starting Youtube channel, seeking hypothetical advice

[FreepFryer]

3. There is a big difference between educating and entertaining. Decide which is your focus.

If you plan to cite everything you say, you will have a shit-ton of research and editing (text and video) to do. This will be a major ongoing effort. And you will still get bullshit naysayers, trolls and assorted ratfuckers in the comments.

Then, if your visual and audio style and production quality is high enough to not be noticed as lacking, you might gain an audience that begins to stick. Learning, mastering and performing this technical production work can be a full-time job.

Then, if you master YouTube analytics and schedule/organize your content to maximize the algorithm, you may have a chance at being promoted to potential viewers. Outreach, promoting and scheduling of content to subscribers can also be a full time job.

And last, if you are an entertaining, charismatic speaker and actor - and if you have a director / producer to shoot, light and produce the footage, you can stay focused on being the star and writer of the show, at once charming and accurate and high-quality and timely and regular and entertaining.

Personally it sounds like a fucking nightmare cruise of ego in a sea of mediocrity. But I wish you the best of luck with your YouTube professorial career.