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

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Post by nonameiguess »

HaZeust wrote: post #80
poulpy123 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've been on YouTube for as long as YouTube has existed, but mostly use it to watch music videos, movie trailers, the video versions of podcasts I listen to, and sometimes a tutorial for DIY stuff I'm trying to do around the house. The only place I have ever even seen the name "Mr. Beast" is on Hacker News, and since I have never read those threads, I have no idea who he is or what he makes videos about.

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Post by bergenty »

obmelvin wrote: post #47
fiat_fandango wrote: post #16

Thanks for writing about your experience! I think too many educated / computer science focused creators get demotivated when they see the kind of low brow "viral" content that's plaguing youtube currently (yes, I mean Mr. Beast). Mr. Beast type content is to me more mind numbing than TikTok - it makes creators like Logan Paul and low brow comedy podcasts look like academics in comparison. I recently started dipping m…

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…

He’s giving away a lot of money and being helpful and doesn’t seem like a bad/malicious person. Still the content is so low tier (not production values) and just doesn’t appeal to me.

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Post by lukasb »

BoppreH wrote: post #92
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…

Perhaps it varies by category. I think your "mad-science" niche disproportionally rewards quality because (1) there's a high barrier to entry, (2) each project stands up on its own, and (3) your channel already has a positive loop of subscribers. You have infinitely more Youtube experience than I do (love your videos, by the way!), but maybe those other categories are in your blindspot, just like they are not in my Y…

"reliably filling the silence during commute" - this has never made sense to me. There are an infinite number of creators I can subscribe to. So I can always have unwatched content available just by subscribing to creators with high signal-to-noise ratio.

Do normal users tend to just subscribe to a smaller number of channels, so they want channels that publish a lot?

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Post by EricE »

fiat_fandango wrote: post #49
obmelvin wrote: post #47

Earlier 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 .

Even if he was only giving away money for views (something I disagree with along the same lines as others) - why is that a bad thing exactly? How is it malicious to actually help people?

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Post by kragen »

fiat_fandango wrote: post #16

Thanks for writing about your experience! I think too many educated / computer science focused creators get demotivated when they see the kind of low brow "viral" content that's plaguing youtube currently (yes, I mean Mr. Beast). Mr. Beast type content is to me more mind numbing than TikTok - it makes creators like Logan Paul and low brow comedy podcasts look like academics in comparison. I recently started dipping m…

> many educated / computer science focused creators get demotivated when they see the kind of low brow "viral" content that's plaguing youtube currently (yes, I mean Mr. Beast).

We're talking about a platform whose first big success was "Charlie bit my finger". There's some useful information there but it's never been Wikipedia.

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Post by NoahKAndrews »

narush wrote: post #83
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 videos are awesome. I've watched every one of them multiple times. I love when you go deep into the technical details of the problems / solutions you run into (especially with your code) -- especially in _integration hell_. I'm sure not-your-entire audience is interested in these things. Have you ever considered making a second channel where you go into more detail about the details of the technical problems / s…

https://youtube.com/c/StuffMadeHere2

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Post by kragen »

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?

I've learned a lot of shell and editor techniques from pair programming that I couldn't have picked up by cloning projects on GitHub and might never have stumbled across on my own. Sometimes they're even in the manual, but I haven't read the whole Vim manual. (Have you?)

James Hague wrote a thing about "coding as performance" 14 years ago that I think about pretty often: https://prog21.dadgum.com/28.html He's talking about cases where getting something crappy running fast is what matters most: "If you can write a program to solve the problem in less time than the tedium of slogging through the manual approach, then you win." I did this yesterday: I was trying to track down a segfault a coworker wanted more information about, and so I threw together a quick Python script (specific to this build of this program) that reformatted GDB's backtrace into something a little more comprehensible. It's dirty and probably nobody else will ever see it, but many people could have learned useful things if they'd had the chance to watch.

It can be entertaining to watch people who are much faster than I am.

That said, I've almost never watched anyone livecoding on a streaming video platform or on YouTube.

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Post by _benj »

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…

It’s good to see you here! I totally agree with quality there (although not from personal experience) but taking as an example your videos, Idk how you first came up with the idea of the “wife mode” but now your video have gone from something I totally nerd on to something I call my wife to watch with me, which she does with minimal eye rolls and actually enjoyment from her part! Haven’t found that many other maker channels that I share with her (with the obvious exception of Simone Giertz!)

Keep up the good work!!

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Post by sjm-lbm »

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…

I don't know if this is true, but I've heard the algorithm has changed over the years - in 2015 during peak Vlog, there wasn't much content on Youtube made by creators targeting (and putting professional-level effort into) the platform, so the algorithm rewarded creators that were creating enough content to really hold a user on Youtube.

Now, there's enough content that the algorithm favors quality more, because YT can more easily keep a user by recommending similar content from a different creator of a higher quality.

.. again, no idea if that's true, but it does feel like it makes sense.

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