I have always heard that if you make a good short/video, it will go viral, but that advice feels way too general. Then there are tips like “just focus on the hook and you’ll be fine,” but I still don’t fully understand it.

I’ve tried focusing on the hook multiple times using interesting topics. For example, I started one video with a question, and that one actually went somewhat viral with around 10k views. But I can’t see myself using that exact strategy for every single video.

Then I tried the “show the action immediately” method. That also performed somewhat well and got around 4k views, but again, I don’t think that format works for every video either.

After that, I started studying popular videos in my niche, but I still can’t figure out what specifically makes them go truly viral. So my question is: how do you actually make videos go viral?

Question 2

Do your videos really get a “30k seed test”? I keep hearing people say YouTube gives videos around 30k views to test whether they’re good or not. But if YouTube is supposedly testing videos with audiences, why does that never happen to me?

Question 3

At what percentage does a video usually go viral?

I noticed my 10k-view video had around an 80% Viewed vs. Swiped rate, which seems pretty good. But I also have other videos with 60–70% Viewed vs. Swiped that still perform decently, getting around 2k–5k views.

At the same time, some videos with 70% Viewed vs. Swiped still end up under 2k views. So what metric actually matters most? Should I focus on Viewed vs. Swiped, AVD, or something else entirely?

Question 4

How do you know what to improve?

Do creators actually watch their own videos and instantly notice what’s wrong with them? Because if it were that simple, then everyone would eventually make viral videos after fixing mistakes.

Sorry if that’s too many questions. I’m still pretty new to posting on YouTube.

My niche, if anyone is wondering, is faceless Roblox JJS content.

My channel called: VRoGamerB if anyone wants to help me figure out what I’m doing wrong.

So I’m a 14-year-old male, and I went to this store with my family. Everything there had the same fixed price — really cheap too, like around $1 maximum for every item. At first, I was shopping with my mom while my dad stayed in the car. My mom bought a bunch of sweets and told me I could choose up to 3 things for myself, so I took my time and picked the stuff I actually wanted.

About 30 minutes later, my dad came into the store with my younger brother (12M) and older sister (16F). He asked where my mom was, so I went looking for her. When I found her, she had switched to a different cart that barely had any items in it. That annoyed me a little because I had already picked out some things I really liked, and now I had to choose again.

When I grabbed the same items, my dad told me I could only pick one out of the three. I accepted that, so my options were:

a) 5 small chocolate bars for the whole family
b) One normal-sized chocolate bar with a flavor I had never tried before
c) A bag of chips

I figured my brother and sister would each get their own item too, so I chose option B — the chocolate bar I actually wanted.

After we left the store, both my siblings asked me to share my chocolate because they hadn’t bought anything themselves since they spent most of the time talking instead of shopping. I agreed and told them they could each take 4 pieces. Then my dad asked me to also share some with him and my mom, and I agreed to give them around one-third of the bar.

But then my dad said I should give my siblings even more. I told him I had already shared a lot, but he asked to take the chocolate so he could “split it fairly.” I trusted him not to leave me with almost nothing, but he ended up giving me barely any of it back.

What made it worse was that literally seconds later, both my brother and sister said they didn’t even like the chocolate and rated it a “3/10.” So I told them if they didn’t like it, they could just give it back to me. They refused.

Later in the car, my mom asked me for chocolate, and I explained that dad had already taken a third of the bar for both of them earlier. She understood and said it was fine.

I then complained to my dad calmly because I felt the whole thing was unfair. Eventually, he agreed and said I could take a little more that was supposedly being saved for tomorrow. I thanked him and took exactly the amount he allowed me to have.

Then my brother and sister suddenly started trying to grab more chocolate again — the same chocolate they claimed to hate earlier. At that point I got annoyed and told them no, because they had already taken most of it. They started insulting me, interrupting me while I was trying to explain things normally to my dad, and during the entire car ride home they kept talking badly to me because I didn’t want to give them even more.

(ik this is silly but like was i acting in a wrong way?)

I have been posting for a while (trying to reach that dream of making a living from yt) however every time i am posting i always feel like i am missing something because every video i post never reaches more then 15k views
here is my channel name: VRoGamerB
the channel should have a roblox character as the pfp and have around 35-40 subs