Create a viral YouTube video.

“I wouldn't lock yourself in as quick as a lot of people have said on here. You need time to mess around and see what you like. It might actually be working against you to have blown up so quick... it doesn't give you the time to experiment with what you naturally groove with, and you might always be chasing the same numbers from the first vid in a way that makes perfectly good numbers for a new youtuber look like trash. For me, it was not my first vid that blew up, but I was just using my channel for a decade+ as a filing drawer and way to share stuff with my friends, not trying to hit the algorith. Took me completely by surprise. I made a silly video just sitting on my porch talking at my phone, meant just for a couple friends, and it blew up to 200k views overnight and I went from 20 subs to 900. I'm just now monetizing a couple months later and I've barely touched 1% of that video's reach. It was about a specific videogame I was remembering, not one I want to play again, so I don't even have much of a niche to try to stick to there. So I had to swap it up on my viewers. I've been having fun, posting cat videos... lifestyle videos, world of warcraft classic vods, gardening tips and tricks... all sorts of stuff. Nothing has gotten me where I was with that one video, but I think the experimentation phase is super important. Throw some stuff at the wall. See what sticks. Put out a poll to your viewers about other content they might like to see. But dont let one relatively small but hyper-early success keep you from having fun. You actually caring about your content is going to payoff 10x in the long run. It just might take a couple years longer.”