Why people quit - YouTuber Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
I feel like every YouTuber has either quit maybe multiple times and they restarted again or they want very much to quit sometimes and some of them do permanently. The main reason is just burnout. You know, it's a lot of work and there is a very real possibility of losing yourself in it, meaning like you think of yourself, you start identifying as a YouTuber instead of identifying as who you really are. You know, I think it's much safer, much better for your mental health and physical health to not stay up late to edit. That's really important and don't think of yourself as a YouTuber. Just you are you, you have your passions and you just happen to make YouTube videos.
Video 2 Transcript
Once you have a successful YouTube channel, I think it's pretty uncommon for people to quit just because financially it makes money for you. Like people don't delete their channels, but it is pretty common for people to take breaks from YouTube because burnout is totally real. If you've done YouTube for several years in a row, you totally know what I'm talking about. Like coming up with a new idea and putting yourself on camera and getting creative and doing the creative process hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times in a row, it can get exhausting. But the cool thing about YouTube is even if you take a break where you're not publishing on YouTube for months, often your viewership can still retain, you know, stay up and you can still make quite a bit of money off of YouTube. I've had breaks where I haven't worked for like half a year on YouTube and I still got paid, you know, 30 or 40 bucks a day or 50 bucks a day or whatever.
Video 3 Transcript
I would say people quit YouTube because they either experience burnout or they can't feel like they can grow on YouTube or and what I mean by that is for me it's hard to change on camera and we've been doing this for over 10 years and it's just at a point where I don't resonate with the self that I had I have previously been 10 years ago. I've changed so much in that amount of time that it is difficult for me to watch my previous self talk and so it's sometimes I contradict myself just because of how much I've learned and I have grown and changed in that amount of time so it can be hard to post more without feeling like I'm not together with myself. Anyways.
Video 4 Transcript
If I'd have to take a guess, probably 95% of people who want to become a YouTuber give up and quit in the first year or two of trying. And I feel like it usually takes a year or two for you to start seeing some real growth and benefits from being a YouTuber. So I think a lot of people give up just because it takes a lot of time. Like who wants to, you know, who would rather spend two or three hours a day filming and editing and coming up with a video instead of relaxing and watching Netflix after work, you know? It takes a certain level of drive and grit and commitment to make it happen. But once you push through that, it's pretty motivating to continue doing it when you start seeing the views grow and the money come in. I think another reason people might quit is because of like personal privacy concerns. Like, I mean, I could see that being really bothersome to some people who don't really want their kids and their family to be like out there too much.
Video 5 Transcript
So we stopped doing YouTube, our channel, a few years ago, at least super actively because it started feeling like a job, you know, like we were chasing the algorithms. We always did it for fun and for kind of a hobby and YouTube wasn't catering as much to our kind of content as far as like really short with some production value and we didn't want to do real long-form videos and I think we'll probably go back to doing it at some point but we started feeling a little bit burnt out like it was a job which we didn't want another job so we decided to take a break and we'll probably be back at some point.
Video 6 Transcript
Why people quit YouTube is because of the pressure and the misconception of that they'll grow the numbers really quick while it's a whole process and also if they don't have the drive within themselves, if they're looking for the numbers as the approval, then I think they're going to be disappointed and they're going to quit. Yeah, so you need an internal drive and you also need to create good content.
Video 7 Transcript
You know, there's lots been said about why big youtubers quit. I think a lot of newbies and people just barely getting started quit because it's not what they expected. They came into expecting one thing and it ended up being something else. It ended up being harder than they thought it was. It wasn't as fun as they thought it was. They come in with false expectations and then they get frustrated and they quit. I think that's probably the most common reason why people quit. There are bigger channels that quit because they stopped being fun. It stops being something that they enjoy. They start getting anxious about things. There's so many reasons, but it's all mental. It's all psychology. We actually have thought about quitting ourselves because we've run into some hard times. But we realized that that would be dumb. We don't want to quit. So we actually got a life coach and they're helping us work through some of what's going on up here. So that we can be able to continue to create and have fun doing it.
Video 8 Transcript
There's lots of reasons people quit YouTube, but some of them are one they Try to copycat someone else thinking they can do it Someone else does and it's not something they're personally invested in another reason to quit is they don't see success as soon as they want it and You gotta commit you gotta commit until it works and you can't expect magic to happen In the first week or month on your first video, right? Keep chugging along if you believe in what you're doing and if you believe it's content that other people will like Keep doing it. It just takes one video My daughter was kind of chugging along at 10,000 subscribers had one video hit a million and BAM She went to 60,000 in a couple weeks so it can happen and it can happen quick
Video 9 Transcript
The principle of pivoting right sometimes something that we're doing isn't working in our hearts not in it So that's fine like I've started like 13 YouTube channels, and I've eventually stopped most of them I have all these ideas and all these things I want to do But it doesn't align with my time and my resources and my abilities And so don't ever feel bad if you're going to quit, but don't quit because you're not seeing results If you believe in what you're doing, and you love what you're doing keep doing it because Something will eventually Happen my daughter on her YouTube channel one day She sat down and just did a little video in her front room and got 7 million views and that blew things up and so something anything can change and literally one day
