Hey everyone! I am so glad you are a part of this community and I want to make it even better. The goal is to create a space that you can feel safe, supported and able to learn in without crazy spammers, dropshippers or millionaires giving money away (what is that anyway??!?!) 😅 To be honest, I have been super frustrated with all the spammers in here. I was even on the fence about shutting it down altogether and starting over. But that is just RIDICULOUS - thank you @Harut Martirosyan for talking me off the proverbial ledge. 💖 INSTEAD this month/year I am going hard core OPERATION CLEAN UP!!🧹🧽🫧 We are going to remove spammers, non-youtubers. I am going to go back to application only - no more free for all. Going to protect this community like it's my baby! I don't want to throw away all the hard work, great connections and strong bonds we have made in here. I love and appreciate each and every one of you and truly enjoy interacting with you in the live calls and learning from each other. So I'm going to need your help if you are willing. Please whenever someone sends you a spam message from this community, let me know...and here's how to do that: 1) If it's a comment - place your cursor to the right of the comment you will see three dots, click on that and select "report to admins". Top right corner on mobile as well. 2) If it's in direct messages - same process three dots, please notify me of them before you block them. You can also block them so they do not bug you anymore. 3) You can also message me directly if you are unsure about them. The sooner I know the sooner we can make this community even more amazing. Thank you everyone! Let's make 2026 MIRACULOUS! 💥🎉💫🔥💖

Hey Everyone - the live call will now start a half hour later this year. Check the Calendar tab of the community to learn more. It will still be on Thursdays. We start this week! Let's make 2026🔥! xo, Alexa

Are there others here being offered a mentor...? Since I'm starting to feel a bit bombarded by members (if that's really what they are?). Who first seem to be interested in you, just to find out they where faking it to sell you something... or so it feels like! I have attached a screenshot so others here can see what this person wrote... 2 things in common is that when you go to their PROFILEs, they are always on stage 1 and they write almost the EXACT SAME PICH, odd...BEWARE!!!

Four months ago, I was very close to quitting. Sleepless nights. Low views. Constant doubt. I kept asking myself if this was worth it. What saved me wasn’t motivation, it was clarity. Alexa’s @Alexa Saarenoja wisdom reminded me that progress starts quietly and that serving the audience matters more than chasing numbers. So I stayed. I focused on value and retention, not vanity metrics and everything changed. The roadmap that took me to $20K in 4 months: - Draftly for scripts, titles, tags, and descriptions - https://www.draftly.to - CapCut for fast, clean edits - https://www.capcut.com - ChatGPT (paid) for thumbnail ideas and hooks Once my AVD improved, the algorithm did the rest. This wasn’t luck. It was consistency and not quitting when quitting felt easy. If you’re tired, stuck, or doubting—stay.I recommend this roadmap to anyone starting out. Don’t quit. Your breakthrough is closer than you think.

I wasn't sure where to place this because I'm not sure if I'm looking for advice, feedback or an Okay to go ahead and let go of my channel. I have been struggling with grow, views, everything quite frankly with my channel since about May. I felt like I was finally on the turn around after many videos did well, at least well enough for me. I have been stuck in the under 100 views for months now. In October, I had a major surgery, took a break and worked on revamping my channel - creating a more stacked niche and was excited to get back to it. However, I am feeling frustrated and I don't know what to do at this point. This is 5 years on YouTube, and I didn't start to really pay attention, learning more about making videos until about 2 years ago. I finally reached 1K subscribers earlier in the summer, had a sponsored post in May and now I'm not sure what to do at this point. I also want to say I know that many have seen a huge decrease in views, etc. However, what really bothers me is I was only 5 hours away from being monetized, until it dropped off the hours and now back at almost 1K hours needed. I have enough videos filmed to finish out the year but I'm hoping anyone can offer some help, suggestions or advice. Thank you so much for taking the time to read.