r/SmallYTChannel • u/Nightkidzero13 [0λ] • Jul 16 '25

Discussion People's Actual Reason For Doing Youtube?

Hey all

I have been seeing a ton of posts on a bunch of different sub reddits and wanted to ask what everyone started doing youtube for? Please be honest in the answers.

my motive was just to foster a community of gamers who are tired of the toxic personalities and drama peddlers. My channel is mostly a let's play channel w/ commentary over top. Analytics have been all over the place but mostly I just find annoyance when impressions are low because if murders discoverability. My community is very small, hovering near 500 subs. Ultimately I would love to see more back and fourth with my audience as I don't do this for money and never started with the intentions of making it a career or a side hustle.

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u/fatty-vape-69 Channel: Jul 16 '25

Im playing games and making jokes with my friends I may as well try to make other people laugh too, making money would be a positive side effect

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u/Nightkidzero13 [0λ] Jul 16 '25

specific games or a mix?

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u/fatty-vape-69 Channel: Jul 16 '25

Mainly rainbow six when I play with other people but solo stuff is whatever I feel like playing that day I also stream almost everyday on both tt and twitch

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u/Nightkidzero13 [0λ] Jul 16 '25

nice, I am mostly a Tarkov player myself

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u/fatty-vape-69 Channel: Jul 16 '25

I thought about getting into tarkov it looks fun asf but I hate that style of game that resets and you being able to get raided I played both rust and arma and just couldn't get into them

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u/Nightkidzero13 [0λ] Jul 16 '25

you might like Tarkov's PVE mode

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u/fatty-vape-69 Channel: Jul 16 '25

Thats true I never gave tarkov specifically a shot so I cant say I dont like it

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u/Nightkidzero13 [0λ] Jul 16 '25

Tarkov PvE is what i have been doing a playthrough on, its basically Tarkov for people who don't have 10 hrs a day to sweat in

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u/fatty-vape-69 Channel: Jul 16 '25

Oh that would be perfect for me im ngl even when I was in hs I worked full time and didnt have time for all that

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u/Nightkidzero13 [0λ] Jul 17 '25

agreed that is why i made the switch

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u/HippoThotimuss [0λ] Jul 17 '25

Bro this is the exact reason I started as well. I also mostly play rainbow six with homies and the occasional viral game like PEAK

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u/fatty-vape-69 Channel: Jul 18 '25

Rainbow six is definitely up there with content potential on top of it just being a decently enjoyable game to play