A lot of Youtube channels are reporting declining viewership lately.
EX1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpVnx4_yqTo
EX2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0tmhEtVJE
Fun times. Looks like a lot of channels are seeing a decline not just Linus. Hes just the latest to talk about it.
Then I saw this article as well and thought I would share.
Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?
Had a discussion with another creator buddy and they said it appeared that there was a load less scraping going on which inflated their viewer figures for months. I wonder if youtube is finally stopping their whole content being scraped perpetually?
When he returns the cooler block he damaged and stole, I’ll stop trying to turn people away from his content.
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Check the vids from Gamers Nexus.
The one Billet Labs confirmed they were never supposed to return and the whole thing was a misunderstanding (again, according to Billet Labs), that one?
But that’s how all drama works, the drama is popular, the later resolution is not seen by many.
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Eh. I lost any interest I had with Linus after the whole Gamers’ Nexus thing, and I’m definitely staying away after hearing what Louis Rossman had to say about the guy.
i wonder whats his problem
I did too, until many of the accusations, like the Billet Labs thing, turned out to be false later.
That’s unfortunate (for Linus), but Louis Rossmann’s story about dealing with Linus directly pretty clearly shows him to be an unpleasant person that thinks of relationships as transactional. And it is objectively true that LMG is going for quantity over quality of videos.
As other people in this thread have stated though, it seems this problem isn’t actually about Linus or LMG, it’s a greater trend at YouTube.
If you are unhappy because your views went from 2M to 1M the decline is in your mental health
Those stupid thumbnails pushed me away
I was never a fan of LTT, or his videos, but I did watch one video, his Pop os one and that immediately confirmed why.
i don’t watch him. He’s just a rich white dude flaunting his wealth. Fuck Linus (not Torvalds)
Also that video where he tried Mac OSX for the first time. All his complains in that video were that it didn’t work like Windows.
There is a difference between those willing to change something and those trying something out.
I use Apple devices at work and the sometimes ass-backwards way of hotkeys or UI decisions is really aggravating annoyance in regards to logically understanding the task needed to do something comparison to another OS like Windows.
E.g. deleting the app data of an app on iOS.
Why can’t I just reset a damn app? Why do I need to uninstall and download it again from the store??
Are people pretending that Youtube doesn’t tweedle the knobs and intervenes massively in the al mighty algorithm like it’s not just a audience mind puppet but some kind of transcendental meritocracy ?
They’ve spent the last several years playing into “The Algorithm”, to the point where most videos felt unnatural. Tight posting schedules affecting quality, topic choices, sudden endings, etc.
Not that I care, but I’m curious to see if they will switch to making content they actually care about, or double down and start doing proper brainrot.
Because people wont stay 14 to 16 year olds for long
Maybe at some point we can all stop watching and hence supporting YouTube, that’d be nice.
Try peertube?
I literally i watch a YouTube videos, as they are just a waste of time. For a given video on a given topic, the same amount of information can be obtained by a decently written blog or article that can be read in a 1/10 of the time it takes to watch q video filled by nonsense blabbering and sponsored segments for revenues. In some extreme cases, if the topic seems really, really , REALLay interesting, I may ask an LLM to summarize the video for me. People should stop linking YouTube videos altogether.
I disagree with you so you should stop posting your opinions altogether.
There’s a “block” button somewhere in Lemmy’s interface, under my profile. Just use it and go back swallowing crappy YT videos.
Lol they were quoting you bro. Maybe you should stop posting altogether
Thank you, Mr. Obvious. Now you can go back to YT as well.
There’s a “block” button somewhere in Lemmy’s interface, under my profile. Just use it and go back swallowing.
Watch veritasium videos, they are well researched and informative. I have sponsor block and ad block so I don’t get annoyed
Veritasium is not super high on my trustworthiness list after the self-driving car ad incident
I prefer to read books. Thanks. By the way, the fact that you need adblocker an sponsorblock to enjoy a few videos speaks volumes.
You also need to buy books, or borrow them from someone else who did. YouTube videos are free usually.
There’s nothing free in this world. You’re paying with your attention and at least metadata, independently on how many blockers you may use.
Yes exactly. They provide a service, you pay for it by watching ads and facilitating personalised advertising.
In comparison, some of the books I’ve bought have cost more per book than a month of YouTube premium, so the value isn’t THAT bad on YouTube.
Only if you don’t value your time.
I feel the same way. I can read really fast and get to the juice of an article faster than it takes for the YouTube video to go through the introduction, sponsors, etc.
I think the biggest channels I watch have under 4 million subscribers, and most of my channels have less than a million. I’ve never watched the big channels, so I don’t really care.
A while back, YT asked me about turning on my watch history, but I didn’t know it was off. I don’t know what that was about–I think they changed something–but my knee-jerk reaction is to NOT do what they want me to do, so I left it off. Now I just watch whatever is new from my subscriptions, and don’t have any suggestions cluttering my front page, which is a much better way to use YT, imo. So, thanks, YT.
I stopped watching LTT years ago. His channel is crap. He’s a tech personality who seems to barely understand technology, so most of his videos are just over the top bullshit and stunts. Not to mention his awful annoying vocal fry. He’s like the male Fran Drescher.
