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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

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Post by saalweachter »

swighton wrote: post #66

I’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…

There's also a confounding factor in pushing yourself to do a lot of videos all at once: you may get some good practice in. Are you getting more views after a few months of consistently publishing videos because you are consistently publishing videos, or because you are getting better at making interesting videos?

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Post by poulpy123 »

agentofoblivion wrote: post #56

I 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…

Almost all channels, even the ones technically focused, are now using clickbait thumbnails to the point that I installed a firefox add-on to replace the original thumbnail by a random thumbnail from the video. Not always at the advantage of the youtuber...

> "To become the Mr. Beast of X"

Not knowing Mr Beast this sentence sounds more like a pornhub advice :D

Re: I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

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Post by soared »

majewsky wrote: post #54
asicsp wrote: post #11

I 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?

You can start out by adding purposeful pauses. At the end of a point you want to really hit hard, build in to your script you literally standing there and just thinking “pause,pause,pause,pause”. Then you get more comfortable doing it and can add it in with differing lengths where needed. Eventually with work you’ll start replacing ums with pauses.

Also, purposefully slowing down can help since you likely talk too fast when nervous anyway.

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Post by riskable »

Do you want your life to revolve around whether or not you can keep the lowest common denominator entertained for 10 minutes at a time? Spending (maybe) hours and hours of your life every week doing nothing but video editing?

If the answer is, "no" then you're never going to be "a YouTuber" (that makes enough money to live from your channel).

I highly recommend doing what I do: Post videos because you want to help people, not entertain them. Also, every now and again I'll post a video just because making videos can be fun but it's fun for me... Whether everyone else has fun with it is mostly irrelevant :)

If I make a few bucks from my tutorial videos about how to make an analog hall effect keyboard that'd be nice but really, I made them so I could point people to the video series to save myself a lot of time explaining things in chat messages. If enough people use those videos to gain that skill maybe we can move the world off of electromechanical switch technology (aka "cave man switches") some day.

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Post by FemmeAndroid »

swighton wrote: post #66

I’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…

This was my first thought as well. However, it’s worth noting that your videos are _exceptionally_ good. I drop everything to watch one when it comes out.

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Post by pchristensen »

swighton wrote: post #66

I’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…

Your new videos are a family night event at my house, complete with popcorn. There are so many great ones, but the chainsaw robot is our favorite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix68oRfI5Gw. That and the "robotically perfect mullet." And we all say "Oh wa cool."

In short, thank you for your awesome videos and take your time to keep the quality so high!

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Post by coreyp_1 »

pjc50 wrote: post #64
coreyp_1 wrote: post #39

I'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?

Because sometimes it's about the journey as much as the destination.

Also, because it shows how software development actually happens. It shows how to solve syntax errors. How to think through problems. It shows the power of the tools. It demonstrates my ability, and also my lack thereof. It's why I love programming.

If you only want to see the finished product, then fine. There are plenty of products already in existence. But if you want to see how it's made, then you can now see that, too.

That, and I'm amazed at the power of things like Bison, Flex, Doxygen, ICU, Vim, etc., and it's a way to show it off.

It also shows how to approach the organization of a large project, and a few gems with the Makefile (in my opinion).

I know it's not for everyone, but I love stuff like this! I've watched people live code game engines, etc., but I couldn't find anything about coding a programming language. So I'm creating it myself.

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Post by zeroonetwothree »

swighton wrote: post #66

I’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…

Some popular videos are just random off the cuff talking with no effects or editing. It’s not so simple…

Re: I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

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Post by HaZeust »

poulpy123 wrote: post #72
agentofoblivion wrote: post #56

I 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…

Almost all channels, even the ones technically focused, are now using clickbait thumbnails to the point that I installed a firefox add-on to replace the original thumbnail by a random thumbnail from the video. Not always at the advantage of the youtuber... > "To become the Mr. Beast of X" Not knowing Mr Beast this sentence sounds more like a pornhub advice :D

I think Mr. Beast is a billion-dollar brand now, I'm surprised his name hasn't crossed ways with you before.
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