Paying for Youtube Views on Fiverr Growing my channel & Fighting Youtube CopyRight System|The Struggles of being a small Youtuber
This has been a very hard journey for youtube. I have been trying for years to get my youtube channel off the ground and last year 2020 I spent a year trying to take it seriously and started to posting 2–3 weekly.
Finding my Youtube Identity, CopyRight, Stuck in a Niche
The videos started off good and I got a lot views for my channel, Swaybae N’ Anime, more than just the usual 20 to 30 in over the month span. I was on roll I started to get 100 views which I never made it to a 100 views over night before. I was so excited and I was struggling to think of ways to keep the momentum going. The next few videos I got 200. Then 300. Then 500. One random video even got 2,000. I originally wanted to just do anime reviews on my channel but I also wanted to explore kpop. So I was happy my video was doing well. However, overtime my channel became a kpop SHINee channel which was not the intentional intent but that was the only thing getting views. When I tried to review anime or a kdrama these videos wouldn’t get any views at all or recommended. So I struggled with being stuck in one genre. I loved the kpop bands and my audience was great but I wanted to add other interest that I had to my channel. At that point my channel began to be shaped by views and I was no longer having fun with it. The viewership went down with each new video I posted. Many of videos got copyrighted by Youtube because it had music. So some of my content was taken down. I knew I had to change my content quick I started to loose views because the copyrighted content. And I also feared that even if my viewership increased on my channel and I got the required 1000 subscribers I wouldn’t make any money for most of my videos that I spent a half of year creating and all my hard work would be erased. I fell into a deep depression because even though I enjoyed this hobby I felt stuck and sad that I couldn’t do other things that made me happy on my channel. I felt as if I could only do things that would get me views. So I stopped….
I Stopped Youtube for 6 months
I wanted to revamp my channel and figure out the copyright system. I was afraid to add new content and it do well and than get copyrighted. Also I wanted to explore other kpop bands and building my anime base because that is what I originally wanted to do. I created a vTuber to try to attack a boarder audience.
Unfortunately, When I came back I didn’t get the same results.
I have been trying for over 10 months to get the same attention my channel that I once had.
I was afraid that my channel would never be the same and that many people would lose interest in my already dwindling fan base. So I started to pay for for views. I would get up to 1,000 views per video. I thought that if I did that it would jump start my channel again. However the opposite happened. Less and less people started coming to my channel and it was like I needed the boost in order to get some views which started a viscous cycle of me trying to get keep up the appearance that my channel was still doing well. Upon further research I found out boosting “ promoting ” your channel was not a good idea. I thought that the people I sent my video too were promoters but I soon found out most people who were doing boost were using bots or pay people overseas at firms to watch my videos instead. As result, I was never really building a base. I was just paying people to watch my video for the time being. I felt stupid after learning this and I felt sad because I knew I messed up my channel more than I thought. You see the boost ,also, messes with the algorithm on youtube which cause the algorithm to think that I was loosing views when I didn’t boost. The thing I thought was going to save my channel instead almost cost me it.
But there is a light at the end of the Tunnel
Event though my once thriving youtube channel has not returned to it former glory. I have been able to create art and content that I was happy it. I found a cozy part of youtube where I could be myself and enjoy posting content that I like without fear of copyright. I even started a second channel which has gotten more views than my first. It has been such an experimental time for me at my time at youtube and it was nice to see my channel grow for once organically. There nothing better than having organic growth to me. I am still not at 1,000 subscriber mark but I am happy that I get to do different things that I am interested in with my channel.
