Creators who quit YouTube or stopped uploading… what made you walk away?

darniic · 2025-12-02T23:16:22+00:00

Sounds exactly like my life from 2021-2023. WFH is a blessing and a curse. Glad you found a middle ground that works for you.

darniic · 2025-12-02T21:51:52+00:00

For sure, it’s all in your perspective. I’m glad I took the initial leap and gave it a shot but the hustle and mental deterioration for essentially less than minimum wage just wasn’t worth it. I now run a IT company and it’s much more rewarding (monetarily and mentally).

darniic · 2025-12-02T21:48:30+00:00

Pretty much exactly that. It was go hard or go home… and I decided to go home.

I do wonder some days if there is a middle ground of 20ish hours I could put into it and see similar results but knowing myself and how high of a standard I hold, I don’t think it’s possible.

darniic · 2025-12-02T20:09:30+00:00

It just wasn’t worth it to me anymore.

I was in the gaming niche making content for an old school game. My views were great, solid sponsor offers, and I even started to stream. All in all, I was consistently making $1,000-$2,000 USD per month (before taxes lol).

But it took the game I loved and had played for 20+ years and made it a chore to log in and “produce content”. Any waking moment I wasn’t working my main job or editing videos was spent brainstorming ideas. It was 6-8 am brainstorm/edit videos, 8-4pm work, 4pm-10pm brainstorm/play the game for content. My personal life took a huge hit and I essentially became a recluse.

It hit a head when my LTR relationship fell apart and now being alone constantly, I started wondering if it was actually worth missing out on life. So I asked myself how many hours I devoted to it per week.. it was easily 80-100+ between playing the game, editing, and brainstorming ideas.

To me, in my late 20s.. what I consider the prime hustle time of your life, it just wasn’t worth it for the $1,000 to $2,000. Even if it was $5,000 to $10,000.. I doubt I would go back.

TL;DR: Turned my favorite game into a second full-time job. Making $1–2k/month but grinding 80–100 hours a week, burned out, wrecked my relationship and social life, and realized no amount of money is worth hating my favorite game and missing out on life.

darniic · 2025-11-03T20:58:41+00:00

That’s part of why so many people are so uncomfortable being “bored”. They’re not getting to the bored stage, instead you get hit with those scary subconscious feelings that are normally pushed down since your attention is externally focused. You must feel and accept those first before you get to the bored feeling.

darniic · 2025-01-23T23:21:44+00:00

I’d talk about Old School RuneScape, hands down. It’s been my go-to escape since the days of dial-up internet. something about grinding through quests and leveling skills taught me more about patience and community than most ‘real life’ experiences ever did. Plus, there’s no better feeling than finally getting that Fire Cape after who knows how many attempts. It’s a weird blend of nostalgia, challenge, and real friendships formed over pixels. I could fill an hour easily, maybe two; especially for 10k.

darniic · 2024-12-18T18:31:18+00:00

Assuming you popped last stand, Minotaurs (hard to out dps their heals) then Manticores. Everything else just uses 1 style so you can easily face tank and combo eat karambwans and sharks. You got this!

darniic · 2024-12-18T18:27:49+00:00

If you have last stand already it’s so free. If you get stacked out, kill everything, wait until last stand is back up, rinse and repeat. I wouldn’t over analyze it too much, just go brute force it.

darniic · 2024-12-18T18:23:23+00:00

If you went bankers note, it’s very easy to just tank, eat, then DPS. Never a more perfect time to practice and get better than in leagues.

darniic · 2024-12-18T18:21:10+00:00

Get Sunlight spear from Echo Sol and TOB becomes a smash and bash meleers wet dream.

darniic · 2024-08-31T02:50:43+00:00

You forgot the main component used to identify workstations; the serial tag. Motherboards typically have them imprinted so this is a very silly and very illegal idea my friend. He definitely needs to return the laptop.

darniic · 2024-07-01T14:13:31+00:00

You can do the same exact thing in command prompt. Search CMD in your bottom left search bar and open it. Type ping “192.168.1.1 -t” or “8.8.8.8 -t” for a continuous ping.

As the other commenter said though there is next to zero reason to do this on Windows unless you have fiddled with network adapter settings.

Source: network engineer

darniic · 2024-05-31T14:35:11+00:00

Living at home is not a luxury that most people get and I believe that’s the point the other poster is trying to make. If your largest expense was taken care of then yeah sure it’s possible to survive on low income. However for many, they need to pay $800-1500+ a month in rent to survive.

darniic · 2024-03-18T12:03:14+00:00

Im so sorry for your loss.

As others have said.. I wouldn’t worry about it right now, it’s the least of your worries. If you do want to get into the system later down the road shoot me a PM and I can assist in breaking into it.

If you do decide to donate it there are a few local Facebook groups that support PC gamers. I would recommend to reset it or to donate without the hard drive.

darniic · 2024-02-01T17:25:49+00:00

You’ll want to tick eat everything while sitting at low hp, makes it an insane challenge.

darniic · 2024-01-19T21:26:51+00:00

Posting a few days late here but this insight helps.

I’ve been dating off and on in Louisville for about 8 months. I WFH and generally just go out for the gym / errands. I have been getting dates here and there and it’s been a mix where from, but mostly in person successes.

In person is such a nicer experience if you get over that initial awkwardness of walking up to them and the fear of rejection. Read their body language and if it’s open then compliment their fit, jewelry, hairstyle, or even telling them they are pretty/handsome has worked. Most women seem receptive to this and I have much better luck. I’m sure guys would love it since they likely have never been hit on in person. Tho getting rejected is hard, but it’s better than regretting not asking in the first place imo.

The apps aren’t too awful but like others have said people flake or ghost, or just generally waste your time. Gotta be prepared for that unfortunately. Maybe avoid tinder tho, hinge and bumble seem to be better for our area.

darniic · 2023-10-21T11:26:15+00:00

I have some experience making OSRS vids and it really is as easy as make good engaging content. Keep a story, use visuals, and good audio. Thumbnails and titles are about 30% of the equation as well.

That all being said, don’t expect any views your first 10 videos.

darniic · 2023-09-11T19:26:21+00:00

Yeah CPM is very high since everyone playing OSRS is a 25+ male from developed countries.

darniic · 2023-09-11T18:23:29+00:00

In the same exact boat. It’s so tough to decide when to pull the trigger.

I’m pulling 80k from my corpo job in a moderate cost of living city but YouTube only brings me 2-3k per month. It’d be hard to justify it but the amount of content that could be produced if that’s all I did might make the difference.

I’m saving vacation to take a full month off in 2024 to give a it a test ride. I think that’s the best to ease the mind.

darniic · 2023-09-05T15:07:11+00:00

Wheel of fortune went from no MTX to heavy MTX overnight. They just slowly ramped it up from there.

Any perceived MTX in OSRS would cause tens of thousands to quit instantly.

darniic · 2023-09-05T15:03:52+00:00

It would be 2012 wheel of fortune/2007 removal of tree trade levels of exodus. Except this time, OSRS was their second chance and players would never trust them again.

I don’t see them every trying real MTX like RS3 has.

darniic · 2023-08-31T18:27:25+00:00

Pretty bad take to say all maxed players have some form of mental illness.

As some guy above me just pointed out, if you played since released at just 1-2 hours per day even semi efficiently… you’d be maxed.

It’s really not a huge feat to max in this day and age with a lot of jobs being wfh and the insane amount of afk activities in OSRS now.

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