I Can't Believe That I Got FIRED Today! Thankfully I Have Steemit!

Today has been a rough day for the Bandito to say the least! I try my best to do my job to the best of my abilities, play by the rules and keep my nose clean.

That's why today I come to you with a heavy heart.

I received an email from my part-time employer that I would no longer be employed by them due to my popularity. Yes, you heard me right, I said that I was not popular enough to be employed by them anymore.

Who is this horrible employer you ask? None other than the greedy ass YouTube company themselves!

I received an email stating that since I did not have one thousand subscribers or a certain amount of viewing content, my partnership was being terminated!

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Now, first let me tell you a little bit about my channel. I do have a small channel, only around 358 subscribers. But, I have a lot of videos, some are very popular and many are not lol. Popular enough that I was contacted by retail manufacturers for possible sponsorship's.

But I never had any intentions to grow my channel like many others did. Several channels do regular giveaways and give out lavish prizes to promote their channel. I never done that because I had no desire to grow my channel bigger than what it was already. I did a few giveaways just because I felt generous, no other reason. I never asked anyone to like, comment or subscribe my videos or channel because I felt like that wasn't a true giveaway. I never asked for shout-out videos or anything. I'm not knocking the people that do that, it's your channel and you can run it however you want to. But for me, I enjoyed the camaraderie and interaction that I got from my subscribers.

My channel contains all types of videos, everything from holster reviews and shooting guns to collecting precious metals. By far the most popular videos were the reviews on either guitar gear or weapons/gear.

I was excited when I saw this video get this many hits and it made me feel good to read all of the positive replies people left for me. Alien Gear Holsters definitely made several sales based off of this one video.

Although, one of my videos like this one barely received any hits at all. It doesn't bother me though, I more or less like keeping this channel as a video diary of my life in a way.

What bothers me is that almost all of my videos are monetized, which means that if you watch one of my videos, there will be an ad at the beginning of it that you can skip. So there's no telling how much money has been made in advertising just from my itty bitty channel. So for YouTube to tell me that I can no longer make anymore money from them because I'm not popular enough, really pisses me off...kinda. What do you mean by "kinda", Bandito?

So glad you asked, Curious Kathy! Let's talk about my revenue with YouTube for a moment, shall we? I joined YouTube in 2013 and published my first video in 2015. Since then, I have published somewhere around 130 videos. Now I hope you all are sitting down for this.... Go ahead and pick a comfy spot, I will wait.

After all of that time being a YouTube partner with all of those videos, including some popular ones, I earned approximately a couple hundred bucks! That's right folks, cash money I'm talkin!

But like I said earlier, I wasn't doing it for the money. It's just the fact that now YouTube doesn't think that I even deserve the few pennies that they throw at me lol.

Thank the stars above for STEEMIT!

Steemit has been one of the best things that has happened to me in a very long time! Not only have I met some beautiful people here, but I'm earning money in the process! This platform is so amazing and I am so fortunate to be a part of it in the early stages. By no means am I bragging but mentioning this as a comparison, but I made more money with one post and one video a while back here on steemit than I have with all the years and videos with YouTube combined!

If you're just starting out on here, don't get discouraged if your not getting the results that you expected. Look at it as trying to help others by providing the best content that you can and by being supportive to your peers. and the rest will fall in to place! I hope you guys have a great day!

Keep shooting, stacking and steeming!

This platform is going to the moon! Forget Youtube, get on board with D tube and steemit!