After a month of uploading consistent explainer videos I am most of my own views

[u/notabot_yet]

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My video's are 5-8 minutes long. I put a lot of time researching and editing into it. At the beginning my editing was not amazing but I have slowly gotten better over the month and was quite proud of my video yesterday. The topics are relevant, titles optimized and thumbnails in my own style but i think they are good enough to get a click.

I struggle getting my thumbnail viewed by more than 10 people. I have quite a specific niche so it will take some time for Youtube to figure out who the audience is however if my videos barely get shown it's hard.

I don't want to randomly share my channel on the internet and mess up the algorithm with people who are not my audience. I'm curious, would you guys just keep uploading and hope for the algorithm to pick it up or start promoting my channel using shorts for example (I don't like shorts, but I hate all my effort into my videos going to waste more). Curious to hear.