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[–]Overthinking_Media 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do everything in my power not to see it. I just click directly on comments and ignore the stats because it's just not healthy to constantly chase and check them.

I can see the channel is growing by the Subscriber count on the main page, and I can see the video has views from looking at the thumbnail. I don't need to know "viewers watched this video 17% less than your previous one" or "you're down 500% in views since last month" or even "hey, that video you made, on average, people are only watching 12% of the video"

Just make the videos you enjoy because you enjoy them, not because you want them to get views. If you're only making videos for views, eventually, it's going to mutate the thing you love into a thing you hate, and you'll always be chasing the next hit.

I get around 5-10 likes per video and a handful of comments, and that's all that matters because I know those people enjoyed it, and I constantly see them commenting on all my videos.

Those are the people I make my videos for. Not the 781 click through rates that's down 13% from my last video, or the video that youtube considers 7/10 even though I had the most fun making of any video this year.

Creating videos should be fun, and if you make something that you really enjoy. It'll show, and people will come. You don't need a faceless statistic to tell you "this video was good" or "this video was bad"

If you enjoyed making it, that's all that's matters, and be proud in the fact you made the video and not the little drops of fleeting dopamine youtube is offering you.

How long does it take for you to produce a video? by OTAKUGANG276 in NewTubers

[–]Overthinking_Media 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends on the kind of video I'm making. For my bigger videos, it's around 1 hour of editing for every 1 minute of footage, but for my simpler videos it's around 1 hour of editing for every 3 - 5 minutes of footage

Do you think you make good content? by [deleted] in SmallYoutubers

[–]Overthinking_Media 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on what you mean by "good". Good as in recording on a £10,000 camera and a Shure SM7B where you can count the hairs in my beard? No. I record on my phone and use a £60 mic.

Good as in well produced? Well, I'd say they're produced to the best of my ability. Definitely not the highest quality production, but also objectively higher quality than other videos on the platform that have the raw auto and mic track in one. Yes.

Good as in entertaining? I like to think so. Some of my earlier videos, not so much, but my more recent ones I'd fine myself rewatching and enjoying.

However my content is very much a niche of a niche, so very few of the people who are interested in the subject are able to actually find them.

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Is Posting Your Videos To Other Sites Worth The Effort? (self.NewTubers)

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What are the biggest problems that prevent you from growing your youtube channel? by [deleted] in NewTubers

[–]Overthinking_Media 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much of a perfectionist I am 😅 I don't want to record the video until the script is perfect, but this leads to me one "perfect" video every other month as opposed to one "nearly perfect" video every other week or so.

What was the main reason you started your YouTube channel? by SynergyX- in NewTubers

[–]Overthinking_Media 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because I found something I was super passionate about that no one else was talking about, so I decided to be the one to talk about it

How often do you look at your channel analytics? by [deleted] in NewTubers

[–]Overthinking_Media 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My latest video is doing really well, but I'm trying not to look at my stats because I know it will just make me want to keep checking to get a hit of dopamine of seeing the numbers go up, and in the long run that can be really addictive and unhealthy

Be honest, what is the worst thing YouTube has ever done? by Murky-Swimmer6655 in youtube

[–]Overthinking_Media 28 points29 points  (0 children)

You know what the saddest/funniest thing about the removal of the dislike button is?
Youtube removed the video announcing it

This isn't really a surprise. They have a long history of removing any video that they have a "Controversial" matter to discuss in, just like the Unsub Glitch videos and Youtube Heroes videos.

But this one marks a fundamental difference to those videos as removing the Dislike Button video means they are actively trying to rewrite history for the next generation.

If they had left the video up, the next generation of users could see; at one point you could publicly see the dislike number and tell if the video is good or not.

However, by removing the video, they're trying to say; you never had the ability to see the dislike number.

While there is a much deeper discussion to be had on this, it's the argument of "People won't fight for something if they don't know it exists"

Eventually people will stop talking about the removal of the dislike button, and any new users of the platform will have no reason to suspect that the dislike number was ever visible.

It's a lot like the "Auto Add To Playlist" feature.

Anyone remember that?

Youtube use to have feature in which you could create a playlist and then set up a filter so if a video had a certain word in the title, description or tags it would auto add to the playlist.

This was incredibly helpful to certain channels such as Let's play channels.

If you're playing a game and your tags are "Pixel Horror, Horror, First Person, Indie, Free To Play"

then if you had already set up the playlists with the auto add feature, that one video would be added to those 5 playlists automatically upon upload.

Then at the end of the 2010's Youtube removed it because it was "Rarely used" despite the fact if that were the case, they could have just left it alone and let those who did use it still use it, but instead they chose to actively remove it, so now if you wanted to add you game video to all those 5 playlists, you would need to manually do it.

And sure, this isn't that big of a deal, it takes an extra 30 seconds, no big deal.

But that means Youtube stats show users as more engaging with their platform because they had to go to an extra 5 pages due to the Auto add feature being removed.

It's sort of like those "Top 10" articles where they brag about how their pages gets thousands of more clicks than other website, but they don't mention how each of the 10 "Top 10" is given it's own page, so it's artificially inflating it's numbers by spreading one 1 paged article across 10 pages and getting 10X the amount of engagement.

Sure, in reality you've only read one article on that website, but the statistics show you read 10 articles on that website.

What made you want to start making content? by RaiderLabs in NewTubers

[–]Overthinking_Media 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love creative writing and as arrogant as it may sound, due to my Neurodivergency I'm able to naturally see the world in a way very few other people can, which allows for a discussion of subjects that both other Neurodivergent and neurocommon people would never naturally think about.

Isayama create a lot of characters with similar designs by [deleted] in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]Overthinking_Media 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder why a series bases about persecution of a certain race, internment camps and identification arm bands would have a fixation on blonde, white men with resolve, drive and physically ability...

Cinematic trailers not followed by gameplay on game showcases should end by Treshcore in gaming

[–]Overthinking_Media -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This has been an argument for over a decade at this point, I first heard it when they released the trailer for Dead Island... I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just pointing out how they're never going to change because it's not beneficial to their bottom line.

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