Several YouTubers ditched channels with thousands of subscribers to start fresh, citing low engagement and dead audiences. The speaker argues starting over won't fix the real problem: if your content doesn't improve, those same inactive subscribers will follow you to the new channel.
¡Hola! So this video is going to be about people I've watched or known that restarted, that created a new YouTube channel. And I'm just gonna go ahead and straight up and say this: I can never create a new YouTube channel. Like, I just cannot do that. I put too much work into this one. But yesterday, someone with 27,000 subscribers decided to start over, create a new channel, and start uploading to a new channel. And I don't think I could ever do that, no matter what is going on, I don't think I'd ever be able to leave this channel. Now I'm not gonna say why he started over because that's his business. He made a video explaining it, so if you want to check that out, I'll link him in the description. And I'll also link the next person I'm about to talk about, which is actually someone who goes by Pico, and he had a channel with like almost 10,000 subscribers. I used to watch him back in the day, and he decided to start over. He said something like his videos weren't hitting sub boxes or whatever, and he went from 10K subscribers— not 10K, almost 10K subscribers— back down to less than 1,000. I just like, I don't know how those guys did it. I don't think I'd ever be able to do that. I've seen so many people with way more subscribers than me just randomly one day say they wanted to start over, you know, and usually the reasons to me just don't justify it. I'm just gonna be straightforward, there's never a big enough reason to create a new channel unless this channel is deleted, and that's just, you know, how I see it. I'm not condoning them or anything, obviously it's 100% their decision and they have to live with it, you know, and if it makes them happy, then do it. Another person that comes to mind when I think about this is Redneck TK, or TK Redneck, if that sounds familiar. I tried searching him up, I couldn't find him, but he had like 40,000 subscribers or something like that. I remember one day he just posted a video saying he was starting over. And yeah, that like just so many people pop up in my head. There's this other guy who had like 13,000 subscribers that I used to watch, and he started over because he said most his subscribers were dead. And you know, if he's good He posts the same content on his new channel. So if you start a new channel because your subscribers on your old channel are dead, I mean, the same thing's gonna happen to your new channel unless you're posting really entertaining content. You know, subscribers become dead. You know, even if you're only getting 700 views per video, that's still a lot of views. I mean, subscribers— it's commentaries. It's easy for people not to want to watch it, to get bored of them. That's why you get dead subscribers, and creating a new channel won't really fix that because after a while they get bored of it again. But you know, whatever, my opinion. Honestly, I'm not quite sure where this commentary is going. All I wanted to say is Apocalypse, someone that I kinda watch on and off, uh, started a new channel and he was actually getting, you know, thousands of views per video on his old channel. And it just made this thought pop up in my head and I was just like, "I would never be able to do that. I would never be able to walk away from this channel." Just all the work gone into these videos. And he has way more videos than me. He's been doing it just as long as me, but, you know, he has way more videos than me. And I don't know, it's just ridiculous. I don't think I'd ever be able to do that. And so that just made me want to talk about it. Let me know what you guys think. So like I said, Pico and Apocalypse will be linked down below if you, you know, want to see what I was talking about. And that was that. If you're a YouTuber watching this, let me know what you think and your opinions on it. I'd love to hear it.
