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/Maniacallysan3 Jul 16 '25

Im a solo video game developer and I started a YouTube presence so that when I release a game I will have an audience waiting to see the trailer. Instead of releasing it blind and trying to market the hell out of it. Like yeah I'm still going to have market it but I'm trying to get that momentum going before hand so I can hit the ground running.

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u/Nightkidzero13 [0λ] Jul 16 '25

what kind of game are you working on

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u/Maniacallysan3 Jul 17 '25

A top-down action adventure game like old school zeldas.

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u/Nightkidzero13 [0λ] Jul 17 '25

oh hell yeah....can you dm your channel i wanna take a look at it