Should YouTube get rid of subscribers completely? That's the first question that we answer on today's

episode of Creator Support. We also talk about Emma Chamberlain being on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Then we answer the question, how do you get someone to watch a video more than once? And then we

talk about whether or not you should start a second channel and when is the right time.

Welcome to Creator Support, the show where we answer your questions

about the business of being a creator.

If you make it to the deep end,

you're in for a surprise today.

All right, we're kicking off with a question

that I've been thinking about quite a bit.

Happy it was asked in the subreddit.

I think a lot of creators

that I've been talking to

are curious about this.

So this comes from feasible creative,

says, should subscribers be removed as a YouTube metric altogether? The classic YouTube vanity

metric. With the rise of shorts, the validity of a creator's credibility based on subscriber

count is almost zero. I have 6,000 subscribers, but over 50% stemmed from one semi-viral long-form video, which isn't my main niche focus anymore.

As such, my new videos are less likely to be clicked on by these individuals.

It would be interesting to have ghost subscribers cleared once per quarter.

Perhaps users who haven't clicked on a creator's video in a while would be prompted to unsubscribe

or opt in to stay subscribed.

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