I started my YouTube channel in 2021. During the first six months, I consistently uploaded a new video every week. Then I made a mistake and stopped creating content—but I didn’t give up. In May 2023, I made a fresh start. Since then, I’ve published more than 160 videos on my German channel. A few months ago, I launched an English education channel together with a team. We release a new lesson every Monday. One week ago, I also committed to posting one short every day, and the results are already visible. I’m now reaching nearly 2,000 views almost every single day. This journey has shown me that consistency and persistence truly pay off—and it’s only the beginning.

Yesterday I launched a short joke series, on my German channel, titled “Humour Helps Healing – Today Laughed Already.” Every day there will be a new joke. My first video was phenomenal, reaching 1,891 views. Let’s see where this takes me in a year.

I'm so discouraged. I get 9 hateful comments out of every 10 each day, it's become exhausting. Here I am, creating content to help people, spending my time for free, spending my own money, not making a penny and people are just so utterly mean and nasty. I get called names on a regular basis and some things that I can't even say aloud. Is it just me? I know to block and hide user from channel and all of that but when you look at your comments and truly, I just counted, every single comment between today and yesterday except 1 was over-the-top hateful ---it really makes me feel like giving up.

I recently started my own YT journey. My videos are a bit cringy. I know I'll get better and feel more comfortable in front of the camera. I'm having fun and learning every day. This Broken, Beautiful Life - YouTube

After over 1 year of consistent weekly uploads, I've reached 1,000 subscribers. I just want to thank @Alexa Saarenoja for starting this group when she did. I was lucky enough to find her channel way back before she was monetized and was inspired to take the plunge into YouTube because of something she said. I believe that with persistence and patience, it is possible to grow your channel and find your audience. Although I am on the slow growth path, I'm building my channel in a way that feels authentic to me. Thank you--especially to the people who were with me in that first cohort of this group. So many of you were instrumental at that time. You shared your perspective and expertise and you helped me to have the audacity to think I could do this. I will always be grateful for that. 💚