Bucky Hoover

This is getting ridiculous. My YouTube feed is flooded with the same exact thumbnails. Wide eyes, fake shock, neon colors, same vague one-liners, all engineered, all trying to bait a reaction instead of actually saying anything.

At this point, if I see a thumbnail like this, I instantly lose respect for the creator, and they lose all credibility. Doesn’t even matter what the video is. I’m hitting “Not interested” without a second thought. This is what is making me despise YouTube and want to leave the platform altogether. You can literally see the formula now. Same faces, same expressions, same urgency, same recycled mystery hook. It’s not content. it’s psychological bait. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Feels like YouTube is turning into a wall of clickbait clones, and it’s killing the platform. For me, this has the exact opposite effect they are trying to have. It's instant repulsion. YouTube isn't what it used to be, and it's honestly too flooded. It's just about to the point of walking away entirely. It's an algorithmic swamp of clickbait to be monetized and get views. No longer a long-form feed. It's encouraging 15-second attention spans and doom scrollin, and if you want to be seen, you compete for people's attention, and it's just too much. I can't stand it. And there's like nowhere to go... everything is paywalled... damn. The internet is cringe. It's turned into a market. Everyone is throwing crap at you like a madhouse.

1 week ago | [YT] | 2

Bucky Hoover

Dang 😳

1 week ago | [YT] | 1

Bucky Hoover

Bandlab, Facebook, & Instagram exclusive. Check out Everybody's killin' Themselves from the Self Destruct album

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1 week ago | [YT] | 1

Bucky Hoover

I love this guy

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 2

Bucky Hoover

Anyone else remember Boaty McBoatface? 😢

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

Bucky Hoover

Many people ask if my songs are real—especially “Cigarettes & Sugar.”

They are. About 98% of what I make comes straight from real events and what they carved into me.

A couple weeks ago, I was digging through a box of old papers and found something I didn’t expect to still exist—the article “chair dancing chick” wrote. It’s the only copy I know of. The original’s gone. This one’s beat up, almost 20 years old, hard to read in spots… but it survived when a lot of other things didn’t.

Out of everything I’ve lost, this made it.
So here it is—“I Need a Cigarette.”

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1 month ago | [YT] | 10

Bucky Hoover

Go check out Julz Jahooligan and give his channel some love!

https://youtu.be/byC2wLbdhH4?si=h_xA_...

1 month ago | [YT] | 1

Bucky Hoover

The Wide World of Web

https://youtu.be/x_QmvZRS85U?si=TDlYv...

1 month ago | [YT] | 2

Bucky Hoover

I want to clear this up directly, because YouTube makes it confusing if you don’t know how I work.
There are effectively two versions of me on YouTube. One is my actual channel, the one I control and interact on. The other is an auto-generated artist page created by my distributor when something is officially released. Viewers mostly experience that as one thing. I don’t. Comments on distributor uploads don’t notify me unless I go looking, which is why it can seem quiet from my side even when people are talking.
YouTube is not where my albums are born. It’s where things land.
This channel is a dumping ground in the literal sense. If I make something and it needs to exist somewhere, YouTube is where it goes. Sometimes that means a placeholder image because YouTube requires one. Sometimes that means a song that isn’t finished yet. Those uploads are not official releases. They’re works in progress. Early forms. Drafts that may change, get rebuilt, or disappear before ever being tied to an album.
Most of what you hear here isn’t made in real time. It comes from a library of things I’ve already done that sit in files. Some started as instrumentals and lived that way for a long time. When lyrics show up later, I add them and the track changes. Some tracks were built in real time with people who started out as listeners. In those cases, they wrote the lyrics and I brought them into life sonically. Same channel, different origins.
Albums take a long time. Obliviotype took a year to make before anyone heard it here. Self Destruct has taken two years and still isn’t released. I only have a few officially released albums, even if YouTube makes it look like I’m constantly dropping projects.
The timing is intentional. The space between posts is the experiment. I’m watching what happens when a track sits. How people find it. How long it takes. What carries and what doesn’t. That’s why you might see uploads close together, then nothing for a stretch. It’s not inspiration bursts. It’s release timing.
When that library runs out, things catch up to real time. And real time means there may be nothing. I don’t force songs. If nothing has sparked yet, there’s nothing to post.
I can do what I want on my channel. This isn’t marketing and it isn’t a rollout strategy. When the channel got bigger, I had to adjust how I use it, but the work itself didn’t change.
So if something sounds unfinished, familiar, or different later on, that’s why. You’re sometimes hearing music mid-evolution, not a final statement.
Nothing random about it, even if it looks that way from the outside.

3 months ago | [YT] | 6

Bucky Hoover

Thank you @NikiTrail-t6e8m for being a listener and having me in playlists☠️ -Bucky

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