Sustainability of Youtubers as a Life Long Profession: Focus on Travel Vloggers, Moto Vloggers

 Youtubing has now become a formal profession and somewhat respected too because of the quick cash part possibly. I dont have any personal experience how much quick cash and how sustainable is it as a "career".

I am sometimes quite appalled to see videos where women bathing is part of youtube and for obvious reasons garner high views, may not be subscriptions. The aforesaid example is a very extreme end of the scale, I believe.

However, I am very much intrigued by travel vloggers and Moto vloggers which is a high investment work compared to shooting inside your home making funny memes or even shooting your own bathing videos and posting them on youtube as life vlogs.

The first travel vlogger I started following was Mr. Varun Vagish / Mountain trekker channel. Although initially I didnt learn about his personal life or profession but he carried a sophisticated aura of an educated soft spoken person with deep insight and thought fullness in his travel approach. This is possibly my first Indian travel Vlogger whom I subscribed to on youtube but I have been seeing short videos on facebook from Drew Binsky of his travel around the world. They were like 1 minute reels.

Then a wave of travel vloggers came in in Hindi domain as well as in Bangla / Bengali domain. I also saw itchy boots, in her moto vlogging tours. However, after following all of them for 2 years I found the Indian vloggers to be loosing out in terms of motivation and content quality that they previously had. Now more often than not Indian vloggers have teamed up with a foreign girl friend, going to risky places like Mali to get more views, going on self pity/struggle bordering vlogs of immigration problems/ communication issues, multiple vloggers are visiting those same locations again and again.

But after following these vloggers on youtube for roughly about 2 years, I had certain questions on my mind:

 1) Were they aware that being on the road all the time has its own risks in terms of health, crime proneness probability increases?

2) If they started as a solo travel vlogger (moto or otherwise), why did they bend more towards girlfriends, joining with same vlogging group and travelling?

3) How practical is it to continue travel vlogging after the age of 40 staying on the road 365 days a year?

4) How long will their girlfriend/wife will be able to support under such situation? Did they plan for children or not? or complete celibacy?

5) What happens if youtube is banned in India or youtube is closed for some reason (just a fancy thought), its not in the vloggers control.What would they do?

6) Visiting those same locations again and again shows their lack of motivation or lack of motivation to go beyond their set comfort zone? Then why did they come for vlogging at the very first place.

7) Is the call for easy cash with fame factor so appealing that it warrants leaving permanent jobs, medical practices?

8) Are they the sort of people who likes to be alone in their sphere? If yes then who moving in groups with other vloggers or girlfriends become necessity?

9) How long they are are going to survive on self investment/ self sponsored journeys? There are so many vloggers nowdays that companies are spoiled for choices regarding influencer marketing collaborations.

I personally feel that youtube can be a good side income if maintained and handled properly but as a full time profession/ career, I dont think its the right choice for certain video segments like moto and travel vlogging. If you are making short films and releasing it on your youtube channel great.