5 months in, most videos stuck at 30 views. Genuinely not sure what I'm missing.
I've been at this for about 5 months. 126 subscribers, 22 longforms, around 132 shorts. And most of my videos sit at roughly 30 views.
I'm not here to vent. I'm here because I genuinely can't see what's wrong from the inside, and I'd rather hear something uncomfortable from a stranger than keep guessing.
A little about what I make: I talk about perception, communication, relationships, and emotional clarity. How we misread our own internal signals and treat our interpretations as facts. I also talk about my aphantasia (I can't visualize anything mentally) and SDAM, a condition where autobiographical memory doesn't form the way it does for most people. That's not the whole channel, but it's part of my story and part of where my perspective comes from.
My one SDAM video has 515 views and brought in exactly 30 of my 126 subscribers on its own. Every other longform averages around 30 views. I've tried making more SDAM content but the follow-ups didn't land anywhere near as well. I think the original captured the experience so completely that there wasn't much left to mine.
The rest of my content is talking head, clean background, good audio and lighting. I put real time into scripts, thumbnails, titles, and metadata. I make clips from my longforms into shorts. The feedback I get from people who do watch is consistently positive.
But almost nobody finds it. And I'll be honest: it's a little deflating when I see posts here about 300 views being a disappointment. That would be a runaway success for me right now.
Screenshots of my video list below so you can see what I mean.
I'm open to hearing anything. Maybe it's the pacing. Maybe it's the framing. Maybe it's something in how I'm presenting myself that I just can't see from the inside.
If you want to take a look, I'll drop the channel link in the comments.