Creator got 350,000 views from post-for-post collabs with Immortality and Lollar but barely gained followers, proving they don't work. Real collabs need genuine friendship and fun formats like group gameplay. Vanoss Gaming and Kwar Speedy show how tight groups of funny creators cross-promote and grow together.
It's funny to me how I've gotten 350,000 views over the past 30 days but only gained 30 Twitter followers. If you guys enjoy my content or just like me as a person, go follow my Twitter, first link in the description of every video. But let's jump into the topic: collabing with other YouTubers. Now before I state my opinion on this matter, I'm not gonna come across as a hypocrite. I have done 2 collabs in the past. The first one I did was with a guy called Immortality. He has ulcerative colitis, I have Crohn's disease, so we kinda became friends like that. And yeah, so I did a post on his channel, he did a post on mine. And then the other collab I did was with a guy called Lollar. We just did post-for-post as well. And here's what I've learned, and I say this to save you guys time, not to be a pessimist or anything. Don't do post-for-post, don't do collabs, just stop trying so hard to do it. As if you're being realistic, if you have under 10K subscribers and you do a collab with someone else, you're not gonna gain that much out of it. It's really not worth the hassle, and honestly, just uploading a normal video will do you just as much good. The only way collabs actually work is if you're doing it with a really good friend and you're like playing a game together something like that. Post for post never works, okay? I've done it, I learned from my mistakes. Don't do post for post, it's not gonna help you. And quit going around asking random YouTubers to collab with you. Even if they said yes, that's just not gonna be that successful because you guys are not friends. If you're in a collab, it has to be with someone you're friends with. It has to be funny, that way the viewers enjoy it. And it's just— I get so many requests to do collabs, and this video is not directed at anyone, but why are you guys asking me to do collabs? All I do is is post commentaries, and I do not want to do post for post. Those do not help. If you really want to share fanbase with someone or just grow with someone, what you need to do is kind of what Kwar Speedy and Vanoss Gaming have. Get a solid group of funny YouTubers and just play together, and then have everyone link everyone else in their descriptions, and you guys will all grow together. And that's how you do it. You gotta get a group, and you guys gotta just have fun. You can't have— you can't be forced. You gotta be friends, and it has to be fun. And that's how you grow together. If you want to collab, that's how you want to do it. Model it after Speedy and Vanoss. But just like post for post isn't going to get you anywhere at our current level. But even if you have a million subscribers, it's still not that successful. What a lot of YouTubers do, which is actually really good, is they'll do challenge videos together. And see, that's what you want to do. You know, a challenge video, that's perfect. And if they enjoy you and their challenge video, then they'll check out your channel. Something like that. You just— you definitely never want to do post for post. Just upload one of your videos, to someone else's channel. That's what I did, and it was not successful. And all the channels I've seen do it, just, it didn't work out that well. So this video has been really random and all over the place, but I'm gonna bring it back and just summarize it. If you want to collab with someone, they have to be your friend. It can't just be someone random. It's just not gonna work out, man. And it has to be a challenge video or something you enjoy. It has to be something funny, entertaining. Don't make it forced. Like I say, it can't just be someone random or it's just not gonna be entertaining. And don't do post for post. Post for post just does not work. Don't do that. So yeah, challenge video. Definitely, if you want to do a collab with someone, do a challenge video. And as for doing a collab with me, because I get so many requests, no, I'm never gonna do a collab with anyone. If I do a collab, it's gonna be because it's my friend, it's someone I enjoy hanging out with, like Flip Arts or Immortality. It's not just gonna be some random person leaving a comment on my video hoping that, you know, I'm gonna do a collab with them so they can milk my subs. Not saying that's what you guys are thinking, the people that ask me, that's just, you know, my response. So that's pretty much the video.
