You are absolutely right, @sumatranate, the niche in particular, I think, is what gets people the most.

As a reader and consumer of art, I want to know what watching your channel adds to an already overcrowded feed that I don't have enough time to read every post on.

You address this so succinctly in this post by outlining the need for direction if your goal is success.

Not to undermine the importance of perspective, both in the amount of time success is achieved and in comparing yourself to others - both of which you fully address here and in more detail than I could, but I think the instilled since of direction is so important to consistent idea generation.

But yes, all to say, thank you for this enlightening writeup, my man, glad to have stumbled across your words here on this small corner of the interweb.