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This is me and my wife + my one fan with my Twitch lol
Managed to actually get some momentum on YouTube a few years ago and then ADHD fucked that so I recently started streaming to have that fun again, andy wife and one loyal fan are the ones there
NBD really, that's one more fan than most people so I'm a cool kid after all ๐
Worst case scenario is you're hanging out with a wife and a pal having fun, sounds like a win.
This is literally how my YouTube channel is
I find it hard to believe that you only get one viewer on every video, unless your content is absolute garbage. If you are consistent and create content that is at least interesting to some viewers, you will eventually get at least few hundred views after few months on at least some of your videos. I speak from my own experience, and my videos weren't that great anyway, just had interesting idea I guess (although I eventually failed to upload further videos).
Depends a lot on niche. I sometimes upload interesting Yu-Gi-Oh matches in Master Duel, and the highest viewcount is 32, from an upload December of last year. On the other hand, a low effort VTuber edit is sitting at 1400 views.
Ya, my videos are super niche. After almost 10 years I'm just now approaching 1000 subs. Granted I only started putting effort into my edits the last few years but still, it's tough out there.
Some of that is content categorization in the eyes of the all-seeing algorithm. Let's say you upload a type of content "A" that gets big views but you've been uploading a type of content "B" that gets small views for a while. The youtube algorithm will aggressively try to grow content A and massively deprioritize content B, even among other channels that produce content B.
A guy I know who does youtube/twitch had to create a second channel for his content B because it would get sub-1k views when he would get tens of thousands of views on his content A. Just by uploading somewhere else he started to get higher view counts.
Exactly why that happens isn't known, but a common theory is that youtube wants to push what it knows works. They have no real reason to give your content B a chance because they know content A will sell. And they do this even though this outcome was the result of a feedback loop.
That may be a contributing factor, my most viewed stuff are a couple of anime clips sitting at hundreds of thousands of views, but niche is still the #1 explanation in my eyes, as even the big and successful Master Duel channels stay at only a couple thousand views per upload. There's just not enough people interested in certain types of content.
unless your content is absolute garbage.
If you're filming, editing, and publishing a video, every day, for thirty days straight, that's probably the case.
i post absolute garbage 5 second clips of whatever I'm working on (literally zero effort made, zero fucks given) and every now and then they get like more than a thousand views
I have actually made a few YouTube videos, and the shorter they are, the easier it is to get viewers, especially with a small channel. People are much more willing to give a one minute video a shot.
Ratfucked by the algorithm lol
only for 30 days?
mate most channels ran for months if not years before they really took off.
Every day? Quality over quantity, Anon.
Nah. One video a day gets you practice in all sorts of skills you'll need if/when you start putting a lot of effort into the quality of the videos. Quality is only half the battle, dealing with deadlines and getting the hours in on the video making/editing programs is crucial.
Deadlines? What deadline is this person under?
And rushing through and firing out hastily edited videos isn't good practice for anything.
You'd be surprised how quickly channels die once you stop putting out a video every week, 3 days, or whatever arbitrary number they or the algorithm is used to.
How many subscribers does your channel have?
I dunno, 10 or something like that?
A self-imposed deadline of making a new video by the end of every day. And rushing through videos absolutely is good practice for a handful of things. Especially if you've never edited video at all. It gives you practice just in opening the programs needed and navigating them. Even a hastily edited video is still an edited video that the person needed to learn many aspects of the software to edit. Also, seeing a project through from start to finish you quickly learn that there's a lot to do at the end of a project after the creative part.
Some of the most consistent advice from famous creative people is to start out like this. It's well known that starting with a massive ambitious project is a recipe for failure. IDK if you've ever tried to do something like this but it can be very intimidating just to begin if you feel like the first project you work on is personally important to you. Making mediocre videos every day gives you a stress free way to make something creative from start to finish.
I guess they meant deadlines for sponsored videos or something
The cart is so far in front of the horse it's over the horizon, if that's the case.
I heard the algorithm rewards the opposite nowadays
No. The algorithm rewards making content that people watch, not shovelling out junk that only your mum wants to watch.
Okay but part of getting the algorithm to suggest your videos to people is to post consistently and often
If people actually watch them, sure. If nobody except your mum watches the whole video, it doesn't really matter how much you post.
It always has
not always. i remember there used to be some pretty big channels that posted only every once in a while.
now it seems most of them put out lower effort stuff frequently, theres def been a shift.
Definitely not the case for me, you need to stop watching low effort slop.
I follow a few channels that only publish every other month, and they still get recommended to me as soon as they release. Slow Mo Guys is one example.
recommend me a few, i barely watch youtube anymore outside a few interest news channels because most seem like junk to me.
I've been catching up on the Tally Ho build series lately, that's good value for money.
Dude legit lul. I have like 7 or 8 channels I follow that post maaaaybe once a month and they consistently get close to a million views. Let alone people like hbomberguy who posts like 3 or 4 videos a year and gets millions upon millions of views.
You mean that people that are already big and well known can post less often and still get views? Shocking
You don't get big and well known by posting shit videos though. YouTube is full of people who put out a quality video every month or so, just look at the Slow Mo Guys.
Naw, Papa Pewds set the standard.
Record 3 videos a day. Post one of them and bank the rest.
Once you pop off and it gets overwhelming, take time off from time to time, but when you aren't taking time off, bank 5 videos a day, but just have 1 post every day. EVERY DAY. Same time. Humans LOVE consistency.
Its not the wrong approach.
Either way, you probably wont "pop off". But if your hope is that you will, act like you will.
That only works if you're making content worth watching though.
Get good, then get fast, is my opinion.
True.
The "pop off" part is in having a good formula.
If you put 700 videos of shit formula in the can, you have 700 shit videos, you're exhausted, and you will never pop off.
You rite.
Also, I'd rather take my time and create something I can be proud of.
There's not enough money in YouTube to do it any other way, in my view.
Yea making videos that have some quality and originality works if you're actually trying and not just hoping you get lucky by being a douchbro who screams at stuff for kids to watch. Consistency over long periods of time seems to help too. I'm not talking just posting every day or week. Could be one video every 2 weeks or monthly. Just needa to be on a schedule that people can look forward to.
I have a channel that I've posted 3 videos on with no consistency and about wildly non related topics and they've each had like 500 to 600 views without me promoting anywhere cause it's stuff I find interesting or stuff people hadn't seen/considered before. Just takes a dozen hours of editing to make it easy on the eyes and understandable. I'm not even trying to YouTube, I just do it when it strikes my fancy.
I've done the same, posted a few videos I've made with no hope of ever getting monetized. Most of the people watching them are actually people who do same sport, and many I know personally, which is cool.
I get your point, but if they're enjoying themself: Give 'em hell anon. Pump that stuff out. If you've got something to say, speak!