After spending 2 Years of my life + 2000 hours on this one video… I don’t think it was written in my fate for it to succeed….
Uploading since 2016 and improving immensely as time went on, but putting this much time into something no longer feels like an “investment”, but rather a waste. I enjoy it immensely, but this one video was my last chance. I am in university and now have to prioritise this part of my life as atleast I can become something by doing so…
For years now, I learnt everything I could about CTR, AVD, storytelling, etc on YouTube. But it seems it was not enough.
I would definitely say I learnt a lot during these years, but ultimately I have to accept this as one of my biggest failures in life.
Had I focused this entire time on university, I could have stood on my feet a lot earlier.
Don’t treat YouTube as an “easy way out” to success… it’s ruthless. Take it from the one who dreamt of being different in the first place.
I’d love to know what I did wrong with this video, I put all my knowledge together to make it, in case anyone can tell me…
Petrol at Rs 30/litre in Pakistan sounds crazy. It is not. What is crazy is the policy failure that prevents it.
Petrol is around Rs 300/litre today, excluding government levy, here's how it can effectively be Rs 30/litre.
People do not consume petrol for its own sake; they use it to travel. The average Pakistani rides a motorbike. A fuel-efficient motorbike can travel about 60 km on one litre. An efficient electric scooter can travel about 30 km per kWh, so it needs only 2 kWh to cover the same 60 km.
What should 2 kWh cost in Pakistan? Pakistan is one of the best places in the world for solar, with an all-in LCOE cost of around 5 cents per kWh. The electricity cost is 10 cents, or Rs 30/litre of distance travelled! The Rs 30/litre calculation remains the same for cars.
The 300-versus-30 gap is the cost of bad policy. It reflects billions of dollars of saving that could instead finance EV infrastructure: charging, distribution, battery swapping, and smart pricing software etc. - boosting much-needed domestic investment.
Since solar is highly modular. You do not need massive scale to get reasonable efficiency. That creates business and employment opportunities for small domestic power producers. Instead, Pakistan leaned into large fossil-fuel plants financed by dollar-denominated borrowing and guaranteed returns.
Local firms face credit constraints, but solar creates a natural collateralizable cash flow through electricity sales to the grid. With the right regulatory framework, this could have unlocked large private domestic investment, and employment.
Battery swapping is another area where small local businesses could have emerged and scaled.
Electricity enables smart pricing. When solar supply is abundant, prices can fall, and poor households and firms can shift usage to cheaper hours - automatic demand stabilization
Better air quality would mean longer, healthier lives and higher productivity. That is a growth multiplier
Green technology industries could be developed domestically with the right industrial policy, easing balance-of-payments pressure while raising employment and investment.
Instead, Pakistan chose imported-fuel power plants, protected a backward-looking domestic auto sector, and raised electricity prices by burdening them with the fixed costs of those plants and heavy taxation, slowing EV adoption. Then came the net-metering fiasco, all to keep zombie power plants alive.
Pakistan’s energy policy may be the clearest example of a broken nervous system. I hope someone fixes it, because people are paying the price, 300-versus-30
What do you think about this Thumbnail? I think it's good. But the outcome was: It flopped... 😭
I had spent 2 years making this video. "Becoming The Richest GTA Player Online". It sits at 1.5k views and has flatlined...
I know it looks a lot like any other @MrBeast's thumbnail, but I promise you that the content is nothing like it. I am very well aware of the "Mrbeast-ification" on YouTube and tried my very best to sway away from just upright copying.
I wanted to compete with some of the biggest channels in GTA's niche and chose to depict the most expensive item in the game for the thumbnail.
Roast the video in any way, shape or form. I wanna know why it did bad.
Would love to hear from everyone!
For the better part of 6 months I have been so incredibly curious about this whole "AirUp" flavoured water. I've caved and I'm putting an order in...
Lets see if this stuff actually works.
@RileyCardwell In all honesty, I would take any of these options and use a small percentage to keep myself alive. The rest I want to invest into making content, or improve the efficiency of the content.
The goal is a good project. Not hoards of money (at least for me :))
The comments on the video have been absolutely incredible!
The most likes/comments/appreciation I’ve ever received for a project like this 🤯
I’m so incredibly grateful :)
It seems people loved the video! But YouTube did not… 😅
We’ll get em next time.
@RileyCardwell@AlgServer@MrBeast Ay thanks for the advice, you’ve actually reacted to my previous video too on your livestreams where I harvest 10 Million Bamboo in 24 hours. But I’ll definitely take this advice into consideration when developing my next project :)
After spending 2 Years of my life + 2000 hours on this one video… I don’t think it was written in my fate for it to succeed….
Uploading since 2016 and improving immensely as time went on, but putting this much time into something no longer feels like an “investment”, but rather a waste. I enjoy it immensely, but this one video was my last chance. I am in university and now have to prioritise this part of my life as atleast I can become something by doing so…
For years now, I learnt everything I could about CTR, AVD, storytelling, etc on YouTube. But it seems it was not enough.
I would definitely say I learnt a lot during these years, but ultimately I have to accept this as one of my biggest failures in life.
Had I focused this entire time on university, I could have stood on my feet a lot earlier.
Don’t treat YouTube as an “easy way out” to success… it’s ruthless. Take it from the one who dreamt of being different in the first place.
I’d love to know what I did wrong with this video, I put all my knowledge together to make it, in case anyone can tell me…
@shazyoutube@noahmorris The video is on the game GTA online, and from what I have seen, no one has ever gone from 0 to filthy rich all in 1 video. I really have tried to make it as unique and entertaining as possible - so I defo want to make a mark. I just hope it’s not a massive failure 😅
@Kwebbelkop Honestly, I was shocked on how realistic it looked. Apart from some very slight discrepancies, but I reckon people (myself included) won’t like the “inhumane” AI content creation aspect of things. But I still have to put respect on the work that’s been done. 9/10!