I know how you feel. I am also a YouTuber Content Creator myself, mostly focus on gaming, tech and now cryptocurrency. I have been doing this for years now and never reached 1000 subs which is what YouTube requires after Feb in order to keep being monetized.

You can certainly earn a lot more money from steemit/dtube being a small user than you ever would on YouTube. You can read a link here since you are a newbie on steemit to help you get started, hope it helps:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@denoxblogger/how-to-build-success-on-steemit-starting-up