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! 💥🎉💫🔥💖

Nothing compared to you all but it feels great to have these milestones completed. I started last week to start a new challenge (30 days), I am following a book by Russell Brunson and documenting my journey on YouTube. After a long time I finally started seeing new subs on my 6 year old almost dormant channel. So definitely feeling encouraged and energized. Keeping it totally raw, very little editing. I found that I do better where I am demonstrating something, I don't struggle with words and feels very natural. I have a whiteboard so I have started doodling on it and talking to the camera. Came out quite natural, now hope that my audience likes it. Wishing everyone happy holidays.

So many times I read a post in here that makes me want to check out the person’s channel, but I don’t see any info about it on their profile. Am I missing something? I put my YT channel info in my profile headline like so. Would love it if more people did this. Or please LMK if there’s a way to find y’all’s channels I don’t know about. TIA 🙏😀

Since I joined this group the day before I actually launched my channel it seems appropriate to share this here and to thank @Alexa Saarenoja for all of her encouragement and insights in the early days of my channel. Subscribers are only one metric of a channel, but I am pretty excited at hitting 30,000 subscribers. Especially since I started my channel at 80 years old and I only do this part time, with a total of 61 videos and six of them are shorts. Actually, I am more excited about the comments and the shares. The shares, especially indicate word-of-mouth which there is no way you could buy this advertising. It is the secret sauce of a channel’s growth.

We’ve had a lot of spam messages from people promoting YouTube automation. Thankfully, the administration here takes them down pretty fast once they are reported. Don’t fall for this scam. If you’re curious, watch this video.