Pearl - June 26, 2026


Subscribers Don’t Mean Much on YouTube


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Length

8 minutes

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168.02

Word count

1,491

Sentence count

15

Harmful content

Misogyny

5

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Toxicity

10

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Hate speech

13

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Summary

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In this episode, I talk about what I've learned being a YouTuber and in media, and how to maximize your reach and influence. I also talk about some of the lessons I learned along the way.

Transcript

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00:00:00.200 What's up guys? Welcome to my YouTube channel. Today I'm going to talk about what I've learned
00:00:04.940 being a YouTuber and in media and how subscribers doesn't necessarily mean influence or really
00:00:11.940 anything anymore. So in 2023 I had one of the biggest YouTube shows in the United States.
00:00:17.280 I was demonetized and kicked off a lot of platforms and that really slowed down my career.
00:00:22.040 But because of that period in 2023 I have a lot of subscribers and I saw a comment the other day
00:00:29.540 that said she has 2 million subscribers wow she must have so much pull and influence and I get
00:00:35.060 this a lot like whenever somebody looks up my page um they say oh wow like you have so many
00:00:42.160 subscribers and I want to talk about a subscribers actually means nothing um in YouTube world it's
00:00:48.260 really like a vanity metric so in 2023 um I was one of the first YouTubers to see that shorts were
00:00:54.700 completely blowing up so a youtube short is like a 60 second uh video and i had one of the biggest
00:01:01.340 youtube shows in the united states i had like four thousand three to four thousand live viewers
00:01:05.980 for a period of time um i had a billion views on my channel my career was completely taking off
00:01:13.260 um then i got demonetized and kicked off a lot of platforms and it did it can and did sort of um
00:01:18.540 stifle i don't want to say destroy my career because i'm still going but it's never been the
00:01:22.780 same sense different story different day but i was one of the first ones to realize that you can get
00:01:28.620 contractors for shorts overseas and so at one point i had like 20 to 40 shorts going out a day
00:01:37.020 like it was just ridiculous because i would live stream like three hours every night and um people
00:01:44.140 like the short the people in other countries you could get these really cheap shorts and just
00:01:49.660 completely spamming the feed and back then youtube shorts was trying to compete with tiktok so it
00:01:55.960 just wasn't as um like youtube put a lot of time into pushing out shorts but if you get just if
00:02:03.340 you get subscribers from shorts it doesn't necessarily translate to money it does translate
00:02:08.560 to like fame like more people know your face um but fame without money is like the worst kind of
00:02:14.960 fame because you sacrifice privacy like if I go do something stupid in public now I'm less famous 0.94
00:02:21.120 right than in 2023 but in 2023 I was like petrified of doing something stupid I don't know 0.99
00:02:27.220 like saying something dumb someone secretly recording me and so I was like damn back then 0.88
00:02:34.140 I did do pretty well because I had the live viewers but like being famous on shorts is like 0.97
00:02:39.800 the worst type of fame because you're not making as much money. You have maybe the vanity numbers,
00:02:46.040 people know your face, but you're not making money because you're paid on watch time.
00:02:51.500 Now, to be fair, there are accounts that only do shorts and sometimes they can make money,
00:02:56.880 but I would say that's like the exception, not the norm. So really, if you want a long career
00:03:03.540 on YouTube, you have to maximize long form content that can be a live stream or prerecorded
00:03:08.660 um or get like a thousand people that are really interested in your content willing to pay you make
00:03:14.000 money through coaching that sort of thing um but for me I have two million subscribers but most of
00:03:22.180 those are I would guess at least half I don't really know are off of shorts and so short
00:03:27.820 subscribers and long form subscribers just are not the same thing if that makes sense
00:03:34.620 um so that's why I say like the best metric to gauge maybe how much money and how famous or
00:03:43.460 influential someone is is I would say long form live stream content or just long form content in
00:03:50.420 general uh people that have big numbers for that I would say they're the real like I don't know
00:03:57.460 winners in this YouTube game um some other lessons I learned I'll tell you just along the way if
00:04:06.840 anyone wants to be a YouTuber um if you're young under 40 there were times in my career where I 1.00
00:04:13.960 would say like women shouldn't vote or this is the way society should be and as I got older I really 0.95
00:04:19.920 tried to steer away from that because number one if you're under 40 what do you really know 0.68
00:04:25.340 you know what I mean like um and you're not an expert in a certain field or whatever but two
00:04:31.900 I always viewed the conversation and I think a lot of conservatives kind of view it like this
00:04:36.520 like um it should be this way regardless of like you know keeping the person out of it
00:04:45.640 but people don't really take it that way so you have to be um like I kind of learned that saying
00:04:53.180 should is a very useless conversation because it's like make a wish and it's a very immature
00:04:59.080 conversation it's for people like I hate to say it but don't that don't have jobs um I don't have 0.99
00:05:06.480 a real job so hypocritical hypocrite I'm a hypocrite in a lot of ways okay uh but you know 0.99
00:05:14.920 because let's say women shouldn't vote but women are going to vote for my entire lifetime that 0.99
00:05:21.100 make sense. Yeah. Um, the next thing is, uh, YouTube definitely is a work ethic, uh, game, 0.98
00:05:28.940 but I always ran into the problem of over posting, uh, because like I would see my numbers go down
00:05:35.420 and the next few, like the next year, I'm really trying to go up on quality and less on quantity
00:05:42.560 because it's so easy with, with YouTube, there's no constraints to how much you can work. So
00:05:47.580 it's so easy to just stream, stream, stream, stream, stream, but you don't, uh, really in my
00:05:52.720 experience, the people that, uh, win in the long game, they focus on quality more than quantity
00:06:00.020 because you do have to respect your viewer's time. Um, another thing is stay the F away from
00:06:07.100 e-girls hypocritical, hypocritical. I know, um, ladies, if you're, if you're, you know, coming 1.00
00:06:14.700 about these women are fucking nuts. And I'm telling you, I'm telling you firsthand, um, 1.00
00:06:22.780 as somebody that's always kept an arm's length away from you girls, um, women tend to be
00:06:32.280 very concerned about their reputation and looking like a good person. So the issue you're going to
00:06:37.960 get is if you ever do anything wrong or say the wrong thing, they'll look like a good person by 0.99
00:06:43.840 running to the internet and that's why like that's why you see all these e-girls like crash out on
00:06:49.160 each other it's like they they hold they'll hold text messages from like years ago just to bring 1.00
00:06:55.460 them up like five years later yeah I'll tell you what as a woman if you want to be on the internet 1.00
00:07:01.000 just know that all women you bring into your life are absolutely a liability uh so I'm trying to 0.99
00:07:10.240 think of what else if you guys have questions about being a youtuber put it in the comments 1.00
00:07:14.060 but i'm just kind of thinking of what else you'd want to know oh the two metrics you want to pay
00:07:21.000 attention to in youtube are watch time and click rate click rate basically is the percentage of
00:07:26.980 time people um look at your like if 100 people look at your thumbnail what percent of people
00:07:32.900 click and essentially when you post a piece of content and it doesn't perform you want to know
00:07:39.620 is it the content or is it the thumbnail and the title and click rate will tell you
00:07:43.480 it's either your thumbnail and your title or the combination
00:07:46.520 or um watch time is your content sucks so if i post this now and none of you are watching at the
00:07:55.500 end um that's why so at some point probably down the road i might do like a school maybe like 0.62
00:08:04.380 teaching everything we know about youtube but yeah anyways all right guys um let me know what
00:08:11.040 you think in the comments um that's why uh watch time and views on long form content matters much
00:08:17.700 more than shorts and subscriber numbers and it doesn't necessarily translate to much i just mean
00:08:24.560 it really just means big subscribers just means at one point in time they got a lot of views
00:08:29.000 but that doesn't necessarily mean that you're still famous or you still have that influence
00:08:34.760 because honestly like internet fame comes and goes really really fast like within a year
00:08:46.720 somebody could be obsolete and completely irrelevant so like the video subscribe I'll see you next time