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jaythelay · 8 months

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Yeah the algorithm is shit but if I can level with you, your content took a dive and it wasn't algorithm's fault.

Every time I hear someone say this, I look at their channel, and it's like they aren't even trying. Thumbnails are poor clickbait, as in, poorly crafted clickbait, titles are unremarkable, the actual content, is bad, the topic/subject, boring as shit.

Then if you take time to watch the content, if it's a nobody you just heard of, you find out real damn quick the algorithm didn't do shit, they just got less interesting and too youtuber-like, getting on that grind trying to make watching your content a second job for hundreds or thousands. It's like a beginner streamer scheduling their streams like I get it but bro they ain't gonna fuck you, you ain't got shit to offer.

Sorry your vague job title got busted up when you put out worse content, but uh, what did you expect?

Every single time it's someone I do know, it's because I legitimately lost interest in them, their content degraded, was covering more boring topics than any one person can possible care about, the editing and pacing got wrecked, they said or did something I morally couldn't not accept, or completely ditched the one thing I was even there for, and that's not on me, that's not on anyone in the audience to treat watching your content like a second job.

The ONE time I've seen an example of this was Stop Skeleton's from Fighting, and even then I can tell you what happened to a degree, 3 bouts of topics nobody cared about spread over too long a period of time, that's not on them, but Youtube never intended themselves to be a job for someone, it just can be. To put it to you this way, Youtube is meant to share creations and ideas, to put out work you want shared with the world, or, it's a Pyramid scheme and bitching about it is kinda sad if not just pathetic.

I used to have over 3k subscriptions. You read that right, 3 Thousand Subscriptions, not Subscribers. Imagine the average person who hasn't been using YT for 13 years. It's gonna be much the same in too many subscriptions. From there, recognize 2 things: There's a Shit Load of Tiny people who will Never Get in the Algorithm if your spot takes it, and there's a Shit Load of people who are binge-ing whatever auto-plays for them. Something I noticed brought another uptick to the discussions for a while til now.

Also if you turned off Google history in some forms Youtube can't see what videos you watch and will perpetually trap you in whatever year you last had it active. If your recommended is shit, it's 3 fold: History turned off potentially, bad luck and realistically, you watch garbage and YT will recommend you garbage.

Never watched One thing and had my recommended screw up. I can't prove it, but I'm willing to bet people simply didn't want to admit they binged content they don't like, and that's immature, denying reality, and not necessary. If you hate watched something, ya did, that's all there is to it.

If you're getting a returning audience, the algorithm didn't screw you over, people just moved on. And blaming Youtube for people's mindless choices ain't improving your content.

Look man, I get it, I fell off the algorithm when I chose not to do Undertale Dubs and started taking more time to do content, but my god, it isn't 2010 anymore, I fucking hate YT and refuse to call people I respect "youtubers" because it inherently labels them too many negative things but mostly steals glory from THEIR WORK that callign them youtubers inadvertently just steals valor from. YT didn't do shit, they did, because they gave a shit to create, YT is just a depository.

But at the same time, 1/10th of my reccomend is people under 100 views, and I cannot stress how good that is in the long run. I see more potential in them than I do your whining ass.

Unless you got definitive proof, your claims of the algorithm plain and simple sound desperate, accusatory, but mostly gaslighting me into feeling emotionally compelled to treat your channel like a second job where you didn't even choose to improve your work but stagnant and worsen further.

Here's what I think: YT segmented reccomendeds, thus views, because they have a shit load of kids, now teens or adults, trying to have a job on a platform that thus far has profited directly zilch since the beginning. It takes time to make it work, and the audience base isn't exactly going to get bigger than "everyone on the planet" so you have to make do.

Point is, You need to change, not the audience. When you say the Algorithm fucked you, and it's obvious it wasn't, you're blaming the audience as a result and trust me, you don't want people emotionally invested in HAVING to keep your channel alive for you. When that motivation runs out, oh, 1 or 2 videos in, you're just Fucked, completely Fucked.

#youtube #algorithm #youtube algorithm #imaging chasing an abstract concept that legitimately has nothing truly known about it #Like imagine #thumbnails do better as clickbait #just a pathetic fact of humanity and it's utterly deplorable nature to let down itself #that isn't because the algorithm can see what is and isn't clickbait #it's because it works on other human beings #It's just too shortsighted in many aspects to blame algorithms #It's also weird how it's been discussed as a new thing #like #YT never put stuff up randomly

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