Had a great start but a slow burnout
Heyo. I am a fairly new YouTuber who has been on and off creating fun Magic: The Gathering content for the past 6 months. I make comedy videos on deck techs in flashy, "jumpcutty" videos that are around 5 minutes long. I was not taking the YouTube thing seriously as I did at first. Really just wanted to do it for fun. But now I want to take more initiative in growing my channel. I know at some point with persistence, I will hit 1000 Subscribers. Not looking for a "get rich quick," growth. I genuinely have one major question that I would love some help answering. (and then any constructive feedback in general would also be great.)
THE ALGORITHM. If anyone goes to my YouTube channel, my first two videos exploded when I launched them. For some context, I had less than 10 subs, and on day four, I was close to 10K views per video. Honestly, it was such a rush, but I have never seemed to capture remotely close to those numbers. I tried releasing at the same time as the other videos on the same days. I tried to give the correct hashtags to get more previews to certain folks. I've researched the best time to go live with Magic content to catch the wave of people looking up Magic: The Gathering content. At this point, I am a little stumped. Maybe I am doing something wrong?
I did have to step away for health reasons, and because of moving, so I know my current numbers on my latest content don't reflect the consistency piece that I believe would be important to viewer retention. Any advice here would be great. If my content just sucks.....I can live with that. 😛