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How to FAIL on YouTube, guaranteed.

Published May 26, 2026 Transcribed Jul 14, 2026 C Colin and Samir
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The Only Bad Reasons to Start a YouTube Channel

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Challenges common motivations, sparking debate among aspiring creators about their true intentions.

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There are probably 10,000 good reasons to start a YouTube channel to make content. There's only two bad ones. And the bad ones are to get rich and to get famous. And when I started making content, you can make money off YouTube. That's a That's a crazy proposition in 2011. And so it's like, I had this really cool Halloween costume idea and I wanted to be on the Gizmodo. That was like my life goal. And I got

on Gizmodo after a day of going on YouTube. I was like, I guess I need more life goals. So it's like, if if your core is that maybe you just want to get better at telling stories. Maybe you want to get better at like gardening and you want to share it with people. Like, there's so many good reasons to to make content, but if it's to be rich and famous, like, you're just starting, you'll never be

successful. You'll never be rich enough. You'll never be famous enough. And so you're just going to be sad for a very long time. >> Yeah.

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