Steve dont you dare bloody leave you-tube. If you do I'll have no choice but to drive up from Albury and give you a swift kick up the arse😁 Seriously though, while your viewership numbers may have you feeling a bit dejected, just remember 'Each dawn is a new beginning'. Keep on keeping on Steve, dont chuck in the towel.

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Thanks for your support of our channel during our travels mate 👍 I hope more people get behind 'Steve Mack', subscribe, and just enjoy watching your content. I can appreciate your comments regarding editing time, that's for sure!

Happy New Year Steve. I’m confident you’ll back in 2024 making KZfaq videos. You’re a natural at it and all your regular viewers love your channel and appreciate your hard work and the countless hours of making videos to entertain us. Chin up mate and see u in the new year. 🍻👍🎈

I hate this, but I can't fault you. After coming back from the youtube issues we had, youtube gave us a hard time getting back to any kind of viewership like they had before. I feel there is some kind of harder time put on people who have that issue. You were the person who helped me get my channel back up and running, so i have been watching a lot of your stuff as it pops up. I think you have a lot of abilities to do different things, and it's hard to find what you want to do. I really believe you can break out of the rut, but I understand why you think the way you do about it. It's hard to not get discouraged when youtube simply won't send your stuff out. I'm genuinly pulling for you man, and I hope the new year brings you new luck with your endeavors. Try to not throw in the towel if you can.

I just appreciate all the time you took out of your day to make videos for us and spending time with us.. , so thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Remember do you , will still be here

If you do enjoy it, carry on. If you don't, then you have a decision to make. Keep making what you like, and if it takes off, it's a bonus. Do what you enjoy.

Thank you, once again, Steve, for sticking to what you like and enjoy doing, we have enjoyed watching your videos, but maybe a bit slow with our comments, I hope you have a wonderful 2024, looking forward more videos, Cheers, Leo.

Wishing you all the best Steve 🎉🎉

it makes sense that you'd like to take some time off. the commercial sounds great... looking forward to details. The crazy ways of youtube are frustrating after this many years of excellent content. Take care of yourself first. We will be here. The SMackfans are a stubborn but loyal crowd.😉🤩🙃hope there will be many more of us very soon. 🎉 Happy New Year! 🤗

Steve please don’t leave I love your content just take longer breaks❤❤

I guess a good break from making them may be a good idea 🤷‍♂️. It’s a downer for us but we’d completely understand. In terms of wasting time and dollars, I do that on the game of golf ⛳️ 😅. No truly I do!!!!! Memberships are astronomical, fees and equipment over the year are costs I do not want to even uncover along with adding up the countless hours of practice for seemingly very very little reward. I guess I do it because I really just love it and it gives me so much enjoyment. If I had the charisma, confidence and nous you have to make videos and vlogs I’d do it but I have none of those qualities 😔.

Steve! I love your stuff. You inspired me more than once. Don't take it to heart if you don't get the views. Just do it for you. Like-minded folks will vibrate their way to you. You said you enjoy it, so just do videos that you really love to do. :)

I so get this. I am a tiny channel. I tried getting two different new cameras hoping to make better content. Sent both back. Honestly I just do not have the drive do to this any more. At least your content is interesting and very few doing /showing what you do. I was totally doing this for fun and not monetized and never will or want to be. I think I would rather spend my time just creating my art. You will be missed.

I hear you... I have only been doing this for three years, but just under 500 subscribers, a very slow grow, and in hope of one day making a living off of it, I won't hold my breath...but you have just got me subscribing to yours :D

Happy New year......Once a KZfaqr.....Always a KZfaqr........see you soon 😁

Steve, if it weren’t for your digital recorder review video that you made a few years ago, I never would have caught my ex wife cheating on me. I’m forever grateful for that one. Thanks you. You’re right about the new year, it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. And yes, unfortunately my channel can’t just keep to one topic either, but I’m not throwing in the towel just yet. Hope you have a healthy and safe 2024. Till we meet again sir. 🙂👍✌️

I believe KZfaq has changed for the worse over the years. My early videos did well but now I only get a few hundred. It’s disheartening

break mate no quit!

Wishing you all in good health my friend Steve me too I’m tired filming KZfaq it’s wasting time and effort without salary 😂 I apload videos only for making memories here ❤

Hey mate just stumbled on your channel to fix my falcons dragging brakes, thank you for that vid. I hope you dont throw the towel in, but i also wouldnt blame you as i just threw the towel in with my profession/passion 😅 you've got quite the channel and community, I'll be checking out your other vids. All the best ❤

Thank YOU! ❤ Well, if I know you Steve, you won't be gone for very long. As you have said in the comments and to me personally many times, you never give up much less quit. As long as I last, I'll have a dose of SMack regularly if by no other means then by the archives at least. I'm sure there are some yet to be seen tidbits or revisits I could enjoy. If you don't mind, I'll offer kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qs1gdbGFysjHko0.html a song that gives me inspiration from a top 10 hit in 1974 written and performed by a songwriter and band leader that shares my birthplace hometown.

I wish you the happiest 2024.😂🤝

I am all too familiar with that feeling and what you were going through when you filmed this. You seem to have an awareness of the difference between doing what you want the way you want to, and doing it in a way that will grow the channel or get a lot of views (not that the view count is even something that any of us could say is predictable). I guess in the end, it comes down to deciding on what you want out of it. Do you enjoy the process of making videos on whatever you feel is significant, or do you want to focus on doing what will help more people engage with the content, raise the views and the Adsense revenue? Or something else? Whatever it is, I think finding where you get the most satisfaction, and accepting that that may negatively affect other areas is beneficial. I personally have just let go of the idea of doing what people want to see, and am just doing the videos that I enjoy making or think are worth doing. The possum video is the worst performing video I've made, maybe ever, but now that I am no longer focused on the view counts/click through rates etc, I feel happy to have made the video and put it out into the world. Sure I hope that some day the channel grows to a point where it's not costing more (in terms of time lost to planning/filming/editing etc) than it makes, but I've made my peace with the possibility of that not happening. I've decided to do it for the enjoyment and satisfaction it brings - through improving my skills, experiencing new things, meeting new people etc - and the other things are a bonus if they do happen. But it's been so great for me mentally to let those other things go. If the view counts are an important part of what makes you feel good about doing this KZfaq thing, that may mean losing the freedom of having such an eclectic range of subject matter if you want to increase those views, especially from subscribers. I suspect the latter is more something you enjoy out of the two. My crisis point like this one of yours, when I was working out whether to walk away from KZfaq or not, was in December. By January, partly thanks to the support from my subscribers and their feedback and input, I had a new lease on KZfaq. I have been excited again to make videos since then. Now I'm making them for me. If people connect, then I'll know I'm building a base of people who enjoy things that align with what I myself like, but as my interests are also eclectic, I know they won't want to watch every video I put out. And I'm OK with that now. No matter what, though, to have 16,700+ people value what you have to give enough to want to connect and follow along is no small thing. I often used to look at other channels that are larger than mine, and that get far more views than mine, and feel despondent. But no longer. FIrstly, I remember how excited I was when I got my first 1000 subscribers, then 5000, then 10000. Sure my 13.7K is FAR lower than so many other channels, but if I only compare myself with my former self, I can see I've come a long way. And sometimes I'm happy to lose subscribers, as it means I'm refining my following to a group of people who connect more with what I connect with. I'm kinda rambling a lot, which is something I do, but I just hope that you can find what the most satisfying parts of doing KZfaq videos are for you, and let the other things fall by the wayside. I am enjoying doing this thing a lot more this year than I was last year. I feel freedom from letting go of expectations with view counts, channel growth etc, as they are far less important to me than producing higher and higher quality videos, and on subjects I consider more significant. I'm enjoying a new peace around this crazy addiction, and hope that you can find a similar peace, and a renewed energy to create from this year on. All the best!

my channel is like your channel just a we bit just keep doing Videos like you are doing now Steve