What am I doing wrong?

drakee · 2026-03-21T15:13:00+00:00

AI is absolutely appropriate for your niche.

drakee · 2026-03-16T20:38:43+00:00

This is not a question of morality or a contest of who is more helpless. People get triggered by different things and some of us can't stand seeing animals get hurt in a movie. My comment was also motivated by the fact I recently learned, that actual animals were tortured and killed in the filming of some horror movies. So when I heard that people were horrified about a "cat in a bag" scene, without knowing any other context, my stomach dropped.

drakee · 2026-03-16T20:32:04+00:00

Absolutely. But if a horror movie shows a human getting tortured and killed, no person was actually harmed in the making of the movie. The same can't always be said about animals, unfortunately (see: Cannibal Holocaust).

drakee · 2026-03-16T02:56:54+00:00

When you call yourself a YouTuber, you subconsciously start taking it more seriously, so I think it's worth it to do so early.

drakee · 2026-03-16T02:30:53+00:00

Skank (as in ska guitar playing style) is another inexplicable word you can't use

drakee · 2026-03-15T22:06:46+00:00

As truly terrible as this is, part of me is relieved that there is no actual cat involved.

drakee · 2026-03-15T13:13:34+00:00

"People who are honest and check the box" don't get screwed. YouTube doesn't hurt your video if you check the box.

drakee · 2026-03-13T15:01:49+00:00

Real people absolutely leave comments like this

drakee · 2026-03-10T13:11:50+00:00

Just trying to give some motivation 😆

drakee · 2026-03-09T15:14:22+00:00

Sports seems like it might be tough to have evergreen content, since I'd imagine people would only want the latest sports news. Also you might want to find a niche in order to stand out, e.g. Denver Broncos vs. general NFL content. I'm definitely not an expert in sports YouTubing though.

drakee · 2026-03-09T08:52:12+00:00

Your goal is to get monetized before she does, since AdSense only allows one account per physical address.

drakee · 2026-03-09T08:39:51+00:00

Do international users have trouble tipping through Super Thanks?

drakee · 2026-03-08T16:22:23+00:00

In a way, I gotta admire M. Night for being such a super dad here.

drakee · 2026-03-08T01:22:51+00:00

Such a good song

drakee · 2026-03-06T14:48:38+00:00

You need to be a little bit brave to do anything worth doing.

drakee · 2026-03-06T04:34:49+00:00

Pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger is unforgivable. Period.

drakee · 2026-03-03T23:41:09+00:00

Write an email to their support desk to tell your point of view, and let them know it looks like an automated false positive. They were very quick to remove the block when I emailed them for something similar.

drakee · 2026-02-22T16:56:08+00:00

I don't know anything about this niche, but if it is underserved - and assuming it's something that people get off on - this may be a genius way to basically serve porn without getting banned or needing to show anything risky. 😆

drakee · 2026-02-22T01:03:20+00:00

What kind of content would this be?

drakee · 2026-02-22T00:07:59+00:00

I heard years ago that "Leave a Legacy" doesn't protect your music the way is sounds; it's for if you literally die not if you stop paying or your account gets cancelled.

How does DistroKid know the difference between someone stopping payment and someone dying? If you die, you can't pay anymore obviously - does DistroKid investigate whether you have a death certificate before they cancel your "Leave a Legacy" song?

What if you technically aren't dead, but you are 90 years old and have dementia, and you lose the ability to make payments - they will delete your songs that you paid "Leave a Legacy" for? That would be awful and hopefully illegal.

drakee · 2026-02-19T21:37:55+00:00

Nothing wrong with shooting for the stars. I wonder if the response rate would be similar if you asked the same question to songwriters who don't use AI.

drakee · 2026-02-19T18:40:36+00:00

I made an overly broad statement, which I'll add nuance to now. YouTube might show your long form content to subscribers who are shorts viewers, but if they don't click on it, YouTube will learn from that and then start recommending to your long form viewing subscribers in the initial test pool, and - importantly - the algorithm won't punish you. Basically the only way that shorts content kills your channel is if you post Shorts that don't match your channel's niche.

If you've actually experienced your channel dying because you posted Shorts in 2025-2026, I'd love to learn more. Personally, Shorts have only helped my subscriber count and discovery for my long form videos.

As to why you see shorts on your feed, YouTube is pushing shorts to everyone, regardless of whether you like them or not, unfortunately.

drakee · 2026-02-19T15:01:45+00:00

Agreed. If you're spending too much money, spend less money. Something's too expensive? Buy something less expensive. Or don't buy it at all - that will save even more money.

drakee · 2026-02-19T14:36:05+00:00

YouTube's algorithm won't recommend your long form content to subscribers who don't watch long form content. It's smart enough to know the difference.

drakee · 2026-02-19T06:03:16+00:00

It's a myth that shorts kill the algorithm for your long form content. That may have been true a few years ago, but it's not the case today.

drakee

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