Alright fellas here's what I want to say, when you have a real point of view on something, topics stop being a thing you search for. You read an article that contradicts what most people in your niche believe and you have a video. You notice the same pattern in three separate things you came across this week and you have a video. A comment on your last video asks something you never thought to address and you have a video. None of that is brainstorming. The perspective does it without you trying.
Creators who run out are almost always working from a topic list. They covered the obvious stuff in year one, the slightly less obvious in year two, and by year three they're either repeating themselves or chasing whatever is trending that week. From working with creators across different informative niches, the topic list problem shows up almost every time someone hits a wall around year two or three. It's not a creativity failure, it's a structural one.
The narrower your focus the more you find inside it, which sounds wrong but isn't. A creator doing broad personal finance has a shallow pool. A creator with a specific take on how regular people misunderstand money has basically unlimited content because that frame applies to everything, every news story, every policy change, every cultural shift. The specificity is what makes it renewable.
On burnout specifically, the two things that actually kill informative creators are volume pressure and posting into silence. Volume pressure is a workflow problem, batch your research separately from your writing separately from your recording and it gets more manageable. The silence problem is harder. From what I've seen, the creators who keep going for years almost always have some version of real audience connection, not just view counts. Comments where someone says the video changed how they think about something. That kind of feedback sustains in a way that metrics don't.
The last thing, and this one matters more than people admit, most long-term informative creators consume a lot outside their niche without the pressure of turning it into content. The moment you read purely to extract videos you start resenting the reading. Keeping those two things even slightly separate is what makes both last.