--- title: 'Why I Abandoned YouTube (A Personal Confession)' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=C73JBaGrSpI' video_id: 'C73JBaGrSpI' date: 2026-08-04 duration_sec: 614 --- # Why I Abandoned YouTube (A Personal Confession) > Source: [Why I Abandoned YouTube (A Personal Confession)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=C73JBaGrSpI) ## Summary In this personal video, the creator explains why he has repeatedly abandoned his YouTube channels over the years, citing reasons such as lack of monetization, personal illness, school, and the temptation of other ventures. He shares his history of starting and stopping multiple channels, and reflects on the common phenomenon of creators giving up on YouTube. He also highlights the positive aspect that even when inactive, a monetized channel can continue to generate income, and he expresses his intention to return to content creation. ### Key Points - **Common reasons for abandoning YouTube** [00:02] — Many channels are abandoned because they don't reach 1,000 subscribers or 4,000 watch hours, preventing monetization. More channels give up than continue. - **Personal illness as a reason** [01:05] — The creator mentions he has been sick with a persistent cold, which contributed to his absence from the channel. - **Positive reasons for abandoning** [01:34] — Sometimes creators abandon YouTube due to positive events like job promotions or other profitable opportunities, not just negative ones. - **First channel in 2011** [02:13] — Created his first channel in 2011, recording Minecraft tutorials on a very weak PC that froze often. Gained 1000 subscribers in a year, partly due to a popular Minecraft song video. - **Posting consistency from 2011 to 2015** [03:12] — He posted videos monthly from 2011 to 2015, but then abandoned that channel to create another one inspired by a gaming channel called Marginal X11. - **Abandonment due to school** [04:30] — Starting high school in 2015, he felt he couldn't balance YouTube and studies, leading to a gradual abandonment of the channel. - **Creation of Bora pra Prática in 2020** [05:13] — In May 2020, he created the channel 'Bora pra Prática'. He abandoned it in October 2020 to create other channels like Vcrox Valorant and Cortos Billionários, then returned in June/July 2021. - **Pattern of abandoning channels** [06:36] — He admits to abandoning many channels because he wanted to do too many things and didn't let them mature. He created podcasts and other projects, but abandoned them all. - **Return in October 2024** [07:23] — He returned with a 'Let's get to work' mindset in October 2024 and posted consistently for about 90 days, but stopped again in February/March 2025 due to personal reasons. - **Income continues even when inactive** [08:21] — Even after stopping, his channel continued to generate income. A video posted before his break had 31,000 views and grew to 132,000 views during his inactivity, gaining 104,000 views. - **Message: not quitting, but organizing** [09:30] — He clarifies he is not quitting YouTube permanently; he wants to return but needs to organize his life first. He plans to make more videos, possibly a 200-day posting challenge, but makes no promises. ### Conclusion The creator's journey shows that abandoning YouTube is common and often due to a mix of personal, academic, and financial reasons. However, a monetized channel can continue to earn passively, and the creator intends to return once he has sorted out his personal life. ## Transcript for various reasons, sometimes because the channel doesn't get past 1,000 subscribers, or doesn't get past 4,000 hours of watch time, right? We can't monetize this channel. And so, it's something very common. I believe there are more channels that give up or abandon YouTube than channels that continue, YouTube than channels that continue, that keep going, that don't stop, right? It's very common for us to encounter certain situations in our lives, whether personal, professional, or even financial. Sometimes you're there making financial. Sometimes you're there making a channel, trying to make money, and you don't see I think it's better if I do something else . Maybe, I don't know, I'll invest in paid traffic, I'll open a physical business, I'll give up YouTube, because it's not what's making me money the fastest. Sometimes something happens in your life, you get sick. Even in this video I've been feeling kind of bad for a while. One of the reasons I abandoned this channel is because I'm sick, right? But I'm not dying. I just have a cold that won't go away. So, ignore the choking I might do during the video. Anyway, Sometimes very good things happen, like, sometimes you succeed, you work, you have a job, you work there and you have your little YouTube channel, but the main source of income, right, in your life comes from your job, your regular job, and so on. And then, I don't know, you got a promotion, you managed to go..." For another position, or sometimes you have and that will give you a very good financial return, anyway, that's abandon your YouTube channel because of something positive that happens, right? It does n't happen to many people, unfortunately, but it does happen. And in 2011 I created my first YouTube channel. And I was coming back here, you know, to this channel. I was looking at the content of this channel. It's a channel my PC was so bad, so bad, so bad, that I made tutorials. I recorded my PC screen and even then it would freeze. But I wanted to record Minecraft, play games, you know? But it was impossible. It was already impossible to just play. Now, playing and recording was even more impossible . Anyway, I was looking at the fact that I created this channel in 2011 and look how crazy. In one year I got 1000 subscribers and at the time, like 2011 to 2012 I got 1000 subscribers. It was very complex, very difficult. I even used a little hack, which was the video, my, most famous Minecraft songs and it kind of exploded. And I thought it was really cool for a kid of, I don't know, 11 years old to achieve such an interesting result, with such an interesting idea too, even with copyright issues. Anyway , one thing I noticed about this channel from 2011 is that I kept posting videos every month until 2014, oh, from 2011 is that I kept posting videos every month until 2014, oh, 2015. Well, I thought I had stopped more times, right? Of course, I wasn't posting videos every day or every other day , no. There was a video every day. , no. There was a video every day. It was from 2011 to 2015. After 2015, look what happened. I abandoned that channel because I created another channel. Look at the reason. I created another Minecraft. After a while I managed to record videos of Minecraft, right, and other games. Everything was frozen, but it recorded. Anyway. And then in 2015 I discovered a channel, I don't know if you guys know it, a gaming channel called Marginal Marginal X11. called Marginal Marginal X11. Those who were around back then will know about it. And like, good, really good. And I said: "Wow, man, I'm going to create a channel similar to his, which was more of a comedy channel, you know?" You used to make some really crazy edits. Then I created a channel that was, like, the channel name was channel that was, like, the channel name was GB Zones, like GB for Gabriel and Zone Finally, I created this channel, posted about five videos, and then stopped. Then I would go back to the first channel, post a little video, but from 2015 onwards I stopped, I abandoned it, abandoned it, abandoned it, abandoned it. Of course, abandoned it, abandoned it. Of course, 2015 was when I started high school. Hey man, I was never a very good student, okay? To do well in the n't like studying, so I was always in remedial classes, always failing, and in high school there's nowhere to escape it, man. After that, I was going to go to college and I said, "Man, there's no way, there's no way I can have a YouTube channel and study at the same time, it's impossible." And even so, I did it, okay? Even though I did half-heartedly, that's why I stopped, I gave up; it was mostly because of school. Anyway. Then in 2017, when I passed, I mean, when I took the entrance exams and all that, I really abandoned it, I completely abandoned that I really abandoned it, I completely abandoned that channel and I haven't been back. I stayed in 2018 and 2019, which is when I was already in college. Then in 2020 I created this channel here, Bora pra I created this channel here, Bora pra Prática, in May 2020. And I've already abandoned this channel several times. So this isn't the okay? The first time I abandoned Bora para a prática, uh, I created it in May Bora para a prática, uh, I created it in May 2020, I abandoned it in October, October/November 2020, because I created cutting channels. I created a channel for game clips, Vcrox Valorant, which is about Valorant, a game similar to CS. And then I created Cortos Billionários. And then I started posting videos on Brava Prática again when Cort Bilonários blew up. So I stopped posting around October 2020 and started posting again in June/July 2021. results. Then I would post videos on Bora pra prática showing the results of that Corionários channel, you know? Anyway. There were also times when I gave up, but that's not really relevant here. I created a podcast on this channel, channels, you know? No, I abandoned millionaire rooms too, I abandoned V Cross War, I abandoned everything, you understand? Everything, everything, I abandoned everything. I'm not very proud of it, but I think it will resonate with people here because it's something very common and I don't see it as a big problem, okay? Because in that case, it was really because I was abandoning those channels a lot in 2020, because I wanted to do a lot of other things, you know? I wanted to do a lot of things, but I didn't have time to do them properly. Then I saw one thing that was making more money." Then she would abandon the other one, not letting time allow things to mature, right? And then I created the podcast; I had other podcasts as well. So, this last time I came back, right? I posted a in 2024. I don't remember the month, it might have been October, I don't remember. And I already came with this mindset, man. My mistake is wanting to do too many things. It's my mistake, like, not letting things mature. I said: "I'm not [ __ ]. I'm not falling for it, I'm not falling for it, I'm not falling for it, I'm not create a channel wanting to make money, you don't make any money. So when going to quit. What the hell is this? But anyway, I went there, came back with "Let's get to work" in October and kept posting until 90 days ago, right? It's already May, damn it. And then I think I stopped posting around February or March, right? 84 days, 85 days without posting. That's a lot, isn't it? Anyway, but this time I stopped posting because, uh, this time I stopped posting because, uh, how can you put it? For personal reasons, oh. It wasn't because of laziness. right? A lot has happened in my life in these last three months, okay? Good things, thank God, good things, right? It's not by getting rid of this thing that just won't leave my body, this whatever it is, this kind of flu that won't go away from my nose and flu that won't go away from my nose and really cool thing I'm going to talk about in the next video is that even if you stop, even if you abandon YouTube, you still generate income. Oh, let's go. I've got the last 90 days of "Let's get to work" here, look. This is the 2025. Look, and it's pretty much stayed that way, you know? Like, uh, you know? But think about it, it was a pretty penny, okay? It was a bit of money that was made. And that's the good part about leaving YouTube, a monetized channel, if you've done work in the past, it's going to continue these videos here, look. Oh, I posted during this one, I posted for 100 days. I'm going to do the 200-day one, and in those 200 days, which will probably be the next video, I'm going to talk about not posting and when it's also possible to do it without posting. Anyway, I stopped posting on February 5th, it had 31,000 views and now it has 132,000 views. So, during the time I was inactive, this video got 104,000 views. So that's the magic of YouTube. There's not just shorts too, right? Postor, I tested YouTube Shorts for 80 days and it's really cool . And the message I want to convey with this video is that I'm not coming back, okay? I'm going, I want to come back, but I still need to finish organizing a few things in my life to really come back with everything. I have some plans, some ideas, but I'm not going to promise anything here. I'm not going to promise any videos for 200 days, posting for 200 days. I just because a lot of people have been asking about it. I think it's cool to post a video to even motivate this return, you know? Because otherwise we won't come back. Dude, it's really hard to turn on a camera after 90 days and record, okay? It's very difficult. I do more. And I think I'm going to record a second part. Part two, no, I'll record it a second time to see if it sounds better.