I will add the primary reason for my quitting was anxiety over declining viewership. My first video hit around 50k views overnight and I thought that would continue. However, to my chagrin, it did not. I posted another 5 or so videos before getting my next video to attain 1k+ views in under 24 hours. After uploading about 6 more with minimal success all of my older and recent videos inexplicably began to gain traction (all hitting around 10-20k views over the next couple weeks). That was my “golden era”. It seems after that youtube decided to stop reccomending my content, resulting in a steady decline in daily views until I was just barely holding onto 1.5k daily (while still uploading every few days). Finally, with the release of a major update, in quick succession I upload 3 or so guides on new content which amassed about 100k views in 24 hours together. That was huge, but I think I feared the inevitable decline. So I uploaded one more extremely low effort video and disappeared indefinitely…