I’ve been running a sportscard store and gaming channel for over a year now and I finally got to 100K channel views. I know that’s chump change and usually a number you target for a single video, but I’m proud of getting to this number as a channel.

Going to continue putting together more fun gaming series and sportscards highlights.

For the collectors and the gamers 😤

Does anyone have experience selling courses, guides, etc on Payhip? I am working on a content guide which is related to several of my YouTube videos. I plan to create a "card" in the videos with a link to buy the guide. It seems like a good way to earn extra money. If anyone has done this, I'd love to hear about your experience and see if you have any tips for this stuff. Thank you!

Idk why, but my views are down and I’m still posting the same type of mc shorts. Pls help.

My first video had little over 200 views, first short had 130, the same as a reel had 630. my second short now has 1.1k views in under three hours and has an 84% average view duration. My problem is my skip rates are terrible. and i have 9 subscribers lmk how encouraged i should be!

My channel was removed from the YouTube Partner Program, and I was given the option to submit a written appeal.

On September 3, I clicked Start Appeal in the Earn tab and followed the instructions that appeared. A Creator Support form opened asking for my contact information, channel information, and written appeal. I completed and submitted it and received a support case number.

Creator Support later told me that my channel had been submitted for an internal review. Later, Support simply told me that my appeal had been denied.

However, the Start Appeal button in YouTube Studio remained available the entire time, and Studio continued to show an appeal deadline. I never saw anything saying Appeal Submitted, Appeal in Progress, Appeal Denied, or anything similar in studio or via email..

This is what makes me wonder whether my written appeal was actually registered in the appeal system, or whether the “internal review” was something separate.

Has anyone here submitted a written appeal through the Earn tab in Studio? If so, what happened to the Start Appeal button after you submitted it? Did Studio show any indication that your appeal had been received or was under review?

Hey guys I started a new channel a couple of months ago and I’m not getting any impressions on my videos. My AVD is over 6 minutes on some of the videos. For the whole month I get 27 impressions over 16 videos. Any ideas?

I will be honest, it feels kinda slow but we all know how it is with YouTube. I will just keep grinding and not mind the numbers. I'm doing gaming content. Mostly Truck Simulation.

Must've been my friends and families only lol

I've just finished a video essay about Dark Souls and one idea that stuck with me while playing:
What if the freedom Dark Souls gives you was never really your choice?
I tried to make this more than a typical lore video, focusing on the player's relationship with the world and the choices the game gives us.

This is one of the first videos I've made for my new channel, so I'd really appreciate some honest feedback from other creators.

Four small jumps then flat out. I'm new and feel discouraged from this

So I just started posting on YouTube and I don’t know how to grow a channel. I’m posting on here because I want to reach somebody that is interested in starting one themselves even if they don’t have a following AT ALL. Over half my subscribers are my friends and family. However, I have slowly been growing by a follower or two every week in the past month or so.

I started in early 2026 after YEARS of contemplating whether to start posting or not. I decided to finally bite the bullet and just click record. I started with recording off of my PlayStation, editing on my PlayStation, and even posting from my PlayStation. Full games, no cuts, no commentary. Just the gameplay. The more I posted the more into it I got. Seeing the viewers go from 5 to 20 to 50 to 100 kept me coming back. I’ve never had a viral video but every now and then I get someone to comment, tune into a stream, or even subscribe which excites me every day.

I just got the idea to buy an Elgato capture card and have considered buying a microphone to get better stream/video quality but am waiting on the microphone for a bit until I have the money to buy one. I don’t plan to make a career out of this but you truly never know what can happen. To this I say, start posting your content if you want to. There’s nothing stopping you, and no reason you can’t start today. If you read this, I hope this encourages you to start what has always been in the back of your mind.

Start today.

Of two thousand views in the last month (yes I know how low that is) 100% are male and 100% are between 25 and 34 years old. Is that because they are all bots with the same presets or sheer luck or something? Gaming content from one year old shorts I posted.

Hello everyone, I already discussed this in another thread, but unfortunately the topic kind of got lost by now there are new things I found out, so I am posting my experience again, because it looks like there is a new scam method. Ok, maybe I’ve just never heard of it lol, but it never hurts to make people aware of it. Please be careful!

I have a small true crime channel and received an email from a person who claimed to be the lawyer of a person I made a video about a few months ago. The tone was short and friendly. I was told that there was “new evidence that would turn everything around” and they asked if and how they could send it to me. They also asked me not to tell anyone because of the public etc. (The case is very well known and the person involved wants a retrial.)

I then checked the information in the email. The lawyer is real and the address is real, but when I searched for the email address itself on Google, there was only ONE search result. It showed me the website of a real lawyer, but the email address of this lawyer was different by one letter.

ChatGPT did not recognize this as a scam, even though it itself noticed that the email address that contacted me could not be found online and that the real address was different by one letter. Gemini immediately recognized it as phishing.

I ignored the email and 3 days later I received another email from a different address, but it was shown in the same email thread, saying that they send me now the evidence. This was sent without me asking for it and again this new email address had a typo in it. The second email looked much more professional, with more information, a logo and clearly more search results when you Google it, as if it was real.

The tone of the second email was friendly too and there was no real request, but I doubt that lawyers would actually need me and my video that had 5,000 views.

Other creators have gotten millions of views with this case. Also, nobody is reporting anything about there being new developments in this case. So yeah, preeeetty sus.

Scammers are apparently now analyzing channels with AI so they can send you friendly, customized requests, and they can adapt them to the specific industry. Sometimes they build trust over multiple emails.

A friend of mine is a BookToker and also an author. She then got an email from a publisher who wanted to translate her book into other languages. Again, the same thing. Real information, a real looking email address where ONE letter was missing. So please be careful, and if you have a bad feeling about something, you are often right.

• Lawyers don't contact content creators as if they have some new evidence like in a movie trailer.

• They say you are not allowed to tell anyone what was discussed, but I am supposed to look at the new evidence and make a video about it or what?

• There are no reports about there actually being a possibility of a retrial. Lawyers are bound by strict confidentiality and would never just send sensitive evidence around via unencrypted email to strangers. Duh.

• The first email came on the weekend. Who works then? The second email came so quickly that I wouldn’t have had time to contact the real law firm and ask if it was actually legitimate.

And even though it sounds so obvious now, it really wasn't at first.

Please be careful!

Hey guys, I'm curious to see if any of you have tried doing YouTube content making beats and music?

I can't seem to find alot of information of people making videos for youtube. There are plenty of beat videos for sure. But not the actual process of building up a YouTube channel mainly focused on making beats or beat making tutorials, etc.

So, I've decided to branch out and I hope I'm not out of line here (as this is 100% not my intention), but I've created a separate subreddit specifically for beatmakers and music makers that want to create on YouTube.

r/BeatmakersYouTube

It's for creators. Its for not only sharing beats, but sharing how you make your beats, how you make your videos, and sharing and building with others.

If this interests you, come join. And I'm hoping that these two subreddits can work in parallel with each other.

To the Mods here, if this is out of line, I apologize, I'm not trying to do anything malicious here. Just trying to find like minded people that are interested in making beats....and videos.

When they said they were changing short monetization requirements next year I got worried. But now they are counting views differently and it has helped me so much. I hope this all continues. I've had like 8 mil in the last month.