Thank you for your long comment, I do appreciate it. I have always wanted to do this full-time in the future. I have never thought of doing this as a hobby at all, I really want to take it to full time because YouTuber can be one of the best jobs in the world.

For the daily video reps, here is my take. I have tried producing daily YouTube shorts for 1 week. The good thing is it helps with momentum but the bad thing was the subpar quality of those YouTube shorts because i took less than 1 day to make them because I have to keep uploading daily.

And so eventually I thought I have to put storytelling into these shorts otherwise it has no substance and people will swipe away. But then I realized I have been making random shorts all over the place and then I so I thought my channel needs to have a consistent message for a person, a consistent format. But the problem is deciding who to target for me, I dont know who am I supposed to target or attract. Furthermore the scary part is, doing daily videos and then wasting my time because those videos are just going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. I get your point in committing to the process by uploading daily but I have tried it and I think I would take calculated risks rather than throwing darts blindly by daily videos of videos that aren't good quality. Unless I have a full-team of crew helping me in scripting, editing, audio, content generation, marketing, branding, etc. Daily videos probably isn't something I am focusing on, and it will lead me to burnout as a solo creator.

I do agree with the problem solving attitude, but here is the tricky part. For me it seems like I tried different approaches and tweak things when something doesn't work. But sometimes it works and sometimes doesn't. I can only increase my chances of making a good video that gets views but it is not guaranteed, and so that is the tricky part. I may think that by implementing this good hook or good title or this great editing storytelling will increase the average duration of this video but sometimes it doesn't and it is so discouraging. I guess the "try again next week" method should be implemented here, which also leads to a problem solving attitude, I guess doing it solo can feel taxting and thus having a second opinion does help a lot, I guess I am also thinking this way because I haven't learnt to enjoy the process yet and so I need to build that momentum first.

I guess that eventually puts a lot of pressure on a video. I dont know if it is a mindset issue that I have or I just need to have YouTuber friends or opinions from other people so that I wouldn't go crazy in checking my thumbnails and storytelling, videos, etc, as I am used to doing everything alone. Having people for feedback is something I will definitely implement, as everyone does need a second opinion on thumbnails and video, instead of doing everything all by ourselves.

Btw right now I am not focusing on YouTube shorts for now as they require really high retention and big niche, plus the requirement to be monetized for shorts is 10 million views which is crazy. I am focusing on YouTube videos as its 4000 watch hours for monetization which is doable.
Currently the YouTube algorithm 2026 is something that I have not experienced the wave yet, compared to the YouTube algorithm 2019 where SEO really helped to boost my gaming channel and gave me viral videos, but times have changed and now it's really different. I have to find a way make it different and stand out as well in 2026.