--- title: 'Why Every Immigrant Should Start a YouTube Channel' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=1R7fm4z3M-o' video_id: '1R7fm4z3M-o' date: 2026-08-06 duration_sec: 839 --- # Why Every Immigrant Should Start a YouTube Channel > Source: [Why Every Immigrant Should Start a YouTube Channel](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1R7fm4z3M-o) ## Summary The video is a personal narrative from a YouTuber who emigrated from Kyrgyzstan to Korea and later to Bali, discussing the challenges of immigration and how starting a YouTube channel provided community, freedom, and financial independence. The creator argues that YouTube is a powerful tool for immigrants to build a global career and income, transcending geographic boundaries. ### Key Points - **Immigration challenges** [00:02] — The creator moved to Korea at 22 and faced loneliness, language barriers, and starting life from scratch. Foreigners are only 5% of residents, and the 'Alien registration card' highlighted outsider status. - **Loneliness and identity** [01:43] — Loneliness is the hardest part of emigration. Over time, a feeling of not belonging anywhere emerges, as you change but remain a stranger in the new country. - **Career rebuilding** [02:09] — Rebuilding a career is difficult without language and cultural understanding. A diploma from home may not be recognized, limiting job options to English or Russian-speaking markets. - **YouTube as community** [03:29] — Started YouTube in 2019, initially with few subscribers, but found a community of like-minded people worldwide, which was more valuable than numbers. - **Quitting job for freedom** [04:48] — After 3 years, quit job due to lack of freedom, long hours, and stress (even antidepressants). YouTube became a full-time profession, and income surpassed salary within a year. - **YouTube's global reach** [06:37] — YouTube is not geo-dependent; audience is worldwide. Living in Bali, the creator serves the entire Russian-speaking world, with no geographic ceiling. - **Monetizing expertise** [08:27] — For immigrants with expertise (doctor, nutritionist, etc.), YouTube can be a way to earn money and find clients globally, avoiding starting from scratch. - **Success stories** [09:36] — Examples: Yulia in Turkey grew from 690 to 5,000 subscribers and sold her first ad for 30,000 rubles; Alexandra in Canada earns $600/month from monetization; Lizaveta monetized from first video. - **Emigration and success** [11:42] — Moving to a new country makes you rich faster; many successful people are immigrants. The discomfort of emigration is a powerful motivator to know yourself and build something. ### Conclusion The creator encourages immigrants to use YouTube to build a global career and income, emphasizing that the discomfort of emigration is a powerful catalyst for personal and professional growth. ## Transcript countries, several jobs, several apartments, and even several versions of myself. But one decision changed my life the most - starting a YouTube channel. And I want to dedicate this video to all the immigrants who are right now trying to build a [music] When I moved to Korea at 22, I faced. Of course, no one prepared me for this, and emigrants will understand me. First of all, you find yourself completely alone. All your friends, family, loved ones, they kind of stay at home, right? People you could call at any moment to ask for help are now super far away from you. Secondly, the language barrier. In my case it was Korea. And you know, Korea is a super diverse country. [music] Foreigners who live there make up only about 5% of the received a residence permit there, residency, they gave you this ID, which literally said "Alien registration card." And Alien from English means extraterrestrial. You see, yes, how homogeneous this country is and how foreigners are considered [music] as outsiders. Now, of course, they have already changed all this, but it was like this a long time ago . So, almost no one there speaks English, so even the simplest everyday things turned into a real, I don’t know, puzzle, bank account, order something by phone. Yes, all of this caused a lot of . Thirdly, you start life practically from scratch. At home, you had history, connections, reputation, acquaintances, right? And here, in a new country, no one knows you. It's like you become a newbie again, you know, like you loneliness. This is probably the hardest part of emigration. Yes, I lived in a super-developed, super-convenient country, I saw new places, but I still felt very lonely. Over time, another problem appears: the feeling that you don’t belong anywhere. When you return home, you realize that a lot has changed in you, and you are no longer the same person you were before. But even in a new country, you still remain a stranger. And it gives you this weird feeling, like you're stuck, you know, between these two worlds. And on top of that, you have to rebuild your career all over again. Without the language and understanding of the culture, it is very difficult to find a job. Your cool diploma in your country, yes, in this country is some extent, starting their professional lives from scratch. If at home , for example, I could get into almost any company, in Korea I had a super limited choice for any job. Since I'm a foreigner and only speak English, I don't speak Korean, especially at a Native level, so I could only choose from companies that targeted the English-speaking or Russian-speaking market. Later, of course , I still got a job at a great great benefits, but I felt super lonely there because 97% of my colleagues were Korean. They spoke poor English at conferences, meetings, and rallies. They [the musicians] were constantly speaking 50% Korean, which I didn't understand at all . And you know, I always felt like there was a ceiling to my career growth, because in order to reach a higher management position in this company , I would have to be able to convince people. And for this you need very good language skills, right? You need to speak Korean very well, and Korean is a very difficult language. Even if you study it for 100 years, you still won't speak at a native level. I started my YouTube channel in 2019 and spent the first four years running it while working for hire. And even though at the beginning I had very few subscribers and few views, I was super happy, you know, and not at all because of the numbers. I was glad that people who thought the same way as I did gradually began to gather around me. I remember reading comments after working in Korea and realizing that somewhere out there in Germany, Canada, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, there were people who were facing similar problems, sharing my values. And you know, for a person in immigration this turned out to be much more important than I realized then. Because, as I said, immigration is a very lonely experience. You leave your friends, family, and familiar surroundings behind and find yourself in a country where no one really cares about you. Sometimes it seemed to me that I was completely alone in all of this. And then a dozens of comments would appear under it from people who understood me. And gradually these people became, you know, my online circle. Of course different countries, on different continents, lonely. That's when I first realized that YouTube is about so much more than just views and subscribers. This is, you know, a way to find your people all over the world. Here your people are scattered all over the world, and through YouTube you find them all . After working for us for about 3 years, I decided to quit. At that time, my YouTube channel only had about 13,000 subscribers. Why did I leave my job in the first place? I told you in detail . I'll upload it somewhere here in a separate video . But in short, I hated the lack of freedom. I only had 14 days off a year. I worked 10, and sometimes even 12 hours a day. In Korea, it’s very, you know, the workload is very heavy. There were constant deadlines, a huge volume of tasks, and overtime. And at some point the stress was so strong that I even went on antidepressants, basically, like half of Korea. And the worst thing was that work no longer seemed meaningful to me. In general, there were many more reasons. If you're interested, watch this video. So, I took a risk and left. And that's when I started treating YouTube not as a hobby after work, but as a full-fledged profession. And about a year later, something happened that I myself did not expect. My income from YouTube has become higher than my salary as an employee. Only now I could work from anywhere, without an office, a boss, endless approvals, toxic managers, without the feeling that my whole life belonged to someone else. And you know, for the first time I started to decide for myself when to work, how much to work, and where to live. And I thought, even if I earn three times less than now, just give me freedom, give me the right to manage my life, and I will agree to such a life. But if they had told me then that you would have all this and at the same time your income would be three, four, five times higher, I would have had a stroke, and all the rest of it at the same time. So, of course, I'm still in shock. And the coolest thing is that all of this became possible thanks to YouTube, because YouTube is one of the few platforms that is practically independent of what country you live in. This is absolutely not geo-dependent content. Yes. For example, when I lived in Korea, people from all over the world watched me. Then I moved to Thailand. My audience stayed with me and only expanded. look at my channel statistics, it turns out that people are watching me from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Germany, the USA, Poland, and dozens of other countries. In fact, I live in one small village in Bala, but I work for the entire Russian-speaking world. This is why YouTube has virtually no geographic ceiling. If you work in a local market, your income is limited to the economy of one country. But when you create content on YouTube, your market is 255 million Russian-speaking people around the world. And this is super clearly visible in my business. Look, I was born in Kyrgyzstan and now live in Bali, and here's a breakdown of my products: our customers are from Germany, the USA, Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, Switzerland, Spain, and many other customer statistics, I'm simply amazed at how incredible it is, how in the Russian-speaking world, in every corner of our planet, a person from a small country can build an international business literally from their apartment using a simple YouTube channel. So for me, YouTube has never been just a video platform. Yes, it gave me a community of like- the opportunity to travel, it gave me the freedom to live where I want. And most importantly, he removed the boundaries that previously defined my life. Sometimes I think that if I had stayed in Kyrgyzstan or worked there at a regular job, then my income would have been determined by the economy of Kyrgyzstan or Korea. Yes, my income would have been determined by the economy of Korea, but YouTube is a completely different game. YouTube, it gives you access to the whole world, access to all the people who speak that language. That is, if you film in Russian, it is clear that this is the Russian-speaking world all over the world. If it's English, can you imagine the scope? This includes the USA, India, England, and the entire currently in exile and you have expertise, [in music], let's say, you are a doctor, a nutritionist, a psychologist, yes, and you have difficulty finding work in a new country, you don't have friends there, and all these problems that I listed, YouTube for you can become not only a breathing space, yes, but also a cool way to earn money. You YouTube, sell your services or products, monetize your expertise, and you will have clients from all over the world. And this is a really cool scale. Many people think that emigrating is essentially starting life over. Yes, allows you to avoid starting from scratch. It allows you to take your career, audience, reputation, and income with you wherever you go. That's why I think YouTube is one of the best opportunities for migrants that exists today. By the way, for some reason a It's clear that they watch my channel from all over the world, and we have a lot of such cases. For example, Yulia, she has been living in Turkey for four years now, came to us, she had 690 subscribers on her channel, in the average video they were getting, look, 1,000, 2,000 views. She came to mentor us. The producer worked very closely with her. During their training, they posted only four videos. The channel has gained 100,000 views. And here is her review. As you can see, she immediately hit the market during her mentoring period, earned her first $80, and now, six months later, she has almost 5,000 subscribers on her channel . That is, it turns out that after mentoring she grew sevenfold. And recently she sent us this message. I sold my first ad on the channel today. I remembered how my curator Dasha advised me to calculate the I closed my eyes, wrote it down and everything was agreed upon. I'm very happy to have made some serious money from YouTube for the first time. She ended up selling her first ad for 30,000 rubles. The company seems to be Russian, I'm not exactly sure. That is, if this is true, she earns Russian money while living in Turkey. Very cool. That is, income is not for example, Alexandra, she lives in Canada, she shoots these kind of faceless videos, by the way, without a face. And at that time, she was still earning $600 a month just from YouTube monetization. And here is Lizaveta’s channel. She lives in audiences. By the way, she started monetizing from the very Can you imagine, her very first video took off immediately, immediately bringing in the subscribers, and thus she joined the Olga, she lives in Spain, runs a channel in Russian about nutrition and health. By the way, on top, or rather soon after [music] mentoring. And they are all super happy that they took the plunge and opened YouTube channels for exactly the reasons I wrote above. By the way, the Telegram channel with their reviews, with our students who underwent mentoring, their stories, what situations they [music] were in, what they have come to now, all of this is described in our in the description. You can go and take a look. And anyway, in the end I wanted to say that [music] moving to a new country makes you rich faster than [music] the connection between emigration and success is very strong. Elon Musk, there's [music] a lot of rich people they emigrated to a new country. America, for example, yes, the richest country in the world was essentially built by immigrants. And imagine, yes, you [music] you are watching this video. The day you land in a new country where nobody knows your name, nobody knows your story, your past, every single insurance policy you ever had, everything you ever relied on, everything [music] just disappears in one flight. You're sitting there, I don't know, in a understand yet, [music] and trying to figure out how to make an appointment with a doctor this [music] discomfort, this loneliness, this awkwardness and feeling of homesickness - this is the same fire that every rich, successful person must go through in order to [music] become who he is now. The coolest thing that happens to you at this moment is that you finally get the opportunity to get to know yourself on a super deep level. no noise, no expectations, no old roles, no distractions, [music] yes, just hours, days of silence where your thoughts have nowhere finally start [music] asking the right questions: what do I really want? Who do I really want to become? What did I endure at home that I didn’t even notice? Because everyone around me was going through the same [music] thing. You start reading, [music] into yourself every hour. And by the time you return home to visit, you are no longer the same person. You don't even laugh at the same jokes. [music] You outgrew this entire town, while everyone else remained exactly where you left them. [music] Comfort never made anyone great. Therefore, guys, everyone who is now in exile, this discomfort that you are experiencing now, this longing for home, in fact, this is your most powerful [music] trump card. Use it and projects that you’ve been putting off for so long, YouTube channels, [music] in the end. I explained exactly how to start a YouTube channel step by step in this or this video. Go ahead and take a look. That's all. See you in the take a look. That's all. See you in the next video.