Proof: https://imgur.com/a/QqZGPq0

First off, I want to educate everyone on basics I feel most people lack within the new Youtuber communities. This is not to self-promote, that's the last thing I'm looking for. This post is to give my experience to scale your channel to big numbers. I'm talking 100k subscribers and 10M total views.

A little background: this advice isn't out of the blue. I have two channels one at 174k subs and another one at 300k subs. The 300k subscribers are only a year old of posting videos, and it only took 3 (Edit: not 5 whoops) months to go from 300 to 300k subs after applying these strategies. If you think this is because "I got lucky", I've seen countless cases where my Youtuber friends grew insanely fast within the past year. One started around a year ago and currently has 1.1M subs, while the other also has 1.2M subs. With that being said, let's start.

Before getting into the technicals, here are concepts you must get into your head.

1. Your content sucks, not to be rude, but there's a 99% chance you reading this make content that just is inherently low quality. I've done my fair share of video reviews on this sub and similar ones, and they all suffer from the same problem. The video didn't hook me, the scope of the video didn't do justice for someone like me to get interested. This says something about how the mass majority that comes across your video will think. This isn't to say you think it's bad, but rather any potential audience that might watch it won't ever have an urge to stay by.
2. Take advantage of Youtube Shorts, in today's climate, growing naturally through other types of videos is near impossible with the exception that the video provides something valuable and is genuinely intriguing. FYI a vertical aspect video of less than 60 seconds counts as a YT short.
3. Copying is okay. It's more than okay, in fact, I encourage it. Not plagiarizing, rather creating your own content structured like a proven formula that previously did well.

"Okay, so I know about this mindset stuff, but what can I physically do to do well now?" Don't fear, I'm going to expose my entire formula.

1. Make shorts and post it religiously. I'm talking a minimum 1 a day and up to 3 if you want.
2. Forget about thumbnails, tags, and descriptions. Genuinely. They. Don't. Matter. FOR. SHORTS. That being said you can still make thumbnails and descriptions for channel consistency and eye-candy purposes. I do that (I like creating the most stupid thumbnails and have so much fun doing it). You're targeting youtube shorts, and their recommendation system works completely differently. Videos are recommended through scrolling rather than having the viewer deliberately search for it through the homepage, sidebar.
3. The title and first 5 seconds of the short is what makes or breaks it, you need a super catchy hook that anyone can understand effortlessly. Using texts helps catch someone's attention.
4. Quantity over quality, kinda. Again, the more you post the better, but I try to keep a certain level of quality to my videos so that returning viewers have trust that my content will deliver at the end of the day, this is how you can grow a consistent fanbase. I make Minecraft videos, to keep up my quality, I make sure the subtitles look pleasing to the eye, transition in smoothly, I use zoom-ins and zoom-outs to give more life to the video. I introduce the video with a oneliner (ie "Minecraft but I can't touch blue) and the other 50-57 seconds are only meant to do the challenge. Create an interesting storyline, no one enjoys watching the same thing being done, even for a short, so add life to it (this is where your creativity is crucial). Using cuts is mandatory for my style of content as the original footages are always around 10-30minutes long chopped into a 59 second short.
5. Consistency is SO, SO, SO important. Especially for shorts, no one knows your channel, a new viewer realistically won't even look at your channel until maybe the 4th or 5th time they see you pop up in their shorts feed. So relating back, having consistent content (ie. Minecraft but challenge, distinct facecam commentary, distinct cooking settings and cutting) is key for allowing viewers to remember you. Only then can people start remembering you.
6. Copy what works but try to maintain their quality while incorporating your unique twists. My shorts are a blatant copy of camman18, the exact same video concepts, and structuring but done through my own storylines and narrations. You'll lose respect for doing this, but you're just trendjacking. Camman18's style has proven to work incredibly well, he has tens of videos over the 10M view mark and 20M views too! STUDY WHY THAT STYLE WORKS, camman18's videos work because the intros are incredibly easy to understand, typically 1 sentence long. The rest of the video has excellent pacing, and delivers on the title.
7. Use subtitles and watch out for your pacing, viewers can scroll down your video at any point, using subtitles and removing all silent points can keep interest levels high.
8. Don't forget to render your videos vertically and make sure that they're less than 60 seconds, otherwise that won't get put into the shorts algorithm.
9. You WILL find, once you start getting a little views, ALL YOUR OTHER VIDEOS will get consistent views, that's the cool thing about posting consistent content and using shorts, viewers will go "wait, I've seen this video before, I want to watch more" and the algorithm will just start insanely pushing your videos. I went from 300 subs to 600 subs in only 1 day after my initial short got traction. The video got a few thousand views for the first week, then after two weeks of posting. I went from 700ish subs to 2k in one day, many of my videos hit the 1k view point. Fast-forward a few days, the original video hit 10k views. Then fast forward a week, they hit 100k views and eventually 1million views. I know. Just like that. In less than a month of working on the channel, I'm already hitting the millions mark. And now each video can pull consistent 100k views. Make the viewer love you because you conditioned them to like your content.

On a sidenote, my friend "AyoDen" pulled 1.2M subs in less than a year through shorts. He has 3 videos over 20M views right now, you might know him for making "fake dream call". He just applied these strategies. More than anything, he truly wowed new viewers with the dream calls simply because of how realistic they look.

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Best of luck, I haven't seen anyone post a guide of how people blow up, so I hope this helps.