What's difficult about being a Youtuber?

Motivation, without a doubt. EVERYTHING else is tied in with your motivation. Spending the time to edit, keeping a schedule, all of that stuff is dirt simple if you're motivated to do it.

When you're new, motivation is hard because you're not getting much notice. It's hard to say "I should get some recording done" or "I need to edit these videos" when you look at your page and see 10 subs and 0 views on them. If we all had 5 million subs and every video got bombarded with comments and we had all this fan mail every video would be a celebration of community. When you're throwing a creation that took you hours, days, maybe even weeks of planning and execution into the aether, the question of "why should I bother with that when I could do something else?" rings true.

I know the ready answer is "I make videos because I enjoy making videos!" but... it's not true. If anyone on here truly liked making videos sheerly for the self satisfaction of it and didn't care at all about publicity, we wouldn't be putting them on YouTube. And we definitely wouldn't be on here.
 
For me its,, that im 13 and got school, and need to upload my videos in time, and have problems doing that. Sometimes I cant upload a video at all. Another problem is finding the idea of what to upload and what time to upload it :P
Being a youtuber is harder than you think
 
Time... or lack thereof. If I where a full time YouTuber I would have more than enough time to do what I want to do. But since I have a day job with a long commute 11 hours of the day are already gone. Then I am a dad, so I can't spend every free minute off work on my hobbies. And then there is just that... hobbies. YouTube is one, but so is gaming and watching movies.

So... Time... I just don't have enough of it!
 
I'd say commitment for me although it's hard because of the nature of my channel. I really enjoy trying to build the channel though, as that can be the fun part. There's nothing like seeing your channel views go up or just getting a few subs a week to boost your mood! :)
 
SomeGuyDude said:
Good. Don't accept that. Then you WILL exceed expectations.
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I've just been enjoying your wonderful responses but I needed to say something about this specific post. I second what @SomeGuyDude said, don't accept that. You are just getting started and you have much to contribute to the Youtube community. You're going to make amazing content and even surprise yourself. Hold you head up!
 
What isn't difficult about YouTube?
  • Thinking of video ideas
  • Marketing the page for exposure
  • Editing
  • Balancing school, a job and YouTube
  • Creating content you can be proud of
That being said, YouTube is the best thing in the world.
 
Generally being a YouTuber is not difficult at all. The difficulty is to be a successful YouTuber. Just like you I am struggling to keep a upload schedule besides my full time job. Currently I have two collaboration videos in a row that need more effort than other vids while I am already recording the footage for the following video and this really puts me under pressure.
 
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