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Is the Algorithm Broken? Real Creator Questions Answered (2026)

YouTube Creators Hub

Dusty Porter

Business, Marketing

4.7550 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

One of you asked if you should quit YouTube. Another's got 200 subs and feels invisible. Today I'm answering the real questions creators are asking about growing on YouTube in 2026

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 501 of the YouTube Creators Hub podcast, the show where I interview

0:06.7

wonderful creators, have them on the podcast and break down their success in hopes of giving

0:11.6

you something to take away that you can apply to your channel and your creative endeavors.

0:17.9

Now, I used to do Q&A episodes about once per quarter, and then I kind of reduced it

0:24.0

down to two a year, and I haven't done one in a while, and so I had this one scheduled because I have

0:29.1

an overload of questions from people who have emailed me. You could email me questions,

0:34.9

Dusty at Dusty Porter.com. A lot of them come from DM messages on Discord, which is our private group that we have.

0:43.1

You can join that group for five bucks by looking at the links in the show notes.

0:47.4

And then people hit me up on social media, whether it be X, Instagram, places like that.

0:52.6

So I have gathered together, I believe seven or maybe

0:56.6

eight, yeah, eight questions today that I think are pertinent and have the most kind of overlap

1:03.7

for most creators. And this is kind of just going from my gut, just working with creators,

1:09.9

one-on-one coaching every week. I'm doing, you know,

1:12.6

five, six, seven calls. And so I'm kind of getting a good landscape of what the questions that

1:17.2

people are asking. So with that said, don't forget to check out all of the services that we do

1:22.1

offer creators in the show notes. We've got some of the best bang for your buck there in our

1:27.0

offerings. And with that said, let's just jump into the first question. We've got some of the best bang for your buck there in our offerings. And with that

1:28.3

said, let's just jump into the first question. So this first question is coming from Marcus.

1:34.5

I thought about giving you guys the last name, but there's really no purpose in that. Marcus D,

1:39.6

if that's the case. Marcus asked, I've got 200 subscribers.

1:46.2

This was asked about a month and a half ago,

1:47.6

so we may have a few more now.

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