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Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by nixcraft »

smcl wrote: post #38
nixcraft wrote: post #34

Meanwhile, Google has removed RedFrost Motivation[1] (over 1.5 million subs and =>120 million views) from the YouTube Partner program stating reason "uses someone else's content without adding significant value for viewers". I kid you not. This is one of my favourite motivational channels with an orignal artistic take. According to post[1], they claim to use talented voice artists and musicians to produce our exclusi…

> They use talented voice artists and musicians to produce our exclusive poetry readings and narrated quote collections ... are you telling us you're affiliated with RedFrost Motivation?

No. I am not affiliated with them. But, I have been following them for a long time, and I enjoy poem readings and content created by them. That quote is from their YouTube post. Sorry about the confusion.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by ProfXponent »

ge96 wrote: post #16
Jenk wrote: post #4

Knew it was Roel Van De Par before reading. I think this is the next step in social media reductionism, as people find ways to further lower the effort to "produce" content whilst maintaining a relatively high return.

There is this thing I discovered recently, they take clips from movies (allowed under 30 seconds) and "recap" them as in snippets from a synopsis, then pass it through the Medium TTS voice... boom easy content (videos with millions of views). Other similar "content farms" dark series, channels recapping any scientific news that comes out... ugh. I've just been mass removing these channels from my suggestions. Fake li…

For the life of me I could not get this off of my recommendations no matter how many channels I blocked.

There must the millions of them.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by mwidell »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #47
mwidell wrote: post #33

I am somewhat surprised he only has 80k subscribers and 20M views. Not a lot considering the amount of videos. But he is probably making a nice side income from this. As a comparison I have done youtube "the honest way", and I posted around 200 videos and have 66k subscribers and 7M views.

With 20M views he must have made at most around $20,000, no? I would also imagine that the vast majority of his subs are bots.

It depends on the CPM for his type of content. But yeah your estimate is what I would guess as well, if he only monetizes via youtube ads.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by jopsen »

trh0awayman wrote: post #41
kristopolous wrote: post #7

The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy. It's become disconnected so much that metrics of quality are seen as arbitrary, unrelated attributes. There is literally zero reward for hard work. It's actually more likely to hurt than help you because original scholarship or novel insights is definitionally more dissimilar to existing thin…

Recommendation systems just mirror what the users watch - including their age - and the reality is that 99% of people have horrible taste in just about everything. They can't tell the difference between a great film and a terrible film - they walk away thinking "I enjoyed that".

> they walk away thinking "I enjoyed that".

I really enjoyed reading your comment :)

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by NonNefarious »

planb wrote: post #43
kristopolous wrote: post #7

The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy. It's become disconnected so much that metrics of quality are seen as arbitrary, unrelated attributes. There is literally zero reward for hard work. It's actually more likely to hurt than help you because original scholarship or novel insights is definitionally more dissimilar to existing thin…

I don't think that's the underlying problem. The youtube algorithm sees people searching for something, watching a video and then liking it. How should it not conclude that the content was useful for the watcher? Probably it even _was_ useful and gave them the info needed to solve their problem. So why did they consume this content on YouTube and not on Stack Overflow? Because that's the way they are used to searchin…

"So why did they consume this content on YouTube and not on Stack Overflow? Because that's the way they are used to searching for answers"

No, it's because they searched on a technical topic and the Stack Overflow hits ranked lower than this spam. There's a shitload of spam-bucket, search-trap sites that scrape Stack Overflow and re-host its text in a column full of ads. I mean... pages of hits of them. Now we have auto-generated videos doing it.

Again, Google's vaunted algorithms don't do shit about it; even worse, Google REMOVED the ability to block specific sites from search results. Despicable.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by jahnu »

trh0awayman wrote: post #41
kristopolous wrote: post #7

The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy. It's become disconnected so much that metrics of quality are seen as arbitrary, unrelated attributes. There is literally zero reward for hard work. It's actually more likely to hurt than help you because original scholarship or novel insights is definitionally more dissimilar to existing thin…

Recommendation systems just mirror what the users watch - including their age - and the reality is that 99% of people have horrible taste in just about everything. They can't tell the difference between a great film and a terrible film - they walk away thinking "I enjoyed that".

'Democracy has bad taste' - Grayson Perry

From his four great Reith lectures https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03969vt

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by bspammer »

fxtentacle wrote: post #5
mongol wrote: post #3

Why this guy has not been blocked from Youtube is beyond me. He spams so many search results.

Every search result spammed in favor of YouTube is an additional bit of attention to be monetized by Google. Why should they prevent people from making them more money?

I cannot believe that this guy has made Google more money than he's cost them. Millions of videos is a huge amount of space, and almost all of them have close to no views. His most popular video of all time has 78k views.
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