 So, how much money do you think I make on YouTube? This is not a trick question, pause the video right now and in the comments take a guess. I'll give you some clues, right now I have 190,000 subscribers and under normal circumstances my new videos on average get 1-2,000 views. So here is the answer. As you can see, if you look at the last 7 months, on average I make about 700 dollars a month. Sometimes big streamers might notice you and you'll get a little boost, shout out to Aswan Gold but that's not really something you can plan around. Which means that most of the time you're on your own and it's up to you to be the fire to continue to keep generating content and get the views you need each month to be consistent. On average for a normal 2 minute video it takes me about 5-8 hours to plan, write, record, edit and upload a video. I try to upload at least one a day and typically after about 25 videos I make about 700 dollars. Now just to put that into perspective for you, in my home state minimum wage is 725 an hour. So if I was working at McDonald's full time at 725 an hour times 8 hours a day times 5 days a week I would make about 1100 dollars a month. My point is, assuming you live in a country similar to the US, being a YouTuber even with 190,000 subs financially makes no sense because I would make more money spending that same time working at McDonald's than I currently do making videos and that's after I've been doing this for 7 years. In the beginning when I started this channel in 2016 it took me 3 years to reach my first 1000 subs and monetize my channel and then I finally made 200 dollars. So I worked 3 years to make 200 dollars. Just think about that, if I had spent that same amount of time working at McDonald's I could have made 41,000 dollars and honestly that probably would have been the smart thing to do because I probably could have paid off my college debt. But for me just seeing how happy and thankful you guys were in the comments each video just to have clear and concise information and answers to frustrating questions that frustrated me before being a 3D animator and a game developer. Things that took me days to figure out instead took you seconds and I could see the difference it was making for you guys. And I just felt that in terms of actual positive differences I could make for people in the real world if you just measured the time I saved for everybody else it really just felt like the right thing to do. So I continued to do it and when things got really hard and it didn't really look like I was going to be able to continue the support squad on Patreon came in and single-handedly shouldered most of the cost in order to keep the channel barely get by each month and eventually give me the chance that I have right now. These are the real numbers for my channel and I wanted to show you guys this just so you understand that you are going to be working for free a lot in the beginning. But if you keep doing it and you just try your best every video genuinely try your best to serve your subscribers with quality content every month you are naturally going to get better and the more you do the more you'll grow and eventually you'll get to the point where it can actually make a difference not just for others but for your life as well but you have to be patient and you have to be reasonable with your expectations. I cannot tell you just how many people I've talked to that are like man I made videos all month for five months and I only average 10 views per video and I'm thinking bro it's been five months you literally went from averaging zero views to 10 views that is 10 times the views you had before if you can work your way up to 20 views you will have doubled your average so your stuff is growing fine just keep trying to improve it and deliver more of what you think your audience wants so listen you can't get mad at yourself just because things take time to grow you have to learn to enjoy the ride and when you do get 10 views really cherish those 10 people make them the focus of your channel and just let them know hey right now there's only 10 of you which means you guys get all my attention if you leave a comment I promise I'll read it and if you leave feedback I'll try and implement that in the next video and then you guys can let me know next video whether it's better or worse because those 10 views you get each video that's the test that is how YouTube tests you because from YouTube's perspective if you can't properly take care of 10 viewers then how in the world can you be expected to take care of a hundred or a thousand if all 10 people who watch your video like your video that tells you to 100% of people who watch this channel like it and that will give you to the confidence to show your content to other people who might also like it based on the viewers who already do so if you've only got 5 views per video or 10 views per video really try your best to make those 10 people feel glad they subscribe to you like they found some sort of hidden treasure that nobody knows about yet and that way when you do grow over time they will not only have witnessed the journey but because they invested in you early they will be proud to have been there from day one knowing they get to be the person that said I knew it I knew this guy was going to make it all along it was just a matter of time they will get to say that because you didn't give up so throughout this series I'm going to give you some tips and advice on things that I would do differently if I could start the whole thing over things that can hopefully help you improve way faster and better than I did but I truly believe that the core principle doesn't really change you have to try and give your viewers more of what they want and figuring out what that is and how to do it just takes a lot of trial and error so the sooner you start the better and I highly encourage you to start now and if you're not sure what kind of content or channel you should make if you join me next video that is exactly what we'll talk about so thanks for watching and as always hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around