Before I get into this, I am not making any personal attacks on any members of the community nor should this be taken as an attack on the community. This is my personal opinion shaped by my experience on YouTube and the Freedom! forums.
This community has it very wrong when it comes to advice and help. I see many forum users give so called advice that is not meaningful and won't get the receiver of the advice anywhere in the grand scheme of things on YouTube.
The biggest complaint, so to speak, I have about this community is that users tend to keep repeating the same improvements when it comes to "channel reviews" and these so called improvements don't help their channel at all! For example, a channel trailer (a short video that introduces the viewer to the channel) is always recommended on this community but the fact is, it's not needed. Instead, you should put your best video (in terms of quality) or your latest video as the channel trailer. Why you ask? If they're interested in those videos, then they'll stick around for a bit longer and eventually subscribe and stay longer! Why talk about what you do in the channel trailer when you could show them what you do.
Also, things like better thumbnails, channel art, tags and titles are always suggested in these "channel reviews" but this won't help if you don't have the exposure in the first place. Especially for small channels, YouTube is such a saturated market so good thumbnails, titles and tags won't get you anywhere on such a saturated platform where SEO will have little effect for small channels. SEO requires more than just good titles and tags, they also require a substantial amount of views, likes, retention, etc which people are advising you get via SEO but in fact, this is what SEO needs. Ultimately, people in the Freedom! community always talk about having good tags and titles so that videos can get more views but in actual truth, SEO requires views and etc in the first place! This means that exposure has to be obtained through a different method (or in conjunction with) an active method that doesn't rely on YouTube algorithms. I can go into more detail but I don't have the time to write a full guide as to what I recommend when it comes to exposure (which I have used to get my channel where it is now and continuing to grow). Though I do have the time to say this: keep making videos you enjoy and don't let anyone stop you, this is what I follow.
In summary, this community is built upon helping each other and growing together as a family but forget the fact that advice and help can be good or bad, so help and advice given to most members of the Freedom! family and the forum community are from inexperienced and unsuccessful (currently) channels that won't get receivers of the advice and help anywhere on YouTube.
This community has it very wrong when it comes to advice and help. I see many forum users give so called advice that is not meaningful and won't get the receiver of the advice anywhere in the grand scheme of things on YouTube.
The biggest complaint, so to speak, I have about this community is that users tend to keep repeating the same improvements when it comes to "channel reviews" and these so called improvements don't help their channel at all! For example, a channel trailer (a short video that introduces the viewer to the channel) is always recommended on this community but the fact is, it's not needed. Instead, you should put your best video (in terms of quality) or your latest video as the channel trailer. Why you ask? If they're interested in those videos, then they'll stick around for a bit longer and eventually subscribe and stay longer! Why talk about what you do in the channel trailer when you could show them what you do.
Also, things like better thumbnails, channel art, tags and titles are always suggested in these "channel reviews" but this won't help if you don't have the exposure in the first place. Especially for small channels, YouTube is such a saturated market so good thumbnails, titles and tags won't get you anywhere on such a saturated platform where SEO will have little effect for small channels. SEO requires more than just good titles and tags, they also require a substantial amount of views, likes, retention, etc which people are advising you get via SEO but in fact, this is what SEO needs. Ultimately, people in the Freedom! community always talk about having good tags and titles so that videos can get more views but in actual truth, SEO requires views and etc in the first place! This means that exposure has to be obtained through a different method (or in conjunction with) an active method that doesn't rely on YouTube algorithms. I can go into more detail but I don't have the time to write a full guide as to what I recommend when it comes to exposure (which I have used to get my channel where it is now and continuing to grow). Though I do have the time to say this: keep making videos you enjoy and don't let anyone stop you, this is what I follow.
In summary, this community is built upon helping each other and growing together as a family but forget the fact that advice and help can be good or bad, so help and advice given to most members of the Freedom! family and the forum community are from inexperienced and unsuccessful (currently) channels that won't get receivers of the advice and help anywhere on YouTube.