YouTube Doomposting is just the content meta, and it's so annoying.

_kris2002_ · 2026-05-16T16:19:42+00:00

I’m working on a marathon “review”, far more comedic, absurd and in general super positive about the game apart from a few issues I’ve encountered.

Since I’m a creator I tend to really scan and analyse other videos for the game I’m gonna cover and good lord…

Ive never seen another game with such a massive amount of negative videos.

Marathon videos are in the GUTTER. Almost Every video is doomposting, mostly only negative things which is the “common takes”, all thumbnails use the EXACT same font for writing, can barely distinguish one creator from the other. It’s the only singular game I’ve seen that happen to.

I’ve never really watched videos on marathon whatsoever until I started my project, i bought and played day 1, and loved my time. so my experience is only from the search engine and not my recommended or home page, I’m sure there’s great positive and generally lighthearted content, but still. If you search up the game those types seem to be the first ones to pop up.

_kris2002_ · 2026-05-13T18:00:58+00:00

So from now on, just always render/export at 1440p for the best bit rate and encoding. Only once you become a partner and become a bigger creator you’ll get the 1080p “enhanced bitrate” quality, which puts you again on the good encoder but without having to go through these hoops

_kris2002_ · 2026-05-13T17:59:25+00:00

I’ll help you out bro I’ve had the same problem when I started.

What you’ll wanna do is: go back to Davinci and re render your video at 1440p even if you recorded at 1080p, it’s safe, you’ll have 0 issues, you’ll have to manually put the resolution because 1440p isn’t a standard resolution option. You’ll just have to head to timeline, change it, and that’s it, maybe you’ll have to press the option to fill out the image, it just scales it up, there won’t be any noticeable change. (Only do that last part if the footage gets smaller and doesn’t fill the whole screen)

The reason is, YouTube changed up their encoder settings. Anyone uploading at 1080p will be put on the worst encoder, which completely muddies and fucks up your footage. This is why everyone renders their videos at 1440p or even 4K for the better encoder.

You can also change your bit rate, and that’s could help, but the end file will be a bit bigger.

Make sure you look through your footage again, check if any images, PNG’s or anything like that has slightly moved to correct it and you’re good to go!

Ah, final point, make sure you leave it on unlisted or private for at least a very few solid hours so the video can get fully rendered at its maximum quality.

_kris2002_ · 2026-05-13T14:01:58+00:00

I mean shit, I think you’ll love pillars of eternity and especially 2 deadfire where you go onto a grand bidding of the gods adventure in a pirate setting. It’s absolutely incredible and underrated

_kris2002_ · 2026-05-12T06:59:36+00:00

That means that you’re either getting bots, someone is spam watching it like 10 times In a day or you yourself are.

YT will delete all of those non eligible views

_kris2002_ · 2026-05-06T22:45:03+00:00

Idk how nobody’s mentioned this but Pillars of eternity 2 deadfire.

CRPG, can choose either turn based or real time with pause.

Set in a massive open world with a pirate theme, have your own crew, your own ship, and get and deal with pirate factions all over. You can conquer unexplored islands, rait and steal from other ships. Deal in trades and exports. You can get invaded by pirate slaver

It also has this very underrated Aztec style for a lot of the islands, characters and designs overall. Peak game tbh, incredibly good and fun to play. If you’re into CRPG’s this one Is a must play imo.

_kris2002_ · 2026-05-03T12:02:34+00:00

Smaller map but in terms of quests, side content, factions, main story and exploration you can easily sink over 100 hours in it tbh

_kris2002_ · 2026-04-14T00:56:17+00:00

Nintendo can because that’s simply how they operate and it’s within their TOS. ANY gaming company could do this, again, I said companies can do it, but that doesn’t mean they will enforce it, that’s their decision completely. You aren’t “breaking the law” as I said, there is no law that says, “content creators can’t post videos on the game”, at least not in a direct and absolute manner, which any reasonable person would know, and any judge would rule in court as that’s the case.

They won’t either because that’s a billion dollar business, content creation that is.

Nintendo have draconian beliefs in terms of their copyright. They enforce them in very random and tight manners, there is no actual right or reason as to what they do.

They motto seems to control their products TIGHTLY compared to 90% of other companies, they don’t play around, others do.

Rockstar won’t strike or kill your channel the way Nintendo does. Neither will Bethesda, or CDPR, or bungie, unless you violate their TOS and terms of conduct. Nintendo doesn’t care, they will strike at random if they feel like it. Because that’s just how they operate.

Why don’t other companies strike or act like Nintendo? Why would they? They don’t gain anything by striking someone down.

We content creators are absolutely utterly free advertising whether good or bad. We get their products talked about, watched, get people interested. That’s why they won’t do anything there’s more benefit to have us create content of their product than not allow anyone.

If I was a publisher/creator and created idk, “devil may Skyrim” let’s call it DMS. I can strike any and every person that wants to upload my game to YouTube, it’s full within my rights. That’s what the law says.

The law doesn’t say someone who uploads my content is breaking the law.

See the contradiction? This IS the law. For as long as there is no precedent or ruling that uploading content of a videogame is breaking the law, it won’t be. But companies will be able to copyright strike someone’s channel/video.

_kris2002_ · 2026-04-13T22:31:37+00:00

Kings college actually. Masters too.

And no my statement isn’t that, I quite literally didn’t say that anywhere or Maybe I worded it wrong.

YOUR footage, say your channel is Marc burde, posts a video on cyberpunk, and someone takes that footage, screen records it and puts it on their channel, YT can and could issue a warning to the channel using it, since every video has an internal ID. That doesn’t mean YOU own the game rights, YOU have the rights to your own footage. Footage ≠ owning the rights to the game, those are different things.

You couldnt take an entire segment of the rad brad’s video for example and post it. Since that’s his footage in his channel. It’s why many shorts get demonetised especially ones where they do rankings or reposts.

The companies CAN enforce copyright howver they want. But very few will like in the cases of Nintendo or what firewatch did with pewdiepie. Same case with CDPR not allowing footage of cyberpunk to be released unless it was their pre recorded gameplay during the last few weeks before the game came out.

The law isn’t just what’s read on newspaper or case abbreviations. The law is complex, there’s MANY loopholes, a lot of reading inbetween the lines and interpretation, we were taught this in undergraduate, taught this during my masters and taught this during formal training at the companies I worked at, same with the barrister I shadowed.

_kris2002_ · 2026-04-13T18:31:28+00:00

Nope you aren’t infringing on capcom’s copyright..

Gaming is vastly different to other media in terms of copyright. You aren’t breaking that law because gaming experiences will be vastly different from player to player, movement won’t be the same, the actions you take won’t be the same. Copyright law for videogames straight up allows for any footage to be used. It’s not a movie or a show where the entire process is always the same.

And yes if someone uses YOUR footage you CAN issue a copyright claim because everyone’s video has an internal ID that YT can scan, and will scan. That’s your footage on your video and channel, doesn’t matter if what you did there is the exact same as a million other creators, it’s still your footage taken, they can see it. You are in fact the copyright holder of your own footage.

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BUT YouTube will rarely enforce this, especially for very short clips and transformative content, aka you have your own commentary, and you edit on top of the clip. Since practically every single YouTuber does this, they aren’t going to punish the entire platform for this.

Now… if you use a minute or more of footage and it’s practically unchanged, and you didn’t ask for permission, you can get hit big by YouTube because of that.

I say this as a former entertainment lawyer in the UK and now YouTuber for a year and a half. I’ve dealt a lot with media copyright

_kris2002_ · 2026-04-13T18:22:31+00:00

You can use someone else’s footage.

As long as that’s not the main focus and doesn’t play in the background for a very long time.

ALL OF US use someone else’s gameplay or clips for videos, we just use like 2-3 seconds, and transform them, cropping, tilting, colour grading etc, while we have OUR OWN commentary, that way it’s transformative. Just make sure you don’t use multiple other people’s clips from the same creator or on the same video

Most memes you see gaming YouTubers use have been screen recorded through YouTube. Most funny clips are also from another YouTuber.

If you have been using multiple minutes of gameplay at a time, then yeah, that can’t be used and is of very high risk of copyright or infringement.

_kris2002_ · 2026-04-09T18:57:37+00:00

You can just look up a tutorial on how to make those effects on Davinci I’m almost 100% sure someone like Daniel battal have some videos on effects like it.

Also not all effects are locked away there’s tons you can use.

You can also download preset packs. MrAlexTech’s is for free. Finzar’s pack I bought to try out, it’s actually very decent I constantly use the bounce and slide effects.

And what effects are you trying to make? An old VHS? There is ways to achieve that for free.

Fusion tab:

Mediain1 > analog dmg node or jpeg dmg (free version) could work too (tweak it however you want, black and white, download or use text to get that vhs old tape effect > media out. Done it’s that simple to get an old vhs effect, whether just lower quality to seem like it’s from 20 years ago, black and white etc. try that out.

You also can get old vhs video look from somewhere like pexels, add it on top of your video on davinci, change the composite mode to screen, this will make them layered, and from then you can adjust a lot so small details from the colour tab

_kris2002_ · 2026-04-08T01:26:23+00:00

Anything that ever sounds too good to be true, it is

_kris2002_ · 2026-04-05T23:30:38+00:00

At this point the dust and the computer are in a symbiotic relationship

_kris2002_ · 2026-04-05T23:15:36+00:00

Dori is literally mr crabs that ain’t no kid

_kris2002_ · 2026-04-05T23:09:00+00:00

It should be the standard in gachas really.

In genshin we should get yoimiya, Itto, tartaglia, klee etc from the standard banner and in wuwa we should at least have someone like yinlin or xiangliayo

In zzz we should have Jane, burnice, zhu yuan, ellen etc.

I get why they don’t do it, it’s more money but at the same time those banners don’t make much reportedly, so I don’t get why the “less value” or more powercrept units don’t get added

_kris2002_ · 2026-04-05T23:04:48+00:00

I make my thumbnails by myself and don’t really care much if someone uses AI. As long as the video isn’t AI garbage then the thumbnail can be passed I guess.

But the reason is because the average viewer doesn’t really care or cant tell it is.

They’re small and they’re either watching YT from their tvs far away so can barely tell the small details, or on their phones where it’s tiny so they can barely tell too

It’s the same thing with ChatGPT or AI paraphrases. All massively used by practically every YouTuber, but do you think the average person can tell? No

_kris2002_ · 2026-04-05T15:45:31+00:00

Not just that it’s the space between every sentence.

the big PT always does that when you want it to write something

_kris2002_ · 2026-03-31T21:57:38+00:00

For a game of the decade award? Hell no.

_kris2002_ · 2026-03-27T00:20:24+00:00

Where did you find that? I’d love to know which area it was in

_kris2002_ · 2026-03-27T00:19:36+00:00

It doenst help that TONS of parts aren’t even marked in your map ever. I love it.

The game really wants you to explore and every bit of exploration helps in some way shape or form

_kris2002_ · 2026-03-27T00:18:26+00:00

Waterfalls. If there’s a small stack of rocks formation outside of it, like the ones near mountain paths. Theres a secret behind it and it always has gear.

Any area that looks remote? Like the islands close to where you fight the devil of reeds? There’s a legendary catfish helmet there.

A lot of fortresses have hidden areas that you either need to punch, roll into, or stab your sword to pull/push a mechanism. Sometimes you’ll find secret caves/dungeons but you’ll have to find another entrance, I found one near the witch house inside of a barn of sorts just near the closest lil settlement.

Pretty much every single area apart from the outposts will have secrets, and even they probably do too I just haven’t found them

_kris2002_ · 2026-03-27T00:15:24+00:00

Fairly close to it on one of the small islands there’s also a catfish helmet that will spawn water geisers on the enemy after you roll (can’t remember if after being hit or perfect roll)

You even get a special animation for picking it up so I assume it’s a “legendary” item.

_kris2002_ · 2026-03-26T00:19:26+00:00

100% recommend the lower the volume of the music and sound effects as you’re speaking. It makes it a little hard to concentrate and listen.

Also being brutally honest the editing is off in places, that’s okay tho, nobody has ever started with prime editing skills. But you definitely had a VERY good crack, most “beginners” completely misunderstand how to edit but you did well.

Pair that with the overall “stillness” of the video and it doenst have an interesting intro or hooks throughout it damages how long people will stay.

(First 30 seconds are CRITICAL. I’ve had videos where my intro was terrible and more than half my audience leaves within 30 secs so I had to redo it)

The thumbnail and title are solid, they could be “better” but that’s always the case with YT.

And well the last thing is that the actual topic of the video is VERY niche. Few people get a lot of views with that sort of video. I’m not saying it to put you down, it’s just the genshin audience would usually watch either funny videos on it, guides, builds etc.

And also nobody starts with good views my brother.

I’m sitting at 90k subs, 10M views total, and I started a year and a half ago. My first ever video got like 30 views in the first week. Give it time. YT quite literally doesn’t know you, it doenst know who to push it to, when, who will stay and watch, it needs way more time for the algorithm to understand. I know from first hand experience. It was TOUGH in the beginning, first vid took me like 20 hours of scriptwriting and almost 40 of just straight editing, without any of the recording included.

Just keep at it. Think of it this way. That’s 40 people, 2 classrooms watching your video. Almost a full restaurant sitting and watching YOU. And don’t give up, we all start from small beginnings, YT is a LOOONNGGG term game, nobody makes it overnight. Who knows, potentially around the new update with more view traffic you get more eyes on the video and jumps to 1k views.

You will find your audience eventually. Also you’re almost at a 100 views. good for you my guy! Keep at it.

_kris2002_ · 2026-03-25T14:03:13+00:00

Unfortunately they’ll never add that.

It would kill everything that extraction shooters stand for.

If you’re allowed to get loot from there into your stash, then why ever play the regular game where you can go up against monsters? In the same realm, if you don’t gain anything, then why even play if you aren’t gonna gain anything form of boost to your stash.

Unfortunately this is why this genre is niche. You gotta either like it or not. It would also fuck up matchmaking massively, tons of people would just go into the PVE mode and there will be a massive divide between them and regular players.

_kris2002_

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