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Will I Be YouTube Rich If My Old YouTube Account Wasn’t Lost?
I spied on my aged youtube account to check its progress, I surprisingly had 1.7k subscribers.
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Hackers destroy everything good, at least in regards to the black hat hacker.
The birth of a channel.
My old youtube channel was created some years back, it was a haven to share my game dev knowledge with a community of other devs.
With it I uploaded over a 100 videos, enjoyed 2 successful game jams on itch.io and deployed a simple dress up game on the Gdevelop hosting platform Liluo. With a tutorial to build and improve the game on youtube.
I had no plans on quitting the dev community anytime soon. It was fun and I was learning to be a better content creator along the way. In my quest to further increase my reach, I ventured onto the platform Quora, and almost got close to 1 million views.
Then, the first hack happened.
A popular platform used by youtubers to check their analytics, and some times compare channels, to poke fun at which creator was growing faster got breached.
The platform known as SOCIAL BLADE provides insights into the statistics and analytics of youtube…
