It's the decline of old-school content creators trying to make ends meet against the lazy content farms, Mr beast wannabes, and crappy tik tok influencers.
that and drama channels were just a trend at one point. now you have drama as the de-facto thing if you dont cover, wont get you views, but because of this, you now wake up everyday and theres 10 channels on youtube talking about the same thing, sometimes the same news report with one added scene for two weeks with no other thing to cover, or some channels like diesel patches or others, who dont put out a newsreport until 3 weeks later once everyone already knows what happened.
This is true but Matt Pat was a weird case because he was still pulling millions of views he just well moved on he's going to focus on his family more now but still working in the shadows just not as much
I hope you have another job so you don't starve and die and my content tube of constant entertainment won't get slower than it already has become in the last couple months
It’s definitely understandable why people are quitting. There is a lot of stress involved in “needing” an upload to do well. I feel it almost every time I upload. At the end of the day though, UA-cam is a blessed job that I’m super grateful for. What I find that helps is if I just accept that videos will perform however they do, and once it’s posted it’s out of my control. I can always make another and if it’s not meant to be then I’ll always find another job. Just knowing you’ll be okay regardless of what happens and taking it easy to not burn out I think is important. 😁
Whenever a youtuber cries to their audience a video is underperforming my eyes just glaze over from how little I care. Its even worse when they beg people to watch it. Like they can't even respect my time or preferences.
Waaaaaaaa, youtube is only paying me several times more per hour than a doctor would be paid for a job most people DREAM of doing while aquiring no debt to learn how to do it, waaaaaa waaaaa feel sorry for me while you work a normal shitty job and I put in hours a day at most. UA-cam really sucks! Good hope these ingrates quit and come back to dead audiences after a decade when all the easy money has run out and then realise they have to work min wage for rest of thier pathetic lives because they have been replaced, we will see how there mental health does then.
Anthpo didn't suddenly quit. He made it known that he would finish uploading videos once he graduated college, which he did. It wasn't really about the money or anything of that sort - he just made a plan and stuck to it, and left us with so many beautiful memories and laughs along the way.
All I’m saying on the matter is that I’m glad he’s still somewhat on UA-cam after he quits. He just won’t be a host for any of the four channels but he’ll work on stuff in the background like brainstorming ideas n’ stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to miss his commentary and his voice :(
UA-cam is completely inhumane with the expectations it sets for creators, And knowing that there are full time youtubers the company should be held accountable for it.
"I quit my job to do UA-cam full time" Everyone who I've heard this from has tread the exact same path of desperation. Working a 9-5 isnt that bad, if only because my time/money graph is linear
Can you be creative in you 9-5? Do you want to do 9-5 until you are too old to do it or they fire you and then you are 82 years old working at Walmart?
@@illustriouschinYou can't be creative in UA-cam either, you gotta do what's popular. Might as well just go back to a cushy comfy 9 to 5 office job. In fact, you can get a remote job, which is even better
"Working a 9-5 isnt that bad" Ohh boy, as a person who works 9-5 and not exactly hates his job, I can't tell if this is real or just copium. I just know that being a content creator means that you have more freedom than any "normal job"
watching this video after matpat just announced he was leaving makes it hurt even more. without the good, OG youtubers then youtube will just lose its feeling of comfort. i do understand why they are leaving, and even though its for the better, they do still deserve a place in the "hall" of youtube.
@@joelrobinson5457I mean, Matpat said he was going to give the channel to someone else, so I doubt the channel with be replaced with low effort content
UA-cam needs to ease up on the regulations. Also, youtube needs to actually help smaller channels grow instead of putting all the attention to youtubers that already have over 500k subs.
MatPat just announced his retirement. I'm not only sad because I'm gonna miss him a lot. But it's just sad that in order to be able to afford retirement these days is by becoming a UA-camr with millions of followers
@@worldofdoom995 likely only for the top 10% of paying jobs. Everyone else is not going to be able to retire in about 10 years. UA-cam is an easy way to secure a retirement fund
@@TheTalentlessWriter Ah, a fellow Runescape enjoyer. See the problem is I only have about 3 or 4 interesting Runescape stories, so maybe not a long term plan for success.
It's funny how a couple years ago everyone was going in hard on the "full-time youtuber" thing. it was a whole "if you even think about uploading even one video, you better be prepared to make this your full time job and commit to it or else" And now everyone's just now realizing that's not always a good idea and hoping that nobody will remember.
Not to mention, people are oddly toxic to the point of chasing away creators to the point they fear for them and their families lives. Jocat is completely quitting youtube because haters doxxed him and his family and sent death threats...over a harmless animation he made 2 yesrs ago
@@Bargate idk about that. we are getting way more trash than before from people who just game the system, and the "good videos" are so formulaic that they all feel the same to watch
@@user-gm3sd7ru8t Right! I find UA-cam just so boring now, everyone’s videos look, sound, and feel the same. I remember a time when UA-camrs just did their own unique thing but now everyone’s trying to be MrBeast or following some other formula. These days I actually find myself going out of my way to watch videos from like 5-10 years ago because they’re still entertaining to this day! We need that style of content back
Great video dude! I also think the pandemic played a bigger role in all this than people think. Everyone went online and content creation kinda exploded again. Many creators just put their heads down and focused even harder on the grind because it was working so well. Now that life is somewhat back to normal a lot of those creators are realizing they don't need to do that anymore and focus on creating content that makes them more fulfilled. Just speculation, but something I noticed with myself last year. My old channel was making me good money but I wasn't happy.
Thank you! And yeah everyone’s views definitely were way higher in the pandemic, im sure people being home along with the fact that UA-cam Shorts weren’t monetized yet had a big role in regular horizontal content doing better
Yeah, and game theory just quit about 2 hours ago. That one made me cry, he called us(his viewers) his children. As someone with a really bad dad, and had a bad dad during my childhood when I would watch him; it made me very emotional.
When I first went full time into youtube the mental fear of losing everything was paralyzing. I decided I would worry about it in like 10 years and not think about it. Well its now like 10 years later and things still aren't easier lol. If you dont become filthy rich as a youtuber then you either conform to the algorithm as a desperate attempt to maintain your life or completely revolt and try something new hoping new passion projects will overshadow the uncertainty dread in the future.
Yeah this is why I’m just gonna do what I want to do as a hobby. I’d love to not work at a job I hate and just make games, but the reality is that the chance of success is slim and I don’t want to make things that hit some boring ass trend or algorithm, I want to make original weird shit, and that’s not gonna sell well unless I somehow get lucky, and I just don’t have the motivation to attempt to hit that nearly impossible success. And even if I get successful, can I keep making things that are just as successful? Or is it just a downhill slope from there? Yeah a hobby is better, making a career in this shit feels nearly impossible.
First you need to buy friends Get family involved Possibly get neighbors involved Big youtubers never do anything completely by themselves they have teams, they aren't self made at all.
@@DEADEYESTUDIOI definitely feel you on this. Every time I think about trying to start my channel I get anxious, depressed, I feel deeply uncertain. I finally decided to just stick to studying accounting (it's a very low competition field) and maybe in the future I'll start my channel as a fun hobby.
Not really, people quit their jobs to do UA-cam because normal jobs are killing them. Now, UA-camrs quit UA-cam because they have made it. It's just different stages of life. Once your business is successful and you make billions of dollars, why would you wanna continue working?
Another reason I think could be cancel culture. It's gotten to the point where some rando on Twitter can accuse you of (p-word), everyone automatically believes them and destroys your career and reputation. It also doesn't help that UA-cam promotes channels that repeat these allegations and harassing people. Being a content creator/e-celeb is not a secure position anymore.
So here is my thoughts on this topic. UA-cam back in it golden days was so entertaining. People like sml or pewdiepie were constantly making banger after banger. The reason they were is because UA-cam wasn’t as strict on what you could do and say. Now UA-cam is destroying content creators and not giving smaller channels a chance. A lot of channels back in the day were 100% for fun and I understand we need to make money to survive but at some point you come to realize now a lot of UA-cam is plagued with commentary channels who are nothing but negative. That’s why I want to create good content and just be myself but UA-cam will always be part time no matter how much money I make
SML still makes content I've been watching them since 2011 yeah they're Humor changed a little bit but they still make funny vids and actually they've been being more inappropriate lately and getting away with it
Finally somebody called out commentary channels! They all just come off so negative and self-righteous. Everybody and their momma have an opinion on everything under the sun.
"UA-cam is destroying content creators and not giving smaller channels a chance" As a small channel, I agree with you. In november, october or whatever tf that month was of 2023, UA-cam in all of a sudden *STOPPED* recommending my videos. Then, I got the views back thanks to the hashtags in the description, but now UA-cam barely recommends my videos even with hashtags. One of my videos barely hit 20 views and my other one barely hits 90-100. I used to get 100-2.000 views and 6-100 likes. Now I get 6, then 4 and now 1. Now I get views, but I barely get likes. I think UA-cam is trying their best to destroy my channel cuz I have been reported by UA-cam Team more than 4 times, some of my videos got copyright claimed and I was forced to remove some of my videos, some of my *oldest* videos got age restricted and I was forced to take them down and now they won't recommend my videos. UA-cam, wake the f**k up and listen to us. I don't care If I sound like a whiny brat here, just listen to us.
In the span of today, a gaming UA-camr I follow named Moo Snuckel quit UA-cam and left the internet to detach and have a “real job” A zoo owning youtuber I follow named Brian Barczyk quit because his disease went terminal. And a game dev I follow (name is in a different language my keyboard can’t type) abandoned a passion project along with their channel earlier this day. WHY THE HELL DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING DURING BREAKS AND NOT DURING NORMAL TIMES?!
Aw, man, that sucks to hear about Brian! I get fed his shorts all the time but never really stopped to check out his channel so I wouldn't have known. I didn't even realize he was sick. Hope he's able to live comfortably in the time he has left.
UA-cam now took the fun of creating content in the first place, I want to come back and make stuff I love but it’s too hard. Still glad to see you still making content after all these years :)
There is a way to make this work without giving youtube anything. Simply host your own server where people can see your videos and use your video channel to tell people to get there. And dont forget a donation button on your site.
I’ve noticed a ton of UA-camrs I’ve been subbed to for years have either 1) wound down the content to bi-weekly uploads 2) switched to uploading long form content a couple times a year, or 3) stopped uploading completely save for a random do nothing drop once every couple of years/months.
I think Joel Haver is doing that approach because he might be looking at UA-cam as some sort of portfolio or compiling his projects for which he can look back on and be proud of, rather than looking at it like a business model.
Been on the site since 2007/2008, back when people just did it for fun, when the idea of making money off it was unheard of. I've seen the burnout over and over. When will people learn YT is not to be trusted and you should only make stuff for fun?
Big part of it is a lot of these people were around in 2013, ten years ago. With how much they did in that time, they basically had a career in a quarter of the time compared to a traditional career of when people retired at 65.
I'm going to miss Joel and Tom's weekly content, but I understand why they are making the change. Good for them, but their work will be missed (by me).
Personally, my main problem with UA-cam is that your audience can be so impatient, that if you spend the necessary amount of time on a video then upload it, not many people are going to watch it, because you took too long and they forgot about you, but if you just try to upload as much videos as possible every week or so, your content's quality becomes very poor. So I don't know, maybe it's just me who's slow with making videos. *And the UA-cam algorithm is a pain.*
The only way to succeed on social media now is either to be a literal corporation or be so different from everyone else that you can't be replicated You gotta plan all the stuff out before you even turn on the camera, if I ever decide to create content again that will be what I do, and it will probably be on some other site.
It’s difficult to transition from hobby to full time. Suddenly, the thing you have done for fun turns into a full-blown business. Also important to note these people already made their money and thus don’t have any incentive to go hustler mode any further.
Especially as a finance youtuber, i have been wanting to quit this one to focus on my sanrio and study channel. It's like no matter what i do, people still choose to follow get rich quick gurus despite me having a finance degree and background while most of them don't... and after 7 years i'm very tired of being a finance guru/youtuber and just want to leave it all. BTW your animation is cute
ive been on youtube since the start, this cycle of creators leaving is just another stress test on youtube as a platforum. only time will tell if new creators that dont suck can rise to the top and replace the channels we are losing
Just a small tip, not a full time youtuber (yet) but I would say, before you go all in, SAVE YOUR MONEY! Have some money that you saved up before hand that way you won’t have to worry to much about views.
I didn't realize a lot of people were quitting! Very interesting video though. I didn't know you went full time for a while that's cool. Also at 3:01 I'd hire you. 😆
Personally, I watch Papa Meat way more than his main channel. He has also said that the second channel is getting a higher production value in the future. He's a really entertaining person and getting to see more of him is a plus for me.
For me, I feel like now is the perfect time. I been watching Game Theory since his “how fast is sonic” video. So late middle school maybe. But as I evolved as a person I began watching less and less. I’m now entering my senior year of college. My life is exploding in all sorts of directions where I guess I might not need him or UA-cam in general anymore. But I’ll miss him still. But it’s time to say goodbye
When I get more into YT, I intend on just uploading to make people happy, whether the videos will do well or not. It's for those who deserve to be entertained when big people step down for specific stuff.
YESS finally someone who is telling the truth of why a lot of UA-camrs are leaving because people like me know that it's not because of "insert excuse here" it's because of UA-cam that made alot of restrictions, UA-cam that made it to where 1000=1$, UA-cam that banned people. And so many other things
The heartwarming moment is that they would not only quit spending time with their family or have a job, but i think they wanted to step aside and give underrated channels a chance to rise to the top. It's totally reasonable why they would quit, there would be more stress. Sacrificing the time for your family and friends.
Has anyone else realized youtube forced 20 to 30 min videos on us after the prime of 10 min only to jump to the opposite extreme of shorts which it shovels down our throats
Im gonna miss both Matpat and Lynja, Matpat quitted intentionally but Lynja died from cancer, i was both a huge fan of them, and im sad to see them leave youtube
Really liked your take on this, as someone who's dream it is to be able to be a full-time content creator and live off of it, I always have that thought lingering in the back of my mind of "what happens next when things aren't panning out the way I wanted to, and what can I do to prevent that. Being a YiuTuber and streamer is still such a new thing in the world that there's always gonna be changes and roadblocks, because of how entertainment works in the modern world. Glad to see people who feel the same way come together and learn from the great content creators of the past, and good luck on your future endeavors too!
“But, for one of the last times, not the last time, but one of the last times, one of the last times the last times, as always my friends, remember, it’s just a theory A GAME THEORY! And thank you, thanks you for watching.” Great words by Mathew Patrick
Yea, I think I'm quitting UA-cam too guys. It's been fun, but it's just not the same anymore... Thank you to all of you who supported me, and thank you to my team. Goodbye UA-cam.
It's the decline of old-school content creators trying to make ends meet against the lazy content farms, Mr beast wannabes, and crappy tik tok influencers.
this exactly
that and drama channels were just a trend at one point. now you have drama as the de-facto thing if you dont cover, wont get you views, but because of this, you now wake up everyday and theres 10 channels on youtube talking about the same thing, sometimes the same news report with one added scene for two weeks with no other thing to cover, or some channels like diesel patches or others, who dont put out a newsreport until 3 weeks later once everyone already knows what happened.
This.
This is true but Matt Pat was a weird case because he was still pulling millions of views he just well moved on he's going to focus on his family more now but still working in the shadows just not as much
they put time and effort into their vids only to get out done by lazy content thats just BS. i dont blame em for leaving.
I’m insane but cool insane like Joker
Do you live in a society?
And dapper. Jokers pretty dapper. OH and suave.
I hope you have another job so you don't starve and die and my content tube of constant entertainment won't get slower than it already has become in the last couple months
Joel cookoo crazy Haver
I think the expression "crazy like a fox" is more appropriate.
He didn't quit he died but i just wanted to tribute this comment to him,rest in peace mitten squad the fallout community will forever love him
@@jzziskhe is
@@jzzisk he's dead my friend,look it up if you want it was all over UA-cam last week
dam
@@cosmic52208I retract my statement. Just saw that he did in fact pass away…
This is the first I'm hearing of this, I'm actually heartbroken. Me and my boyfriend have watched his videos together for years. RIP, Paul.
MatPat has joined the ranks of those who have departed UA-cam. Game Theory isn't going anywhere, but MatPat is.
MMMMMAAAAAATTTTTTTPPPPAAAAAAATTTTTTT
This needs to be a headline
@@gunpla_sk8 it was for a while
That basically guarantees that Game Theory is going to fall off hard.
The part about going from being fueled by hope to being fueled by fear is so real.
A comment from jawclamps with only 8 likes and no replies? Lemme fix that.
It’s definitely understandable why people are quitting. There is a lot of stress involved in “needing” an upload to do well. I feel it almost every time I upload. At the end of the day though, UA-cam is a blessed job that I’m super grateful for. What I find that helps is if I just accept that videos will perform however they do, and once it’s posted it’s out of my control. I can always make another and if it’s not meant to be then I’ll always find another job. Just knowing you’ll be okay regardless of what happens and taking it easy to not burn out I think is important. 😁
i aint reading all that
I Trapped EVERY Minecraft Mob in 36 Hours!!!
Whenever a youtuber cries to their audience a video is underperforming my eyes just glaze over from how little I care. Its even worse when they beg people to watch it. Like they can't even respect my time or preferences.
@@godhimself1128 or them crying about demonization or copyright for the 10,000th time. I get it sucks but dude it's the risk of the trade.
Waaaaaaaa, youtube is only paying me several times more per hour than a doctor would be paid for a job most people DREAM of doing while aquiring no debt to learn how to do it, waaaaaa waaaaa feel sorry for me while you work a normal shitty job and I put in hours a day at most. UA-cam really sucks!
Good hope these ingrates quit and come back to dead audiences after a decade when all the easy money has run out and then realise they have to work min wage for rest of thier pathetic lives because they have been replaced, we will see how there mental health does then.
Anthpo didn't suddenly quit. He made it known that he would finish uploading videos once he graduated college, which he did. It wasn't really about the money or anything of that sort - he just made a plan and stuck to it, and left us with so many beautiful memories and laughs along the way.
atill miss him but i hope hes doing alr, but now have OKPOP soo win win
Same for Tom Scott. He had a plan for year to stop after 10 years.
I don’t know if you’ve heard but he’s back
@@Afearedraccoon sure is
Boy this video sure came out at the right time.
Goodbye MatPat, truly the end of an era is upon us
Close one chapter and open a new one, def will miss the good ol days
All I’m saying on the matter is that I’m glad he’s still somewhat on UA-cam after he quits. He just won’t be a host for any of the four channels but he’ll work on stuff in the background like brainstorming ideas n’ stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to miss his commentary and his voice :(
im just glad hes passing the torch to people he believes in instead of letting his channels die with him
hey guys i'm quitting as well
@@CherryTree277 no stock photo dog part two now 😔😔
UA-cam is completely inhumane with the expectations it sets for creators, And knowing that there are full time youtubers the company should be held accountable for it.
And this makes it seem more and more justified to use the R-word against the site itself.
"I quit my job to do UA-cam full time"
Everyone who I've heard this from has tread the exact same path of desperation. Working a 9-5 isnt that bad, if only because my time/money graph is linear
You mean linear in a horizontal path when considering costs? Luckkky 🍀
Yeah same I value my free time quite a bit and at least working 7-4 half of my day most people are either working or sleeping lol
Can you be creative in you 9-5? Do you want to do 9-5 until you are too old to do it or they fire you and then you are 82 years old working at Walmart?
@@illustriouschinYou can't be creative in UA-cam either, you gotta do what's popular. Might as well just go back to a cushy comfy 9 to 5 office job. In fact, you can get a remote job, which is even better
"Working a 9-5 isnt that bad"
Ohh boy, as a person who works 9-5 and not exactly hates his job, I can't tell if this is real or just copium. I just know that being a content creator means that you have more freedom than any "normal job"
watching this video after matpat just announced he was leaving makes it hurt even more. without the good, OG youtubers then youtube will just lose its feeling of comfort. i do understand why they are leaving, and even though its for the better, they do still deserve a place in the "hall" of youtube.
This is so sad 😢
Ikr 😢@@boreasvanaert2914
The big good youtubers quitting are replaced by a thousand low effort bad channels, we're heading for a collapse
@@joelrobinson5457I mean, Matpat said he was going to give the channel to someone else, so I doubt the channel with be replaced with low effort content
UA-cam needs to ease up on the regulations. Also, youtube needs to actually help smaller channels grow instead of putting all the attention to youtubers that already have over 500k subs.
MatPat just announced his retirement. I'm not only sad because I'm gonna miss him a lot. But it's just sad that in order to be able to afford retirement these days is by becoming a UA-camr with millions of followers
???? You can retire in hundreds of different careers what are you on about?
@@worldofdoom995To be fair, the economy is so f*cked right now, it's going to be impossible to retire in most jobs unless it recovers somehow.
@@worldofdoom995 likely only for the top 10% of paying jobs. Everyone else is not going to be able to retire in about 10 years. UA-cam is an easy way to secure a retirement fund
@@worldofdoom995At the age of 60? If that’s the case then yeah
@@Kalitayy60 is generous
As someone who is trying to transition in to doing UA-cam full-time, this video is making me question my very existence.
The secret is actually to make more RuneScape stories (*this will not work but I love RuneScape)
@@TheTalentlessWriter Ah, a fellow Runescape enjoyer. See the problem is I only have about 3 or 4 interesting Runescape stories, so maybe not a long term plan for success.
I advise do youtube as a hobby
@DungeonSoup I love your animations! Also, same boat here 🥲
This is why you get a real job people and do UA-cam
It's funny how a couple years ago everyone was going in hard on the "full-time youtuber" thing.
it was a whole "if you even think about uploading even one video, you better be prepared to make this your full time job and commit to it or else"
And now everyone's just now realizing that's not always a good idea and hoping that nobody will remember.
Not to mention, people are oddly toxic to the point of chasing away creators to the point they fear for them and their families lives.
Jocat is completely quitting youtube because haters doxxed him and his family and sent death threats...over a harmless animation he made 2 yesrs ago
Been happening to artists on Spotify on Instagram for years. Now it's finally reached the UA-camr.
I miss 2011 when doing UA-cam was nothing more than a fun hobby, now it's all about the money.
Yeah but we are getting more quality videos because people can do this full time
@@Bargate idk about that. we are getting way more trash than before from people who just game the system, and the "good videos" are so formulaic that they all feel the same to watch
@@user-gm3sd7ru8t Right! I find UA-cam just so boring now, everyone’s videos look, sound, and feel the same. I remember a time when UA-camrs just did their own unique thing but now everyone’s trying to be MrBeast or following some other formula. These days I actually find myself going out of my way to watch videos from like 5-10 years ago because they’re still entertaining to this day! We need that style of content back
youtube is filled to the brim with 2011 level garbage, you just expect current level of quality for people to be doing for "fun"
Same with the gaming industry, now its all about the mobile games, battle pass and MTX
Great video dude! I also think the pandemic played a bigger role in all this than people think. Everyone went online and content creation kinda exploded again. Many creators just put their heads down and focused even harder on the grind because it was working so well. Now that life is somewhat back to normal a lot of those creators are realizing they don't need to do that anymore and focus on creating content that makes them more fulfilled. Just speculation, but something I noticed with myself last year. My old channel was making me good money but I wasn't happy.
Thank you! And yeah everyone’s views definitely were way higher in the pandemic, im sure people being home along with the fact that UA-cam Shorts weren’t monetized yet had a big role in regular horizontal content doing better
Yeah, and game theory just quit about 2 hours ago. That one made me cry, he called us(his viewers) his children. As someone with a really bad dad, and had a bad dad during my childhood when I would watch him; it made me very emotional.
I subbed to you cause I’m nice
Oversharing much, little one?
I didn't need to hear about your dad nor care enough to.
Begone from my eyes
You'll never believe what just happened
As a super popular UA-camr, I'm quitting too
As a super popular UA-camr, i'm thinking about it
As the first youtuber with 10 bobillion subs, i too am quitting in order to choose a new path in life (becoming homeless)
@@2JOfficialτι 😢
as a UA-camr with literally billions of subscribers, I QUIT
all of my videos are private now that’s how you don’t see any of the trillions of views
In the past: I wish I could quit my job and become a UA-camr.
Now: I wish I could quit my UA-cam career and do something else.
When I first went full time into youtube the mental fear of losing everything was paralyzing. I decided I would worry about it in like 10 years and not think about it. Well its now like 10 years later and things still aren't easier lol. If you dont become filthy rich as a youtuber then you either conform to the algorithm as a desperate attempt to maintain your life or completely revolt and try something new hoping new passion projects will overshadow the uncertainty dread in the future.
hey
That's basically how life is, sadly. You only get your freedom and happiness once you're filthy rich. For those who aren't, we go back to slaving.
Yeah this is why I’m just gonna do what I want to do as a hobby. I’d love to not work at a job I hate and just make games, but the reality is that the chance of success is slim and I don’t want to make things that hit some boring ass trend or algorithm, I want to make original weird shit, and that’s not gonna sell well unless I somehow get lucky, and I just don’t have the motivation to attempt to hit that nearly impossible success. And even if I get successful, can I keep making things that are just as successful? Or is it just a downhill slope from there? Yeah a hobby is better, making a career in this shit feels nearly impossible.
First you need to buy friends
Get family involved
Possibly get neighbors involved
Big youtubers never do anything completely by themselves they have teams, they aren't self made at all.
@@DEADEYESTUDIOI definitely feel you on this. Every time I think about trying to start my channel I get anxious, depressed, I feel deeply uncertain. I finally decided to just stick to studying accounting (it's a very low competition field) and maybe in the future I'll start my channel as a fun hobby.
I remember when people used to quit their jobs to do UA-cam. Now people quit their UA-cam jobs. The times, they are a' changing.
Not really, people quit their jobs to do UA-cam because normal jobs are killing them. Now, UA-camrs quit UA-cam because they have made it. It's just different stages of life. Once your business is successful and you make billions of dollars, why would you wanna continue working?
Another reason I think could be cancel culture. It's gotten to the point where some rando on Twitter can accuse you of (p-word), everyone automatically believes them and destroys your career and reputation. It also doesn't help that UA-cam promotes channels that repeat these allegations and harassing people. Being a content creator/e-celeb is not a secure position anymore.
So here is my thoughts on this topic. UA-cam back in it golden days was so entertaining. People like sml or pewdiepie were constantly making banger after banger. The reason they were is because UA-cam wasn’t as strict on what you could do and say. Now UA-cam is destroying content creators and not giving smaller channels a chance. A lot of channels back in the day were 100% for fun and I understand we need to make money to survive but at some point you come to realize now a lot of UA-cam is plagued with commentary channels who are nothing but negative. That’s why I want to create good content and just be myself but UA-cam will always be part time no matter how much money I make
SML still makes content I've been watching them since 2011 yeah they're Humor changed a little bit but they still make funny vids and actually they've been being more inappropriate lately and getting away with it
Finally somebody called out commentary channels! They all just come off so negative and self-righteous. Everybody and their momma have an opinion on everything under the sun.
UA-cam cares only for money and not rocking the boat.
"UA-cam is destroying content creators and not giving smaller channels a chance"
As a small channel, I agree with you. In november, october or whatever tf that month was of 2023, UA-cam in all of a sudden *STOPPED* recommending my videos. Then, I got the views back thanks to the hashtags in the description, but now UA-cam barely recommends my videos even with hashtags. One of my videos barely hit 20 views and my other one barely hits 90-100. I used to get 100-2.000 views and 6-100 likes. Now I get 6, then 4 and now 1.
Now I get views, but I barely get likes. I think UA-cam is trying their best to destroy my channel cuz I have been reported by UA-cam Team more than 4 times, some of my videos got copyright claimed and I was forced to remove some of my videos, some of my *oldest* videos got age restricted and I was forced to take them down and now they won't recommend my videos. UA-cam, wake the f**k up and listen to us. I don't care If I sound like a whiny brat here, just listen to us.
@@stingray-537 hey man I’ll drop a sub
In the span of today, a gaming UA-camr I follow named Moo Snuckel quit UA-cam and left the internet to detach and have a “real job”
A zoo owning youtuber I follow named Brian Barczyk quit because his disease went terminal.
And a game dev I follow (name is in a different language my keyboard can’t type) abandoned a passion project along with their channel earlier this day.
WHY THE HELL DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING DURING BREAKS AND NOT DURING NORMAL TIMES?!
Aw, man, that sucks to hear about Brian! I get fed his shorts all the time but never really stopped to check out his channel so I wouldn't have known. I didn't even realize he was sick. Hope he's able to live comfortably in the time he has left.
Break give them time to reflect. And choice what to do. That say. If your boy is dieing. Ya I can see why he quit. Job isn't worth it
If UA-cam wants more UA-camrs to stop quitting they got to do better and give them life time supply of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
That would be a start.
MeatCanyon, Tom Scott, Joel-Haver, Moo Snuckel, Matpat. Damn..
Why was this recommended right after watching matpatts quitting video
UA-cam now took the fun of creating content in the first place, I want to come back and make stuff I love but it’s too hard. Still glad to see you still making content after all these years :)
There is a way to make this work without giving youtube anything. Simply host your own server where people can see your videos and use your video channel to tell people to get there.
And dont forget a donation button on your site.
Then you're reliant on Google's seo, which is worse. My website has fallen in views because of Google's seo bs.
I’ve noticed a ton of UA-camrs I’ve been subbed to for years have either 1) wound down the content to bi-weekly uploads 2) switched to uploading long form content a couple times a year, or 3) stopped uploading completely save for a random do nothing drop once every couple of years/months.
Got this in my recommended a couple hours after MatPat posted “Goodbye Internet”
The fact that this video got recommended to me after finding out about MatPat makes me want to cry
This aged like fine wine
I will be honest I'm kind of scared how many more youtubers I have watched might just go in the near future
I think Joel Haver is doing that approach because he might be looking at UA-cam as some sort of portfolio or compiling his projects for which he can look back on and be proud of, rather than looking at it like a business model.
Goodbye matpat
Man when i heard matpat was quitting, i knew right there, youtube is going to change.
And now MatPat just quit too😭
Been on the site since 2007/2008, back when people just did it for fun, when the idea of making money off it was unheard of. I've seen the burnout over and over. When will people learn YT is not to be trusted and you should only make stuff for fun?
Big part of it is a lot of these people were around in 2013, ten years ago. With how much they did in that time, they basically had a career in a quarter of the time compared to a traditional career of when people retired at 65.
I'm going to miss Joel and Tom's weekly content, but I understand why they are making the change. Good for them, but their work will be missed (by me).
Personally, my main problem with UA-cam is that your audience can be so impatient, that if you spend the necessary amount of time on a video then upload it, not many people are going to watch it, because you took too long and they forgot about you, but if you just try to upload as much videos as possible every week or so, your content's quality becomes very poor.
So I don't know, maybe it's just me who's slow with making videos.
*And the UA-cam algorithm is a pain.*
The only way to succeed on social media now is either to be a literal corporation or be so different from everyone else that you can't be replicated
You gotta plan all the stuff out before you even turn on the camera, if I ever decide to create content again that will be what I do, and it will probably be on some other site.
@@symptomofsouls Thank you. I'll try that.
The daily uploaders and constant uploaders have put a curse on those who spend time trying to innovate
Amen.
First I saw Tom Scott… now Game Theory 10 minutes ago
It’s difficult to transition from hobby to full time. Suddenly, the thing you have done for fun turns into a full-blown business.
Also important to note these people already made their money and thus don’t have any incentive to go hustler mode any further.
You simply move the hobby into other industry and you get actuly paid for the work you love doing.
Yeah try to use UA-cam as a portfolio piece
Especially as a finance youtuber, i have been wanting to quit this one to focus on my sanrio and study channel. It's like no matter what i do, people still choose to follow get rich quick gurus despite me having a finance degree and background while most of them don't... and after 7 years i'm very tired of being a finance guru/youtuber and just want to leave it all. BTW your animation is cute
ive been on youtube since the start, this cycle of creators leaving is just another stress test on youtube as a platforum. only time will tell if new creators that dont suck can rise to the top and replace the channels we are losing
You jinx it Mattpat is leaving too 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Just a small tip, not a full time youtuber (yet) but I would say, before you go all in, SAVE YOUR MONEY! Have some money that you saved up before hand that way you won’t have to worry to much about views.
foreshadowed MatPat's retirement announcement
0:21 MC didn’t quit the main channel, he’s spending more time on his animations while still working on his second channel
Now matpat
Matpat just said goodbye to everyone.
Mattpat and moo now too 😢
If he waited a little bit longer Then he could’ve included Matt Patt, stepping down From his leader ship position
Hits different because matpat also is quitting
MatPat left also.
😭😭
Bro matpat left as well😭
Rip Matpat
MATPAT NOOOOOOOOOO
now matt pat
He didn’t quit, he took a break because he wanted to work on projects that he cared about, instead of what gets views.
I didn't realize a lot of people were quitting! Very interesting video though. I didn't know you went full time for a while that's cool. Also at 3:01 I'd hire you. 😆
And now Matpat.
Then matpat quits 3 days later!!!!!!
I feel like if you're a youtuber and you don't quit you're just incriminating yourself.
kinda ironic how just 5 days after this,matpat quit
Personally, I watch Papa Meat way more than his main channel. He has also said that the second channel is getting a higher production value in the future. He's a really entertaining person and getting to see more of him is a plus for me.
Matpat…..
the fact that matpat is now retiring 4 days later lmao
That nothing to laugh about
@@Fab135odro1laugh through the pain my friend
For me, I feel like now is the perfect time.
I been watching Game Theory since his “how fast is sonic” video. So late middle school maybe. But as I evolved as a person I began watching less and less. I’m now entering my senior year of college. My life is exploding in all sorts of directions where I guess I might not need him or UA-cam in general anymore. But I’ll miss him still. But it’s time to say goodbye
matpat just quit too
When I get more into YT, I intend on just uploading to make people happy, whether the videos will do well or not. It's for those who deserve to be entertained when big people step down for specific stuff.
But when they don't get enough views, I'm not making enough people happy. :(
And now the game theorists🥲
This aged like fine wine, we will miss you Matpat…
YESS finally someone who is telling the truth of why a lot of UA-camrs are leaving because people like me know that it's not because of "insert excuse here" it's because of UA-cam that made alot of restrictions, UA-cam that made it to where 1000=1$, UA-cam that banned people. And so many other things
The heartwarming moment is that they would not only quit spending time with their family or have a job, but i think they wanted to step aside and give underrated channels a chance to rise to the top. It's totally reasonable why they would quit, there would be more stress. Sacrificing the time for your family and friends.
Matpat just quit😢
anyone else run to this video after seeing matpat quit? 😭
Has anyone else realized youtube forced 20 to 30 min videos on us after the prime of 10 min only to jump to the opposite extreme of shorts which it shovels down our throats
Matpat 😔
Matpat just quit today 😢
MATPAT TOOO 25
MINUTES AGO
Yup
so sad :c
@@ellanimation816
Who is here after Matt Pat announce that he's stepping down from Game Theory
We lost another one...😢
Im gonna miss both Matpat and Lynja, Matpat quitted intentionally but Lynja died from cancer, i was both a huge fan of them, and im sad to see them leave youtube
One of the contributing factors is due to the fact some get unnecessary hate or they're just unappreciative of your content.
00:49 i spit my drink lmao
And now we lost Matpat
Yup matpat just quit as well definitely gonna be more ppl quitting this year time for a new era soon coming in 2025
Really liked your take on this, as someone who's dream it is to be able to be a full-time content creator and live off of it, I always have that thought lingering in the back of my mind of "what happens next when things aren't panning out the way I wanted to, and what can I do to prevent that. Being a YiuTuber and streamer is still such a new thing in the world that there's always gonna be changes and roadblocks, because of how entertainment works in the modern world. Glad to see people who feel the same way come together and learn from the great content creators of the past, and good luck on your future endeavors too!
This didn't age well 3 days after its release Matpat quit, this video is so accurate I feel sad.
Matpat quit
ironic this came on my recommended just as soon as i watch the “Goodbye Internet” matpat video
“But, for one of the last times, not the last time, but one of the last times, one of the last times the last times, as always my friends, remember, it’s just a theory A GAME THEORY! And thank you, thanks you for watching.” Great words by Mathew Patrick
now matpat quit
Gonna be honest, I've seen like 3 goodbye videos on a single channel
And now matpat…
2024 has a lot of youtubers retirement
Yea, I think I'm quitting UA-cam too guys. It's been fun, but it's just not the same anymore... Thank you to all of you who supported me, and thank you to my team. Goodbye UA-cam.
Bro you haven’t even done anything 💀
I think its a hilarious bit to start a UA-cam account just to announce your going to quit.