Hi everyone, I an writing this in hopes that it will help you all move forward and not give up!
I've been posting 1x a week since July (and shorts 4-6x week since Oct/ish). Now it's mid March and for the first time one of my videos kind of hit it. It's not viral, I've never had that happen but it's garnered more views and comments in under a week than any of my others. (15k views in 4 days and over 200 comments).
Yet the only thing I did differently was watch a VidIQ (I'm not a paid subscriber to the membership) video about the "newest" thumbnails and imitate/copy one. I have a hard time believing this is why my video is doing so well but what else can I attribute it to? It's the same as all my others. I'm so grateful and want to reiterate what I've learned here from Alexa: steady for the win and keep trying new things...