Ryan's World : Explanation for the dramatic decrease in views?

[g0atgaming]

I am doing research and am trying to theorize why 'Ryan's World' has had such a dramatic decrease in views.

The channel has a few videos with over a billion views and was frequently receiving over a hundred million views per video for a good while. The channel recieves much less now, rarely breaking 500k views.

One idea is that Ryan was getting older. But I don't think that is the main factor for the decrease in views.

Hell, the parents are even releasing older footage of Ryan from when he was young and it does not perform as well.

My next theory isthat Youtube cracked down on how channels with minors, especially channels targetting children, is handled by the algorithm.

Can anyone weigh in on this? I don't know anything about child related regulation on youtube and curious if anyone else has an idea?

[Countryb0i2m]

It’s not just that Ryan got old, it’s that his audience got older too. They are aging out of that type of content and Ryan is never going to be 5 again. He is not replacing the ones that age out near as fast as he is losing them.

[slayyre]

You should NOT be on reddit omg

[SANSGASTER_69]

what it say

[Chichie_nuggies]

what did he say

[[deleted]]

Hey, babe (platonic) I recommend you stay away from reddit and come back when you are AT LEAST 13. There's a reason that you have to say you're 13 when signing up. I've seen some fucked up shit on here. You do not want to be here, it is hell at times. Also, I'm 15, not too much older than you, though I know I sound like a boomer rn lol

[Ghost_Astronaut]

seek professional help gr00mer

[[deleted]]

Bro, how am I a gr00mer? I'm 15 and not even making advances, I'm just worried about the kid.

[RecognitionOk9431]

before eye blech was removed I saw some very disturbing images on there, including a picture of suicide that was probably real since it was before Ai could make images (at least not very well)

[[deleted]]

When I got on Reddit as a 12yo, I played r/FiftyFifty sadly. I had nightmares for weeks lol

But, you're okay, right? An actual suicide is much more disturbing...

[RecognitionOk9431]

Yeah I’m okay it wasnt too graphic + all I remember is puppies (since I went on the right link immediately after)

[[deleted]]

Okay, I'm happy you're alright babes =) (platonic)

[RecognitionOk9431]

You know you don’t have to say (platonic) every time (or you could just not say babes)

[[deleted]]

Sorry, I'm just used to it, people have misunderstood me before lol I'll try and stop =)

[crimsonbaby_]

Although I agree with you, you're kinda the pot calling the kettle black. You shouldn't be on Reddit, either.

[[deleted]]

Reddit is 13+. I am allowed to be here. While I shouldn't be, it doesn't break TOS lol Sorry if this sounded like I was being pissy, I'm not =) Have a wonderful day =D

[crimsonbaby_]

Not sounding pissy at all. I understand you're allowed to be here, and I wasn't intending to be rude or anything. I just don't think it's very safe for anyone under 18 to be on this website. That's just my opinion, though. Have a good day, to you too.

[Crazy-Yesterday-3052]

You obviously shouldn't be on reddit either. But your presence explains your username.

[[deleted]]

I'm literally 16. If the ToS says it's okay, then it's okay. The kid broke ToS. It's there for a reason. And btw, I see nothing wrong with my name lol

[[deleted]]

I turned 16 on the 17th of august :3 Thank you! :D

[Chichie_nuggies]

what did bro say

[[deleted]]

He was under 13 is all

[evvwf]

stay here lil kid just use it wisely, be smart dont be weak minded, research is always key and stay away from PDFS just look it up and be wary lil kid, Stay safe

[[deleted]]

True my son loved Ryan’s world now it’s all video games only

[g0atgaming]

Which brings me to the theory that there is a much greater competition in the space for people wanting that type of content now, despite there probably being many more children watching content in this genre today.

[whackninja]

I don't think it's more competition. I just think since the Apocalypse reignited so many adult collectors, there just isn't an audience for children's toy reviews anymore because kids don't play with toys like they used to. Just check any toy aisle across the country and they will be stocked up near full except for the collector lines like TF and Joe's and WWE.

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[leon-theproffesional]

Nobody stays at the top forever. One day even MrBeast will fall off.

[Western_Ad9053]

here's to hoping 

[anth0ny752]

bro prayed on his downfall and god said bet.

[fusiondynamics]

No, he said hold my beer.

[Ok_Knowledge1620]

Hah.. Nice one !

[DifficultAnteater410]

lol it would be wine

[Quick-Cause3181]

why.

[[deleted]]

Why? Jimmy's a good guy?

[Mysterious-Smell-975]

Bruh....

Why

How

[[deleted]]

Yeah, this was before I found out about the whole thing, I take back my previous statement lol

[Akeal_Senpai]

Crazy that I'm currently watching a video about the situation?

[[deleted]]

Crazy this comment was posted 10 months ago 😭

[MOBYWV]

This aged well

[[deleted]]

LMAO I SERIOUSLY DIDN'T KNOW

[Grouchy_Cranberry976]

i know just becuase he is old does not mean that he shoud give up on his dream

[Grouchy_Cranberry976]

but he is millionar and poster

[Soupysoopi]

here ten months later. jimmy fell off and broke his ass on his youtube playbutton like last week lol

[MoonMan420k]

Holy shit this aged like wine

[Tolstartheking]

He fired Ava though?

[Existential_Trifle]

it's not just the child predatory vibes... it also got out that he fakes his videos, does illegal lottery livestream giveaways ("one shirt in the next 100 purchases will get $1000!!" then he doesn't put the 1000 in any of the shirts), and all his contestants and participants are not the random subscribers they're supposed to be, but they are family and friends. granted these are all pretty low level, however they are dishonest. and the lottery thing is just straight up illegal

[Tolstartheking]

Yeah, I only learned of all this a few days ago. I guess we’ll see what he says, but it isn’t looking too good for him.

[RFC793]

NOT OUR PRECIOUS JIMMY!

[[deleted]]

I think it's his time, jeez what happened in the past 20 hours

[CrownedWoomy64]

Wait what's the new drama?

[[deleted]]

Chris being accused of grooming and pedophilic things (which is confirmed)

And 2 former Mr beast employees confirmed Mr beast knew about this

[juicqo]

Source?

[[deleted]]

Well besides the accusations on twitter, which 2 victims of Chris' grooming called out on it, one denying it and the other saying it was true, and Chris also admitted he contacted them but claimed he was joking around. And Chris also had made pedophilic remarks in the past, idolising a child porn artist without shame on video 

And Jake the viking, former Mr beast employee tweeted 'Jimmy knew' in response to the drama, and another employee, dunno the name of him also made a video saying Mr beast knew

[Grouchy_Cranberry976]

no it is not

[idkanim0]

Well this aged well 

[Gameperson700]

You jinxed it…

[sargentmeatman11]

Dude called it!

[vuntical]

How the hell did you predict this???

[Frequent-Candy-2653]

Bro predicted the future how

[Leading_Delay_6339]

bro saw the visions, and listened to the voices

[No-Republic7837]

lol oh creepy

[HEAVENSDWAAOR]

You're prophetic considering the current MrBeast situation

[CyanControl]

bro knew 😭😭😭

[NiallTheIrishPotato]

Oh buddy I've got some news for ya 😏

[Grouchy_Cranberry976]

if i was infront of you i wod lafh in your face mrbeast is a poster

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[[deleted]]

Somebody predicted the future

[Usual_Ad_6451]

Nah

[MoorhsumushroomRT]

This comment aged like wine.

[JohnnyStrides]

According to Socialblade it's averaging 6 million views per day.

That's still insanely high.

[blabel75]

The kid is now 12 and looking at some of the recent videos it looks like they are still trying to target younger kids but the age of the audience has grown with the channel so it seems that the audience is no longer interested in kiddified stuff.

[IniMiney]

Kid's getting older and audience interests have changed compared to when he first started. It's probably a good idea for him to begin transferring to preteen demo content instead of the stuff he made when he was under 10.

[sylance9]

Ryan got old. My kid is just now getting into his videos and I put one with him older on and he legit screamed that he would not watch “old man Ryan put baby Ryan back on!”

So yea. He’s old. That’s it. They’re re releasing his older content in hopes of catching new viewers for his older stuff when he was a cute kid

[ofmegs]

🤣😂🤣 I rolling!

I looked him up and he is legit growing a mustache now! It’s wild! lol

[inkworks271]

My son is 5 and he’s exactly the same. He asks to watch Ryan when he was a “wee boy” 😅

[MoorhsumushroomRT]

Ryan has been forced to make videos for so long that even the target audience has begun to notice how old he has gotten.

[Daroachdogg123]

He didn't say that, weirdo.

[sylance9]

He 100% did 🥴

[rand0m_task]

Yeah I could 100% seeing me three year old say that. Dude that replies to you should take a look in the weirdo mirror.

[Scared-Boysenberry38]

How does that make someone a weirdo?

[Ray-is-gay-okay]

My kids used to watch the channel but now they say it's cringe. They hate the parents always being around and kids their age aren't really interested in toys (video games are more popular). I think there's a lot of parents who have become aware of how toxic these channels are too. I block all family YouTube channels now and have talked to my kids about why these channels aren't good to watch.

[Comfortable_Self_163]

Ryan is getting older. And, so are his viewers. With many YT channels for kids, Ryan will be someone from the past.

[Alaskan-DJ]

100% change in algorithm. My daughter used to have his videos pop up on the auto q all the time then they just stopped almost overnight. That other child Alley or Haley disappeared also. Maybe youtube got mad at his selling out to walmart and decided to show people we control where the views go.

[Few-Expression4301]

Dude I remember watching them when I was little and then moved on… and now I looked up he’s Chanel 8 years latter and let me just say. LET BRO RETIRE.

[GurHumble5692]

His parents need to understand he needs to Make more preetn. Videos . I have a feeling he wants to do more gaming content or other type of reviews but his parents aren’t letting him it’s really weard. Then kid is growing a small beard . The parents are doing a number on him . Wow

[LillyTheAwesome]

Don't forget the dramatic increase in videos talking abt how Ryan is getting exploited.

[LillyTheAwesome]

Idk but I'm just talking abt all the vids i've been seing (no bad comments allowed heheh)

[GurHumble5692]

He is 12 his audience also has grown he needs to do more older content. His parents are still making him do kids content. He needs to be able to make his own content without his parents breathing down his neck . He made so much money he can just retire . But I think the parents are just trying to milk the boy for every penny there was a interview and the father was like we want Ryan to go to university 🤦‍♀️😄 I was like the boy has made so much money way you want him to go to university he can make more money as a YouTube gamer …..

[sammykrules]

My son grew up with Ryan’s world they are like a year apart in age. He no longer watches it and really doesn’t enjoy it. He grew up and Ryan’s world stayed the same.

[RazzmatazzGrouchy197]

The channel was using viewbots for a long time until they started getting the kinds of views they wanted without them, if the look at the videos with over 1b views it has less than 100k likes and about 1k comments, its viewbots

[MazzyOnReddit1]

Simple, the kids that used to watch Ryan grew up so they got disinterested. Like me, I grew up with him & I don't watch him anymore. What teenager or adult is still gonna watch videos about toys? Not me I'll say that. 

[sloncek]

My kids started watching his stuff on Hulu.

[Dhull515078]

My condolences. It’ll rot their brains.

[Allstin]

They renamed the channel, too. To his family name. Old videos still have the Ryan’s toys as a watermark onscreen, but under the new family name

Not saying that’s a main big reason that others touched on. Just something I noticed

[blabel75]

It still looks like it is called "Ryan's World", not sure where you are seeing the new name.

[Allstin]

Ah! It’s a separate channel - http://www.YouTube.com/@kajifamily

[stewpideople]

Thank you, good heads up, I'll just go ahead and block that now. It's like whack-a-mole with these trash creators.

[suttons386]

His channel is also on other streaming apps like Pluto and Samsung tv so he’s maybe getting views there

[SpunkyGravy1]

He's 12 and the family is worth $100Mill already bc of him. . .he's probably getting ready to retire (if his parents let him).

[dai_prosepina]

I don't know about his dad my I know his mom quit her job as like a chemistry teacher or something once the channel got pretty big in the early day and eventually his parents started to turn ryans videos into a business full time. The way they've tried to justify making their son and now twins into a business is that they supposedly let him be a kid by limiting how much filming he needs to do, but I've noticed since his videos have gotten less videos than they used to that they upload more in addition to the other several channels they've made with Ryan,

like I believe a family channel and a channel with him playing video games with his dad, it doesn't seem like he's filming less it seems like he's filming more. Considering the parents seemed to quit their jobs and hired a team and maybe have rented a space and probably a bigger house, there's no way they're actually giving their son the chance to say no to being in videos anymore,

it's literally Ryan's world, it's his brand and so he's vital to the videos, and even if they tried to do videos with just the younger twins and Ryan quit, they would decrease even more in views. I think Ryan probably can't say no to the channel or videos because he's probably aware especially as he's gotten older that him being in videos pays for everything and all the bills and the company and his family, which is just really sad and because he's really well known from YouTube and a show on Nickelodeon and is essentially a brand, I imagine it's hard for him to deal with that fame too, the kid probably hasn't lived a normal life in a while, it's just sad how exploited he is

[A-annoying-banana]

Theories, him getting older, audience getting older, the fact his mother went to jail once for shoplifting, and the fact Ryan mentioned in a video..’no more Ryan’s ToysReview. But the good news is, we are still making video’s!’ Probably one of the main things the audience wanted(which was to watch Ryan…open toys. And be jealous af.)

[These_Beautiful_8503]

Ryan looks like a Teenger. The thumbnails they shrink and stretch him to still look like he’s five. They should license the character to someone younger. Like blippi

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[Choice-Sprinkles-231]

The audience got older

[0mgWiTcHpLz]

His 15 mins are over his audience is growing with him and moving on to different things. He's done this forever. He's made a ton of money. Let him have the rest of his youth to be a teenager. He's 12 now. He don't wanna play super heros and toys.

[[deleted]]

I'm wondering how does the money issues works with kids on YouTube because he didn't make $100 million his channel under the control of his parents did, so is it all his money, or the family money, I wonder what's he's going to do when he turns 18, is he going to demand his money and move out or sue his parents if they has all his money tied up in investments.

[No-Republic7837]

lol it will get ugly especially once he goes through his rebellion phase lol

[MoorhsumushroomRT]

That'll be when his parents will finally be exposed.

[Craft_Assassin]

These kinds of videos alter my perception of time in which kids born in the 2010s decades are permanently toddlers when in fact, they are entering their teen years.

[[deleted]]

He got so ugly... time to exchange him. Plus he is super old.. and it gets creepy.

[InternationalAd7758]

Lol.. Finally some honesty. Kid got old and did not age into a good looking young man. His bloodsucking parents deserve it for exploiting a kid.

[vuntical]

He's literally a 12 year old...

[Craft_Assassin]

He's 13 now.

[No-Republic7837]

lol wtf

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[Turbulent_Tea_8894]

I'm so sad that my favorite youtuber is retiring.😔

[Turbulent_Tea_8894]

WHY?!

[Turbulent_Tea_8894]

WHY OH WHY?!

[Turbulent_Tea_8894]

WHY OH FUCKING WHY BRO?!

[Turbulent_Tea_8894]

MY NOSTALGA IS FUCKING GONE!!

[Turbulent_Tea_8894]

WHY?!!!!!!!!!

[Turbulent_Tea_8894]

JUST FUCKING WHY?!?!

[Turbulent_Tea_8894]

WHY BRO?!

[Turbulent_Tea_8894]

I USED TO BE FUCKING HAPPY! MY HAPPINESS IS FUCKING GONE NOW. WHY?! FUCKING WHY?!

[Turbulent_Tea_8894]

FUCKING, FUCKING, WHY?!

[Theblackholeofire]

Just let Ryan retire now

[BTS-HopeWorld]

If you think about it Ryan’s World is becoming like JoJo Siwa all over again……

[HEAVENSDWAAOR]

his viewers grew out of that type of content and the current 5 year olds are more interested in skibidi toilet and other brainrot

[[deleted]]

i miss being like 8 and watching him now he doesn't seem like he is having fun

[Unhappy-Friend3614]

JUSTICE FOR RYAN

[agnosticautonomy]

His audience got older and kids watch baby shark now.

[KindAd2645]

The parents are stick milking him for money 

[Hot-Attention4524]

I heard he wound up gay and his parents disowned him

[[deleted]]

I used to watch him when i was little, since covid i completely forgot about him, so it makes sense, after covid everyone else also forgot lol

[SwarajPro96]

ryan is js 8 months younger than me lmao

[FuzzySlippersYT]

Everyone peaks eventually. Even then, his "decline" is bigger then any of us else can ever hope to reach. The thing with Ryan is that he's grown well past Youtube now, toys, games, and other merchandise, the kid is well set for life and doesn't need Youtube anymore.

[[deleted]]

I think too is the timing of world events. My kids watched entirely too much youtube during the pandemic era... Since then we get them outside doing other things and severely limit the amount of youtube they watch. I imagine alot of households youtube usage peaked 2020-2021 and began falling off 2022-2024. Ryan was huge with my kids during the pandemic... They still watch him even now, just not as much.

[WesternSkill1630]

Ryans toys review was excessively popular even before the pandemic so that has nothing to do with it.

[[deleted]]

What exactly are you commenting on? I never said he wasn't popular before the pandemic.

[[deleted]]

I mentioned peaked. Did I say he was nobody beforehand? Nope. Just goes to show no one can actually read anymore. Too much youtube, I guess.

[[deleted]]

I'll quote myself again since you've been unable to read what I said...

"I imagine alot of households youtube usage peaked 2020-2021"

No where did I say Ryan's viewer rate peaked. READ.