Most creators plateau below 10K because they overthink instead of publish daily. The ones who grow fast have low stakes and time to make content without fear. Consistent practice works like weight-lifting: you improve whether the early results feel good or not.
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Yeah, but so many people, uh, you know, can't or don't make it to, uh, you know, 10,000 subs or 20,000 subs. It is hard. I mean, that first year is hard because your, your taste doesn't match your talent. You're putting in all this work for, you know, no— getting no compensation. A lot of times, like kids like Duelle on social media, they pop off. It's because they got nothing but time to sit at home and make content. And they also don't overthink, right? They also don't overthink. They're not afraid to put it out there and have their friends see it. But I would say, you know, just like going to the gym, if you lift that weight every day, you're gonna get bigger and better. It's inevitable. It's the same kind of thing. Even though you're not going to see the results that you think you deserve when you're starting out, if you just keep doing it and calibrating, eventually you're gonna get bigger and better and succeed.
Cool. So that's essentially— how long did it take you to essentially reach those 20,000 or? A big milestone, I would say.
It was certainly in the first year. I don't know, probably in the first 6 months. I don't know exactly. My goal was to get 100,000 subscribers in one year, and it took us like a year and a month or two. And you failed. Yeah, I guess I failed with that. But you kept—
