I know.
I ran a group channel for about half a year with school friends, everyone always got frustrated at me because I never let us advertise. Always felt shitty having to advertise to get any attention, so I never did/do. I mean... the "just let people find you" approach kind of work, since most of my videos get 100 views naturally, but... that never leads to anything. I maybe get like 2 subscribers per videos, so the growth is pretty much non-existent. Heh... I'm gonna try really hard while this promotion is running and raise my quality and just hope people subscribe and view.
EDIT: Fuck it nevermind gonna make shitty parody videos and other shitty videos that get spread around under "LOOK AT THIS DUMBASS" and just rake in the money. Writing the script to "Xbox Fanboy cries and rages and tells people to stop hating the Xbox One". Hell, this worked for people like SammyClassicSonic and other bad channels. :|