guys I have a very dark secret that I want to tell you guys and I'm not sure you might
forgive me for this forever so as you know I'm quite famous on the YouTube platform but
here's my confession at least 500 to 700 of these subscribers are not real at all they
are not real subscribers or people who sub to me because they think I'm worth watching
they are people that I bribed in the YouTube comment section long ago in 2018 to subscribe
to my Channel with the catch being I subscribe to them this rain of mine would last two whole
years and from 2018 to 2020 my subscriber count would begin at 80 and explode to 730 by the end
of my campaign so it's safe to say that most of the people that watch my content in those three
years were only watching me out of obligation it was shady and I never realized just how bad
this was for any sort of Channel Girl until it was too late all I wanted to see back then was a big
number on the side of my channel regardless of who subscribed to me this is the story
of sub to subbing one of the longest ongoing YouTube scandals to ever happen on the site
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do you know what it's like to spend two years of your precious sacred youth devoted to nothing
but sub to Southern I wouldn't be going outside hanging out with my friends and avoided touching
grass while never living life to the fullest back then all I did was go onto the sketchiest parts
of the YouTube comment section and continue to bribe day by day for another subscriber looking
back at it now it was such an awful path for me to go down but thankfully this Underground Market
would give me the hindsight and wisdom to tell you all how shitty of a way this gets you Subs
now before I tell you my story and why you shouldn't do this you might be a little
confused on what I'm referring to so to simplify sub to subbing is an agreement upon two channels
typically in the comment section where one would ask them to subscribe to his or her
channel the catch is that the other user has to make sure that they also subscribe to them both
gaining an additional sub out of it and a pinky promise that they won't unsub and they'll watch
the content this is what I'm talking about when I say I did two years of this business business
quote unquote now theoretically it doesn't seem that bad to do and I get why you would do this me
and most of you viewers probably have a dream job of at least something to do with YouTube and of
course most of it comes down to your subscriber count if you don't have a high subscriber count
then you are worthless in the YouTube God eyes never mind your actual content enter sub to
Southern no longer do you have to actually earn yourself a decent audience and yes this is what
I thought way back then and the way I'd find these comments was funnily enough on the first
ever YouTube video ever created me at the zoo you see the video itself might be pretty mundane for
the most part but for some reason if you go to the comment section and click newest first well
let's just say it's the same comment section as Mr beasts because it is about as cancer as a YouTube
comment section will ever get and I was a part of it now because of today's YouTube policies the
comments are actually a lot better now compared to 2018's and this is the video I'd use to get
myself 600 subscribers but as you'll soon learn this is an awful practice and doesn't work at all
and here's why you should never dip your toes into the Underground Market of sub to subbing
okay so you made a new YouTube channel and you're trying to sub to sub to get subscribers
fast here's the first reason why you shouldn't do it the harsh reality of most interactions with
sub to sub is that the promises aren't usually met the reality is is that once you subscribe
to the second user the other guy will either not subscribe to you at all fooling you into subbing
them with no subs back or subscribe to you but then quietly unsubscribe surely after in the
hopes you didn't notice and I unfortunately still have to deal with the consequences of
this today I was never one of those people who would unsub to someone a few days later even if
I never watch their videos I was always loyal to the user and I keep my promise to subscribe
to them for as long as the site was running unfortunately I was too naive to realize that
most people didn't treat you the same as a result my personal subscriptions are just filled to the
brim with accounts that have under a hundred Subs I've tried my best to clean it out over
the months getting rid of 158 counts in the process but as you can imagine two years of
sub to subbing means a lot of people that you have to sub to would you like to know why my
subscriptions are not public for you to see well this is why because most of them are just random
channels that I only subscribe to because of the market I will clean them all out eventually and
I'll gladly show you who I'm subscribed to but it is going to take a long sitting to do that
and I'm just not ready for it yet so yeah the entire point of sub to subbing might not even
work half a time it's more like fooling the other viewer into subscribing you with you not
doing anything and sitting back as you get another subscriber for your 50 total sub account [Music]
in fact I actually want to show you how embarrassing this was for me let's take a look
at the analytics for my channel from 2018 to 2020. as I've stated sub to subbing roughly got me from
80 Subs to 730. that's a 700 plus in subscribers fairly nice but would you like to know how many
people unsubs for me during my reign more than one thousand more than half of the people that sub to
me would unsub to me shortly after I lost more than I gained looking at it retrospectively I'm
glad they're not subscribed in fact I don't even think the 500 to 700 subscribers are still with
me anymore they've probably unsubbed to me long ago since 2020 it just makes me feel better for
my 11 year old self to this day I'm still subbed to people who told me to sub to them long ago and
yet they never kept their promise for more than a day at best like I said though I think it is good
in the long run that most of them are gone now I certainly wouldn't want 2 000 of the 200 thousand
subscribers be pretty much nothing but Bots but it just shows you that the entire purpose and
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okay but let's say that through a gruesome and hellish process you somehow get successful
entirely off of sub to sub and it can happen you'll actually see a lot of bigger channels
that do this have their entire Brands around sub to Southern and for some reason have Mr
Beast profile pictures the most common place you'll find these types of channels are on
the massive family friendly accounts in the comment section saying some copy pasta stuff
that annoys the hell out of everyone okay so let's say you've now become this Channel and
are now an all-powerful Empire of about 2 000 subscribers well congratulations you now have
the tick tock celebrity syndrome where even though you have a bunch of views subscribers
and videos no one will remember who you are you are only using your channel as a number
game instead of actually developing a character of personality your fans can watch too and as a
result you end up having a forgettable mundane and let's face it Dead channel
I know it's a bit aristocratic to tell all these smaller peasant channels what's good for them but
I assure you this isn't what YouTube success looks like and to think that in a parallel universe I
myself could have become just like this I guess in a way I already was down in the comment section
I think the biggest reason why you should avoid sub to subbing
at all costs is not because it's really faulty or it has you live long enough
to see yourself become the villain it's because it's really [ __ ] yay
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you are better off as a user just making your own videos and waiting for the subs
to come to you then trying to beg for some it took me two years that's right
let me get it in your head two years to just get 700 of these users to subscribe to Me 2
000 if they kept their promise it is such a time consuming and monogamous way of getting
subscribers you are shooting yourself in the foot of the potential you have on the Side sub to sub
and constrains you and pauses your success because you end up only spending time bribing people and
not actually making videos that people want to see how many I ask how many of these people could have
actually been in an alternative Universe genuine YouTube icons and celebrities with fans who will
remember them until they die how much of that potential was lost because they were simply too
lazy and impatient to make decent videos I look at these Channel nowadays mooching off of me at
the zoo or Mr BEAST's comment sections trying to get a quick sub and I just see 11 year old me in
there someone who is only having the illusion of success down there not realizing that I was
wasting my life talking to these people hour by hour day by day week by week year by year
to conclude sub to sub is a slow monotonous sketchy unreliable and inconsistent method
of getting subscribers on this platform it is extremely sad to know that I spent a good two
years doing this stuff not realizing that if I just made actual content people might have
actually subscribed and it's weird going down this comment section again seeing more people
sub to sub and I just look at them knowing what I've been through and can help but feel bad
so yeah don't go down this path just make good videos if you want subscribers and if
the subscribers you desire aren't coming in just be patient it took me five years to get
here and I pretty much halted my progress for another two just the sub to sub it genuinely
halts you from not only being a YouTuber but a human being so don't do it foreign
hey so sorry if you guys are a bit confused with the past three videos that I've been
making considering that they're not my usual game reviews don't worry though I have interrupted
review videos at all I just want to get a few different type of videos out that have been in
my mind before I go back to my regular content but yeah you probably know the drill by now I'm
not gonna be uploading every single week anymore I have a few more video ideas that I want to do
for the future but once that's done with you'll be getting some more game reviews and yeah that's
about all to say thank you for watching and I'll see you sometime in the future goodbye
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