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Yes, but the reason he's giving away money is for views . It's why charity for views is in my opinion kind of degenerate - arguably using poor people to make money but saving face because giving away money .
I've watched and judged for myself - I disagree. How is he using "poor people"? Everyday people are "poor people"? I think that says more about you than him. Yes, the views fund what he gives away. But until you or I start dedicating our lives to making money to give away, I don't think either of us has a leg to stand on and criticize him [for this specifically].
I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened
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Re: I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened
#62I started posting videos regularly from March this year (probably had 10-20 subscribers before, now have 150+) > If you watch some of my earlier videos there are a lot of “um’s” and “ers”...started with writing full scripts I trained myself to go silent instead of ums/aahs/ers. I then changed how I recorded videos a bit so that I can simply use https://github.com/noisetorch/NoiseTorch to remove all the silent portion…
> I trained myself to go silent instead of ums/aahs/ers. As someone struggling with the same affliction, might I ask how you trained for that?
Not the OP, but for me it just took a bit of mindfulness while presenting, and the realization that your pauses seem way more unbearably long to you than they do to your audience.
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It's more like not reading a book because it has a flashy cover. Sex sells but I won't buy a book about physics that has a woman in a bikini on the cover. It's about the signals you send as an author.
It’s just as childish because you’re making assumptions about the content based off a cover. It’s no different. Something something MLK quote something something.
They made no assumptions about the content. They simply expressed a distaste for the cover.
To continue the analogy, there are plenty of physics textbook manufacturers, and not all of them decide to use sex to sell their textbooks. Choosing to not engage with a blatant marketing tactic and picking another textbook is a perfectly valid action for someone of any age.
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#64I'm recording a series where I'm creating a new programming language. Shameless link here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZqirAnnqaCZ8lT8w7p2P... I haven't posted it here yet as a "Show HN", because I don't think that I'm far enough along. But I have averaged more than one video a day since I started. Disclaimer: This is 100% live coding in Vim. You are my rubber duck. I make mistakes. The most recent video…
> This is 100% live coding in Vim
I don't understand why anyone would watch this at normal speed. I see that live coding is a thing, but .. why?
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I find this as childish as to not read a book because it doesn’t have a flashy cover.
It's more like not reading a book because it has a flashy cover. Sex sells but I won't buy a book about physics that has a woman in a bikini on the cover. It's about the signals you send as an author.
This is bad news for the Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics (yes, google it)
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#66I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency. This is because there’s a nonlinear relationship between views & quality. For example a video that is twice as good might be capable of getting 10 times as many views. If that’s true it implies that (within reason) spending more time to make a better video is the best strategy. Intuitively this makes sense: would it be better to make 1 mediocre video every day consistently OR 1 really good video every 1-3 weeks that gets 100x the views.
I’ve heard the argument that YouTube rewards consistency, but I am anything but consistent with my videos [1](every 1-3 months) and I haven’t noticed any negative consequences.
[1] YouTube.com/stuffmadehere
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't necessarily take issue with your point overall, but I have to take issue with your calling out of Mr. Beast. Have you seen how much money Mr. Beast gives out to people? There are people just buying cars with their YT money, but he puts most of it back into his channel & directly in the hands of everyday people. I really don't understand how you could say he makes Logan Paul look like an academic. Also, he's p…
Yes, but the reason he's giving away money is for views . It's why charity for views is in my opinion kind of degenerate - arguably using poor people to make money but saving face because giving away money .
I think a more positive way to think about MrBeast's behavior of giving away money isn't that he's doing it for views, but that he's doing it for fun.
There is a documentary about how actor Bill Murray will occasionally spend a bunch of money on a random stranger that he meets in public.
I see this trend of rich YTers giving away free money as evidence that the creator economy has lowered the barrier to entry to philanthropy, in the same way that the assembly line lowered the barrier to entry to car ownership.
No longer do you have to be a cutthroat oil baron to have enough disposable to make it rain on a stranger every now and then. You can just get YT rich and famous.
Now, I say this having only viewed one of his free money videos. But from what I saw the participants were well treated and appeared to be having fun.
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#68I would be cautious about going down this road. For context, I have YT channel with >12k subscribers that is also for technical content. When I was similarly early on, I found myself in a similar place, thinking a lot about growth and metrics. I came to realize that I was playing the game that YT wanted me to play, to their benefit. Since chasing "more" never ends, and every surpassed hurdle results in yet another on…
Thank you for the warning. Yes it can get pretty addictive checking the numbers all the time. I have no intention of becoming the next Mr Beast so there is no worry there. I have a big list of technical topics I want to cover but there is definitely a worry that no one will watch them. I have been releasing 2 videos each week but I will likely cut this down to 1 once I have grown a bit more. Otherwise, I can definitely see it leading to burnout.
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#69I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency. This is because there’s a nonlinear relationship between views & quality. For example a video that is twice as good might be capable of getting 10 times as many views. If that’s true it implies that (within reason) spending more time to make a better video is the best strategy. Intuitively this makes sense: would it be better to make 1 m…
You post extremely good quality videos. I agree with your arguments. Every time you drop a video, I make sure to watch it. It would not be the case if you posted everyday.
Re: I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened
#70I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency. This is because there’s a nonlinear relationship between views & quality. For example a video that is twice as good might be capable of getting 10 times as many views. If that’s true it implies that (within reason) spending more time to make a better video is the best strategy. Intuitively this makes sense: would it be better to make 1 m…
Wow I see what you mean. I was planning on cutting down to 1 video a week once my channel had grown a bit but I can see from your channel that quality > quantity so I might do that sooner! Thank you.