YouTube community rant

Purely Peña

Purely Peña

I've Got It
I'm feeling melancholy today. On one hand I am happy because I reached 300 subscribers today. It's been hard work and I've been hustling my A off to get them. I did sub4sub thing but I didn't solely rely on that. I made it a point to also make genuine friends to support each other on YT. I've been on YT for about a month so I'm proud of my subscriber number and would say 50% is sub4sub and the rest I hustled to find on my own.

On the other hand, I'm angry and bitter because I feel like certain you tubers I thought would do mutual support and that we genuinely cared about each other's channels and growth in the YT game, were frauds. I'm a very fair person, and anyone that subs me, comments, or likes, or follows me I will do the same back because that's who I am. I like to be In a community where we can help each other out. Im particularly upset that I was discussing certain projects with people that I thought were my friends. Then one day no answer. I try to contact them, I personally message them to tell them my new video is out if they can support, and ask them when their new video is out so I can support back? Nothing. Okay I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they are on vacation, or in school, or busy... Give it a few days. Nope. They post crap on social media that same day so obviously they are available. Although they don't bother to contAct me. I am so angry that they are doing this that I am re editing my videos this week to take out any mention of them, and if I'm still angry, I might put them on blast In my videos. My husband says I have anger issues. He is right. At a certain point when people play with my integrity I don't care about being mature or letting things go, I care about revenge. I'm the kind of person that will move on with my life when I feel like the score has been settled. I will unsub them, blast them on social media, slander them, and re edit my videos and take their sorry A's out of them if that is what I feel I need to do. And then I'll hit them with a "sorry I don't even know who you are" if they try to contact me and ask me why I did that. Anyway, all this to say, after the next two weeks, I won't be doing any more collabs, or anymore sub4subs, not that any of you care. I'm not posting this for advice or for people to give a F, I'm posting this just to vent. I just can't keep believing in people who are blankety blanks. That being said, I am a super loyal person and all the true friends who still support me, I support them back 100% and will always sing their praises. These are the kinds of people I need in my new YT life.

Thanks for reading my rant. If something like this happened to u, u can comment below. Im not looking for judgement or criticism for the way I handle my ISH. I'm a grown woman and this is who I am, I am not changing. So u can keep on looking for another thread if u want to hate.
 
Purely Peña said:
I am so angry that they are doing this that I am re editing my videos this week to take out any mention of them, and if I'm still angry, I might put them on blast In my videos.
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I can understand what you're going through, trust me. But being the bigger person will take you so much further in this situation. Let your actions speak louder than your words. Find new people to discuss ideas with, work hard and watch your channel grow. Then they'll see who's laughing.
 
I think your conclusion from this should be that sub4sub is a complete waste of time. You need to stop targeting other creators as potential subscribers and viewers of your channel and concentrate on building up your own real audience on your own 2 feet. If other creators watch your videos, then treat it as a bonus on top of your core subs, but don't rely on them for views. They are too busy and too concerned with their own content, as you've just found out.

Good luck.
 
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Unfortunately, as @Crown mentioned, you've learned the huge downside of sub4sub the hard way. Sub4sub is a method that will never work - if it were as easy as convincing people to subscribe to you, in exchange for subscribing back, we'd all be running around subscribing to each other and having thousands of subscribers. When you participate in sub4sub, you're building a base of subscribers that consists mainly of people who only subscribed to you because you subscribed to them, and not because they care about your videos - which is clearly what has impacted you and led to this rant.

Sorry, Barbie, but at least you'll learn and grow from this!
 
Yeah i've went through the Sub4Sub struggle on my old channel,as others have said, it is a total waste of time,don't do it. On my new channel,I've found it to be more successful. Sounds funny, to go from a 200+ subbed channel to a 6 sub channel, but the thing is, those subs are real. All 6 of my subscribers have commented on a video, or liked a video. I even had a guy I never met share my video. Thats what makes YouTube fun, growing your channel with real people around you. You'll see, its easier. As for putting them "on blast", I wouldn't. They don't care now,I doubt a video would make them give a f. Those people,like others said, are only in it for subs. They don't care about you. So they wouldn't care if you did a video. Anyways,good luck :D
 
I haven't partaken in sub4sub activity myself, but I truly hate it when something I believe to be unfair happens to me. I hope you have better luck in the future and that these experiences have only helped guide your future.

Having said that, I haven't watched any of your videos yet and don't know what kind of channel it is, so you could already be doing this, but based on this, you could probably run a pretty successful vlog where you rant about things that make you angry. Your husband says you have anger issues and you agree. You could probably capitalize on that. Anger issues and their resulting rants usually make entertaining content. Reality shows are really popular and they heavily rely on that type of stuff. I don't say this to mock you or make light of your situation. I genuinely like the idea. Now I'm curious about your channel...
 
I understand why you got frustrated but to be fair you've only been doing this a month and can I assume you've only known these people for that same time period as well? It's really hard to trust people these days especially some new youtubers who are in a dog eat dog world. Luckily on this forum there are plenty of genuine people you can collaborate with and get in touch with :)
 
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