Upcoming YouTubers:
Don’t chase perfection.
Chase reps.
Your first videos will teach you more than 100 tutorials.
Upload → Analyze → Improve → Repeat.
You don’t need to be great to start.
You need to start to become great. 👑
If you’re an upcoming YouTuber, here’s the advice I’d tattoo on my forehead:
Don’t wait for your channel to look successful before you act successful.
Start building the skills now.
Learn thumbnails.
Learn storytelling.
Learn analytics.
Learn how to find demand.
Learn how to write hooks.
Learn how to package an idea.
Because subscribers are not the skill.
The skill is making strangers care.
And don’t compare your video #7 to someone else’s video #700.
You’re seeing their results…
not the years of failed experiments behind them.
Your first videos might be terrible.
Make them.
Your first thumbnails might be embarrassing.
Improve them.
Your first 100 views might feel like nothing.
Study them.
Because every creator you admire was once a channel nobody knew existed.
You don’t need permission to become good.
You need reps.
So stop waiting for the perfect moment.
Start small. Learn fast. Stay in the game.
Your channel can only grow from videos you actually publish.
So says the King. 👑
Your next viral video might be hiding inside your last flop.
Seriously.
Don’t just look at the videos that worked.
Look at the ones that almost worked.
Maybe the topic got:
100K impressions but 2% CTR.
That’s not necessarily a bad idea.
Maybe you had demand…
but your packaging killed it.
Or maybe you got:
10% CTR but terrible retention.
Now you know people wanted the idea…
but the video didn’t deliver.
That’s incredibly useful information.
A flop isn’t always saying:
“Nobody wants this.”
Sometimes it’s saying:
“Something about the execution is wrong.”
Learn to tell the difference.
Because if you can identify the one thing that killed a promising video…
you can fix it in the next one.
And that’s how you turn failures into winners.
So says the King. 👑
Here’s a YouTube mistake that can quietly kill your growth:
Changing the thing that was working.
You make a video that gets 10× your normal views.
Instead of asking:
“Why did this work?”
You say:
“Cool. Time to try something completely different.”
😭
Then the next 5 videos flop.
If something works, investigate it.
Was it the topic?
The format?
The thumbnail?
The title?
The emotional angle?
The audience?
Then make another variation.
Not a copy.
A variation.
One winning video is a clue.
Don’t ignore clues just because you’re bored with the formula.
Your audience might not be bored at all.
So says the King. 👑
The first sign your YouTube strategy is working isn’t always views.
Sometimes it’s patterns.
You notice the same type of topic keeps outperforming.
Certain thumbnails keep getting higher CTR.
People consistently stay longer when you start with a story instead of an explanation.
A specific audience keeps commenting.
Your returning viewers start increasing.
That’s when you should pay attention.
Because you’re slowly discovering:
“This is what my audience wants from me.”
Then you stop throwing random videos at YouTube.
You start building around what you’ve proven.
One successful video is interesting.
A repeatable pattern is a business.
So don’t just ask:
“Did this video go viral?”
Ask:
“What happened here that I can reproduce?”
That’s where real YouTube growth starts.
So says the King. 👑
I wouldn’t delete a “dead” YouTube video yet.
That video sitting at 47 views might look useless.
But what if the problem wasn’t the video?
What if the topic was good but the thumbnail was terrible?
Or the thumbnail was good but the title killed the click?
Or people clicked but the first 30 seconds lost them?
Deleting it doesn’t teach you anything.
Instead, diagnose it.
Low impressions?
→ Look at the topic and audience.
Impressions but low CTR?
→ Test better packaging.
Good CTR but poor retention?
→ Fix the opening and pacing.
Good CTR + retention but still low reach?
→ Make another video around the concept and test again.
A flop isn’t automatically wasted.
It’s a failed experiment.
And failed experiments are valuable…
if you actually study them.
Don’t bury the evidence.
Use it.
So says the King. 👑