Recent content by Akuchi

You could invest in low expense ratio index funds (if you're in the US - not sure how other markets work). The market is a solid buy right now with the world economy in a minor recession due to the oil war and corona-virus.

You could tell people to wash their hands everyday to help prevent corona-virus and they would still yell at you for trying to sell something. ;)

Lol! Also leave off 100% of the SEO so we can read posts on here asking how it exploded.

Generating long watch time to a subscriber base of 1.7mil is enough to make any video you upload trend. Those channels never use SEO and they don't care. Imagine how many views they would be getting if they actually knew how to rank tags. Lol!

Looks like views are dead right now. Come back in 4 - 7 weeks. That time of year again...

They have to have statistics publicly visible on the watch page for you to see that. Most creators hide it so it's impossible.

If you are so scared of the FTC then delete your channel and hide in a cave. This law has been in effect for 19 years.

I would NEVER change your name and risk losing the badge. That is probably the worst idea you could ever have on YouTube (or in brand building in general). Your audience is going to have to re-learn who you are and you may have to battle for the badge back.

I have had channels monetized within 24 hours recently. The wait time went from really long to really short here lately. Sounds like they did something wrong if they are waiting for months right now.

This is some of the best advice on this forum. There are so many people that way it won't work but you have to relentlessly test until you find something that does.

I found that creatively promoting your video on Reddit and boosting it with fake upvotes or driving incentivized traffic to upvote your post works well.

Ah yes, I love seeing YouTubers benefit off other's hysteria by gaining more subscribers for themselves. This happens every few years. Just chill out until you start seeing a ton of posts regarding people getting demonetized for kids content (which we all knew has been coming for a long time).

Agreed. The really ironic thing is that everyone is making videos about COPPA because it's trending. They just want to gain subscribers and don't really care. We all know this isn't going to affect most normal channels because why would YouTube kill themselves?

The worst that could happen is technically the fine. Although that would be extremely rare and I think you are overestimating the competency of the government to be able to enforce a fine like that. In the US, they would have to arbitrate through the court system which is painfully difficult...

But if you buy that trendy food for your Instagram then you get a good ROI for when you sell shoutouts later after being popular. ;) You are correct - everything is about appearances nowadays. Just use it as motivation as you see these people make money in these insane ways. lol