Bad YouTube Advice

PewDiePie| 00:27:05|Mar 24, 2026
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Discusses starting a video podcast in 2024 and what it would look like as a format to capture conversations.

PewDiePie riffs on bad YouTube advice from TikTok, reflects on its hype, and shares messy truths about building a channel, momentum, and staying authentic.

Summary

In a sprawling, candid monologue with his friend Ken, PewDiePie tackles the noisy world of online advice, especially the kind you catch on TikTok. He jokes about starting a video podcast and how the format already exists in plenty of shorter clips, then digs into the reality of content creation: there’s no substitute for hard work, momentum, and a backlog of videos. Felix doesn’t pretend the path to growth is glamorous; he talks through the lure of “AI shorts,” the dangers of chasing algorithm-friendly tricks, and the pressure to perform for a platform’s expectations. The conversation touches on authenticity, audience culture, and the trade-offs of long-term consistency versus quick wins. He also reflects on his own journey, acknowledging how momentum shaped his channel while admitting the temptation to take the easy route can be strong. Interspersed with sponsor plugs and light banter, the videoRaw feels like an informal panel with two creators hashing out what actually works in the ever-changing YouTube ecosystem. It ends with a reminder: if you’re starting from zero, you need to make a lot of content, learn from it, and build a community that fits what you genuinely want to create.

Key Takeaways

  • Creating successful content often comes from sustained effort and a large backlog, not a single breakout hit.
  • Momentum matters: channels grow with continued output and the ability to capitalize on small wins over time.
  • AI-driven or “shorts-first” tactics can boost views, but they risk authenticity and long-term community health if overused.
  • Authenticity and aligning content with what you personally enjoy helps sustain a sustainable audience, even when chasing trends.
  • Building skills through practicing and iterating (e.g., aiming for 100 videos) is a reliable path to growth, regardless of overnight luck.
  • Having a clearly defined niche and realistic expectations helps manage growth without burning out or alienating existing fans.

Who Is This For?

Aspiring YouTubers and creators who want practical perspective on growth, authenticity, and the realities behind “get-rich-quick” advice. It’s especially valuable for those weighing long-term strategy versus trend-chasing.

Notable Quotes

"I will go to Tik Tok to find advice Tik tok's like okay I I'll save that"
Opening jab at TikTok-style advice and its credibility.
"you just make it and you can find success in whatever it is that you want to make if you're good at it, if you're funny, charismatic or you just pay people to watch"
Felix on why persistence and personal strengths matter.
"you have to create content you can create any kind of content there's like a niche for everything"
Emphasizing breadth of possible niches and the importance of consistency.
"it's not about the revenue like the value you get from short form is the awareness and the growth"
Clarifying the practical benefit of shorts beyond direct earnings.
"there's a lot of pressure and stuff and I yes I was always like pretty content with what I have"
Honest reflection on deal with fame pressure and personal contentment.

Questions This Video Answers

  • How do you start a video podcast and grow a loyal audience on YouTube?
  • What’s more effective for growth today: long-form videos or YouTube Shorts?
  • What does momentum mean for small creators and how can you build it over years?
  • Is chasing trends in AI shorts worth it or does it hurt authentic channel growth?
  • What are realistic expectations for new YouTubers trying to hit their first 100k subs?
PewDiePieYouTube growth strategyAI shortsContent creationMomentum in creatorsAuthenticity in contentNiches and audience buildingYouTube algorithm evolution
Full Transcript
I was just thinking about how like every time we record like I never know what we're doing and so you're like all right Ken here we go and I'm just like sitting here like have no idea what to do with myself all right K here we go yay we're going to check out Tik Tok YouTuber advice today tick wait hang on wa YouTuber advice from Tik Tok exactly I hard stuck at 111 million subscribers Ken it's been a year it's been a year I think it's been two years two years oh God help I'm desperate I will go to Tik Tok to find advice Tik tok's like okay I I'll save that don't don't hate it before you watched it this is sorry sorry yeah yeah I were to start podcast scratch in 2024 I would start with a video podcast video barrier of Entry because we all talk we all have conversations a video podcast essentially is just capturing a Kim we should do a podcast we should to do a podcast and just capture our conversation there's so many of these now I don't know if you ever watch like shorts I don't go on Tik Tok but it's always some Rando saying some in podcast why is he served to me who are you the thing about the podcast as well is like I don't know if anyone actually watches the whole podcast or if the only way people know the podcast is from the clips that they farm and put on Tik Tok you know there's so many of them God damn it's infestation we were ahead of our time Ken we had a video podcast when no one else had a video podcast we were the only ones literally the only ones they did no one else existed wrong time to do we just yeah if we would have waited oh my God think of it oh my God shorts we could have made do you talk do you have conversations with people cool cool you're qualified amazing video podcast do it everyone do it everyone do it please there's not enough people doing it this kind of like me with bouldery everyone is trying to improve on something and when you when you're in it you try and find people and like random tips for help and you end up in like this where it's like what the are they even saying like I feel like people this is just feeling a need for people but I just wonder what it actually does you know what I mean no yeah yeah no that's that's kind of the thing it goes along with uh you have to create content you can create any kind of content there's like a niche for everything like I watch people who raise chickens and and plant Gardens on M I know it's one of those things yeah I know you can like you literally do anything as long as you're making the content and you got to curb your expectations to like the niche that you're going into right like it's not like a widespread reach but ultimately you got to you just make it and you can find success in whatever it is that you want to make if you're good at it if you're funny charismatic or you just pay people to watch I don't know right yeah one of the two all right more [Music] advice sorry guess what's creeping in the new gfuel ghost face collection it's drop dead delici this thing 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that again but as if we have a video podcast oh so can how do I grow my YouTube short content all right so what you got to do is you got to understand that when you wake up every day at 4:00 a.m. because you're an alpha male you got to get up you got to hit the gym and you got to hit your fun you have good ins no no no just do the good Insight I that was kid uh you got to make a lot of content make a whole bunch of it just keep making it make it constantly make your entire life content throw it until something sticks and then you use that and you move it over to a different platform and then you upload the exact same thing there and then you take it over to another platform and you just go everywhere until you exist everywhere and people can't stop thinking about you and then whenever you become famous then you do some bad things allegedly and get canceled just the cycle the last bit yes there's so much of this I I couldn't escape it it's just like make AI shorts you got to make AI shorts like and you're thinking in the scale of 10 years like if you literally are grinding and you're obsessed and you're just every day studying and and learning you surround yourself with smart people and you just work like hell to be honest for 10 years like there's probably a good chance you'll make it but if you do that over the course of six months or a year I don't know it's a kind of a big commitment years I get the point I get the point but why are all the Gatorade bottles in the shot have the Gatorade logo taken off of them and where are they there's like in a random Warehouse with like a metal table that's pretty bad place to do a podcast yes yes Gatorade is not paying them so they have to see at the but under his foot down there it's the freaking like icy blast or whatever flavor they're all over the place we two bottles everywhere in here K what the I don't know little things like that that bug me like why take the time to why don't you just move the bottles out of the side why the bottles there if you're so worried about the brain there like a million things to comment about what he just said but Ken just goes there's a gatorade bottle there with not a on and that gatorade bottle like all right like I got to do is just go 10 years you know whatever and you know do some stuff over at the span of a decade a lot of people are very short-term SED but you know as long as you're innovating adapting reinvesting I think if you do it intelligently imagine like you're on 9 years still no no one gives a about your channel and you're like one more year here we go one more one more year here we go but Mr Beast told me I got I got to innovate and I got to be intelligent oh my life has passed before me I'm going to die so close I'm so close one more year was so close oh man I feel like I was kind of lucky I don't know how it was for you but like I had momentum that kind of set its way through like uh one thing happened and then another thing happens and then I I think if you don't have those steps like yeah there's no way you're going to keep going right yeah or if you're like me and you have those steps where momentum goes or even like you force feeding me momentum and then I keep doing things to ruin the momentum you know momentum's huge though if you can keep it rolling it's massive that's what the game's all about that's why like a lot of creators that like blow up they're like their channels are only like 2 years old but they're like doing huge numbers because like all the viewers are still there and like old channels like ours like half the subs are are dead Subs yes yes yes I mean I took a step back and you can tell what difference that makes on on the channel it's like you have to cuz I when I was in it I was always just trying to like okay next thing okay next thing like so you get a video that pops off it's like what ever next thing like you never there's no time for anything right and I guess well one of the biggest perks of having you as a friend is that I got to kind of like experience a lot of that through you as well okay and like there's there's plenty of good but there's also like a lot of bad that comes with it too like a lot of pressure and stuff and I yes I was always like pretty content and I still am with like what I have I don't know I just feel like I don't want to deal with the stuff that you had to deal with right seems really annoying and like I know it's like oh annoying too about all this stuff well yeah yeah in days from YouTube shorts generated entirely by ai ai you have to make AI shorts AI content K AI content that's what people want automated videos stolen clips from other people that doesn't make you any money but you get views I guess so that's cool but wait a minute aren't we watching clips from other people right now go go back to making Gatorade comments can uh I remember I don't know who it was there was someone that I had hired maybe like a painter or like whatever and he told me my son my son got a 5 million views on YouTube cuz I he figured out I was a YouTuber so he was telling bragging about his son he's cute it's not like that but he was like didn't make any money though cuz he just re-uploaded someone else's video he got he got copyright claimed and could have made a lot of money but then you okay I love these videos uh cuz I don't know's how to cut and edit your videos using the YouTube Studio editing first thing you want to do is go into the YouTube studio and then you're going to go over to content and from here you want to select the video that you are going trim or cut I just love you Ed in YouTube I didn't know you well I mean wait you didn't know that I know you can like cut things out but like not like you know you cut like a piece out and then it processes for like two hours yeah that's what he's doing but I just love his tutorial like okay so to edit a video in YouTube You're Going To Go to youtube.com and you're going to go into your videos and then you're going to select the video that you want to edit I'm like no I shouldn't select another video it's like how do they get so bad at this once we're inside of this view all you need to do is go over here to the left God wait I'm supposed to click Editor to edit the video thank God there's a tutorial for this I don't want to be too mean but I feel like this encapsulates so many tutorials on YouTube where I have to click through this and I think I just took it out on this poor guy listen watch time is important you know he's guess it's better to do this yes that's right here's some simple steps to help you make your YouTube video go viral with my team and I currently running over 200 YouTube channels we have almost 5 billion views across all of those channels there's really only three things you need to look at to get a this guy is really flexing out of nowhere God damn Christ 200 YouTube channels wow I can barely manage two if you want more tips like this on how you can go viral on YouTube and make a ton of money he made 43,000 since 19 so like no April 19 sorry sorry s what is it like 3 years 2 years oh is that over multiple years yes it's over I can't read it yeah okay okay that's like below minimum wage it is isn't it I know it looks big here but like if you look over the span of 3 years that's below minimum wage I'm just saying if we're going to start a channel from zero how do we get to our first 100,000 Subs to start a video podcast video podcast why that say I had 177 views what like yeah oh yeah the like what 177 s days ago I'm to dominate YouTube and then Channel they linked earlier didn't even have 100,000 subscribers itself what is this is this like one of those things where the dudes are like flexing their Lamborghinis and all they do is like rent the Lamborghini I feel like anyone that explains anyone that explains these things usually that's the case right are these people giv good advice and we're just super disconnected cuz we I don't know I'm so disconnected I have no CL this might be great advice that's why I'm here to study it yeah maybe I should start start taking notes right now oh my God what would you do if you had to start over from nothing what would you do Felix the thing is I know what to do and I hate it and I'm I'm so annoyed by it and I see it more and more where it's like you have to give a reason for people to give watch times you have to like Aller something at the end of the video like look guys you watch to the end of the video because then we're going to kiss each other and it's going to be great skip to the end to see what you're talking about oh God they are wow and like yeah when people try to purposely manipulate watch time to like really get people in or like super fast cut and it's like this is feels so so less not so less that that's makes it seem like it's more than it it just feels so manufactured that's the word and I just yeah any authenticity authenticity it just feels like you're just mirroring what you think people want instead of creating what you actually want you know what I mean and I think that not to be like oh it has to be like w i I think it just feels so lame to deliberately do it but I can't say I'm uh immune to it either like obviously like you upload videos that you think people are going to like at the end of the day but I think when yeah the video itself seems so formed around that idea of like the algorithm will love this I just hate it I can't do it like I know I know like I mean I'm stuck on 111 million but it's not like I don't know how to get out of that yeah yeah it's like like I always talking about before we start recording is like I I know how to make my channel bigger yes exactly but I I don't want to because it's guys yeah I'm also very I'm I'm very happy kind of I like my community the way it is I don't want to shake it up too much and have all these new people in here being mad at me about nothing exactly worth it here's the best website to help you go viral on you tool.com three you then take those tag into wool.com this website then generates all the tags that these videos are tags remember when people were obsessed with tags on YouTube like that was yeah I do remember and then YouTube changed ways and tags are literally worthless now and they're only good for people that misspell and so loading up on tags literally does nothing I think yeah it's always been the top line of the description but it's it's title Top Line description and then your thumbnail if some sometimes you put words in there it matters back in the day people were obsessed with tags do you remember how many tags if you go to my old videos there like whole thing and I would put them in the description too cuz I'm like I don't trust that you would go to the bottom of the description them down there and this is like a really like I guess like you know what I shouldn't hate on this cuz I've done a lot of like that where I'm like I want to grow my channel this is how you do it and you know what I mean yep yep yep but but I feel like I feel like no one had any clue back then now it seems more obvious back then it's like I don't know what works but someone did this and I'm going to do this actually you know what that's still how it is it seems like what a throwback there was so many ways to to manipulate YouTube back in the day do you remember when there was like different genres on the home homepage so there would be like Politics on the home homepage there'd be like nature and on the homepage and then people would like yeah there was nature in my video I I think I'll tag that as a nature so you get put on the front page even though you like don't deserve it just cuz you tagged your video people do it all the time and I know who those people are and I hate them still I never forget and I never forgive I told you there's this one guy I told you this right but what' he do he said his channel was Swedish so he would always be on the Swedish homepage yeah cuz you could set your yeah yeah you set your country fake sweed me and I'm like dude you're not I I'm dying over here you're not giving me a chance cuz I thought he was Swedish I was like oh I didn't know he was Swedish and then I look it up I'm like no he's American so I write him I'm like dude please can you change you're killing me over here and this smirky ass was like a little competition ain't going to kill anyone I'm like you freak sweet me you are not swe stop cheating you're cheating a YouTuber cheating no way why do you bother replying I'll never forget I won't say who it is dead to me your first video is not going to give views period it's not your first 10 are not going to give views I can very confidently say that all you need to do this applies to people who have dreams of being a YouTuber is make 100 videos and improve something every time do that and then on did you get views on your1 101st video I don't remember my 101st video was I got views on my first video though oh well there you go yeah what what a Mr be YouTube that was a long time ago nowadays that's pretty much true like it's hard to break through and then when when finally you do have something that does hit you need to have a backlog so they will go and watch your other stuff too and then but it do it does seem like for the first time it seems like DM actually serves me like new videos of like similar channels like that would never happen before but now I think it they're trying to do it right well I know the algorithm changed a lot from back in the day used to back in our day it would find viewers for your video now it finds videos for viewers kind of thing like like it would just like bring people to you and now you have to make something that fits what their viewer profile is that makes sense I used to refresh my videos cuz I thought it was embarrassing to have L me too like I got to get like especially early like I got get to over 100 come on boy we refresh the sucker well you know they stop at 300 right I didn't I hit the limit just go to 100 be like that's enough I'm bored Ah that's why I that's why I have 110 million that's why you did it put in the work too lazy oh man the other thing I did that was kind of embarrassing was that I would message people with similar videos like mine i' be like I know you like this video what what do you think of mine yeah got real mad at me doing that I'm like just but then that one guy was like actually you know what pretty good I'm like yeah told you told you bro I remember going to bigger channels and like leaving witty comments that would get up voted y yep nice nice oh I see I see I see I see I don't think it would help today but it did back then that was actually kind of kind of crazy how the self-promotion crap that is so cringe today it it's that's awful but I did it but you have to when you start up I I think I'm realizing now watching all this and reflecting on my own it's like you just have to try really hard it's like anything if you want to stand out there's going to be a million people doing it you just have to try really hard like that's it damn this there is there isort for sure yeah but I think also helped me at least like if I didn't get encouragement throughout I I would probably have not put so much oh yeah like all the guys at the top every single one of them that had like big moments of like momentum and they've been able to capitalize on it exactly ex it's kind of the key and that's like the part where people like talk about it's luck you know yes exactly exactly yeah what do you think about the whole luck thing I got a whole opinion about it but what do you think about when people are like oh I just got lucky I think you can be lucky M but then it's like what you do from there like there's been so many channels going up and like uh going up and then just completely vanish and it's like yeah because they got a chance and they didn't take it I I think that's that's how I see it I think luck is something that you create opportunity for right like you don't just sit there in your room one day and get lucky and all of a sudden you're a big YouTuber right you have to make videos and they Al actually have to be entertaining so I guess you can get lucky and be an entertaining personent yes right you just you have to be making it and there's like and I don't I hate it when people kind of just just give it all to luck CU you know YouTubers in general don't want to be like yeah I worked hard to get here because the people in the comments would be like I work a full-time job you've never worked in your life you know you get that crap back yeah but uh I hate it when that when YouTubers or content creators like discount themselves on that their skill is just luck because if being a YouTuber a content creator was easy literally everyone would be doing it and be successful at it but they're not and do I think that yeah I absolutely think content creators are better than you so you know what we're working harder and maybe I am luckier than you you just wish you were us all right we're better that's also yeah you have to be extremely arrogant to be a YouTuber exactly that's part of it cuz I was served like a smaller channel YouTube uh smaller channels now on YouTube like I said and you watch them I'm like yeah they're not there like you can tell they're an early content creator they don't have it in them yet but they they'll get there you know what I mean like it is a skill to make videos clip that we're watching right now Mr be talking about making the 100 videos and that's part of kind exactly exactly oh you tied it back in nice you did it brought it back around I do want to add one thing real quick that I just thought about uh that if anybody's actually watching this video and trying to take advice is that the content that you create results in the community that you're going to have so if you don't want to have a toxic Community but you want you just want to be a YouTuber then if you make drama content and like stuff like that then you're going to have a toxic community and you're going to get stuck into that because they are only going to water to watch you for that one thing so just be careful if you get into it try to make stuff that you actually want to make it's important that was deep yeah sorry probably went over everyone's head they're like whatever man just give me the views baby I love the cuz it's like what the it looks so fabricated starting a YouTube channel in 2024 what would you do you have to start messy you probably have a million questions what Niche what topic what about this what about that it's so rehearsed I love it this fake podcast thing this is not from a podcast they you don't talk like this no am I the only one I don't look at herting if you were starting at your channel now what would you do Ken you have to get dig deep dig deep and get messy take the dir SC many people have heard the story of Mr Beast who talks about how he uploaded 200 terrible videos before I thought it was 100 no he did he went the extra mile he made 200 for 10 years no watch Moment On YouTube if you look at the gaming Creator PewDiePie he uploaded hundreds of videos look that bab face and when you ask those creators how they feel about their first videos they would tell you the videos suck they suck yes no they were great what do you mean is this how dare you my first videos were really good can you see this yeah I can see okay let's watch my first video look at this we're going back to the Call of Duty hey guys it's me PewDiePie and I am back with Black Ops with an awesome game of Search and Destroy you don't sound the don't sound the same person anymore yes it was 13 14 years ago Ken it's a you know I'm not that good at COD anymore but I used to be really good yeah well you told me cuz I asked you like where the name PewDiePie came from and you told me it was from playing yeah yeah look look at this 30 I went 32 okay that's a 15 KD I could I can do that now like if I could change all my Subs to be this good at Call of Duty again I would take it in a heartbeat in a heartbeat that's all you want please remember the tags very bottom like the show more down there and that where it is tag sub more yeah hell yeah let's play let's walk through play through through walk peie oh every single word it's not that bad that's not that bad I don't know why I Ted Carolina or North Carol put a limit on how many you can put in there now too North Carolina North Carolina maybe that's where the game took place at or something North Carolina's when they try and find about their country be real disappointed when they get out e part two it's part seven sorry all right well that was pretty insightful I hope I can finally get to 112 million Subs I'm praying please anyway check out Ken and I'll see you guys next time byebye bye ah ah recently I went on a trip to Switzerland and after 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