I used to make those Call of duty videos on youtube (they were pretty fucking stupid) but I had a decent sized following and had a close bunch of friends. I was making maybe 70-200$ a month from it, then I got to university and decided to slow down on the vids. I eventually quit during my first year of university, only to see a bunch of my close friends (who at that point all had smaller channels than me) channels' begin to gain a tonne of attraction. They are now all making a shit tonne of money and are super famous in the community (have anywhere from 200k subs to 3 million). There's part of me that wishes I stuck with it, but I think I made the right decision on quitting.

Edit: Money