What's going on with you YouTube?

[tonyfoale]

I'm trying to figure out how YouTube works!
While putting my whole soul into making DIY videos, I only get 3000 Views.
And people who have just prepared something from balloon get a few million!
What's going on with you YouTube?

I just had a look at your channel and I do not know what you are complaining about. It looks to be very successful. Many posts with 100,000+ views, I noticed one with 13,000,000, 76,000 followers. I think that you will have to go way down the intellectual scale if you want to increase that, as Jon said make explosions.

Although I have had some videos on my channel for several years it has only been recently that I have put any effort into trying to increase traffic and subscribers but that seems to have been spectacularly unsuccessful. Less than a 1000 followers during the past 12 months. Perhaps I should change to a handheld phone camera which I wave about so much that nobody can tell what is happening because their eyes are confused.
During the last couple of weeks I have put a few posts on "Instructables" in an effort to drive some traffic to my YT channel. The hand tapping machine is by far the most popular that I posted there yet it hasn't caused a noticeable blip in the YT numbers.
Anyway I have no intention of posting videos that are outside of my range of interests just to get the numbers up. I'll leave others to make explosions and/or plain stupid and/or fake movies.