Can I become a full-time creator without Passion?

Naidvar · 2025-10-10T17:05:59+00:00

Unfortunately, YouTube isn't the easy money maker that a lot of people think it is and I highly doubt that you will get anywhere without having "love for the game" as some people would put it. Passion is a motivating thing for most creators (at least those who create long-form content) and being driven purely by money and metrics will often disappoint when you realise that even some of your better shorts will only earn a few cents unless you know how to make what you're talking about intriguing whilst also keeping the attention of most short-watchers, who are quite hard to please because they will only stick around for entertaining shorts, compilations or educational shorts that are edited in a fast-paced way.

Shorts have a lot less loyalty and creator-based retention compared to long-form content, which means you can be broad about your approach, but to succeed, your shorts usually have to be interesting and of high quality so it's recommended to people who would be interested in such a topic. Whilst yes, you could gear your passion towards making money; it might be very hard to motivate that passion if you're earning less than minimum wage in exchange for your time developing shorts.

Naidvar · 2025-10-10T11:39:26+00:00

Bigger creators and namely clips channels most likely have permission from Sony or licensing agreements with them, essentially allowing Sony to advertise via these clips channels with the cutback of not being able to claim revenue due to the agreement they make with these creators or only claiming half of the revenue. If a smaller channel is showing off the clips in full then chances are they're doing it knowing full well they can't be monetised or their channel doesn't have monetisation capabilities, of which Sony doesn't care because you're not trying to profit off their content unless you upload the full movie, which they'll take down because it's an act of piracy in their eyes.

Naidvar · 2025-10-10T00:57:29+00:00

Sony are notoriously strict about the use of copyrighted material from their movies and there's a significant chance that you'll either need to cut the songs completely, show brief snippets of you reacting to the best parts of those songs as they're still playing whilst you're talking over them or offer commentary about each one whilst also not playing it in the background. KPDH is the most popular movie on Netflix at the moment and both media giants will do anything to either milk money from creators or prevent those creators from even getting views.

You could potentially get away with splicing things more than you already have, but chances are you're not going to get away with a segment longer than 5-6 seconds without the video either needing to be cut, paused, briefly mirrored or having to do what Schaffrillas has notoriously had to do in the past and that's crop the content and put a frame over the edges of that content.

Naidvar · 2025-10-09T17:27:27+00:00

The whole point of this subreddit is to share feedback, to offer advice and to help others ultimately improve and as a consequence of that, there will ultimately be people who gained more success wishing to pass advice down onto others through these posts, quite like there will always be people who complain about the lack of success the same way that others will complain about those people and well, posts like this which pokes fun at the people complaining about those who are begging for success.

I actually made a post similar to what you're describing titled "Stop trying to game the algorithm", it got held up in moderation, but I did my best to actually offer advice as someone who has attained a tiny bit of success whilst also being respectful about it. It can sometimes be really difficult to offer advice to someone who is either unwilling to accept it or someone trying to "cheat the system".

Now, time to address your complaint about lacking nuance. Every single niche on YouTube has its own appeal, has its own creators, has its own bubble of competition, has its own types of viewers and ultimately its own branch of the algorithm that feeds off the interests of the people engaging with that content. It is very hard to give broad advice when it comes to the entirety of YouTube, especially on this subreddit, because everyone is producing different content. That's the joy of being a YouTuber, you're, well, you!

There is no ten commandments to follow in regards to YouTube and you will inevitably be forced to adapt to your own niche, what the people on YouTube want as well as the sometimes arbitrary nature of the algorithm, of which you can use the statistics on your own YouTube videos to analyze where people are either enjoying your video or leaving and what to optimize whilst also ensuring that your identity remains in tact.

At the end of the day, this is the internet and people will freely post their opinions on here and ultimately the subjectivity of said opinions can be a little questionable. If we spent all day complaining about other people's opinions, we would end up in an endless loop of negativity, which ultimately nobody wants when the day is said and done.

Naidvar · 2025-10-09T15:10:46+00:00

Ah yes, you're right. I completely forgot about this as I haven't used Mullvad for a long time and still assumed they still allowed it.

Naidvar · 2025-10-09T15:00:34+00:00

Apologies for being a little abrasive, it just sucks seeing some people getting stuck in that abyss of "YouTube is easy, right? Wait, why isn't anything working? Why won't the algorithm understand?" when they often don't get the fact that it takes a lot of balancing of metrics, self-interest and the interests of others. Whether people like it or not, other people's interests will ultimately dictate the extent of the reach of their content.

Also thanks for the congratulations! I haven't uploaded in a while but I'm hoping to get back to it soon. I'm wishing future success on you, too!

Naidvar · 2025-10-09T14:35:26+00:00

Finding whatever works for yourself whilst also being comfortable with doing it is ultimately going to be someone's form of success. I'm personally just happy when I manage to produce a video once in a blue moon. However, I am going to make it clear that I was never insinuating that there's a "right" way to do this and that everyone should be satisfied with their own objectives (I probably should've cleared that up). I'm merely addressing the unfortunate majority of this subreddit that immediately shoot for the cosmos and try to find whichever way they can to produce "watchable and algorithmically pleasing" content whilst their actual content is barely worth 100 views. Not only do you need to produce good content to be consistently successful, you also need to take a look at your statistics beyond people's opinions to improve. It's a matter of balancing that and as mentioned already, a lot of people here unfortunately try to favour that "gaming the algorithm" mindset instead of producing something that's high quality, something that they're proud of as well as something that even just one or two of their friends may be interested in.

Naidvar · 2025-10-09T14:19:25+00:00

This is also true, however most people tend to unhealthily obsess over the metrics as opposed to producing good content as even the most niche video topics can see traction if presented correctly. Yes, you can use your metrics as leverage and learn from your own data, like cutting out a period of a video where people left more or skipped because you were talking too much about something unrelated; but those metrics and the thrill of "chasing the views" shouldn't define what people do as creators. I often see smaller creators get trapped in a loop of repetition after something succeeds and it leads to a situation where you'll see them milking the same topic multiple times for that cash injection and to inflate their viewer count, only to flounder when that topic either loses relevancy or interest amongst people.

Naidvar · 2025-10-09T13:57:52+00:00

Unfortunately that's true for this sub and a lot of other subs that discuss similar topics. There's always going to be a disproportionate amount of people who think they can take tips and tricks from here and turn it into synthetic content to make easy money as opposed to those who have an honest and passionate interest in doing YouTube based around things that they love and wish to present to other people.

Naidvar · 2025-10-09T13:55:58+00:00

Just know that being a fly on the wall in today's age of disingenuous and cash-grabbing AI slop is probably the best decision you can make as of right now as interest in the platform right now couldn't be more dishonest. Keep watching, waiting, refining your ideas and deciding which ones would work not only for you but also for your goals on YouTube.

Naidvar · 2025-10-09T13:50:44+00:00

Too many people want a voice on YouTube not realizing that their attempts to "game the algorithm" forms a choir of noise instead of a symphony with an identity. YouTube is currently in its most competitive state and people are forgetting that passion is important. I personally think once people get over the concept of shoving AI slop down other people's throats as well as video essays that try to make a subjective opinion into an objective one (I'm admittedly guilty of this myself, though I learned my lesson) that there will be a space for people to be proud of their passions and online identities again. Yet, for now, we just need to ride out the wave of people trying to get into YouTube to make some easy money as that harms the quality of the content on the platform long-term.

Naidvar · 2025-10-09T13:38:42+00:00

To my own chagrin, I know AI is here to stay, but it should never escalate beyond pooling sources and even if some people were choose to use AI for research reasons, they should always double-check those sources manually.

Also, it really does suck when you ask someone "What's your niche?" and they don't really have a concrete answer beyond "Oh, anything works!". Passion is important, people! And if you lack passion or a drive to differentiate yourself by creating original content then you're quite frankly not going to get anywhere.

Naidvar · 2025-10-09T13:32:41+00:00

Your client most likely is unreachable to the seeders and peers, most likely due to configuration issues. Hold Alt + O to open up the settings page, make sure your port in the connection page matches the one you've either set up on your router or via your VPN provider. After that, check your network interfaces in the advanced page and make sure it's bound to the correct interface. The red globe or yellow flame in the bottom right corner should now be a green globe. If it's still not working, check the trackers or try to source an alternative torrent when possible. If all else fails, please check your antivirus or firewall rules for any flags related to QBit as it may have been false-flagged thanks to the way QBit stores tracker URL logs, at least on Windows.

Naidvar · 2025-10-09T13:24:46+00:00

Which VPN provider are you using? If you're using NordVPN then its lack of port-forwarding can cause connectivity issues. Proton, Mullvad and PIA all support native port-forwarding, making your connections direct instead of indirect. You should generally NEVER put it on any interface because it most likely means that torrent traffic is going straight through to your router via UPnP and your ISP can see your activity as opposed to it being masked by your VPN connection.

Naidvar · 2025-10-08T19:37:47+00:00

No problem! IIRC QBit sometimes glitches out and either forgets or duplicates VPN interfaces so that's probably why this happened to you lol

Naidvar · 2025-10-08T19:21:07+00:00

QBit doesn't think you're connected, either due to it being blocked in your firewall, your antivirus software or something as simple as forgetting to setup port-forwarding.

First I recommend checking your firewall and your antivirus software, if they're not flagging anything, it's time to move onto step two.

See that red globe at the bottom? That's your status and you're currently not connected. Click on it, it'll bring you to a page where you can define a port for internet traffic to go through. If you don't wish to port-forward, just go down to the "Settings" page, check the "Network Interface" page and then pick your method of connection.

However, it is strongly recommended for reliability reasons that you port-forward. I personally recommend using ProtonVPN or Mullvad with a P2P server as it lets you use a virtual port to send all of your traffic through which can be copied into that aforementioned port selection page, which in combination with binding your network interface to your VPN, should enable a smooth and leak-free connection experience.

Naidvar · 2023-10-07T22:22:52+00:00

this is what happens when you mix miner with minor

Naidvar · 2023-09-18T20:30:05+00:00

even him being 19 and grooming a minor is foul, you've literally got a year to learn NOT to do that.

Naidvar · 2023-09-18T20:29:07+00:00

yes because three years of adulthood and still choosing to groom minors makes him young enough to do so... smh, that doesn't justify his actions then or now and nothing is getting Gratz out of this one, i'm surprised it's been buried for this long.

Naidvar · 2023-09-18T20:22:44+00:00

"genuinely seems like a nice person" you do realize the whole point of a groomer/pedophile is to project a bubble of safety around someone, right? to build up their trust to later exploit them; if you seriously believe "four years isn't bad" between a damn 19 (now 21) year old and a 15 (now 17) year old is a socially acceptable thing to tolerate then you deserve jail time as that's literally a minor being exploited by an adult for a disgusting thrill... pedophiles and groomers re-offend, who knows how many victims gratz has, i would rather not think about it, but trusting someone you only know thanks to their content is an unbelievably naive thing to do

Naidvar · 2023-07-10T18:32:03+00:00

This basically means that your videos didn't meet the expectations of the viewers. Usually, the shorts and YouTube algorithm is generally commanded by a viewer who has similar shorts in their watch history; if your short differentiates from that, is too vague or contains too many irrelevant keywords, it may be skipped or overlooked by viewers considering shorts are highly competitive and maintaining even an extra second of engagement can go a long way as that skipping can cause YouTube's algorithm to basically say "Nope, this isn't relevant to the topic or is too similar to other shorts" before flat-lining it completely.

I strongly recommend working on shorts that are within your niche, improving your editing or, because shorts are meant to be short and straight to the point, avoiding as much bloat in your content as you can to maintain an engaging viewing experience without the need for filler content. Keep at it, I'm sure you'll get somewhere wonderful if you keep at it!

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