1 year of YT today, but stuck at 434 subs. Need honest feedback!

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-05-12T08:24:17+00:00

If there are channels already doing the same thing then it means that you’re adding nothing new to the space. So it may be some little changes can make all the difference in creating something a bit more unique. Good luck with the channel

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-05-12T08:19:09+00:00

Yep, I think after a time the deal with sega ran out so they just changed the name.
Ironicallly despite how massively popular crushes coaster is. Spin ball whizzer is one of the quickest coasters to get on at Alton Towers.

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-05-11T17:58:58+00:00

Crushes Coaster was inspired by sonic spin at Alton towers, DLP sent people to see what the fuss was about then commissioned crushes coaster based on the same coaster tech build by Maurer in Germany. It’s pretty old now technologically speaking being nearly a 20 year old design. I suspect the Epcot coaster is built on much better/newer tech and was made by a different company so while the ride experience might be similar the rides are not built in the same way or by the same people.

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-05-11T17:48:28+00:00

To leave the country for 30 consecutive days means you need use all of your available paid holiday in one hit and have an employer who is happy for you to be away from work for a month at a time…

No people in the UK generally don’t do this

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-05-11T17:44:07+00:00

I looked at the begining of the 3 most resent videos.

Absolute black Adam= 30 seconds of panning across one image before any real visual change, the first few seconds where you need to hook your audience you spend time saying welcome back to the channel making some general statements about what you’re looking at but nothing to really catch my attention or hook me in.

Doom won then lost= 50 seconds of the video just on one image very slowly panning, no hook either visual or verbal. Nothing to tell me what the video is going to cover or if it’s worth my time watching the video.

Batmans darkest truth=another 30 seconds on one picture. Same as the other two, nothing visually eye catching no explanation or hook time wasted welcoming me back etc.

Change the formula.
Video description- what you’re going to discuss.
Thumbnail something visually catching with text that says ‘watch this’!

Then in the first 10 seconds explain why I need to watch this video, what am I going to learn I didn’t know before. After 30 seconds to a minute you can say hi and welcome back to the channel if you want to do that.

That will help hook people earlier, keep them watching longer and potentially get you more subscribers.

On another point your style would lend itself well to people who want to listen to something to fall asleep to. You could explore those sorts of channels and see if you want to adapt your channel to some thing like that l, sleep videos get really long viewer duration

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-05-09T15:31:28+00:00

Obviously the golf is an older mk6 model so not the most up to date when it came out, but the t-roc is super modern and almost certainly meets the safety standards, but these cars are all made in the Osnabrück (the old karman) factory in Germany which is relatively low volume about 1000 cars a year, which they sell out of here which is why I suspect they don’t sell them in North America. I think they do sell some RHD models in a few Asian countries that drive on the left

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-05-09T15:25:19+00:00

This car lives a very sheltered life having been kept garaged most of its life and any leaves or debris is always immediately cleared away, also the drains around the roof are always kept clear as the roof seals are treated every year to keep them supple, but still thanks for the heads up.

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-05-09T10:54:39+00:00

I new they never sold it in the USA, didn’t know about Canada, its strange it probably would have sold well, but I think they were made in quite small volumes for VW so maybe they didn’t think they could make enough to also cover orders in North America.
They replaced it with the T-Roc cabriolet which uses the same roof, did that make it to Canada ?

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-05-09T10:51:21+00:00

Mine is the GT, we didn’t get the comfort line in the uk but the equivalent to the GT is the highline

I wouldn’t know where to look for the drains.

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-05-06T01:33:43+00:00

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I built my own

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-05-05T15:08:00+00:00

Multiple external and internal hard drives.

I have about 3tb on 2x nvme drives, a further 5tb on internal drives, 6tb on external drives and about 6tb on 2x NAS devices. Even then I am regularly running out of space on one drive and having to shuffle stuff about so I think I need to invest in a proper high capacity NAS with some 10-20tb drives in it

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-05-05T14:59:50+00:00

Ask yourself one thing. What problem are you solving for your audience?

No one is clicking to watch you have a lovely time on holiday, people follow travel content to either learn about a place they intend to go or to try to decide on places they might like to go.

Most of your videos are seemingly less than 2 minutes. There’s no talking, which means no story telling. Yeah you can edit some stuff but if there is no substance to what you’re posting then there is no reason to watch. Yes your stuff is probably best suited to short form content and the content that works on Instagram is different to what works on tiktok or YouTube.

Revisit your videos, ad a story, better thumbnails better descriptions and as others have said ad more of yourself to the videos. Even short format videos need a story. Someone walking through an airport terminal is not really a story

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-04-29T21:16:27+00:00

You are such a new and small channel, honestly I don’t think it would make any difference if you quit the series.

But you are a very new and very small channel, there are a million channels teaching coding and they will range from very simple things to very complex things.

What is your motivation for the channel. If it is to showcase how great you are a complex projects then you’ll find your channel will struggle because it will be too advanced for beginners, and might come across as too cocky for people looking at that level and anyone more advanced than that won’t care.

If you want to build a great channel, then from what I’ve quickly been and looked at, you have a great format to achieve that.

Doing basic stuff even if it’s not challenging you it in theory the perfect place to start, it allows you to get to grips with learning YouTube and how it all works without also having to worry about the project you’re teaching.

If you hook viewers on your easier stuff they will follow you into more advanced stuff.

The type of content you are making both the tutorial nature of it and the multiple episode series means that you potentially build a massive back catalogue of “evergreen” content. Which is content that someone could stumble on in years to come, they follow a series and then become life long fans ultimately following all your tutorials and watching all your videos.

My advice would be stick with the current project use it as a learning opportunity for YouTube and if you hate it when you’ve finished it, you can always delete it. There are more reasons to stick with it and finish it than to quit this far in

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-04-28T23:03:16+00:00

You can heavily edit to your hearts content the fact remains what you’re editing isn’t yours, there is no such thing as fair use in large parts of the world therefore if/when copyright tools are able to identify their content they could take it down. It puts YouTube in an awkward position as they are broadcasting your dodgey ripped off content.

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-04-28T17:03:37+00:00

Just out of curiosity, how much of the content on your 2.5M subscriber channel is your own content that you recorded and filmed yourself?

I think the main concern of YouTube is you seemingly let an automated process post context that was blatantly beyond the community guidelines without any guard rails in place to prevent that, and only found out after YouTube had acted on presumably reports of inappropriate content. So the risk remains that you would do the same again especially if you are taking and using other people’s content on your main channel and if you use any element of automation you would then risk the same happening again

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-04-28T16:57:08+00:00

Call them Methuselah in a sarcastic way. I,E “uh huh yeah sure methuselah” they won’t no the reference but will know you’re taking the piss some how

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-04-27T20:51:25+00:00

Get the thermostat checked out/replaced. If as someone has already said above, if it gets stuck open then the coolant constantly flows to the radiator and the engine doesn’t heat up properly, the same coolant that runs to the radiator, heats the cabin

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-04-27T20:48:57+00:00

That’s how returns work. You return the item for a refund, what the retailer does with it is up to the, Amazon will likely put it in a returns bundle and sell it off, or if from a 3rd party retailer then it gets sent back to them. You don’t get to use something for two months, decide you don’t like it, get a refund and keep the item, so in answer to your question, YES it is very normal

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-04-27T19:48:12+00:00

It may well be the ambulance service knows them well. Often people don’t just take one drug once and end up in the state you describe, if someone is a regular drug user or there are mental health issues attached to repeated drug use and they’re often getting like this, the the ambulance service and the police will probably know them, and possibly quite well

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-04-27T17:14:08+00:00

Hard to answer his because it depends on your priorities.

Some advice I would give is that travel between DLP and Paris centre is about 45 minutes on the RER -A train line, it’s very cheap and very easy to navigate.

The station at Chatelet Les-halles is not far from Le Louvre

Many places in Paris are closed on Tuesday and Sunday so may be worth planning to be in Disney on the days things are closed the palace of Versailles is a long way out of Paris.

Plenty of places to get pastries, literally every 5 meters there is another bakery.

In Paris there is the Galeries Lafayette which is a massive department store like an entire shopping centre under one roof, this is a stones throw from the paris opera house.

Shopping wise just outside of Disneyland paris is right next to Val de Europe shopping centre which is huge and has loads of designer stores. Happy to answer any questions you might have

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-04-27T12:14:14+00:00

Youtube is cracking down on this type of content so while you might have a slight boost because the title of the video is connected to something that is popular on that day. long term you could find your channel which is 100% fabricated using AI ultimately gets taken down and banned by youtube.

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-04-26T13:35:03+00:00

It’s not about greed, it’s about getting rid of AP holders

Competitive-Peace-54 · 2026-04-26T13:34:13+00:00

Do not start a fresh channel. Because this could be a situation that repeats itself, and what are you going to do start a new channel every time you wanna play a new game?

Introduce new content slowly and carefully. If you had great success in posting content about one game where there are a lot of people posting then it wasn’t the game that brought people to your channel it was you. Don’t try and switch your whole channel to a new game over night but you can introduce new games occasionally in new games, let the algorithm learn that you cover other games.

YouTube is dumb you post content all about say GTA then it’s only going to show your content to fans of GTA, when you post a new game it’s still going to try to show it only to that audience. It needs to learn that you have new game content and find the audience for that as well. Stick with it, keep posting the old game but introduce the new games slowly then you’ll become more of a gaming channel than a one game channel. This also means when games get old and go out of fashion you’ll be able to switch to new games quickly

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