started focusing on who i was speaking too.

I had been perusing views so much that i started making content about things i didn't care about. i also didn't pay any mind to who the videos were reach and who i actually wanted to talk too.

here is what i would do instead if i had to start over.

I would still make reaction video to music but only to music that i really enjoyed, no faking it allowed. if you don't like what your making the audience will know.

i would also start working to perfect other videos that do not contain copywrited content. this way i would have some video's that can make money right away.

2 falling in love with the process is key. if you hate what your doing. no matter how much money your being paid, you will eventually burn out. or turn to other things to find satisfaction. or live a miserable life

i know we all want to escape our jobs, but we need to do it the right way or else our youtube channel will just become another job that we don't want to do.

so anyways those are my thoughts.

oh yeah, youtube paid me $50 in my first year of being monetized. it's better than nothing, but i'm going to blow that out of the water this year

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