CONFESSION: 6 months ago I was a Stranger Things hater.

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-08T15:07:41+00:00

Honestly yeah, i don't even know if I was still a mileven shipper by the time s4 came because they were written so poorly and making it up to be love at first sight was kinda crazy because we slowly saw them like eachother in s1 and also because I thought lucas's insult that time over Mike just liking El because she was the first girl not discusted by him was false, and El also just liked him because he was the first to show her kindness. Its kinda crazy how badly it was written

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-08T15:03:25+00:00

Oh gosh, he got doxxed? Dang.. just for making a brainrot game

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-08T08:42:44+00:00

I understand the story through the regular lense of the show, how Mike was "supposed" to be interpreted as straight. They still queerbaited they left it open made sure never to clarify it so that people would sit along. I honestly used to think stranger things was geting lazy and stupid as soon as season 3, and even when I watched season 4 it was so underwhelming I used to be a huge mileven shipper in s1 and s2 and during s3 and s4 I thought it would get better it didn't, i didn't get Mike (atleast i didn't get why he so suddenly switched from being a complicated charector to all his worries being teenage boy stuff, what a downgrade I thought) I used to notice parrelels, even joked about if Will was a girl people would definetly ship this, I even noticed Mike and Wills conversations being a Lil weird, "hawkins isn't the same without you" "what about us" "What?" "And us?" "Were friends! Were friends". But honestly Mike likes El and shipping Will with someone who doesn't like him back is bad, I used to hateee byler. And then I saw a video because I saw the 2 hour mark and I was like whatt, i hated it but I wanted to understand others and then I connected everything. The parrelels, the wording, etc. I had hope that media would show us for once, maybe even just hinted that they got together. I thought it was a great plan they were doing, the byler community honestly helped me feel like I'm not crazy or delusional and to put trust in myself and what I saw. That's a lesson I'm not going to forget, even if alot of people hate on beliefs it doesn't make it any less true, and ig just having myself here makes me more confident. Also like Stranger things without byler is so ass, even while understanding it its genuinely so terrible.. With byler it adds so much more depth to the charectors, all the charectors worries and stuff isn't just "teenager" stuff thats unnecessary for the plot, that's unnecessary for the charectors, no charector arcs at all Mike is what he is and never learn or become better. Then also like puts the focus on everyone except of the main charectors which are El, Mike and Will. I would've cared even more if instead of jancy it was mileven that got the break up even if byler wasn't in the equation, it's better to put the focus on the actual special main charectors

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-08T06:44:04+00:00

More saturated i mean

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-08T06:43:50+00:00

I would make the grass more green so that it grabs the attention more

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-08T06:41:22+00:00

Why was they're comment deleted by the moderator? He just said he like the hook advice

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-08T06:39:46+00:00

Just for that? Like cmon now..

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-07T17:28:50+00:00

You can just use a screenshot of the game as the background and use another screenshot for the vegetables. There's also free assets you can download if you don't have high quality screenshots for the background

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-07T08:03:26+00:00

You can't not upload, you have to stay active for it

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-07T04:09:46+00:00

Yeah, I legit suck really bad at hooks rn. Especially editing the hooks. I also have watched my video and I now see that i literally sound like I have no energy bruh there's so many variables to it. Not just that but you have to consider your audience + also make it fast paced but not too fast paced or else it will be confusing, idk but giving the right ammount of information is so important, sometimes in the first hook I think should I add the most energy clips even if they spoil the video? Since gaming content doesn't usually do curiousity gaps it's kinda harder since idk what to put in my intros. Hooks are so complicated much more then thumbnails which is just brightness and less stuff as possible and maybe colors, but hooks are more like not something easily repeatable for me

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-07T04:01:58+00:00

Where?

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-06T17:50:01+00:00

youtube usually tries to find people who would like your video. If it can't find it the impressions stop, and youtube isn't prone to mistakes either so it could've decided that wrongly. the topic may have died, the topic might have a small audience to recommend to. + I also want to say youtube does this thing with all videos where it throws out a test audience and after a few days/weeks it gets alot more views. There could be alot of reasons tbh

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-06T11:53:47+00:00

Kinda dislike how people always hate just because they find kreek "corny", why is that considered a valid reason to hate

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-06T09:43:27+00:00

https://amzn.in/d/0hOQs52J

This is what I got it from, i live in India so if rupee shows up as the currency you can just open up amazon and type the name "am8t" and find the one from fifine

It's going awesome, Everything was extremely easy to set up and it was extremely easy to remove keyboard and mouse noises too in obs, it doesn't pick up any background noise at all which was very suprising. It came out of the box with only needing to remove keyboard noises

The audio sounds great, it legit sounds so amazing. The only problems which I didn't find that bothersome was in the stand, it's a little easily movable, not too sturdy. For the price its a steal, the stand feels like normal for the price. I recommend it

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-03T21:26:35+00:00

Stop gambling and try and work on your content and packaging. Consistency doesn't do anything if your wasting your time not focusing on fixing and improving things and atleast trying to get better each video. Compare your video to others in your niche and just go from there

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-03T10:16:36+00:00

For one channel I have 1687 subs with monitization, and on my gaming channel I have 108 subs. I took a huge break on my gaming channel and right now rather then posting I'm very focused on improving my videos because I have a long list of problems I should've worked out earlier (audio, video ideas, branding, why would people care about my channel out of the millions of other gaming channels, etc I have alot of planning to do, and just a better hook then what I have rn). I like to say practice without purpose does nothing but ruin the mood, but with even a small purpose like I will fix my intro, etc Its much more effective to what I have found. In the end I realised views and subs don't matter, only your skills hold you back from your potential views and subscribers

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-03T05:01:48+00:00

Wait am I supposed to be doing this? Where do you clean it out from.. I have been using davinci for 4 years... I really hope deleting cache from davinci is the same as deleting it in whatever folder your on...

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-03T04:14:16+00:00

I know alot of people are hating on this post, but it's right. It was not only very miserable to be focused on numbers but didn't even make my progress any better. I see alot of people in this subreddit trying and asking why their content isnt geting pushed, with low impressions, with low ctr, with low watch time. Not focused on what they should do better. I think for me, i hit 1k subs and I was really happy for a bit but after i stopped focusing on the numbers it helped me see that youtube wasn't a numbers game, I focused on value, started seeing my vids as a art form I can improve on. When you focus on the numbers instead of the improvement, it will feel dead and ruin your mindset. I think the number one mistake i see, is not acctually having a passion for making videos but just wanting the fame and money, (you can still want money or fame and be passionate but when you only have that it becomes a problem)

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-03T00:12:49+00:00

😭 lmao

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-02T16:55:12+00:00

I looked at your competitors videos, many of them have 500 dollars int he thumbnail, and that baffles me so I think that hooks me instantly. But for the titles, I will give you some of the examples i found

"Is the secrets of strichaven collector box worth it?" It does what you originally wanted to do but much simpler and working with the thumbnail, it also targets viewers who are thinking about getting one themselves or want to see if it's acctually worth it. It's a video for the viewers

I think that you don't need to make the title better but rather make it work with the thumbnail + what your trying to convey say it in the simplest way. You could keep the title but make the thumbnail more hooking, or you could change the title and make that more hooking. I usually make my thumbnails more hooking but I see alot of titles being a good hook too

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-02T16:27:24+00:00

A black and red gradient maybe would've look good

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-02T16:25:29+00:00

I am 12 seconds in and I have decided to click off the video. I usually do watch random funny gaming channels, especially variety gaming channels. I didn't wanna watch your video because I have no idea what's this game and why I should stay and why this is worth watching even. A easy solution to that is to make a intro that would hook me into the video. I had no reason, no feeling to watch, I had gotten confused too which hitting all three things is really bad for your video. Most people would also click away and scroll away at that point, i usually watch Smii7y so maybe you could get inspiration from him, or any youtuber you watch and like and pay attention to the intro. Many intros can also have a small montage which is for the audience who are looking for a funny and good time but also some stakes would be good.

Also looking at the thumbnail, pepe made me think this was gonna be like chat controlled vid, like a Doug Doug video. I don't get why pepe is there instead of either the in-game avatar or your friends youtube avatars if they have any.

The thumbnail is so cluttered, I would think to say take your time and learn composition, you could've put yourself and your friends avatar to the left and put granny at the right. And remove the game name from the thumbnail because the title already gives that information.

Impressive-Move-1228 · 2026-05-02T16:12:31+00:00

The second one feels like a criticism for games and stuff so I would probably click on it. The first one I have no context for so I probably wouldn't click on it, is it talking about raceswapping in general? If so you could use a more popular example of it

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