Before the big YouTuber my videos were getting high hundreds to low thousands for views with the occasional video hitting tens of thousands. After my videos were getting mid double digit views. I found it very discouraging to spend time making content that wasn't really well received and seemed to be moving my channel backwards. For example, I'd post a new video and subscribers would net decrease over it.

In retrospect, I think the smart thing would've been to not post the new content type on my existing channel. I should've just created a new channel for it.