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

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Post by areoform »

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…

Hey there, would you be open to discussing how you became such an amazing maker?

I work with an org that funds and supports a really large community of young makers (mostly young people in their teens, but we also have folks in their mid-twenties and beyond). I'd love to talk to you about how you honed your skills. A lot of them watch your videos and I suspect they would be really interested in reading about how you honed your skills and achieved your currently glorious skillset. (I would be too!)

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Post by coreyp_1 »

steveklabnik wrote: post #114
pjc50 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

Same reason people watch video game players play games. Seeing exactly how experts do things, in real situations, can be valuable if you're trying to attain your own mastery. And entertaining if not.

Some people watch football, golf, or billiards. Some people watch poker or chess tournaments. Some people like to watch carpenters work or houses be remodeled.

I like to watch other people code. I assume that somewhere in the world there's other people like me.

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Post by filoleg »

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…

Not the person you are replying to, but here is my view of this.

From all I've seen and know about MrBeast, he is an upstanding guy doing great things that help others. I absolutely respect that and believe it is worth of praise.

However, I find the content itself to be absolutely not my cup of tea. Not in a sense that i find it bad or distasteful. There are tons of other "YT philanthropy" influencers that make content that feels either distasteful or exploitative (even if it might not actually be), but his content isn't that. I just struggle to find it interesting enough to watch. I tried a few times, but it simply cannot hold my attention at all.

This isn't MrBeast's fault, as he clearly has a massive audience that enjoys watching his content. It just simply isn't the content for me.

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

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Post by walty »

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…

For most of us, making content consistently leads to making more top quality content over time, through helping us increase our skills: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Atomic_Habits/XfFvDwAAQ...

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Post by totalview »

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 is solid gold coming from a YouTube Legend. Thanks for the comment, love your content.

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Post by pessimizer »

steveklabnik wrote: post #111
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…

As someone who spends a bunch of time paying attention to the YouTube meta, "consistency" is a virtue that's been professed for a long time, but YouTube has been pretty clear that it's not a factor in how recommendations work. I still think it's decent advice for new YouTubers, because you only get better at a thing by doing it a lot, and over time. The value of consistency isn't in the algorithmic properties, but in…

Another value in consistency is that when people are browsing aimlessly, they know when they can check your channel for new content. If I check some channel for new content a few times and there is none (and no indication of any coming), I will simply forget about it. Not intentionally. Someone else who posts predictably will have captured my idle time.

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Post by jonny_eh »

pessimizer wrote: post #137
steveklabnik wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who spends a bunch of time paying attention to the YouTube meta, "consistency" is a virtue that's been professed for a long time, but YouTube has been pretty clear that it's not a factor in how recommendations work. I still think it's decent advice for new YouTubers, because you only get better at a thing by doing it a lot, and over time. The value of consistency isn't in the algorithmic properties, but in…

Another value in consistency is that when people are browsing aimlessly, they know when they can check your channel for new content. If I check some channel for new content a few times and there is none (and no indication of any coming), I will simply forget about it. Not intentionally. Someone else who posts predictably will have captured my idle time.

This is not how most views occur, please don't hurt yourself to produce content regularly just to satisfy this edge case.

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

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Post by jonny_eh »

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #79
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…

Then there's channels like stuffmadehere that consistently produce hit videos, due to their superb quality. It's not luck if you can do it many times over.

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

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Post by steveklabnik »

pessimizer wrote: post #137
steveklabnik wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who spends a bunch of time paying attention to the YouTube meta, "consistency" is a virtue that's been professed for a long time, but YouTube has been pretty clear that it's not a factor in how recommendations work. I still think it's decent advice for new YouTubers, because you only get better at a thing by doing it a lot, and over time. The value of consistency isn't in the algorithmic properties, but in…

Another value in consistency is that when people are browsing aimlessly, they know when they can check your channel for new content. If I check some channel for new content a few times and there is none (and no indication of any coming), I will simply forget about it. Not intentionally. Someone else who posts predictably will have captured my idle time.

As my sibling says, this may be how some users use youtube, generally these views ("channel page views" is the term used in the analytics) are a small minority of overall views.

In fact, this sort of behavior you're talking about is one of the reasons why "the algorithm" is a thing. If there's something you'd like to watch, but you've forgotten about it, it's YouTube's job to surface it to you, even if you've forgotten. This is one of the reasons why browse is the default view and not your subscribers feed, for example.

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