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Hello everyone, I am at a HUGE crossroads in my life right now and it is eating away at me every day. I don't have too many people in my life that I can turn to for help on things like this, and I know this is a cryptocurrency community so the answers I will receive here will most likely be biased, but please try to answer with your honest opinions. Thank you for your opinions in advance.
So basically, without linking my channel, I have been working on a YouTube channel for about 7 month now and have amassed over 25,000 subscribers. For lack of better terms the channel is basically a click bait channel, constructed mostly for monetary gain. I love YouTube and have always wanted to have some kind of community built on the platform, but with the amount of competition that is currently trying to do the same thing, you need to have some kind of edge on the game. The videos I post are mostly reaction videos where I take a few clips of crazy things happening and I react to them. I make the titles for example something like "KID GETS EATEN BY SHARK!" then I will react to a few videos of shark attacks or whatever, having a thumbnail that looks like a shark attack. Sometimes these videos can do really well but most of the time they do poorly if they don't get into YouTubes recommended algorithm. Another thing is that you really don't build any kind of trust or fan-base on your channel when doing this. I am 20 years old currently paying for my entire college tuition among other bills, and having some side hustles really helps with that. I have over 1.2M views on the channel all together and have made a little over $2,000 from it thus far. I enjoy seeing the channel do well and getting views, but when I see my videos do terribly like they have been for the last few months, it really gets to me. I can honestly say I do not enjoy making the type of videos that I currently make, but they do decent in terms of growing my channel.
I started really learning about cryptocurrencies and bitcoin around the same time I started my channel. I fell in love with the idea of them and how interesting it was to see bitcoin become so popular over such a small period of time. The potential they have is insane and I love learning about them. I am in no way an expert but I feel like I can give a unique perspective to those who have been in the scene for a while. I also think I can bring an entertainment value to the cryptocurrency content scene because in my opinion it is a bit lacking in that field. Most of the crypto YouTubers I watch are very knowledgeable and I learn a lot from them, but I find my mind wandering because of the lack of entertainment value.
In the end, I love crypto and I don't see myself not being involved with it anytime soon. I would actually enjoy the videos I create if I switched my channel over to a Crypto News/Updates/Investment channel, and I know I could build an awesome community of people as well. However, I would be certain to lose quite the amount of subscribers and views on my channel. Which long term, might be for the better if I switch now, but short term it is going to be really hard to see my channel go through this transition period. So I was wondering if any of you could give me some advice on what you would do in this situation. I love YouTube and I love the crypto world, but I am not sure if it is the right time to conjoin the two. Thanks for your time and have an awesome day
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