Why do YouTubers compare themselves to other YouTubers?

Courtney Candice

Courtney Candice

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I noticed that YouTubers always have to compare their success to other YouTubers, if one YouTuber is gaining a bunch of subscribers than another YouTuber has to make their comments like well my subscriber count and views are better than yours. I don’t see the point in constantly comparing yourself with another channel and then make nasty comments to a channel with more subscribers just to bring them down.

Is it really worth trying degrade others to make yourself look better?

The answer should be no.
 
Competition is a good thing in my view, but it should be fair and good minded. Unfortunately this won't happen on this planet.
I try to learn from others but I would rather let therm know that they did a great job with their video instead of trying to bring them down.
 
Mister20seven said:
Competition is a good thing in my view, but it should be fair and good minded. Unfortunately this won't happen on this planet.
I try to learn from others but I would rather let therm know that they did a great job with their video instead of trying to bring them down.
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Yeah competition can inspire you to work harder it’s inspired me before but I never tried to bring my competition down by saying mean things to them.
 
Jealousy and envy. I get it, we're all competing. But some people think making another channel look bad is their way to make theirs look good. It sucks, especially if the targeted channel really didn't do anything.
 
It's okay to acknowledge and understand your competitors. That's natural and everyone should be wary of what they're up against. It's when they start letting their competitors dictate their own actions that is a problem. If you believe in your videos, your product, and your brand, you should do everything in your power to keep building it. Everything else is noise.
 
Courtney Candice said:
I noticed that YouTubers always have to compare their success to other YouTubers, if one YouTuber is gaining a bunch of subscribers than another YouTuber has to make their comments like well my subscriber count and views are better than yours. I don’t see the point in constantly comparing yourself with another channel and then make nasty comments to a channel with more subscribers just to bring them down.

Is it really worth trying degrade others to make yourself look better?

The answer should be no.
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Comparing yourself with others is a natural thing. But once you step beyond simple comparing and start to hate on the other YouTuber's numbers you are off the deep end. I have voiced my opinion to bigger YouTubers. But it never has to do with their numbers, it always has to do with something they did or how they act. Fans of that YouTuber always construe it as hate though, because it comes from a smaller YouTuber.

I don't really compare myself to others that much anymore because I know I am not the type of YouTuber that gains a lot of subscribers. My gain curve has been pretty much flat since 1000 subscribers. Sure, I have peaks, but it always ends up back to 1 - 5 subscribers a day / ~100 a month with sometimes loosing a few in between. Whenever I check out other YouTubers I always hope to one day make it up there, however illogical that wish may be. Realistically I'll make it to 10K subscribers someday and that is my current goal, but 100K? Never. That's just being realistic (something you have to learn and become, otherwise you'll rage-quit sooner or later).
 
TheDutchTexan said:
Comparing yourself with others is a natural thing. But once you step beyond simple comparing and start to hate on the other YouTuber's numbers you are off the deep end. I have voiced my opinion to bigger YouTubers. But it never has to do with their numbers, it always has to do with something they did or how they act. Fans of that YouTuber always construe it as hate though, because it comes from a smaller YouTuber.

I don't really compare myself to others that much anymore because I know I am not the type of YouTuber that gains a lot of subscribers. My gain curve has been pretty much flat since 1000 subscribers. Sure, I have peaks, but it always ends up back to 1 - 5 subscribers a day / ~100 a month with sometimes loosing a few in between. Whenever I check out other YouTubers I always hope to one day make it up there, however illogical that wish may be. Realistically I'll make it to 10K subscribers someday and that is my current goal, but 100K? Never. That's just being realistic (something you have to learn and become, otherwise you'll rage-quit sooner or later).
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I always like to keep my goal realistic, I currently have over 4K so my goal is 5k and once I git that I would change it to 6k. It’s much better to keep your number realistic because the goal doesn’t seem to impossible to reach, but once you set a goal that’s unrealistic you will end up disappointed in the outcome because most likely you won’t reach that number as fast as you think you will and your goal will just seem like it’s impossible.
 
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