Yah, I think what happens a lot of times is a guy/gal makes one video that gets millions of “hits” and from that video the subs go from 500 to 50,000overnite … Now, folk see the large sub count and think that he/she must be an expert and the guy/gal might start believing it themselves. YouTube seems to have really “stuck it” to the creator in terms of payout though, to the point of making the creators work 4x harder to make the same coin they were making a few years ago. Case in point , ol Buckin was pullin in close to $1000/day a few years back and now he’s lucky to make $150/day. Where did all that money go ? Well it doesn’t go to the creator anymore so… Sometimes ya wonder if it’s all just bs anyways - your video could got a million hits but only shows 2000 on your channel - how do you or I verify this? Answer is : you cannot