YouTube is a nice place to learn for free, but you have to be careful. You can be taught trash. In fact, if you are relatively new to YouTube or the internet space, you may have been learning from fake gurus on YouTube. That is why you have never made any meaningful progress, even after consistently following their steps.
Many YouTubers are not there to help you. All they want is for you to help them by watching their videos and making them a few bucks from AdSense. They can say anything just to excite you and get you to view their videos, which is why you see them use eye-catching thumbnails and seductive titles for their videos.
And... boom! You are drawn to watch their videos.
And because popularity appeals, your only tool for evaluating how knowledgeable a YouTuber is, is the number of people following the channel or the number of views on the video. That's okay. Nobody was ever born walking. We crawled before walking. But let me ask you: if 20 crazy people say you are the most intelligent and 5 wise people say the same, which would you prefer?
The insane commentaries or the wise words?
Again, do you base your choice on the words of 30 crazy people or the 5 wise people? An expert is not someone who did it. It's someone who did it, is doing it, and can do it.
This is one reason why I'm a big fan of mentorship. When you have a mentor, you don't consume just any content. You gain access to vetted content by experts Or, at least, normalize asking for recommendations from your friends who are doing better than you.
Always remember to come back for more as I have a lot to share with y'all