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I opened my Discord on desktop and was approached by someone in my DM asking me about my YouTube channel performance. I told this person that both of the YouTube channels that I am running are not performing well and I am hardly making 10 dollars a month on my monetized YouTube channel. So the person told me because she had a huge following on YouTube—over 500k channel subscribers—that I should hire a "Social Programmer," as this specific person would help me create content on topics that will give me the maximum results in terms of viewership.
I asked this person how much money would this "Content Researcher" and she told me that this person would ask for a reasonable price, but I told her that I was not able to afford such a hiring, so she responded back, telling me that this hiring would be at an affordable price.
Now YouTube is a mainstream website based on Web2 technology, and I could really need some help in curating the topics of my videos because my editing quality is really weak due to my hardware limitations.
But after thinking through all of this, I remembered a website called trends.google.com which gives you trending topics, and I had access to my YouTube analytics search traffic data as well, so why can't I somehow match these data somehow to formulate a strategy for myself in order to create content accordingly?
Maybe I truly have lost the ability to think for myself. I am already facing problems financially, and now additionally, my decision-making process is also diminishing.
I really went into a rabbit hole after this conversation on Discord regarding a "Social Programmer" with a total stranger. And I think due to my limitations as having low financial resources, I have made a decision to find a roadmap for my content creation that somehow not only aligns with my audience but also with the seasonal trends as well.
What do you all think? Which route shall I pursue, as I need your feedback on this one.
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