How to Grow Your YouTube Channel to 250,000 Subscribers?

So your first video, you have no subscribers and you have 32,000 views on that video. And a month, that's a lot of views. How did you do that? So YouTube has little pockets and little niche's little communities. I would search, so my first video was a story time. What I did was I searched story time and then I filtered the results by upload date. Then I searched for videos that kind of looked like they were in my neighborhood on YouTube,. And then I would comment on their videos. This is one way that I get to see what YouTube, what the YouTube algorithm associates my channel with.