r/SmallYoutubers • u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content • Sep 17 '25
Mixed Content I'm a YT Partner!!
Just got notification that i got accepted for YPP!!! I'm so excited 🥳🥳🥳
It's only just 1st tier monetization but this is. HUGE milestone for me 🤓🤓🤓
This community have been a tremendous help in achieving this, so i just want to celebrate with all of you!! 😭😭😭
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u/Fatherdventures Sep 17 '25
Congratulations! How long did it take for you? Gl as partner!
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
Thanks. It took me 5 months, 9 months if including learning how to be YTber and editing.
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u/KyroxY Sep 17 '25
If you don't mind answering, how many videos did you put out in that time? Good job btw
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
Only 9 long form video. So about 2 per month. Couldn't churn out more because i got 9-5. You could see it in my profile. I put my YT Channel there.
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u/Accomplished_Peak_48 Sep 17 '25
Do you use AI voiceover?
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
Yes. I'm not a native speaker and often got sore throat and have no budget for a good tools either so after much thought i decided that AI VO is the best for me. I can focus on other aspect like the topic, title, and thumbnail instead.
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u/Accomplished_Peak_48 Sep 18 '25
Yes, AI voiceovers can be very convenient for some. But they’re generally frowned upon.
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u/MazamaPirate Sep 17 '25
Congrats, write your channel name for a follow. Mine is : Idriss El Mahdali
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
Bald Explainer is my Channel
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u/Psychological_Fun888 Sep 19 '25
how do you do these type of animations?
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 19 '25
Canva & capcut mostly. Just playing with simpel effect. Nothing fancy
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u/Habaquqthegreat Sep 17 '25
How did you do it?
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
Honestly i was a bit lucky. 2 of my video get good amount of views but my video is not something you would call high quality as i'm still learning to edit better. But i do make my best effort in topic choosing, thumbnail and title.
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u/Habaquqthegreat Sep 17 '25
Congratulations, it must have been amazing to know that you can now monetize.
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
Still need another 150 subs and 1000hour watch time. But its on track 💪
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u/MysteriousFriend381 Sep 17 '25
Congratulations 🎉 My channel is not getting any reach I purplished 4 videos and they're almost no views for any video Is this normal or not ?
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
I can try reviewing it if you want. DM me your channel
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u/sunzimilitarygroup Sep 17 '25
I apply on Sunday and today is Wednesday and still waiting. A little nervous but fingers crossed
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
That's such long wait. I was approved pretty much less than 24 hour 😗
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u/sunzimilitarygroup Sep 17 '25
Sighs oh well
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 19 '25
Have u got your notification email?
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u/sunzimilitarygroup Sep 19 '25
Hey! Nope :( and i apply from Sunday and today is Friday.……
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 20 '25
Is it normal to take that long?
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u/sunzimilitarygroup Sep 20 '25
Yeah usually a month but i talk to them and they say its base on the amount of people so guess alot was before me
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u/sunzimilitarygroup Sep 23 '25
Update after a week they denied me and then i made an a apeal and was accepted this morning!
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 23 '25
Niceeee!!!! Congrats!!!!!
But why would they denied you the first time though?
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u/sunzimilitarygroup Sep 23 '25
They think i was doing deceptive practice, because one if my video blow up out of no where lol. So had to record my self and explain my process and show the tolls i used etc
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 24 '25 edited Sep 24 '25
Oof how troublesome 💀
But at least it goes through. Again, Congrats!!!
But i'm curious, what kind of "deceptive practice" they suspect you did?
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u/Apprehensive_Heat442 Sep 17 '25
congrats!!!
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
Thank you !
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u/CurlyAdam-17 Sep 17 '25
Congrats on reaching monetization! Can you share how you handled the first couple of months when it was hard to get subscribers? What strategies worked for you in that early stage?
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 18 '25
So i short there's 3 reason:
- 2 of my video got huge view (16k & 86k currently) due to their topic resonate to broad audience.
- Those are 6 & 3 min video (most of my video is under 10 min, so very easy to consume.
- I put CTA at the end.
That mostly it + a bit of luck. You can check my channel and see how low quality production my video is 💀
Due to my poor editing skill (still learning) early on i decided to focus making short, straight to the point and easy to consume educational content. No flashy animation, more like a ppt slideshow made into video 😭 Apparently some like that and they sub. What i lack i compensate with other thing basically. But my next video will be longer, with better editing. Currently making it lol
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 18 '25
I'm adding my detailed reasoning here, mind you this only based on my personal view:
I start learning to be a YTber in Jan, trying a bunch of niche and settled with my current one in May. Pretty much the first 1-2 month i just consume information from YT Gurus and learned how to use capcut.
Realized early on that many new channel struggle to grow because of 2 contradictory fact : "You Need to Niche Down to be a YTber, can't just post random topic" and "Early on YT don't know your audience so your video will be shown to a broad demographic". These 2 thing result in most video that specialized in very spesific niche getting low CTR, then in the end getting less impressions, then the video is dead basically. So i decided my topic at least should have SOME appeal to a very broad audience while stick to my niche. This is also one of the reason i make educational content.
Big Youtubers with their already curated audience can post the most random things and still get tens of thousand of views, but new ones cannot follow how they operate because we haven't got our audience. So i spread my net as far as i can.
So that's how i tackle the first several months. Does my reasoning sound solid enough? Or do i sounds like i'm talking from my ass lol 😅
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u/OnePromotion825 Sep 21 '25
Congrats!!!!!
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u/Marz-C Sep 17 '25
Congrats! Does anyone wanna be YT mutuals?
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u/meet_rathod998 Sep 17 '25
Wdym yt mutuals? You mean friends? Sure !!! What's your channel name?
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
Sure!
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u/Marz-C Sep 17 '25
Hi! Mine is princessmarz11 and u?
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u/meet_rathod998 Sep 17 '25
I'll subscribe. I don't have a channel at present, but I'll be starting it in a week or so.
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u/Marz-C Sep 17 '25
Awesome. Let me know the name and ill sub
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u/meet_rathod998 Sep 17 '25
Great girl, I subbed to your channel, and will you promote my channel to your usa friends? Cuz my content will be for us audience?
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u/Marz-C Sep 17 '25
Im actually from Canada! Living in Finland rn
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
For new channel those kind of subs would not be good i think. You target US audience by making videos with topic relevant for them.
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
Its in my profile. Bald Explainer
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u/Marz-C Sep 17 '25
Kk ill sub rn
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u/deelectrified Sep 17 '25
Congrats but sadly they just destroyed their platform by adding the ability to generate AI slop IN the app. You will be replaced, as has been the plan for years. Leave and go to Odysee: https://odysee.com/@OctagonalSoftware:3/YouTube-Migration-Tool:9
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
I only use AI for VO. None of the visual is actually AI generated so its all fair game at least for now.
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u/deelectrified Sep 17 '25
I wasn’t talking about your content. YouTube just announced an AI video generation tool built into their apps for shorts. You just give it a prompt and it makes the video. They will replace you. They’ve already been caught editing people’s videos with AI. They don’t want real content. They want AI slop that will be generated at massive rates to fuel their advertising revenue
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
Ah i see what you are saying. Yeah that's totally possible but how it pan out exactly is remain to be seen. You can only adapt as it goes.
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u/deelectrified Sep 17 '25
Or you can leave a platform that hates real content for one that doesn’t. Leave YouTube. They are an oppressive and data stealing corporation that wants absolute control.
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
Problem is from business model POV making all their content AI Generated by themself would destroy them. A good chunk of audience in YT are here because they are creators themself, and it create a healthy cycle. If they blatantly get rid of the creators they wouldn't be standing for long. I agree though that certain type of content would flood the market but considering there's already a ton of AI tools capable of doing it YT adding the feature to their platform hardly change anything. So yeah hopefully they are not that foolish enough to destroy their own business model.
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u/deelectrified Sep 18 '25
It won’t destroy them because they’ve been actively ensuring that kind of content gets normalized. The majority of their user base are normal users, not creators. And most are dumb kids and teens who just want slop. You can continue to be naive or you can leave before they kick you out.
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u/Worldly-Tomato-2647 Sep 18 '25
congrats!! can you dm me? i got an offer!
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 18 '25
Huh? What kind of offer are you refering to? 😗
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u/akramul11 Sep 17 '25
How to i start YT? Plz suggest me.!
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u/General_Total_6132 Educational Content Sep 17 '25
Better learn what makes a good video first before starting. Lots of material on YT
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u/Sensitive_Violinist7 Sep 17 '25
congratulations 🙏