I Made a Secret YouTube Channel to Prove its Not Luck

Does creating a successful YouTube channel take skill from years of experience or is it all just luck according to the all-knowing internet 75 of children said be a YouTuber is their desired career so can you build a skill set that will ultimately lead you to a

Successful career as a YouTuber or was I just lucky I’m gonna put that theory to the test by creating a completely secret Channel that I cannot show my face or use my voice on to see if I actually do have a particular set of skills that I

Can use to grow the channel into something successful now you may have seen Ludwig try this a few months ago where he even asked Mr Beast what his opinion was Jimmy how much of YouTube you think is Luck versus skill it’s 99 and I decided to get a second opinion

From some of my friends to get back to like 100k in a moment or something a month you think you do it a month 100K a month I would say event when you first get started you can get lucky but longevity is from definitely from the knowledge so I’m gonna give

Myself seven days to get 10 000 views and 1 000 subscribers I’m going to do literally every everything I can to prove that it’s not luck and I’m gonna start where things kicked off for me shorts not those kind of shorts these kind of shorts all right we’re going to

Start with the food content because it’s the easiest content also I don’t want my food to go bad so we’re gonna do a Chick-fil-A food hack everybody loves food I mean who doesn’t like a nice little food I’ve also positioned my iPhone so that my face is not in the

Shot removing my influence from the video yo this is gonna be straight from a Food Network with the right information I think anyone can be a YouTuber it’s as simple as that someone certainly could get lucky the only reason that tends to work is that they unintentionally did everything right oh

My gosh I wasn’t recording just kidding I was now that we’ve done the food stuff we’re gonna move on to the Coke and Mentos stuff it gets freakishly large views and requires me not to speak at all ah I’m fresh I messed it up YouTube’s algorithm ultimately

Determines the success of a video by using two metrics average duration and click-through but for shorts I really only need to focus on average view duration all right we’re gonna put some water in it I’ve never seen anything like it that’s what she said I’m basically just gonna drop this on the

Ground and nothing’s gonna happen it’s a scam this is what gets the 200 340 million views nothing but that’s the beauty of it because I’ll cut the video right now when nothing happens and since I’m not talking I’m also not limiting myself to one language speaking audience

But I greatly sacrifice building a core audience for the sake of millions of views in just one morning I was able to create three shorts that I think have amazing potential oh my gosh that’s incredible these need to be cut up into extremely fast-paced videos that will

Keep people engaged till the end and I’m not gonna lie y’all I’m pretty stoked on these upload shorts but bang we got our first short uploaded hopefully one of these shorts has popped off maybe I’m a terrible Creator okay let’s check it out together but first it’s time to give

Some money to one of you guys subscribed right oh yeah for every 15 seconds that I talk to you guys about Dragon City he gets 50 bucks Dragon City is a free to play mobile game that’s available on all of your devices you’re gonna collect food Gold Gems that you can grow and

Tailor your city and reach completely new levels you even get to breed your dragons look at how excited Michael is about that he’s literally gonna breed his own dragons and he’s gonna get new dragon eggs hatch them and feed them to evolve you get to Train Your Dragon and

Teach them new attacks in battle in order to make them even more powerful you can become a member of the alliance like like like uh like a really some really cool it’s like a really cool line it’s like a it’s one of those really cool superhero alliances and this

One’s pretty cool yeah doesn’t it dude I shut up Michael Michael and the QR code and get a special free starter pack 15 000 food 30 000 gold and a flame like what this you guys are giving away too much stuff you’re gonna download it right

I gave you so much money I need to stop and if that wasn’t bad enough for my bank account I have more bad problems well that’s bad news right away oh no zero subscribers currently Yelp talk about an emotional roller coaster seeing Zero Subs hurts this one has 20 views

Interesting engagement 17 out of 23 seconds that’s not great okay on a video this length I really need it to be like 20 seconds out of 23. I need to be in the like 90 percentile range I’m not gonna lie you guys this is a

This is a bummer I need to change gears and quickly I still have a few tricks up my sleeve and my next idea requires a voice I have a couple of options I could go to Fiverr and I could hire a voice actor but I think what I’m gonna do is

To see if my wife can actually try to tell some stories Lauren are you ready about to make my boy famous it’s time you take the director’s seat Karen was gonna need to be the voice of this content since I can’t use my own there’s nothing in there it’s empty I drank it

No pressure but this entire video hangs in the balance is why Matthew Dean has gone from 0 to 1.5 million subscribers in just a few months and well she’s kind of killing it what the heck why am I doing this you should be the YouTuber I got so nervous

This is a completely different approach content-wise but it allows me to click bait to a certain extent by using a larger creator for the Titan as I’m adding this together I’m excited but uh also um a little nervous that took me way too long to make um but it’s done now it’s

Up it’s on the interwebs I have some other plans I want to do with this I actually think this is a really good video just needs to be seen by somebody so this is where we go to Twitter to Instagram to Reddit we’re gonna start making some noise even though the

Channel still doesn’t have a single subscriber I have faith in myself I know I could do it if I can’t uh well I guess I’m a fraud day one was a pretty much a bust you guys already know that we had like no subscribers watch this just be

An absolute fail come on Big Money big money let’s go let’s go okay I got two subscribers that’s hey that’s 200 games now two subscribers might seem like nothing but in this moment I feel ecstatic I have a seriously long ways to go but hey you

Gotta start someone you got okay we got 1700 views on that you can converting one subscriber that’s pretty depressing as I was reviewing the content I hit a completely new roadblock retention yeah again it’s too low the retention’s not there using my own channel as comparison

I know for a fact that my retention needs to be sitting around 90 or higher on these upload links if it’s going to go viral and um they’re a long ways there’s many reasons why the retention is not there I actually think this video is good but I think the retention is not

There because it’s just not hitting the right audio for example this video on my channel took over 900 days for it to finally find the radar but I’m not ready to give up just like I’m not ready to give up on passing my arch nemesis The

Rock and we are so close so please hit the Subscribe button on day three I tried to use Twitter and Reddit and well let’s just say I’m terrible at anything not YouTube related this guy said I bet he bought two of everything so he could get the internet points and still eat

His meals intended well that’s not what happened but okay on day four I attempt to be the next big gamer what is your current work from restaurant manager here on day five I cry on day six I went for the Hail Mary I went back to food

Content but I used Mr BEAST’s clickbait the perfect comic it’s a fake story about Mr Beast Karin is going to record them all Mr Beast give me a million dollar Choice finally it’s day seven and this is it this is the moment of truth in total the channel did 9 000 views

Over the course of the seven days that I had it up and the biggest video was the Mr Beast video the last one that I uploaded which is no surprise because Mr Beast is in the title it got a total of 3 200 views that’s actually pretty good

I’m not I’m not mad about that and unfortunately the long form I had Dave working on didn’t have enough time to get any trash in the end the Potato Head channel did a total of 11 subscribers so uh yeah I’m a complete failure but this channel probably could have gained much

More subscribers over time if I continued to create content adapting for now I’m a complete failure but there’s something that I didn’t recognize this entire journey I didn’t blow up overnight in fact nobody does I was creating content that I actually don’t even like make even if it did do well

There would have been no way for me to keep it going and have fun with this experience forced me to look back on my own Journey on YouTube I started years ago and I tried some stuff that I didn’t even think was a good representation of me it showed through the content along

With that even the first short that I posted to my channel took an entire month to hit the algorithm I still firmly believe that it takes skill to build a successful YouTube channel just like it takes skill to build a successful Dragon City city or Dragon

Down with the Dragon City app and you guys please watch this video so I don’t feel like a complete failure