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!
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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!
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