고등학교에서 유튜브 성공까지: 개인적인 여정

중학교 때 유튜브를 시작한 한국인 유튜버가 구독자 1,000명에서 200만 명으로 성장하기까지의 여정을 공유하며 도전과 예상치 못한 성공을 공개합니다.

### 유튜버 Evi: 구독자 200만 명을 향한 여정
* 🎮 중학교 때 모바일 게임 네뷸러스 동영상을 올리며 유튜브 활동을 시작한 에비는 **1년 후 구독자 수가 1,000명 정도 늘었지만 수익 창출 조건 때문에 아직 수익이 발생하지 않았습니다.**
* 🔁 더 많은 시청자를 끌어들이기 위해 다양한 도전과 콘텐츠 유형을 시도했고, 새로운 방향을 찾기 위해 고심하던 중 **유튜브 사건을 정리하는 채널**을 시작했는데, 이 채널이 **첫 번째 100만 조회수**를 달성하는 영상이 되었습니다.
* 💡 그 후 조회수가 높은 콘텐츠를 만들겠다는 목표를 세운 에비는 **유튜브의 숨겨진 기능에 관한 동영상이 이틀 만에 100만 조회수**를 달성한 후 유튜브를 직업으로 고려하기 시작했습니다.
* 🎙 본격적인 수익 창출을 준비하기 위해 내레이터 원우주를 영입했고, 유튜브에서의 성공을 확신한 그는 **2020년 11월 구독자 20만 명**을 달성하며 학교를 그만뒀습니다.
* 🏆 유튜브와 관련된 유익한 동영상을 제공하면서 **6개월 만에 구독자 수가 약 60만 명**으로 늘어났지만, 단순히 인터넷에서 정보를 수집하는 데 그치면서 **동영상의 흥미가 떨어지고 있다**는 사실을 알게 되었습니다.
* 📈 그 후 **팩토리라는 서브 계정**을 만들어 내레이션이 없는 새로운 유형의 동영상을 실험했는데, 놀랍게도 **스토리 동영상보다 더 좋은 성과**를 거두면서 **팩토리에서 얻은 노하우**를 메인 채널에 적용하게 되었습니다.
* 🎥 영상 제작비 증가와 수익 감소에도 불구하고 **구독자 200만 명**을 눈앞에 두고 있는 에비는 게임 채널 '에비온'을 론칭하고 자신의 목소리를 공개하는 등 더욱 다양한 시도를 앞두고 있습니다.

After six years of starting YouTube, I would like to share my personal story for the first time. You might ask, Didn't you upload a Q&A video recently? Not that kind of Q&A. I want to talk about my personal story. I will honestly tell you how an ordinary high school student became a YouTuber with 1 million subscribers and reveal the hidden truths in that process. When I first started YouTube in the 2nd year of middle school, it was by uploading videos of a mobile game called Nebulous that I knew. Naturally, I didn't know what algorithms were, but I just followed what others were doing, and it turned out to be more fun than I thought. After a year, I had about 1,000 subscribers, but I hadn't made any profit yet because the monetization conditions required 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time. At that time, I was the master of the largest clan in Korea, so I couldn't promote my videos much.

I managed to start filming, but the problem was that there was not enough time to watch. I also wanted to earn some money myself, even if it was a small amount, so I thought it would be difficult to succeed with such minor games. From that moment on, I started various challenges. I uploaded Brawl Stars videos with subtitles as soon as I heard popular songs. Famous YouTubers compile trendy phrases and more. No matter how much I tried new things, there was no new influx, just the same comments from our clan members as usual. So, I decided to start over from scratch and created the current Story Channel. It wasn't originally named Story from the beginning; it started with a very thin nickname, Encyclopedia, to deliver only essential information. The concept was good, but the editing was not good enough.

Moreover, who would be curious about the most liked comments on Naver Webtoon for selecting a topic? So, at first, I did it a bit, but since the views didn't come out much, I lost interest and took a break for about half a year. But around 2018, as those who know would know, a lot of incidents started to explode on YouTube. There were controversies, surprising things, controversies, and real-time popular videos were always no. 1 with I'm sorry. So, at that time, there were so many apologies, so I thought, Is there nowhere that summarizes these things at once? I searched for it, but there wasn't anything specific. So, to figure out what was going on and out of curiosity, I personally created it. I gathered all the incidents that had been on YouTube for a while by digging into sites like Namuwiki and such, and then I made it with a bit of a feeling of a Korean YouTube chronicle.

The video now reaches 600,000 views and hits 1,000 subscribers. Honestly, I feel more embarrassed than proud of this. Although it only contained neutral facts, gaining views by mentioning such unfortunate incidents and accidents doesn't feel right, does it? Back then, I was just excited about the views, but looking back now, it doesn't seem like such a good direction. Anyway, starting from that, I continued to upload various videos, and when the video on the secondary account of PewDiePie exploded in views, I hit the first 1 million views. I was truly happy when the letters 1 million views appeared. It made me happy to think that a million people watched my video, not just a million views. After tasting the thrill of that success, I set a new goal for myself. Getting good views is now my goal.

To create the content that I want to show, I started analyzing from the time when it reached 1 million views again to feel the energy. I changed the channel name to a more intuitive story, then I recorded the channel statistics every day. I always carried a small notebook at school and spent the whole day thinking about how to make videos that get a lot of views. By the time I was in the second year of high school, my subscribers had exceeded 30,000. The number of views on the videos ranged from a few tens of thousands to as many as several hundred thousand. However, since channels without a certain number of subscribers according to YouTube policy could not generate revenue, channel profits were still non-existent. Since my original goal was not profit but a hobby, I continued to study hard at school and did YouTube in my spare time. That's exactly what happened.

On May 22, 2020, a turning point in my life comes. Hidden features on YouTube that 99% of people don't know about, the video reaches 1 million views in just two days. The next video also becomes a huge hit consecutively. From this point on, I started to think that YouTube could possibly become not just a hobby but a job. To prepare for serious revenue generation, I posted a notice for narrator recruitment. Only one person applied to that notice, and that was Wonwooju. But honestly, I didn't feel like this person was special from the beginning. In the early days, it was quite different from now, and since there was only one applicant anyway, I thought it wouldn't hurt to try together. Oh, looking back now, it was truly a godsend. Finding a voice that fits my channel as well as Wonwooju's is not easy. So, in September 2020, the revenue generation was approved, and I pondered for about two more months.

While doing it, I eventually became convinced that I could succeed on YouTube in November 2020, and ended up dropping out of school. At that time, I had 200,000 subscribers. By providing informative videos related to YouTube, I was able to grow to around 600,000 subscribers in six months. However, what I felt while doing this was that although informative videos were doing well in terms of views and revenue, they were becoming less interesting because they were simply gathering information from the internet. So, I tried uploading some new types of videos without narration on a sub-account called Factory, and surprisingly, they did even better than the story videos. Every time I uploaded, I got over a million views, gained new subscribers, and eventually surpassed the number of subscribers on the main account in just four months. It turned out to be quite successful than I expected, but anyway, since Factory was originally a short-term experimental channel,

Instead of neatly folding, I started applying the know-how I gained from that to this channel, and began to do the contents I really wanted to do, not just an information channel. Of course, compared to before, the cost of investing in videos has increased, and the video release frequency has become longer, leading to a clear decline in profits. However, it's definitely more fun than an information channel. Surpassing 1 million subscribers, now on the verge of 2 million, I am looking forward to being able to make more diverse attempts with the launch of a game channel called EviOn and by revealing my voice. Lastly, there is one thing I wanted to mention. Regarding the production in my videos, for example, in the recent video intro, there is a comment as an example, but that comment is actually not real; it's a comment I created through editing. Also, scenes with Discord conversations in another video are also created through editing.

In fact, I edited a very complicated conversation for readability. To maintain the natural flow of the video, there are quite a few parts that involve unintentional staging. In these short videos, if the reactions of the participants seem a bit unsatisfactory, we sometimes reshoot or directly request dialogues. However, in cases where in these videos, the truth is that no prize money was given or no ten million won sponsorship was provided, and the participants were actually acquaintances who were not paid, it would certainly spark controversy, but that's absolutely not the case. It's just to create comments for the flow of the video, and there is no issue even if I created those comments. The same goes for the EV1 videos. Even if it seems like I'm ending the video by saying This is the end of the video, it's not a problem at all.

So, explaining these things is actually quite funny, but these days, YouTube is so harsh and competitive that just in case, I mean just in case, to prevent any unnecessary misunderstandings later on, I would like to mention in advance that my videos include a certain level of neutrality in the production, and it will continue to be that way in the future. So, please keep that in mind. Also, you know, in the background of the Minecraft video that is currently playing, it may seem like I have never made a mistake in the jump map, but the truth is, there was one scene where I made a mistake and smoothly edited it together. Just once, there was only one spot. So, if any of you happen to notice, just keep it to yourself.

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유튜버의 여정: 무명 유튜버에서 구독자 100만 명으로 성장하기까지

게임 '네뷸러스' 동영상으로 시작한 이 유튜버는 빠르게 구독자 1,000명을 확보했지만 수익 창출 요건을 충족하는 데 어려움을 겪었습니다.

다양한 콘텐츠와 도전으로 전환한 이 유튜버는 결국 브랜드를 변경하고 현재의 스토리 채널로 성공을 거두었습니다.

YouTube 채널 만들기: 호기심에서 성공으로

이 크리에이터는 처음에는 채널에 대한 흥미를 잃었지만 2018년 유튜브 논란을 계기로 다시 시작하게 되었습니다.

불행한 사건과 사고로 조회수를 올리는 것에 대해 갈등을 느꼈습니다.

그럼에도 불구하고 동영상 조회수 100만 회를 달성한 것에 감격했고, 지금은 높은 조회수를 달성하는 데 집중하고 있습니다.

취미에서 직업으로: 유튜버로서의 나의 여정

이 크리에이터의 채널은 수익 창출에 어려움을 겪다가 2020년 5월 갑자기 영상 조회수가 100만 뷰를 돌파하면서 유튜브에 대한 크리에이터의 시각이 바뀌는 전환점을 맞이했습니다.

본격적인 수익 창출을 준비하기 위해 내레이터를 모집했는데, 단 한 명인 원우주 씨만 지원했습니다.

이 협업이 채널의 성공에 크게 기여하면서 이 결정은 운이 좋았던 것으로 밝혀졌습니다.

이 크리에이터는 보조 채널에서 내러티브가 없는 동영상으로 전환하여 6개월 만에 40만 명의 구독자를 확보하여 메인 채널의 성공을 뛰어넘는 성과를 거두었습니다.

이러한 전환은 동영상 제작 비용 증가와 수익 감소로 이어졌지만, 더 많은 즐거움을 가져다주었습니다.

현재 이 크리에이터는 구독자 200만 명을 눈앞에 두고 있으며, 새로운 게임 채널인 EviOn을 론칭하는 동시에 자신의 목소리를 영상에 녹여낼 계획입니다.

또한 일부 동영상 콘텐츠 제작에 대해 공개하기도 했습니다.

영상 편집은 자연스러운 흐름을 유지하는 것을 목표로 하며, 때로는 연출된 리액션이나 요청된 대사가 포함되기도 합니다.

지인인 참가자에게는 실제 상금이나 협찬이 제공되지 않으며, 대가를 지급하지 않습니다.

경쟁이 치열한 YouTube 환경에서 오해의 소지가 없도록 영상 제작 시 중립성을 유지합니다.

점프 맵에서 한 번의 편집 실수가 있었지만, 마인크래프트 영상에서는 실수가 없는 것처럼 보이기 위해 매끄러운 편집이 사용되었습니다.