“my channel was making upwards of a hundred dollars per day just from AdSense alone and then you have sponsorships on top of that... but because I was creating in a niche that I was not genuinely passionate about I burned out really really really hard”

Pick the passion niche over the lucrative one

A $100/day AdSense channel still burned her out so hard she couldn't get off the couch. Money can't subsidize disinterest at content velocity — every video costs emotional fuel you only have if you care. When picking a niche, weight passion above CPM; the high-paying niche you hate has a half-life measured in months, not years.