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I made this youtube channel a while back, I showed it to my friends and they say my content is funny. I post it on a few groups in facebook and get positive reactions.

but I have little to no views. what am I doing wrong? what should I be doing?
what is the secret to fame, dear memers?

sell yourself to the big brothers on YouTube, shill yourself endlessly on forums/imageboars/etc., maybe even hop on current trends instead of doing what you like. these days video making is a little soulless, less of a passion project and more like a potential business venture
Also consider the delivery/confidence of your sense of humor and your voice, believe it or not people can instantly be turned away by the mere sound of a voice

i see lots of youtubers who don't sell their souls and have quality content and popularity, there has to be be other things

Part of being popular is being able to connect with people.

One of my roommates is a weeb where all he does on twitter is retweet hentai, post pictures of guns (with history about it or commentary), and talk about his fetishes.

He has over 3k followers on Twitter.

I know we all shit on "relatable" webcomics and posts but those tend to also generate a lot of buzz. Can't ignore that. When you can relate to something directly it becomes much more memorable imo.

Most of them started before the platform was oversaturated and before the ridiculous demonetization criteria, though (which affects video indexation, in fact). Doing what others did back then, even if they still do it today, is not guaranteed to result today for newcomers.

As much as it sucks to admit, the 2 easiest ways to become popular on YouTube today is either sheer luck or sheer stupidity, and since nobody chooses the latter on purpose, that leaves one option we cannot really do much with.

One thing I suspect might work, however, is to capitalize on potential trends nobody else has. For example, the game Baba is You is fairly popular, but strangely enough, no YouTuber or Twitch streamer has really gotten deep into it. Vinesauce got the deepest, but still not all that much. I suspect that anyone genuinely interested in the game making a FULL playthrough of that game, something that apparently does not exist last time I checked, will strike gold with this. I saw something similar with a relatively new channel I found, Clockwork, who uploads high-level Sonic gameplay and montages for Smash Ultimate, which is also pretty rare to find, and probably why the channel has been growing much faster than the average channel with less than a year of dedicated activity.

So yes, offering people something they want and does not quite exist and that you are genuinely interested in yourself is a good way to subvert luck and low numbers, albeit not guaranteed.