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Some days being a YouTuber can be frustrating.

Here are pictures of my two latest videos. My previous video got 37,000 views, but after three days, YouTube has still not decided to present my new video.

Both videos have a similar quality, they are named in a similar fashion, they even have a similar thumbnail picture, and yet the new video has had just 196 views in the last 48 hours.

Do you guys look at the right thumbnail and think that clearly it should have 68 times more views?

Puzzling.

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Dave Ackley

older thumb has built-in conflict too. new one is just you and him. maybe if new one was a trump and putin montage, with a title like. "Why Trump's Ukraine Peace Was DOOMED" or whatever.. but it all still feels like a big crapshoot, and i hate it and never spend enough time on it for my own (admittedly extremely esoteric) stuff, so..
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zetabeta

i don't like to sound paranoid.

alphbet inc has an agenda, and more or less pro-trump. i wouldn't be surprised if something hidden would be going on.

youtube does use some kind of ai bots to detect content, like audio and makes decisions. i have heard arbitrary bans and de-monetizations. some information is given to the uploader, but youtube is quite secretive about their policies. appeal process is almost non-existent.

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Francisco

The more popular youtubers often change the title of their videos.
One youtuber that almost always does this is Veritassium. I believe they change their title based on the initial response to their videos.
I think I've seen them changing titles several times, for sure more than once per video.
I suspect that the hit and miss of a video is very dependent on the videos initial reception.

...now that think I about it, maybe Veritassium did a video about this.

Tato položka byla upravena (6 months ago)
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Nohaironheed

@TheDailyBurble Sorry Randahl, I know this doesn't help creators like yourself. What I mean by "legit" is there is nothing illegal about it, and no copyright issues etc. It's just unfortunate that the YT ads and data mining are now so intrusive and annoying, it never used to be this way. DuckDuckGo's Web player also removes adds by the way. It's just like using an add blocker on your browser. If I click a link, I'll watch through YouTube, but if I'm browsing myself, I'll use NewPipe.
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Randahl Fink

@nohaironheed I publish on YouTube, and then YouTube pays me a 65 percent cut from ads served on the videos. With my videos, you have 3 options:

A. You can live with ads and watch for free, or

B. You can pay a YouTube subscription and get rid of the ads, or

C. You can avoid YouTube altogether by watching my videos through Patreon, where you sponsor me directly.

I hope we can agree, that stealing the content so creators do not get paid, is not a legit option.

@TheDailyBurble

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Nohaironheed

1/2 Whilst I understand your point from a creators perspective, NewPipe doesn't do anything that you can't do on any browser by watching YT without logging in, with an ad blocker active. Any good browser has ad blocking as standard. It just does it in a nice app. Google could stop this in an instant by requiring log-in to watch. They dont want to do that. By using YT to host your videos, you do so in the knowledge that people can watch without watching the ads by design.
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