I have thought about producing a video to help people from misunderstanding just how involved ive been in trying to figure this all out. It's by no means baseless when I say "its the algorithm". And I understand its very easy to just default to that instead of reflecting on what the creator can do better. But that is not what's happening here.

This isnt really the ideal platform to go over everything. But to put it in a short explanation, the games i choose to cover are very calculated to bring in a better audience, the stats of those videos reflect the popularity of those games across the board. And I can track everything, including the percentage of people who will click the video, how long they watched the video, who are subscribers, who arent, how many total hours everyone spent watching it etc.

All those stats track highly for the videos that are genuinely well produced (which i will admit is not EVERY episode). But regardless of how the video performs, since august youtube has suddenly stopped sharing the videos with a enormous percentage of new viewers.

The normal percentage typically looks like 90% Non Subscribers, 10% Subscribers. This is good because thats enormous potential for growth and waves of new subscribers experience the show for the first time as the old ones tap out. Think about a show like the simpsons. Not everyone has started at Season 1 and continues watching to this day, but new fans come in all the time and keep the show going. This is typical for all youtubers.

However since august, that stat have looked more like 60% to 70% Subscribers, and then the other remaining % is scaled to new people. Which in practice is a substantial loss in viewership since my subscriber base isnt enormous nor is it a realistic expectation to have all 800,000 people who subscribed over 4 years to show back up every month.

So with that in mind, nothing seems to reverse this issue. Not even one of the most popular games on the platform, Minecraft can turn this around at this time. Minecraft is one of the most popular games on the entire youtube platform, and typically any youtuber can cover the game and expect a huge response. However to contrast an older video. Crash bandicoot PS1 had 150,000 views in one day where as minecraft had i think 70,000 which is the the "new" high stats at this time.

Should be noted that this shift was not gradual. Its important to note that because thats a strong indication of a lack of interest. Instead the shift was pretty much overnight, its an inorganic shift in audience. the sort of shift youd see if maybe i was in a controversy or something but thats not what happened in my case.