Hey, I'm Phil from ThePhilStudio.

I've been running my channel for 6 years now. It's been an amazing journey I'm not gonna lie. I started naive and full of hope dreaming I would be a full time youtuber. I took 6 months off and released lots of video during the first year. The second year and third were fine as well, slowly grinding.
I've reached 2K subs now. But the last 2 years, I just stopped posting and just released some videos from time to time. Don't worry, I have a full time job and lots of hobbies so I'm not given up on all. Also, note that I have never reached the point of monetizing my channel.

Basically, I got lost in the process, I wanted to have a channel where I could show everything I like... electronic tutorials and projects, drawing, music composition and recording, climbing and more. But now I start to just feel burned out, I have too many topics, inconsistencies and lack of ''quality'' in my videos. I feel like I'm not where I should be after all the experiences I gained and the journey I've been through.

At some point, it's more of a battle between: ''What I want to do without caring so much about the formula and what's working'' VS ''the standard, what people want to watch and the 'right' formula''.

So I just wanted to share this though, things aren't that bad, just a bit depressed right now. I have a big video planned to release in mid September and this fit the topic that I originally started my channel with but I'm a bit scared, again, of the algorithm killing my video and all.

Thanks for reading this and feel free to share your own journey and though about the big Ocean that is Youtube.