Frequently asked questions

Guide My Journey is a community suggestion board for creators. Fans suggest ideas, communities vote, and creators decide what to make, cover, or explore next.

No. Guide My Journey can work for any creator. Fans can suggest YouTube links, topics, questions, tutorials, deep dives, reviews, or original ideas. Reaction channels are one use case, but the platform is built for creators broadly.

Choose a creator, suggest an idea or link, and vote on the suggestions you want most. The creator gets an organized board that shows what their community is asking for, while still keeping full control over what they make.

A Guide is a fan who helps shape a creator's journey. Guides can favorite creators, submit suggestions, and upvote active ideas they want to see next.

Resources are the limits that help keep participation meaningful. Your resources include how many creators you can favorite, how many suggestions you can submit, and how many active upvotes you can use for each creator.

Limited upvotes make each vote more meaningful. Instead of every idea getting a casual like, Guides choose the suggestions they care about most.

Favoriting a creator means you want to participate in that creator's journey. Once you favorite a creator, you can use your suggestion and upvote resources on that creator's page.

If you unfavorite a creator, your active upvotes on that creator's suggestions are removed. This frees that creator slot so you can favorite someone else.

No. Votes help creators understand community interest, but creators always decide what they make, cover, or explore.

You can suggest ideas, topics, questions, YouTube videos, source links, tutorials, reviews, deep dives, or anything that fits the creator's page and submission guidelines.

A suggestion is a new idea added to a creator's board. An upvote is your way of supporting an existing suggestion so the creator can see what the community wants most.

Yes. If you suggest something you care about, you can also use one of your upvotes on it.

When a suggestion is no longer actively being considered, its upvotes are released back to users. This lets Guides use those upvotes on other active suggestions.

Already Seen means the creator has already seen the video, topic, or idea before. It does not necessarily mean the creator dislikes the suggestion.

During beta, creators can manually set up a creator page from My Hub. You can add your channel name, YouTube channel URL, bio, submission instructions, avatar, hero image, and approval settings. YouTube verification is planned for later.

Yes. Creators can choose to hold new suggestions for review or auto-approve them. Hold for review keeps new suggestions private until approved. Auto-approve lets suggestions appear publicly right away.

Yes. Creators can seed their journey with starter suggestions so the page is not empty and the community has ideas to vote on right away.

Yes. Creators can use statuses, categories, and creator-specific tags to organize suggestions for their community.

Yes. Creator page owners can hide or remove inappropriate suggestions and manage the status of submissions from their creator dashboard.

Creator-level blocking is planned. For now, creators can hide or remove inappropriate suggestions from their dashboard.

No. Votes provide signal, not obligation. Guide My Journey helps creators see what their community wants, but creators always keep creative control.

Guide My Journey can display YouTube links and video details, but it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by YouTube.

During beta, creator pages are created manually. YouTube-based verification is planned for a later phase.

Yes. Fans can suggest topics, questions, ideas, or links, as well as YouTube videos.

The core product is free first. Fans can favorite creators, submit suggestions, and upvote ideas within their available resources. Paid features may come later, but the free creator and fan experience comes first.