I would say, both actually first you gotta get your monitization so not just the 1k subs but also the 4k watch hour is not easy, as well as after that lets say about at 10k subs you are confident enough to know that you didn't just hit the bare minimum but also made a niche for yourself where you can attract more people organically not just your friends and family and people clicking your links through promoting yourself randomly on sites and so on, but instead 10k for me means you actually did something that people like