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>Select a niche, one of the only topics that I'm worth listening to on
>Chuuba, but my primary content is focused on videos, not streams
>Avoid drawing the attention of anyone else in that niche. I look up to some of them, and want to make a good first impression
>Know that some of my early content will be very similar to theirs, and I don't want to be seen as an unoriginal copycat
>Also know I have a few things to offer that they could never provide, and want to focus on
>Spend months refining stylistically distinct content that far exceeds anything they could do in those fields, to prove I have unique and worthwhile things to offer people
>75 views and 11 subscribers in 4 months.
>Meanwhile, shameless copycats shamelessly shill themselves everywhere. Most are total shit compared to who they're copying.
>A couple people start doing things kinda similar to what I'm doing, but with a fraction of the skill. Most are clearly very young, and will need a fair bit more time and practice to fully leave cringe territory, but some have real promise.
>Both of these sets of people achieve over 1K subs in about the same amount of time as my 11.
It's well known that Quantity > Quality in the context of the YouTube algorithm, so this isn't meant to be a complaining, "woe is me, I'm so much better, everyone is dumb but me, they just can't see my GENIUS, etc" kind of post. I knew from the start that something like this would be the probable outcome. But I don't know whether my line of thinking was flawed as far as how this will play out in the minds of people in the long run. Was it worth it? Did I even achieve anything? Maybe talking to people immediately, instead of being a perfectionist autist about it, would have moved things along faster.
I'll have to come up with content that can be mass-produced and shotgunned out to gain algorithm traction. High-effort audiovisual extravaganzas that take months to create are not it, and even if I love the final products. And they're not going to become worth the effort to keep making at this rate.
