I genuinely highly recommend young people start YouTube channels about whatever they’re passionate about.

I made my channel when I was 15 and still do it to this day as my main hobby.

It teaches you so much and gives you a ton of skills that are very valuable
As a YouTuber, you have absolutely 0 help. It all relies solely upon you to create, produce, distribute, and publish you’re content all on your own.

But it makes you develop basic skills in:

-copywriting
-SEO
-editing
-graphic design
-community management
-video production
If you do not learn all of those skills — you will never even be able to publish one video. It’s on you to learn it all, but you will definitely learn it because it all falls on you.

That mentality is really important in taking responsibility for the outcome of your success.
It’s incredibly rewarding to take ownership over your own brand and learn the value of working to build something that you and your community can enjoy.

It is a TON of work and takes grit to be successful. 99% of people will fail (literally — that’s not a cliche catch phrase)
But even if you fail you’ll learn a lot and probably look fondly upon your effort. There are very few barriers to entry so don’t make excuses for why you CAN’T do it.

It could be something that is life changing for you
Becoming a YouTuber was absolutely life changing for me.

It’s how I was able to:

-meet several close friends
-move out to LA
-graduate college debt-free using YT as my college job
-connect with a group of likeminded individuals with shared interests
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