MrBeast Shares His Best YouTube Advice (For Small Channels)

In this interview‑style video, MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) breaks down the core principles that have driven his massive YouTube success and translates them into practical guidance for small creators. He stresses that the only path to growth is relentless production—making hundreds of videos, learning from each, and iterating on every element (script, editing, thumbnail, title). He reframes the YouTube algorithm as simply reflecting audience preferences, urging creators to focus on human psychology: compelling titles, curiosity‑driven thumbnails, and an immediate hook within the first 5‑10 seconds that matches the promised content. The discussion covers optimal title length, the power of extreme opinions, the need to constantly update old thumbnails, and the importance of audience retention, especially in the opening seconds. MrBeast also shares his mindset—reinvesting every penny, working obsessively, yet warning that such intensity can harm mental health. The hosts add context for small channels: balancing quantity and quality, leveraging trends, joining the Howdy Media Insiders community for support, and using data (CTR, retention percentages) to guide decisions. Overall, the content delivers a step‑by‑step framework for creators to grow from a few subscribers to millions by mastering production volume, audience‑first content, and continuous learning.
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If you knew what I knew, you could get 10 million subscribers within 6 months.
Your first video is not going to give you subscribers.
Don't matter. Views don't matter. I mean, they do.
So stop sitting there and thinking for months and months on end and just get to work and start uploading.
Everything you fucking want as a creator comes from making the best videos possible and thumbnails.
All right. So today we're going to be talking about this exact video. All of these statements he made were great. And everybody starts at the beginning. Which he did, but I wanted to kind of gauge it more towards smaller creators, smaller channels, and to kind of give it a perspective from a realistic standpoint. Person who has 100 subscribers, there's nothing wrong with that, but it's how do you make the most of it? And your scenario, how do you utilize it? How do you make it worth your time as a small creator? How do you get out there? So let's keep watching the video and we're going to take a break every now and then and I'll let you know what I think. MrBeast shares his best YouTube advice all the way from title and thumbnail secrets to growing a channel on YouTube.
It's much easier to get 5 million views on one video than 50,000 views on 100 videos.
He also reveals how he's able to hook in viewers in his videos and what he would do if he started over from scratch.
What advice would you give yourself when you were starting out? Your videos suck. You think your videos are good, but they suck.
Okay, so real quick on this, he says your videos suck. You think they're good, but they suck. So the only way to get better at making videos, which I'm literally in the process of doing right now, is to make more videos. That way you can learn what works, what doesn't work, like what does your target audience want to see. Because everybody's different. Everybody has their own brand, has their own things they like to talk about, and that's what makes you unique. People will follow you because you are unique. Let's keep watching.
They just do, um, and the sooner you learn how to make good, great videos that people actually want to watch, the sooner you'll get views. Um, I think it's the biggest takeaway because like when I was 14, I thought my videos were the best in the world. They weren't. They're terrible. Many people are making way better videos than me, but I didn't think that. And I think, you know, to be successful, you kind of have, have to have a little bit of that ego where you're like, you know, my content's great. You got to believe in it. But also, like, if you have sub-1,000 subscribers, like, there's a good probability your videos just suck. They just do. And you need to make hundreds of videos, or 100 videos, I don't know, depends on difficulty of your videos, improve something every time, and just like get to the point where they don't. When you make good content, you'll blow up. It's it's not the algorithm, it's not anything. It's just like most me and most people who are in my position, you just make terrible videos. And that's, that's okay because you gotta make a bunch of videos and improve over time to be great. Like you don't just pick up a baseball and become an MLB level athlete within a year. You know, it takes many, many, many years. And YouTube's kind of the same way.
A lot of people get analysis paralysis and they'll just sit there and they'll plan their first video for 3 months. And yeah, I'm, any of you listening, if you— especially if you have zero views on your channel, your first video is not going to give views, period. It's not. Your first 10 are not going to give views. I can very confidently say that. So stop sitting there and thinking for months and months on end and just get to work and start uploading. Like, all you—
and this, this is exactly what we tell all of our clients who we work with. It's like, you have to think very long term. Like, you cannot think short term or you're going to get discouraged. And you're gonna feel like you're wasting your money, okay? You're wasting your money, your time. But the truth is, if you think long-term and if you actually reach who you're wanting to reach, it could come back to you and like your ROI could be through the roof. Like you could see 10x, 20x, even 100x because there's 5 billion people on YouTube. Gotta remember that, gotta remember that.
You need to do this, this applies to people who have not uploaded videos but have dreams of being a YouTuber. Is make 100 videos and improve something every time. Do that. And then on your 101st video, we'll start talking like maybe you can get some views. But you know, your first 100 are gonna suck. There are very freak cases like Liza Koshy or Emma Chamberlain who have really good personalities and it doesn't take them so as many videos. And it's just like people who are 7'5" and making it in the NBA. Like, yes, there are freak cases you can find, but for the average person like us, you know, who don't have these exceptional personalities and you know, backgrounds in filmmaking, just make 100 videos, improve something each time, and then talk to me on your 101st video. How do you improve something each time? The second one, just, I don't know, put more effort into the script. The third one, try to learn a new editing trick. The fourth one, try to figure out a way that you can have better inflections in your voice. The fifth one, try to, you know, study a new thumbnail tip and implement it. The sixth one, try to figure out a new title. There's infinite ways. That's the beauty of content creation online. There's literally infinite ways from the coloring to the frame rate to the editing to the filming to the production to the jokes to the pacing to every little thing can be improved and they can never not be improved.
There's no—
there's literally no such thing as a perfect video.
What YouTube wants is they want people to click on a video and they want to watch it. Like at its core, that's what it is. Now you can like draw little lines and go as deep as you want and to how to get people to click and how to get people to watch. I mean, essentially by studying the algorithm, you'll learn that you're more studying human psychology, right? What do humans want to watch? Any time you say the word algorithm, just replace it with audience. And it works perfectly. Like, the algorithm didn't like that video? No, the audience didn't like that video. Literally, that's it. If people are clicking and watching, then it gets promoted more, and that's literally all the algorithm does is reflect what the people want. To a T. And if you deny that, you just make terrible videos and are trying to find a scapegoat.
What, what makes for a good title? Short? Not just short, it's also if someone reads it, are they like, do they have to watch it? Is it just so intrinsically interesting that it's just going to with them if they don't click on it, you know what I mean? Ideally, it's a title also that, you know, because the titles don't live in a vacuum, right? So it has to lead into the content. So ideally, the title represents content that you would want to watch for 20 minutes. So if it's a 20-minute video and the—
okay, so this is important, and I want to kind of comment here. The titles that you use, they need to be like a news article. They need to like invoke interest. Um, so yeah, remember that whenever you're making your titles. And then your thumbnails need to be a response to that title. And if you make it negative, a lot of people are more attracted to negative things than they are positive all the time. So it sparks their curiosity, spark— and if, if the thumbnail is good, they'll click it. So like, think about those two things majority of the time, or else The whole point of this is like, especially as a small creator, as a small channel, you won't— like, even if you make the best movie in the world, the best video in the world, nobody's going to watch it if these two things aren't good. And once you have those two things figured out and then you add all the right tags, all the right SEO stuff in your description, like, this is when it becomes lethal. And this is whenever you can really start seeing the results snowballing on top of each other.
The title is "I stepped on a bug." The click-through rate is going to be much lower than if it was like a 5-second video. Like, even nuances of the length of the video based against the title will affect whether people want to click it because sometimes they just don't add up. I mean, it's that— yes, ideally you want it below 50 characters because above 50 characters on certain devices, you run the chance of it going dot dot dot. So like, "I took a light pole and I saw how many dollar bills I could stack on top." and they would just go dot, dot, dot, because it's too long and it can't finish it. And that's the worst thing, because then people don't even know what they're clicking on.
And so it's going to do even worse.
Short, simple, ideally, and just so freaking interesting they have to click. And it is a good segue into the content and it represents the length of the content. The more extreme the opinion, typically the higher the click-through rate. If you can like pay it off in the content, then it just supercharges it. So like, oh, so you have a kind of estimate of the extreme? Like, uh, this, this water, right? You're like, Fiji water sucks. Yeah, that would do fine. But if you said Fiji water, it's the worst water I've ever drank in my life. Yeah. Way more extreme opinion would do way better. You have to deliver. Yeah, but then you have to deliver because the more extreme you are, the more extreme you have to be in the video.
I heard you guys talking about, um, autoplay on YouTube.
Yes.
And I've never considered it. I've always thought about the thumbnail, but now on YouTube, videos automatically play.
Of course. So before you do, you film a video. What is the thumbnail? What is the video? And then what's the first 5 seconds? And then what's the first 30 seconds? You know, by the first 5 seconds, it's like goes with the thumbnail because it's possible that people open YouTube and they don't see it. They don't— especially for us, because like for so many people have watched hundreds of our videos. When I upload, I am first on your homepage. So like you just literally don't even see the thumbnail because it auto plays so quickly. So like the thumbnail is irrelevant. I have to like visually convince you to click on the video.
Wow, that's so interesting.
Yeah, that's why we go so hardcore.
Dude, that's so crazy. So do you consider also captions in those first 5 seconds?
Of course. All with audio. Everything. Everything. Yes, 100%. Wow.
So those first 5 seconds, that hook is now even more important than it ever used to be.
Oh, 100%. Yeah, before it was important because you had to convince people to watch. Yeah. Now you have to convince people to click and watch at the same time. Whoa. With the first 5 seconds.
That's driving CTR now too.
Yeah, it is. Interesting. 100%. Wow. I roast that a lot of people who like have boring first 5 seconds.
It's brutal.
Your title and thumbnail set expectations. And at the very beginning of the video to minimize drop-off, you want to Assure them that those expectations are being met. You click on a video where, you know, of his where it's like Tether is a scam. And then at the very beginning, he starts talking about literally anything else. Then you are like, oh, this is bullshit. This isn't what I clicked on. But if at the very start of the video you go, Tether is a scam and I'm going to teach you why, then it's like, okay, you match the expectations. So at the very beginning, match the expectations and then you want to exceed them. So you want to assure people that what they clicked on is what they're getting. And then blow their mind and be like, but you're also getting even more. That's how you lower drop-off, which a lot of people, sometimes it takes them like 20 seconds to really meet the expectations. And so you lose, like, that's where you're going to lose everyone. Everyone's videos start like this and then it levels off. So you want to reduce the amount of people that click off on the audience retention graph. I hope you're popping up graphs while I'm saying this. So, so it's easier for people to visualize. We really should drill this home because like the number one thing is like retaining as many people as possible at the start.
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Like, envision a chart where you lose 35% of your viewers in the first 30 seconds and then envision one where you only lose 20%. That's 15% more people that are watching, you know, throughout the video than not. And it's not like you made the whole video like a bunch better. You just had a more strategic intro that hooked them. I'm struggling to put this into words and like to really impose how important that is, but like that 15% difference in viewership really does make the difference between hypothetically like 2 million views on a video and like 10 in my head. The thing people undervalue the most is literally the first 10 seconds of the video. Like, yeah, I can almost— I think I can quote it. I tied up an FBI agent. I have $100,000 in this bag. Here's a knife. Good luck. And I just run away. Like, it gives you everything you need. Yeah. No wasted words. Short, concise, and then tension. You will basically.
Okay. Yes, this is a good point. Make sure the stuff that you're making gets straight and to the point. Nobody cares about the filler stuff, especially small channels. Like, they don't even know who you are. So if you put yourself in the same scenario, in the same screen, in the same environment as these people who they know, they'll feel more included. They'll feel like you have some sort of connection to them.
Basically, you want to remove every dull moment. You probably want to find the 10 most critical people you know, make them watch the video and just roast it. You know, certain things like if I just talk to a camera for 10 seconds without a cut, like a lot of people will just like get bored or they'll lose interest. So like having a B cam and a C cam and just, you can just talk for 10 seconds, but 3 seconds in cutting to a B cam and then a C cam, like now it's more interesting even though it's essentially the same thing and not that crazy. But you wanna have good pacing. Typically having a payoff at the end keeps them, right? Last to leave circle wins $10,000. If there is a low moment halfway through, you're gonna watch to the end 'cause you wanna see who wins the $10,000. So having a good payoff at the end. [Speaker] How do you keep viewers watching and, you know, happy with the video? Thirsty hair?
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It's giving moisture with a capital M, made for every type and texture. See, I would say just give them why they clicked, tell them why they should watch, and then just stick on topic. Like, that right there isn't even super complex, but I would already put you in the upper echelon of YouTube. Like, uh, it's, it's hard for a lot of people. People, for whatever reason, like, they just drag it out. A lot of vlog channels do it. It's like eating $100 ice cream, and they'll be like, I'm gonna eat $100 ice cream. But first, and then it's like earlier in the day and it's just stuff that has nothing to do with what you clicked on. It's like them birthday shopping for their mom and it's like, that's, that's not why I came here.
What's interesting is the longer people watch something, the more likely they are to keep watching. So you don't have to try as hard in the hypothetically back half of a video as you do in the front. Like even right now, we're so deep into this where a lot of people listening are probably just gonna keep listening relatively close to the end unless we just have a really boring part of this conversation. Because they're just, they're just in it. They're immersed. And so a big, like, to really boil it down to a simple level, you just want to get people where they're immersed in the content and then just kind of hold them there.
The thing is, it's all knowledge. It really is. And like, every time I say this, people debate it to the end of time on Twitter, but I don't care. Like, I could start a new channel tomorrow with not using my face or my voice, like, without ever promoting it, and in 6 months have 20 million subscribers. I just could. It's purely knowledge. Like, if you knew what I knew, you could get 10 million views a video and you could get 10 million subscribers no matter where you are right now within 6 months. It really is just knowledge. And I can already tell you, 90% of the people watching, they don't agree with that. They don't. And everyone has excuses and they're always like, nah, YouTube just doesn't work like that. Jimmy, you don't understand. But I mentor a lot of people. I see it even to this day. I still see it all the time. It is possible. It is simply knowledge. And the second you accept that it is knowledge and you start your, for me, 10,000-day journey of learning. For you, whatever it is, if you want to be less hardcore.
But so this is important here. I want to remind you guys, we have a Howdy Media Insiders group where we talk about this stuff all the time. We're going live, doing Q&As almost every single day at 1:00 Central Standard Time. So click the link in the description if you want to be a part of that. It's completely free. It's just a Facebook group. Um, but yeah, this is what we talk about. If you're a small business owner, if you're a small creator, like, and you're wanting a community to help grow and to help bounce ideas off of, this is exactly what it's for. So if you're wanting to be a part of this community, it's going to be in the description below. And I'll use my buddy Levi for an example. He started last November with basically zero subscribers on YouTube, and he's grown his YouTube channel to almost 100,000 subscribers in less than one year. and it's literally using the strategies we're using right now at the moment. So if you want to be a part of this, click the link in the description and we'll see you there.
And like actually figuring out, you know, what makes a good video, what does my audience want, how can I elevate? And then you take that knowledge and you just, you just assume that I will never understand what the perfect video is. And every single day I just need to be devoted to learning as much as possible. And improving as much as possible, and I gotta improve every video as much as I can, then there you go. There are tons of viral ideas that people can do that don't require money. It does not require money to go viral. Like, at one point, one of my most viewed videos was like spending 24 hours in the desert. We just grabbed a tent and some stuff and we went in the desert. And it got like 60, 70 million views. I have so many videos where we spent hardly any money, like the no food one, or I'd have to pull up the channel and go through it. That have gotten tens of millions of views and they would've gotten 10+ million views even on a small channel. So people who say, "Oh, well, I could be MrBeast if I had money." Well, A, I didn't start off with money. I was poor, I had no money, and it took me like 7 years just to buy a camera, saving up from YouTube. And B, some of our most viewed videos, literally, like anyone can do. The best way to get views, in my opinion, I think it's better to really, really focus on quality if you're a very small YouTuber. And you can upload a video a day and, like, all the videos be average and, like, none of those videos will really stand out, none of it's, like, epic enough where, like, the algorithm's gonna go, "Oh, this video, like, this video is good, like, we need to spread it." I feel like a lot of small YouTubers, they just post, like, videos that aren't bad but they're not great and they just do that and none of them ever pop off so they never get an audience where it might be better to, like, you know, upload half or a third or even, like, a fifth of the videos but make the videos you upload so freaking good that like the algorithm has to promote it and that, you know, it has to find audiences for it because it's such an interesting and good video. When you like set a consistent schedule and you're constantly having to upload videos that aren't as good as you'd like because you got to hit— oh, this Monday, I said I'd upload every Monday, you know, like that's a dangerous trap because then, you know, the viewers notice that the quality isn't as good and it makes them less likely to watch. And I think it hurts your longevity.
Well, so this is a point that is kind of in the gray area as far as my perspective goes. So you want quality content going out, but at the beginning, small creators like us, we don't have access to all of the tools and like the knowledge that we need at the beginning to create what is a viral video. So we have to research, we have to kind of piggyback off of people who already have audiences, who are people off of things that are already trending. And so the numbers game comes into effect massively. So the more content you can get out there, the more stuff that you can piggyback off of, the more trends and the more things that are going viral at the moment. Like the more that you post, the more odds that you have of somebody finding you. And during this process, you can be perfecting the thumbnail, you can be perfecting the title. That way, whenever you come up with a more original idea, people are more likely to click on it. So develop it while you're doing the quantity, the numbers game, and then at a certain point, set that goal. Whenever you hit that point, you can kind of switch after you've gained some following, after you've gained some subscribers, and switch to quality videos. Maybe you go from posting every single day, every week, for 20-minute videos. If you do that for a year, which is exactly what my buddy Levi's doing, and he's part of the Insiders group, so make sure to join that. If you're doing this for a whole year, you can then pivot once you have an audience built because you already have a bunch of loyal fans who know you. Pivot, say, hey, we're going to be bringing you better quality content, but it's only going to be 3 days a week. That way you can put more time into each video and bring more value per video. That's how I would do it. I know I'm not the biggest YouTuber in the world, But these are things to think about as a small channel, as a small creator.
A lot of times people— oh boy, it's like they think their videos are better than they are, honestly. And they tell them, Jimmy, tell them. I mean, they do. And you have to like— you have to— that and they have horrible friend groups because you really are like the type of YouTubers you hang around. And so like a lot of times I'm just like, what you're saying is wrong. Who told you this? They're like, well, this guy, this guy. And it's like, Well, they're wrong. It's not true. There's no such thing as a perfect video. Like, someone should always call you and shit on your video because it could be better. Like, that's because imagine if someone does that every video and you upload hundreds, if not 1,000 videos over the next 10 years, and every single time someone's critiquing you and you're applying what they're critiquing. Like, imagine the compound effect over that time span. It's, it's invaluable. People think it's like, oh, well, it's all like CTR and stuff like that, but A big thing that everyone fucking underestimates is it's what, what was your experience with your last video? If people loved your, the last video of yours that they watched, they're more likely to watch your next one. For the YouTubers watching this, when people watch your video, they go, okay, that was good. But like, that's enough of you for the day. Like, it was, it was all right, right? Whereas what you want is them to go, holy crap, that was crazy. Oh my God, what's that? Holy crap, that was crazy.
Oh my God.
And they just, and they watched 10 videos. That's what you're going for that data can't describe. And like, I don't— I've never heard anyone talk about that, but that, that is it. That's how you get these high view counts, because people watch 10 videos, not one, you know. It's okay to draw inspiration from me, but just don't do what I do to a T. It's not like $1 versus blank, I'm the first person to do it. But I just, you know, saw that format and I was just like, how can I do that 100 times better, right? How can I put 100 times more creativity into it? How can I How can I level up the editing by 100 times? How can I spin on blah, blah, blah? And that's always my mindset. How can I like, if I get inspired by something, how can I do that but 100 times better and make it my own? Whereas a lot of people are just like, oh, MrBeast did that, I'm just going to do it.
Yes. So copying, don't copy everything. Like you can utilize and use these things as a resource, but don't copy down to a T what they're doing. Like have your own opinions. That's why people want to watch you because you're different and you have your own opinions, you have your own experiences. And that's one thing we tell like our social media clients and people we coach and consult. It's like your target audience is watching you because they want to watch you and your opinion. Like, don't go copy other people because then it's pretty like prevalent whenever you are copying somebody and they can sense that. So like, be true to yourself. Don't try to copy somebody else. Like, you can use their ideas and put it towards your scenario and create content off of that. But that's my, my two cents. And make content that's engaging. Make content that you already know works. And you do this by researching. Go and research your top 5 favorite— if you're a realtor, go, go research your top 5 favorite Instagram pages. Like, it doesn't just apply to YouTube, it applies to all social media platforms.
Yeah.
How do I make a good thumbnail? How do I get people to click my video? You want it to be simple. You want them to be able to like when they're scrolling through their suggested or homepage or whatever touchpoint, you want them to instantly be able to understand what you're conveying and you want them to feel some type of emotion. You know what I mean? The way I like to phrase it is you want to make it so interesting or spike their curiosity or whatever emotion so much that like if they don't click it, they'll wonder, you know, when they're— before they go to bed, like, what happened? You know what I mean? Like, like an example would be like if you uploaded a video, I rode a skateboard with 1,000 other people on it, and like people are falling off the side or whatever. I'm envisioning like a giant skateboard, people like hanging on the side of it. Um, maybe it's like about to go off a big ramp. If you don't click that, you're gonna like be so curious. It's gonna be on your mind, you you know, later in the day when you're daydreaming, you're gonna think like, huh, what happened? What happened to those 1,000 people on that skateboard? That's kind of the mindset I think you should have when making thumbnails.
How often do you change a thumbnail on a video? Is that something, do you usually just stick with one or you try different ones?
Well, so I think we get better at making thumbnails every year. So it's more, when I upload a thumbnail, I usually think it's good and I don't change it most of the time. But what happens is like 3 years later, I look back and I'm like, oh, that's a horrible thumbnail. And so it's usually like every 2 years we just go back and update a lot of our older thumbnails just because they're terrible. Just with like the new knowledge we have and what we've learned. And funny enough, that actually usually does help quite a bit when we update the thumbnails on old videos. They usually do see a little bit of an uptick because they're just, you know, if we take an old thumbnail where it's like seeing if whatever, like 100,000 magnets can stop a car, and it just looks terrible. And then with the new stuff, I know we zoom in a little bit so it's a little more visible and make things look better. Then magically it starts doing a little bit better because now people actually understand what it is, because I'm not as much of an idiot anymore. In 10 years, YouTube's going to be bigger than television ever was for culture in America, at least in my opinion. And so I think a lot of people underestimate that, and people— I don't think people really understand just how like to be one of the top creators on the biggest social media platform and that will also be the biggest in 10 years during that whole time, like the amount of value and how crazy that is. Like you don't need a network, you don't need, you know, to go through people. You just are. You can, and you can do whatever you want and you can influence people how you want. It's just wild. It's mind-blowing. And you can leverage that to build businesses or, you know, like do things like Beast Philanthropy or whatever.
Yes, building businesses is the biggest reason and the biggest thing that we push here at Howdy Media. And so that's why we started that group, the Insiders group. It's to allow business owners and creators who eventually will turn into business owners to have them like connect and network and throw ideas off of each other and collaborate. If somebody has a podcast and they need a specific type of guest, they can go to this group and you can just put up a post, say, hey, like, we need a podcast guest who is a small business owner of a restaurant or something. So the community is absolutely huge and TV is getting bigger and bigger. And these people are sitting and watching YouTube like TV. Like, I know I do it. We have a smart TV and so they'll throw up this content. But anyways, back to the video.
I think like people don't realize this. How much influence the top YouTube channels have. No one's ever going to do what I do better than me. Like, it's just not— it's not even humanly possible. Like, I reinvest every penny I make. Yeah, I work every hour I'm awake. I devote every atom in my brain to solving this. I hire the best people on the planet. I've been doing this for 14 years, and I think in decades, not years. So I'm going to be doing this for another 20, 30 years, not 2 or 3. So no, the next me isn't going to be me because no one's going to do what I do better than me. It's not possible. If I thought someone was doing better than me, I'd just start sleeping less so I could work even more. Like, I'd figure it out. The barrier to entry to be you is extremely high. Yeah. Right.
Especially where you're at now.
Well, it's just because I'm all in. I'm crazy. Like people shouldn't be me. I don't, I don't have a life. I don't have work-life balance. I, my personality, my soul, my being is making the best videos possible, entertaining my fans as best as I can. Like that is what exists on this planet and I don't recommend it. You know what I mean? Like you should have work-life balance. You should not devote your entire life to this one thing. Like go have fun. Like, you know, I'm miserable a lot of times. I have a mental breakdown every other week because I push myself so hard. Like, I don't recommend it, you know.
What do you think gets us to a million subscribers?
Well, subscribers is an arbitrary number.
Okay, so a million views—
No, you should ask me what helps us make the best videos possible. That's the only question you should ask me. Subscribers don't matter. Views don't matter. I mean, they do, but all that comes— everything you fucking want as a creator comes from making the best videos possible. And thumbnails. But it's easier to, you know, make thumbnails. The video part's the hard part. And that's the thing that you're not—
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