--- title: '7 Traps Every YouTuber Has Fallen Into or Will Fall Into' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=rK2YtnYIukY' video_id: 'rK2YtnYIukY' date: 2026-08-04 duration_sec: 938 --- # 7 Traps Every YouTuber Has Fallen Into or Will Fall Into > Source: [7 Traps Every YouTuber Has Fallen Into or Will Fall Into](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rK2YtnYIukY) ## Summary The video discusses seven common traps that YouTubers fall into, based on the creator's personal experience. It covers the obsession with first 24-hour performance, unrealistic expectations about monetization, tax inefficiency, dealing with haters, the mistake of copying others, the pressure to post daily, and becoming a slave to the platform and AdSense. ### Key Points - **First 24 Hours Trap** [00:01] — Focusing on the first 24 hours of a video's performance is a trap. YouTube often hasn't found the target audience yet, and many viral videos had poor initial performance. For example, a short video got 2,000 views in 24 hours but reached 3 million views within a month. - **Monetization Expectations** [02:44] — Thinking you'll get rich from monetization is a trap. YouTube income has ups and downs, and relying solely on AdSense is hard. Diversify income streams: info-products, courses, physical products, and brand deals. - **Paying Too Much in Taxes** [04:54] — Many YouTubers pay more taxes than necessary. Without a company or MEI, you could pay up to 27.5% in taxes. Opening a MEI (Micro Individual Entrepreneur) reduces taxes, but it has a limit of R$81,000 per year. After that, you need to open a company. - **Paying Attention to Haters** [06:59] — Haters appear when you break through the bubble. They are frustrated people with nothing to contribute. Strategies: provoke them to increase engagement, hide their comments, and focus on constructive feedback. - **Copying vs. Modeling** [09:18] — Copying other creators' content doesn't work long-term. Instead, model: gather ideas from various channels, adapt titles, thumbnails, and scripts. Copying is a short-term strategy that can lead to being noticed and losing credibility. - **Posting Every Day** [10:55] — You don't need to post every day. Focus on posting good videos every day. If you don't have a good idea, take a day off to make a better video. This leads to more experience and better results in the long run. - **Becoming a Slave to the Platform** [13:20] — Relying solely on AdSense makes you a slave to the platform and your audience. You must keep producing to maintain income, even if you lose passion. This can lead to depression and debt. Diversify income to avoid this trap. ### Conclusion The video emphasizes that success on YouTube requires patience, diversification, and a focus on quality over quantity. Avoiding these seven traps can help creators build sustainable channels without burning out. ## Transcript first 24 hours of your video is probably one of the biggest is probably one of the biggest traps every YouTuber has ever fallen into. I believe that most videos that have gone viral or that get 50,000, 100,000, 500,000, or 1 million views, I believe that the first 24 hours are usually not that great. I believe that in many cases, YouTube hasn't even figured out its target audience in the first 24 hours. 24 hours. you're looking at the impressions, the CTR, the retention time, and so on. But I guarantee you that this is an anxious attitude. People, because of social media and the internet, because of this speed, believe that you need to have results very quickly. I have some channels, mainly short videos, where the first 24 hours, like in short videos (those vertical videos), have, say, 2,000 views, vertical videos), have, say, 2,000 views, and then after 4, 5, or 6 days YouTube starts delivering, and in less than a month that video already has 3 million views. Regarding views, if I kept looking at the first 24 hours, I would basically just be generating more anxiety for myself instead of focusing on posting other videos. This is very common, and especially YouTube shows a ranking of your video results. So sometimes you post a video that you think will get great results, but in the first 24 hours, in the first few days, that video is at 10 out of 10, have you seen that? One out of 10, two out of 10, that ranking that YouTube has. A lot of people look at that a lot, and then, after 30 minutes, YouTube shows the result of that video compared to the last nine videos you posted, and if it's in the top 10, I guarantee you'll be very sad. Okay, but hey, relax, don't be anxious. Because the first 24 hours might be important for a very big, and is used to receiving views, but for us here who are just starting out, don't have many subscribers, that loyal audience that shows up every day, every hour, relax. It may be that your video in a year starts to get more views. Great results, and I've seen videos that I, like, I don't know, posted on a channel, and in the first year, exactly 365 days, like, I don't know, it had 10,000 views, and then suddenly, out of nowhere, it was a video about oil. Then, out of nowhere, that video, I don't know, hit 600,000 views and So that's the power of YouTube. So the first trap is that you guys focus on the first 24 hours, but don't focus on that, okay? Let's go to the second point here: thinking you'll get rich when you monetize, man, you have to understand that it actually manage to achieve monetization and make a good amount of money, monetization and make a good amount of money, can happen. However, you have to understand that on YouTube and in life there are ups and downs, you can't only win. A lot of money, sometimes you be down here. Sometimes you'll be up here and usually you 'll be down here, okay? But what differentiates normal people from prosper and achieve results, not only in YouTube channels but in life, is knowing how to take advantage of these high points, and especially how to accumulate capital, you understand? Because after a high there will always be a low, that's life, life works like that, you can't just go up, okay? At some point there will be some falls. So, man, don't focus on that, okay? Do n't focus on becoming a millionaire especially don't focus only on Google AdSense. If you have a YouTube channel, don't focus only on Google AdSense. Know that Google AdSense is just one of the many ways to make money. I believe it's much, much, much, much harder to become a millionaire with YouTube focusing only on Google AdSense. It's much faster, in quotes, easier, right? But I would say simpler, it's easier than just Google AdSense, but it's much easier to become a millionaire. If you focus on other sources of income, I'll give you an example here: there's Google AdSense, where you receive, say, for every 1000 views. But you can also sell info-products, creating courses, even physical products, for example, t-shirts, and sell them on your channel. You can also get advertisers on your channel. So don't focus only on Google AdSense, and know that when you monetize, you won't monetize and start earning your first R$2,000, R$3,000, or R$50, but it's very difficult to get very rich if you focus only on Google AdSense. The third trap I see some people fall into and take a long time to realize is that they pay much more in taxes than they should. If you're someone who just monetized your first channel and are making, say, R$2,000 or R$3,000, and you don't yet have a company or a MEI (Micro Individual Entrepreneur), you'll have to pay a maximum of R$ 27.5 per month in taxes. So if in the year you made, say, If you're working for R$1,000, you'll have to pay around R$27,500 in taxes alone. The ideal solution is to open a MEI (Individual Microentrepreneur) so you don't have to pay that huge amount of taxes. Of course, the MEI has a limit of R$81,000 per year, which would be R$6,750 per month, and I believe many people manage to reach that limit. After you hit that R$81,000 per year limit, you're no longer eligible for the MEI and have to open a company. But if you have any questions about taxes or creating your company, I'll leave a link in the description to a partner company of Bora PR Prática, which is DBI Contabilidade. I'm already a client; I pay them every month to have an accounting firm help me with my questions, and most importantly, they opened my company. We stopped being MEIs, and they opened the company for me. And anyone who calls DBI Contabilidade and says they came from Bora PR Prática will get their company opened for free, and the first two months for free too! How great is that? But I guarantee you it 's a very affordable price, okay? Click on the links in the description, there's the website, there's the Instagram, just send a message. Talk to them there. If you're still in the process of being a MEI (Individual Microentrepreneur), you can also contact them, okay? They help you with many answers to your questions. I also receive many about this legal issue, right, about the legality of taxes, tax collection, and so on. So I advise you to contact DBI, talk to Tiagão there, and let's stop paying taxes, right? I mean, not stop paying taxes, but paying more than we should, which happens a lot. Okay, now let's go to our fourth point here, which is our fourth trap: paying attention to what the haters say. This happens after you really start gaining when haters start appearing on your channel, it's because you're breaking through the bubble, you're reaching people you weren't supposed to reach, which is a great sign. But what happens is people start paying attention to these people. Like me, as a those comments from frustrated people. If someone spends their time just attacking you, really... If someone is denigrating you in the comments, it's because that person is frustrated, someone who has nothing to contribute to the world, and they want others to be just as frustrated as they are. They are frustrated and too, so they keep commenting a lot of crap, a lot of do? You have to use a very intelligent strategy, which is several, but I'll tell you what I use. In my case, I like to provoke. Yes, I like to provoke, I like to make people comment more, you understand? And that's how it will always differentiate between negative feedback, right? There's a person there video because of this, this, this." This is a totally mature comment, right? Now, these people, these haters who are really only here to denigrate your image, to attack you, you can also hide them. Another channel username; they'll think you're reading all their comments, but think his comments are there, but they're not, okay? And I've already hidden several, several, several. It's the best solution. Okay, but also know that you 'll have many more positive comments than negative ones. That's very common, but being haters, we tend to look more at what's not normal. For example, what will attract your attention the most are negative comments, not positive ones, because there are more positive comments. So what's out of the ordinary is what will attract your attention the most, even more so if it's something negative, like this video here, it's a video to scare people, right? It 's a trap, mistakes. Normally, when it's negative things, when we make videos with negative headlines, they tend to attract more attention. People tend to click more because they feel scared. It's very complex, right? Let's see if I forgot to mention anything. No, now let's talk about the next trap here, which is thinking that copying will work. Many people have already said this on YouTube. You probably know the modeling strategy, but many people end up falling for the scam and thinking that modeling is copying, but it's not the same thing, and copying doesn't work. What I mean by modeling is collecting ideas, you understand? Before making a video here on "Let's get practical," I open my YouTube homepage and scroll through YouTube, watching various channels from different niches, not just channels that make videos about YouTube. I look at titles or thumbnails and gather ideas to bring to this channel. I can model video titles, video thumbnails, I can even model channels if I want to create a dark channel, a channel where I don't appear. I can model a channel that's getting results. But often, out of laziness, greed, and various other reasons, people just copy. They really use the same title, the same thumbnail, the same script, and get results from that, but it's not very healthy, I mean, in the long someone will notice, and sometimes people will have already watched the video you posted, and it's not good. Copying isn't a good solution. If I were you, I would really collect ideas. I would model videos and collect ideas instead of just and pasting. Dude, that's not going to work. It's a totally It's a totally short-term strategy. Stay away from that. Another trap that people fall into a lot, which is also very controversial, and which I've already talked about on the channel, is posting videos every day. You don't have to have that mentality of posting videos every day. Change that mentality to every day. Change that mentality to posting good videos every day. strategy of posting videos every day, you won't care if that video is good or bad; you'll only be focused on posting correctly, especially if you're at the beginning of your channel. You don't yet know what a good video is; you don't know, you're learning. Some people say, "Oh, but posting videos every day is good for gaining experience, right?" I completely agree, but I believe it's much more functional, especially in the long run, if you focus on posting good videos every day. For example, "I don't have any good ideas for posting a video today," you don't post today. Instead of posting a video, focus on making the next video, and make it a good video. It's better to make a more polished video, a video where you learn more about video editing, creating a thumbnail, or doing more research, writing a more structured script, before posting your video. I believe that taking a day off to focus on making a better video will give you much more experience than just saying, "Oh, I'll make it and post it, I'll make it, post it, I'll make it and post it." I think that's very nonsensical. Of course, there are channels I'm talking about for very large channels that are already used to YouTube and post two, three, four, five, six videos a day, and that's fine. But I'm talking about this people who watch this channel are people who are starting on YouTube. So follow my advice, go ahead, if you don't want to, tough luck. But, like, a rule here, let's say, if you're going to make a news channel, of course sometimes more than one video a day. But the idea is not to post videos every day, but to post good videos every day. She's much more advantageous, okay? And you can't post later on will you be able to do it, after you have a able to post good videos every day. And later on, when need to post good videos every day to get results. Because a good video doesn't mean your editing has to be good, or that the thumbnail has to be pretty, photoshopped, and so on. It's very relative; each niche has a different kind of good. becoming a slave to the platform. What are people who become slaves to the platform? They are people who focus only on AdSense. And why do people become slaves if they focus on AdSense? Let's suppose you were a salaried employee earning, I don't know, 1500 a month, and you managed to grow your YouTube channel while you were working, and then you quit your salaried job to earn, I don't know, R$2000 or R$500. On YouTube with AdSense, what happens is you become a slave to AdSense. AdSense revenue to decrease, and to keep it from decreasing, you'll have to keep producing and producing and producing. So you'll use AdSense as your only source of income, and you'll start working exclusively for AdSense to avoid starving. It's very complex because I'm saying you can literally become a slave to your audience. You end up becoming a slave to your audience because sometimes you different topic, but you won't because you 're tied to AdSense. And what is AdSense? Views. So if views, consequently you won't earn money, and that money is the only money you have. Consequently, So you end up being a slave to your audience. It's very complicated; I've big YouTubers who are huge today. And something else that happens is that you start doing things you don't enjoy. Like, sometimes you're making Minecraft videos, for example, and make one about another game. But you shouldn't make one about another game because if watch it, and if that audience doesn't watch, you won't make money and you won't be able to survive. You understand? Be very careful with that. I've seen many big YouTubers fall into this trap, becoming depressed, anxious, indebted, screwed, until this new wave of not producing content came along. There was a guy who made trap; you end up falling into a trap and you can't get out of it. It 's very dangerous. Be careful. Now, if you want to learn how to make cuts, first, the link is in the description. And if you don't want to pay for any course, just video here, and you'll learn how to make monetized cuts for free. Okay?