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In 2021 I did a live stream every Saturday for 52 weeks straight. It was actually a lot of fun as I was working on my side project most weekends anyway and I wanted to start streaming it. By the end of the first year I had about 1K subscribers, but most live streams still got the same viewership, if not less. I'm closing in on year 2 now and passed 2K subs recently.

I echo some of the comments here about posting videos about things you want and not trying to play the YouTube game. Every time I have tried I've felt greasy, and it rarely helped.

Even for my non-live stream videos, I almost always do them all in 1 go with no editing. It helps me get good at speaking, is more natural and take a lot less time to finish.

My biggest problem has been motivation and time. I feel like I have a lot of videos I want to discuss, but doing the videos requires a certain energy that I've had trouble firing up lately.

For anyone interested in checking out my channel/vids: https://www.youtube.com/c/DustinBrett



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