Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

youtube.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

191–200 of 201 posts

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

#191

Post by ZephyrBlu »

ojosilva wrote: post #152
ZephyrBlu wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but where is the comparison of their SEO performance on Google search? There is none. His YouTube channel also only has 20M views in total. It seems very likely the SO posts he used would have more than 20M page views.

Quick search of one of this guy's videos "ubuntu blank screen blinking cursor" on Google (English, on a Private tab) gets me his result as the 3rd video in the main Google Search page, before I get to the original Stackoverflow answer which is 2 search results below the video.

I just did the same search and the first result is askubuntu.com, his video is the 3rd video in the "Videos" section (Not visible from initial search page, have to click on "View all") and then the second search result is SO.

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

#192

Post by JadedBlueEyes »

elbigbad wrote: post #71
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…

I am not someone who spends much time on YouTube at all, perhaps a few hours a year. But after looking at that channel it just seems to be some line drawn images with a poem read in the background. If it’s not autogenerated content, I bet it absolutely could be by someone on HN. Comparatively, a suggested video came up below when I was checking out the red frost channel, and I ended up watching most of it. Some guy r…

This is super dismissive of both the hard work put into the content and the people that want to listen to poetry, short stories and even entire books.

Voice acting is difficult and expensive work, and this person is putting out narrations of anything from Sun Tsu's Art of War to Hercules: The Twelve Labours, along with illustrated narrations of short stories and poems for free.

If people will pay five pounds for a copy of the very hungry caterpillar, there is value in this work. Don't dismiss it just because you don't understand it or like it.

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

#193

Post by passivate »

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".

That is an elitist viewpoint. Things that have mass appeal are just that - things that most people like/enjoy/prefer. There will always be niche areas with limited appeal to more critical audiences, or audiences who value other things like aesthetics or other highly technical aspects.

If you can't convince others of your position, then there is no reason for everyone to take it seriously. Its basically the verbal equivalent of a position paper.

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

#194

Post by Magi604 »

Magi604 wrote: post #188

Let me add to the list of channels that are pursuing the "low quality but volume" strategy. I present to you hardreset.info! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLHMs6GoCv7YgsF3ZMxnf8A/vid... New video every hour!

I had accidentally linked to one of its spinoff channels.

Here is the main channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/HardresetInfo/videos

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

#195

Post by BizarroLand »

userbinator wrote: post #131
logotype wrote: post #87

Free storage space. I wonder how much it costs for Google to store all those 2M videos. Here’s an idea. Encode your data/backups into a video (it’ll display as noise but that doesn’t matter). Store on YouTube for free instead of paying for terabytes on Google Drive.

Encode your data/backups into a video An old idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid Store on YouTube for free instead of paying for terabytes on Google Drive. Also been done: https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive

I wonder what would happen if you were content struck for copyright violations on some random burst of static noise?

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

#196

Post by Stunting »

stef25 wrote: post #140
Stunting wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been pushed in many thought provoking directions because of art. Issac Asimov ignited an interest in math, Kurt Vonnegut books laid a foundation for philosophy pursuits, and an indie film I was dragged to about a patriarch dealing with the inevitably of death completely reset my views on how to pursue life. Everything is everywhere in everything.

What's the name of the film?

Life of me I cannot remember. It was french, I believe something "bastards" when translated.

Remember the plot fully. The dad was dying of an inoperable cancer, his son enlists a junkie to help him score heroin to ease his suffering. With the time they have left the family tries to cope with everything the dad was and wasn't.

Two incredible scenes stick out. The first time he does heroin the junkie tells him "pay attention. This will be the best experience you will ever have. You will spend the rest of your life chasing this." - I get gut checked everytime I start a new experience with a reminder to take it all in this first time.

The second is the ending of the move which I will not spoil without request.

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

#197

Post by logotype »

userbinator wrote: post #131
logotype wrote: post #87

Free storage space. I wonder how much it costs for Google to store all those 2M videos. Here’s an idea. Encode your data/backups into a video (it’ll display as noise but that doesn’t matter). Store on YouTube for free instead of paying for terabytes on Google Drive.

Encode your data/backups into a video An old idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid Store on YouTube for free instead of paying for terabytes on Google Drive. Also been done: https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive

Nice, thanks for sharing!

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

#199

Post by [deleted] »

danirod wrote: post #84
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.

Based in my own experience, the amount of videos uploaded at once will affect the initial number of views in a video, and the number of subscribers in the long term. Spamming the YouTube subscriptions feed with multiple videos at once is not something that many subscribers will receive good. At least in my experience as an uploader myself, I see that if I upload a video every couple days or weeks I get positive feedb…

[deleted]

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

#200

Post by BrandoElFollito »

trh0awayman wrote: post #112
jeroenhd wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They can't tell the difference between a great film and a terrible film - they walk away thinking "I enjoyed that". If I walk away and think "I enjoyed that" then by all measures that was a great film. A great film will please most of not all of its target audience. When a film is shown in Cannes the target audience is cinema enthusiasts who seek deeper meaning and interesting new ways to use the medium. When a new…

> They may have a different taste, but that taste is no better or worse than anyone else's. This is often repeated like it's some universal truth. Enjoying a film (or anything) doesn't mean it's great - this is a very hard to explain idea though, as it's something that is experienced in the core of your being. It's like trying to explain why small talk is important to someone from a low-context culture - there's prob…

> This is often repeated like it's some universal truth. Enjoying a film (or anything) doesn't mean it's great

Yes it does. What is your definition of great, and why is it better than mine?

Post reply on HN