question about brainstorming

[shy tiger]

hey y'all, so recently i started my youtube channel and after making a few videos, im having trouble coming up with video ideas, mainly because i have this kind of mental blockade preventing me from actually working on a video idea which is immediately getting me to think that it's either horrible or it wont work/wont fit the niche (for reference ive settled on gaming/video-essay-esque/challenge niche), if i had many ideas to work on i would work tirelessly on them, i wanted to ask y'all whats your thought process on this and how do i counteract this way of i guess you could call negative thinking?

thank you in advance for taking the time to read/answer

[bleak acorn]

I would say dont listen to those thoughts. Whats the worse thing that could happen? Also the way I make my video ideas is I look at whats popular in my niche and try to put a twist on it

[peak inlet]

Expand on it. Check your stats, other channels and the general consensus. Is there any news happening?

[shy tiger]

thing is i could do what the rest of youtubers are doing (for eg. pyrocynical/ludwig's news coverage), but that would also require an already existing viewerbase (which as a new youtuber is what i dont have), sure i could already look at what new drama/news came out and work on said videos, but the formula revolves around just giving your opinion on it, ill consider that idea once i reach a steady viewerbase, for now my job is to gather consistent/new viewers for my channel with actually getting into that "brainstorming mode"

and i understand this is somewhat of a bad way to think but this is me just giving my opinion on the whole idea

[shy tiger]

either that or im just overthinking all this tbh 😭

[peak inlet]

Can I shiit you a dm?

*shoot

[shy tiger]

sure thing