So I've been thinking this over for the last month or two and I've decided to make some pretty big changes to the channel. This has been fueled in part by the life stuff that happened late last year and also a trend I've been seeing on YouTube increasing recently. ALSO I'M DOING A Q&A SO PLEASE ASK ANY QUESTIONS THAT AREN'T "DO X VIDEO" IN THE COMMENTS.
As anyone who's watched one of my live streams will know, I play WarThunder from time to time and because of that I get recommended some WT YouTubers sometimes too, there's a guy called Ash [youtube.com/c/Ash0077] and he's not been doing great, so if you happen to watch him go give him some support, but he posted something that was kind of eyeopening, he had uploaded a video that hadn't done so well in the first couple hours and so a few hours later he removed that video entirely, posting an apology for removing it and explaining that he did it because YouTube has taken it's algorithm to the extreme and he actively has to remove certain videos so not to tank his channel.
This isn't the first time I've seen posts or videos like this in recent months, and it's coming from channels of all types, and combined with the aforementioned other factor has made me want to step back a bit and focus on quality rather than quantity.
I'm not happy with the videos I've been putting out for a while now, simply because I'm not making what I want to be making, of the last 6 months of videos, the Philippines and Kuwait music videos have been the only one I've been enthusiastic about. My comments sections after the first day or two seem to end up being a request list, I end up rushing to make something at the end of the week because I have no motivation to make music videos in general, I've boxed myself into a corner where I'm "the music video guy" and I feel like the quality of my channel is suffering greatly for it.
All of this to say I'm going to be making some changes, I'm going to try put out at least one video a month, but it's going to be what I want to make. It may be a music video, but it'll be one I want to make and it'll be with a topic and a song I want to use. It may be a documentary like the Malta or US Civil War video. It may be a video about an unknown topic or an old book I have or a documentary that I think people should see. It may even be alternate history, which pre-2019 viewers may remember from my World War 3 adaptation I made a test video of. I'm also going to try stream a bit more.
I realise this may alienate a good chunk of subscribers but I think it's what's best for me and I'm going to be unapologetic for that. We're living in interesting times which are effecting everyone and I'm not going to allow myself to keep doing something that, if I carry on doing the way I'm doing, I will come to hate, especially considering it's a hobby I've had a lot of fun doing for almost 10 years now.
Anyway, the thing you're all probably here for. It's been 2 years and 110,000 subscribers since the first Q&A so I think it's time for another, especially since I keep getting a lot of the same things that weren't covered in the first Q&A asked in streams.
Leave questions below, I'm going to be ignoring any "Do a video on x topic" questions, I don't mind the super outlandish ones I get in streams, but they're not really great for standalone Q&A videos where I can't discuss them with the question-asker.
MajorSamm
A LONG CHANNEL UPDATE.
So I've been thinking this over for the last month or two and I've decided to make some pretty big changes to the channel. This has been fueled in part by the life stuff that happened late last year and also a trend I've been seeing on YouTube increasing recently. ALSO I'M DOING A Q&A SO PLEASE ASK ANY QUESTIONS THAT AREN'T "DO X VIDEO" IN THE COMMENTS.
As anyone who's watched one of my live streams will know, I play WarThunder from time to time and because of that I get recommended some WT YouTubers sometimes too, there's a guy called Ash [youtube.com/c/Ash0077] and he's not been doing great, so if you happen to watch him go give him some support, but he posted something that was kind of eyeopening, he had uploaded a video that hadn't done so well in the first couple hours and so a few hours later he removed that video entirely, posting an apology for removing it and explaining that he did it because YouTube has taken it's algorithm to the extreme and he actively has to remove certain videos so not to tank his channel.
This isn't the first time I've seen posts or videos like this in recent months, and it's coming from channels of all types, and combined with the aforementioned other factor has made me want to step back a bit and focus on quality rather than quantity.
I'm not happy with the videos I've been putting out for a while now, simply because I'm not making what I want to be making, of the last 6 months of videos, the Philippines and Kuwait music videos have been the only one I've been enthusiastic about. My comments sections after the first day or two seem to end up being a request list, I end up rushing to make something at the end of the week because I have no motivation to make music videos in general, I've boxed myself into a corner where I'm "the music video guy" and I feel like the quality of my channel is suffering greatly for it.
All of this to say I'm going to be making some changes, I'm going to try put out at least one video a month, but it's going to be what I want to make. It may be a music video, but it'll be one I want to make and it'll be with a topic and a song I want to use. It may be a documentary like the Malta or US Civil War video. It may be a video about an unknown topic or an old book I have or a documentary that I think people should see. It may even be alternate history, which pre-2019 viewers may remember from my World War 3 adaptation I made a test video of. I'm also going to try stream a bit more.
I realise this may alienate a good chunk of subscribers but I think it's what's best for me and I'm going to be unapologetic for that. We're living in interesting times which are effecting everyone and I'm not going to allow myself to keep doing something that, if I carry on doing the way I'm doing, I will come to hate, especially considering it's a hobby I've had a lot of fun doing for almost 10 years now.
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Anyway, the thing you're all probably here for. It's been 2 years and 110,000 subscribers since the first Q&A so I think it's time for another, especially since I keep getting a lot of the same things that weren't covered in the first Q&A asked in streams.
Leave questions below, I'm going to be ignoring any "Do a video on x topic" questions, I don't mind the super outlandish ones I get in streams, but they're not really great for standalone Q&A videos where I can't discuss them with the question-asker.
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