>>72616658>I don't care for market or brandingsadly that's the actual secret for getting big.
To get big, you don't have to make "good" content. You have to make content that people either see, or want to see.
My favorite example is SmallAnt. He was streaming for YEARS to a small audience and was barely a 2view. Then he spent roughly a month destroying his life by researching trends 24/7 and developing a plan to game the youtube algorithm and a market to grow in, then focused autistically hard on it for up to 22 hours a day streaming, recording narrative commentary for the edited videos, editing the videos themselves, researching thumbnail and title theory, pushing it everywhere, buying ads, etc. Within a few more months his youtube videos started skyrocketing in popularity, and after a few years he's now streaming to mid-high 4view status with several youtube videos that regularly break the million view mark. He's absurdly talented on all forms of the content creation scale, but both him and his roommates say it probably wasn't worth it due to the stress that he and his family went through dealing with him during that time, and that there's no guarantee that anyone doing it would have the same luck, especially since he's still a workaholic constantly panicking over numbers despite being in a spot where he should reasonably be able to "coast." He's made several streams talking about it in the past using his twitch graphs and raw old footage as examples, as well as at least one AMA on reddit that might be helpful. Considering his niche is fucking speedrunning, it's absurd how big he's been able to get despite playing the same 2-3 games over and over again.
