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Do you think GTA 6 will actually release in November 2026 or do you expect another delay?

1 month ago | [YT] | 95

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Back in 2021 I made a poll, and it aged like fine wine 😂

1 month ago | [YT] | 65

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YouTube introduced a new feature called 'community posts'. If you're a subscriber of this channel, you can now try to post something here. It's gonna be moderated, so every new post will need my permission to be posted (for obvious reasons 😆), but if you wanna start a conversation, talk about some games, ask me stuff or create a poll, you can now try to do so. I promise to approve posts that are interesting 😉 I'm kinda curious how that works btw

1 month ago | [YT] | 23

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Rockstar keeps edging us 😆

1 month ago | [YT] | 45

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Okay, at this point the algorithm is just trolling me, I swear 😂

1 month ago | [YT] | 18

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Yesterday I posted a little rant where I talked about how fkin wild the current YouTube algorithm is when it comes to recommeding videos to viewers. And as if the Almighty Algorithm wanted to prank me, just a few hours later I saw this abomination. What you're looking at is a chart showing views per hour on one of my recent shorts. As you can see, for the first few hours the views are kinda slow, then they SPIKE 6000% (that's 6 THOUSAND PERCENT) within a single hour, and then the views magically drop to like 200-400 per hour again immediately after.

Thank you for proving my point once again, YouTube. It seems like the current algorithm simply has a tap with views and arbitrarily decides to open or close it hour by hour seemingly based on nothing. It's unpredictable, bizarre and not organic at all. The algorithm just does random shii and it's impossible to predict what will happen. One hour it may appear like the video is blowing up, and an hour later the same video might be completely dead.

What it means for me as a creator and you as subscribers is that it's pretty much impossible to build any meaningful community in these circumstances. Because it's not actually YOU who decide to watch my videos. It's decided by the algorithm that will either show them to you or not. And no one knows how the algorithm works so I can't even try to appease it. You could be my most enthusiastic subscriber with all the notifications on, and it's extremely possible you will never see most of my content just because the algorithm hid it from you. Kinda dystopian, but that's where we are right now. Now I'm waiting for a new record! Maybe the next video will get a million views in the first hour and then 0 in the next one. That'd be funny!

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 166

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You see... this comment really makes me wonder if the "88" in your username is just an innocent date of your birth or if you're some n@zi that needs to be banned from the channel immediately 💀

1 month ago | [YT] | 65

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If you saw these 2 at the bar, which one would you ask out? Watch 'How to Life (on a High)' - a comedic 'High On Life' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoE06...

1 month ago | [YT] | 25

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One thing that really annoys me about running this channel is the fact that YouTube relies on its algorithms to a ridiculous degree. About 90% of the time, I feel like I'm not making videos for actual real people to enjoy, but that I'm trying to please some lines of code that determine if my video is even SHOWN to people or not. Most of the time I look at my analytics, I see that the views are inorganic and precisely controled by the algorithm in a very strict way.

YouTube used to be way simpler. Creators made videos, their subscribers got notified and then they watched. Now, it feels like the subscriptions are pretty much meaningless because the algorithm does whatever tf it wants anyway. And it becomes painfully obvious every time I look at my analytics. You see, if the views were organic and depended only on real viewers (their preferences, their time, the time of day etc.), you would expect to see a natural curve. The views would fluctuate hour to hour but stay in a similar range and follow some trend - they would increase or decrease over time.

But the sight like the one below has become a norm in recent times. Just look at this shii! The algorithm started to show my short to viewers in the first few hours, then views decreased a little, then there is a big spike, then 2 slow hours, another spike, then back to slow increase and then the algorithm just says: "f*** you, that's it, no more views! 5 views per hour is the best I can do!"

I mean, Jesus! What the f*** am I looking at? What am I supposed to take away from this? The views are all over the place and there is no rhyme or reason to any of it. The algorithm is magically deciding if the video gets views this hour or it it doesn't. It randomly decides that a video goes viral or that it gets completely buried. From my experience, it doesn't really matter that much if the video is good or what it's even about. It doesn't seem to matter how many likes it has. It doesn't seem to matter how much watch time it has. And it doesn't seem to matter how many comments it has. The performance of my videos (whether good or bad) feels RANDOM and ARBITRARY.

Every time I look at a graph like that, I just laugh at it because I can simply see through the Matrix code. I see how fake and arbitrary it all is. I wish it was simpler. I tend to think about making videos as a form of art. And ideally, I'd like to work in such a way that I improve my videos over time and I get rewarded for higher quality with more views from the viewers. This seems like a natural and sensible way this should work. But that's not how YouTube works currently. Now, the best way to be successful is to just to spam mediocre videos as often as possible and just hope that SOME OF THEM go viral. 'Cause why not? If the success depends on the whim of the algorithm and not much else, what's the point of trying to make something good? Why not settle for barely edited gaming clips slop? Some of these slop gaming channels are doing fantastically well! The only reason why I'm not doing it is because I always cared about standards and wanted to favor quality over quantity. So I'm gonna keep doing that for now.

Anyway, the rant's over and I'm going back to work. To the 50 subscribers out of 225K that the algorithm will show this post, thank you for watching and see you next time! A few more 'High On Life' shorts, and then I'm probably making a cool comparison video that pits 'AC Mirage' against the original 'Assassin's Creed'. And I'll try to finish the LEGO Star Wars series before the end of the year cuz a lot of you liked that.

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 57

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Yo, I made the best 'High On Life' video on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoE06... You should maybe watch it! Especially now that the algorithm is f***ing up my video uploads again. No pressure, though 😂

1 month ago | [YT] | 6