Have you ever thought of doing a shoutout, like the one you got from Pewdiepie, because that is in a way kind of how your channel blew up?

Asked by sadiemoo14-blog

Yes I have but decided against it for many reasons. First off that shoutout didn’t make my channel nor did it do what people think it did. It helped, a LOT to get some traction but it was a few months after that that the channel blew up.

When Felix did the shoutout he had like 26 million subs, a LOT of people! His shoutout helped get the channel from 2.5k subs to like 15k in 3 days which at the time was insane growth. However the month following that went back to normal growth (maybe slightly more) and everything sort of died down again.

The channel got it’s main growth through consistency of content and uploads as well as the games I was playing and the variety and interactivity of it. I am incredibly grateful for that shoutout and it did help a lot to motivate me but it isn’t the reason the channel is where it is now and Felix agrees with that. There were others in that shoutout that went nowhere because they didn’t upload or didn’t captialise on it.

ANYWAY, the reason I won’t be doing one is because for a channel with 26 million subs to do a shoutout and give a slight bump in subs, a channel with 8 million subs will do far far less. It won’t change someone’s life unless that channel is already heading for that sort of growth and I just nudge them along, which is incredibly hard to find these days because the market is saturated.

Also I don’t want people to feel like I’m promoting favouritism or anything like that. Like “Why did THEIR channel get a shoutout and not me???”. It would also lead to a LOT of spam in the comments of “PLEASE SHOUT ME OUT” etc. I love interacting with comments and don’t want to see it devolve into that.

There’s many other factors but these are my main points for it. Shoutout’s aren’t as successful for people as some think they are. The people who “make it” from shoutouts were likely going to anyway because they work hard, not because of handouts