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[–] VinesNFluff 4 points 2 years ago

/shrug If you're just doing youtube for the sake of doing youtube, you can do whatever you want. Any audience that comes to you will be your audience and you'll probably not make much money but maybe you'll make a bit of it.

But if you want youtube to replace your dayjob, then yeah kinda?

And like, most content creators talk about being horribly burnt out and overworked. They quit their nine-to-fives to have YouTube as their main gig, and it starts out as a labour of love, until the bills start coming and the channel starts being more and more of a business, and then they start working insane hours and become slaves to the analytics graphs and (...)