Biggest Channel Regret?

I was making youtube videos a few years back (about five/six years ago) and I closed my channel because the videos gained popularity and some people at my school found the channel (even though they didn't say anything bad). I was just too shy and it got overwhelming when people would ask for me to do some videos in exchange for considerable amounts of money. 14/15 year old me freaked out.

I look back and regret it because I had a strong community with people I loved talking to and my channel could have grown a lot if I kept at it, but it was possibly the best decision for me at the time.
 
Yea, same as a lot of replies, I wish I'd kept doing it when youtube first came out. I had a fairly successful (a lot more viewers than the channel I have now) vlog channel back in like 2007. It was really boring content but there was basically no competition in the space. That channel got banned because there was a big spider outside my window and I lit it on fire on camera. Got banned for "animal abuse" lol. I don't consider insects animals but apparently the Youtube overlords do...

Anyway, after that I was pretty ticked off and didn't want to be a part of Youtube anymore for a long time. I definitely regret stopping. I like the content I make now a LOT more than making stupid vlogs but I missed out on a potentially big audience because I was upset with how the platform treated me. There was no way to appeal the ban or contact anyone, which still hasn't changed, and still upsets me about Youtube...
 
Yeah I wished I had started earlier too. I've been an active user on YouTube right from the start and I spent so much time watching other people's videos instead of making my own. For some reason, back then I thought it was more complicated than it actually is to set up a channel.

Since then, I've made mistakes along the way, but I don't regret any of them because they have helped me learn what works and what doesn't work.
 
Like everyone else who's posted in this thread, I too wish I'd started earlier. It took me a while to gain the confidence to start.

Kaleido said:
Yea, same as a lot of replies, I wish I'd kept doing it when youtube first came out. I had a fairly successful (a lot more viewers than the channel I have now) vlog channel back in like 2007. It was really boring content but there was basically no competition in the space. That channel got banned because there was a big spider outside my window and I lit it on fire on camera. Got banned for "animal abuse" lol. I don't consider insects animals but apparently the Youtube overlords do...

Anyway, after that I was pretty ticked off and didn't want to be a part of Youtube anymore for a long time. I definitely regret stopping. I like the content I make now a LOT more than making stupid vlogs but I missed out on a potentially big audience because I was upset with how the platform treated me. There was no way to appeal the ban or contact anyone, which still hasn't changed, and still upsets me about Youtube...
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I sincerely hope that you now see that lighting spiders on fire is not an okay thing to do!
 
Juzey said:
I sincerely hope that you now see that lighting spiders on fire is not an okay thing to do!
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LOL yea, I mean, that was almost a decade ago now! I still kill spiders on sight because I HATE them, but I definitely wouldn't make a video about it haha
 
It's interesting to see that the common response is starting sooner or committing.

For me, committing would have hurt me more than helped me. I wasn't the right person for it at the time, and I didn't have the right motives for it either (I wanted fame and money when I first started). Quitting youtube led me on a journey that shaped me into the person I am today, and I wouldn't change that for the world :)
 
Like most, I wish we had started sooner, but we didn't even know about the world of videos in our genre until a few months before we made our own. Slightly differently, I wish we had recognized more of the mistakes we were making sooner! It's an organic process, though.
 
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