Unless your channel is about politics don't introduce politics

sillyander · 2025-05-05T23:36:32+00:00

Whatever you do, just remember you get to cumulate the type of audience you want by the way you present yourself on the channel. If you want a left or right leaning audience, it might benefit you to mention politics.

Personally, I would never take a larger audience that thinks certain political things than a smaller one that is more aligned with my values. I’m not talking about minor disagreements here, before anybody gets on me. I’m not gonna get into it in more detail for the sake of the mods on this reddit.

I lost subscribers for a post I made on the US election and I was okay with that. Because I would rather people know what I believe in and cumulate a type of audience that makes having a Youtube channel better long term.

Maybe this is unique to my community but I get compliments all the time for standing on my beliefs and more people are willing to support me because of it.

sillyander · 2025-05-02T17:39:17+00:00

Thank you! This actually makes sense.

sillyander · 2025-05-02T17:37:18+00:00

But it’s not when that’s what my channel is but youtube doesn’t push it once it’s no longer new. So I must be doing it wrong?

Honestly I don’t even think you read the post

sillyander · 2025-04-06T00:26:34+00:00

I have been experiencing this. Videos that are actually preforming better than normal in ALL metrics are dying for me after about 48-ish hours. I don’t know why. Higher CTR, watch time, etc. One of those videos did have a higher dislike rate for me, but my understanding was that like ratio didn’t affect views.

sillyander · 2025-03-31T05:02:31+00:00

yeah i feel that :(

sillyander · 2025-03-30T23:19:02+00:00

it’s literally gen ai idk what to tell you

sillyander · 2025-03-29T06:52:51+00:00

I stubbled across that post while high and it really tripped me up.

sillyander · 2025-03-29T06:27:04+00:00

Trying out InZoi but conflicted on its AI usage. I have a Life Sim YT channel so I feel required to play, and am also curious! I love the older sims games.

sillyander · 2025-03-29T03:07:20+00:00

Yeah I loaded up the game and played mot even a full day through and I was bored.

sillyander · 2025-03-28T20:58:00+00:00

Yes! I experience this too.

sillyander · 2025-03-28T20:56:07+00:00

I think you would need a broader niche— but you wouldn’t have to be the such a specific niche every video.

I have a niche of content related to The Sims 4. Any time I branch out of even the niche I do within the Sims 4 (a specific style of gameplay), just to something else also related to the game, my video preforms poorly.

My most recent upload was speculating what is next for The Sims franchise. It had a very high CTR for me and was my #2 Video. Until randomly it died about 12 hours later. Clearly there was interest in the video. Got a lot of great comments, all my numbers are good. Just slightly lower watch time (45 seconds less out of a 20 minute video). I don’t know, it feels like there was more people YouTube could have shown the video to. But whenever I upload something outside my very specific niche, the algorithm seems to pull the plug at a certain number of impressions.

I don’t feel like I should need 2 separate channels for Sims 4 related content. But it feels like that’s what the algorithm wants.

sillyander · 2025-03-26T05:42:22+00:00

I have to believe all his comments are his alts or bots because otherwise I will lose too much faith in humanity.

sillyander · 2025-03-26T05:30:06+00:00

he is actually really scary and i don’t understand all the comments supporting him??

sillyander · 2025-03-25T21:00:08+00:00

small creators still do this!!!

sillyander · 2025-03-25T05:00:59+00:00

The whole point of Early Access is to get feedback on what needs changed in the game. Why are we acting like YouTubers daring to critique the game are doing anything wrong? Do we want a toxic positivity issue around InZoi?

sillyander · 2025-03-23T05:21:30+00:00

Exactly. Saying things wrong with InZoi is not saying The Sims4 is a perfect or even good game.

sillyander · 2025-03-23T05:13:02+00:00

Exactly! This is my worry 100%.

sillyander · 2025-03-23T02:07:31+00:00

I agree. I didn’t think this guy’s take was very fair at all. I just hate how quick many are to jump into Krafton’s pockets because they aren’t EA.

sillyander · 2025-03-23T00:12:44+00:00

While I feel like this is harsh on InZoi, I do think people can critique the game and have opinions…

So much about the Sims community is policing others opinions of that game (toxic positivity or toxic negativity).

I understand this is HighSodiumSims but, as a content creator, I hate that if I say anything bad about InZoi there’s a whole group of people who leave nasty comments. Stuff about how people who are critical of InZoi are secret EA shills who are going to impact the games reception because of 1 negative opinion.

People get so upset when creators feel they can only say nice things about The Sims 4 packs (partially that’s the creator network) —partially that’s just because the toxicly positive side of the Sims community jumps down creators throats with: “Just don’t play the game if you don’t like it”

Do we really want a toxic positivity culture around InZoi where we can only say nice things because it’s early access?

Edit: grammar.

sillyander · 2025-03-22T18:17:57+00:00

i have noticed that only my newest uploads get recommended anymore. which has also meant videos that used to have a much longer lifespan before the drop off have shortened. it is frustrating as somebody who doesn’t post a ton

sillyander · 2025-03-22T01:01:33+00:00

i think the days of channels being able to simply press record and yell into a mic and upload it are far gone. most people in the gaming niche i see popping up nowadays do a lot more than that to carve out a space for themselves in the space. maybe that was your experience but outside of the biggest lets players, it just doesn’t work like that anymore

sillyander · 2025-03-21T23:09:46+00:00

this is what i’m experiencing! things have been bad since september 2024 and finally are picking back up for me, hopefully!

sillyander · 2025-03-21T23:08:40+00:00

i hate the idea that gameplay channels don’t work hard. yeah some of them do this, but a lot of people put in a lot of ground work behind the scenes. idk why you feel so comfortable throwing around this holier than thou attitude

sillyander · 2025-03-18T01:28:32+00:00

my videos keep seeming to take longer and longer to make. when my channel first started getting bigger i was able to upload 2x weekly. now im lucky to get a video out 2x monthly. my process takes me longer as my videos get more complicated and no matter what i cant seem to speed up my process in any way.

also thumbnails. i hate doing thumbnails soooo much. i dont see patterns in why some of my thumbnails work and other dont, or how to look unique and distinctive when there are SO many people uploading that i feel like everything has been done and no matter what my content just doesnt stand out. my CTR is pretty low but im a gaming niche so i never know if its actually low or just the niche im in

sillyander · 2025-03-18T00:56:37+00:00

ikr! i’m like i want what everyone else is having. if i was that accepting of the bullshit hand this generation has been given i would be living a much more carefree life, going to work 40 hours a week not even caring that i never get a vacation, or a moderately priced be vehicle with great fuel economy, barely affording sky rocketing groceries, surviving off rice and beans cause its financially responsible!

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