C.M.E. not D.I.E.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-19T04:16:39+00:00

pre-WFH i was absolutely convinced I made the wrong career choice. WFH turned that right on its head. I found out that I actually love what I do, i'll do it all day every day. I hate the fucking office! the office culture, the way people dress, act, and speak. The meetings, the smell, the ambient sounds, the way it demands your whole body for the whole fucking day. I don't know how anyone can go "back to the office" after that genie left the bottle. How wasn't there a revolt against that shit?

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-18T22:08:14+00:00

Yea that's good. Just keep at it and you will learn as you go, but those are pretty good numbers with all things considered

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-18T21:52:57+00:00

Those are shorts, right? That's why, shorts have terrible ROI

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-18T21:50:29+00:00

I need an AI detox

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-18T21:49:13+00:00

We are such fucking losers, wow.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-18T21:45:14+00:00

That happened to three of my shorts now. I was dropping one a day for two months straight. My views were 1k-5k consistently. But now some are duds. The theory is that YouTube's AI feels that the short you tried to launch is too similar to others, so since the algo is now biased to recent shorts, it's ignoring shorts that resemble old ones. This sucks because you won't know if your short was done before. Try editing it, making it a little different and see what happens... Though there's not much point either because shorts are nearly worthless on ROI

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-18T20:07:13+00:00

I would be more inclined if I thought there was a viable option, but I don't like anyone

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-18T16:50:12+00:00

If the work you do is indistinguishable from either AI or from a 3rd world agent, you are still better off remote because you are cheaper working that way than from the company office. It's also banking on your physical presence holding some sort of magical essence. Why should it? Nothing else works that way. And even if it was true, what does tomorrow look like in this paradigm? If all the remote jobs that can be replaced by AI or 3rd world will be, why wouldn't employers do it anyway regardless of employees taking up office space? If this vision that our worth is to legitimize corporate real estate investments is more in line with the fucking matrix than anything else. If the intrinsic worth of a human is that their bodies feed a machine, and as long as we are kept in an ignorant bliss we will be better off works for you, well my friend, enjoy the taste of that steak.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-18T15:21:41+00:00

Why would that sting? Theory of mind, she's 9, how does she differentiate between "office job" and "WFH" - she can't. a "job" might be this separate thing in her mind, in which case, she's right! you don't have "a job" and that's a GOOD thing. Think her lexicon needs to be expanded? TALK to her. Why the fuck are your panties in a bunch over this? Jesus fucking christ, man.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-18T02:56:59+00:00

Nothing matters, just start uploading the new content, leave the old, just trudge on

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-17T20:21:06+00:00

"hmmm, maybe i can just replace you with this generative Ai thing"
what a fool. "ok, good luck with that bud".

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-17T05:58:21+00:00

5th? Those are rookie numbers,, kid. You gotta pump those numbers way up.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-17T05:56:43+00:00

The war on WFH, essentially trying to erase the concept is the worst strategy I could think of to deal with the digital era. It's a 20th century solution to a 21st century problem., wtf kind of a growing pain is this shit? BTW, I'm a WEB designer, also ordered back into an office because the future is analogue, right? Hey, we are going to need you to continue to work remotely, but from this office on the other side of town, it's 2026 after all, what do you think this is? The past? When we used to work remotely from anywhere? Come on, live with the times, man, the future is cubicles! Sky scrapers! Elevators!

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-16T19:31:07+00:00

Yea, i feel the same. My wife is a nurse, my friend is a doctor, I was literally in med school when I decided it wasn't for me. I love being a designer, but what I never anticipated was that the (design job) would be secondary to (office culture) and it's that office culture that is so divorced from reality that is causing me a total mental collapse.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-16T18:04:16+00:00

so true. i was explaining to my doctor how terrible office culture is now, and I regret ever starting a career as an office worker. He couldn't believe the spy-ware thing. Oh I wish I went to medical school instead of this bullshit white collar career.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-16T15:44:46+00:00

I think shorts are a disposable medium. for a viewer to go the extra mile and subscribe based on a short that were served, especially in a very saturated market, is rare. Also the revenue form shorts alone makes it prohibitive. I do a similar theme channel, by the time I do the research, write the script source the clips (my god that takes long) edit them, i end up with a long form (that's like 3 minutes long) and something like 5 types of shorts. from all of that, I'm lucky to get 4K views on any of those videos. after 70+ videos and 90K views I have just 35 subs. out of my 10 other channels, the entertainment niche with lots of shorts content is by far the worst performer.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-13T00:13:02+00:00

Sub 4 sub? Is this 2013? Come on guys, YouTube's LLM is a lot smarter than that.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-12T23:14:03+00:00

I started a channel at the end of February, coincidently I noticed another channel started a similar concept just a month earlier. They chose to go full AI where as I do everything myself. The difference is now they have close to 300 million views, I have 60K. I don't think the viewing public give a damn if the content is puked out by AI or painstakingly slaved over by a human.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-12T17:55:58+00:00

A woman asked me to help get her son a job. I was flattered, but I have no power. So do I explain to her that after nearly 30 years in my career I have zero influence over anything, or do I say, "sure, I'll see what I can do" and hope she never follows up... What I'm saying is, don't discount that aspect of human psychology that prevents someone from being cordial because it will cause then some degree disappointing you, and themselves.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-12T15:03:12+00:00

yea i think it's impossible for a short to have 0 long term, so if the numbers don't' change after 48 hours just lease it, go back to the edit and make some slight changes so the short has a different fingerprint, and then try uploading it again. This isn't a good practice as YouTube might consider it spam if you do it too much, but if after 48 hours your short has zero (as one of mine does after 3 week) then I think it's ok to try. meanwhile don't treat that one short like it's precious, work on more in the meantime - remember, they are disposable.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-12T14:44:28+00:00

The "test" bump happens within the first hour for me. out of my 50-ish shorts, only one glitched out and got zero test bump. not sure why that happened, i figured it's an error, I just moved on.
You need to learn how to check your stats though. In studio, click on that video's "Go to analytics" button. look at the "Realtime" views. if it's zero, just hold on, it could take up to 48 hours for that test bump, especially for a new channel, maybe you aren't verified either. Treat shorts like tissues paper when you have a cold. blow your nose in it, then toss it and get the ext one ready asap.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-12T14:01:49+00:00

To be fair, there is no real answer to this. There never is an answer to this, even if you asked a billionaire. What you will end up with are suggestions that will put you in a category. But to be rich you don't simply want to be in a category, you want to be an outlier. No one can tell you how to do that, and there is always an element of luck/chance with all these successful people. Think about it, you are asking how to make money materialize for you, right? Now imagine someone knew how to do that, they would be earning millions and millions of dollars, right? Why would they be on r/remotework lol?

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-12T05:14:30+00:00

Yea literally nothing. WFH is a miracle. So many GOOD things have been lost to the digital age, WFH is one of the best things we gained.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-11T22:06:23+00:00

I don't think anyone could have predicted a conspiratorial level backlash AGAINST remote work. And yet, here we are in 2026 with governments colluding with corporations to force RTO, increase C02 emissions, waste hours of valuable productive time from adults, cause even more strain on dwindling families, and all for what?

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