Why Doesn't Fran Make Videos Anymore?

Yea - I'm trying that but the end credits format I use is against what the algorithm wants.

Fran Blanche

Late to the party here but I recently heard it mentioned (by LTT) that a big boost to a channel is to immediately watch another video from that channel. Might be worth a try, by asking watchers who reach the end of one of your videos to click on another (you can add link place cards at the end to make this easier).

Simon York

It has happened to me, repeatedly.

Same here, and it isn't any better for "Premium" members. For days now the twelve promoted videos shown at the end of every video I watch ARE THE SAME TWELVE videos!

GrayRaceCat

Well I just upped my tier in order to help (I hope).

Nicholas Cassavaugh

I basically just periodically check on channels I like and see what is up.

Fran Blanche

Yes, it happens.

Fran Blanche

It has already been documented thoroughly over the last decade or so, that YouTube denies doing it but all evidence to the contrary that they periodically purge subscribers from the system.

Fran Blanche

I too was unsubscribed and had to rejoin. Fran, look into that?

Donald J Arndt

Yeah I've heard cases like that, I don't think I've seen anything near as bad personally but maybe I'm just lucky or curate my subscriptions list differently or something weird, who knows.

Shame Boy

Can confirm. Subscriptions is about 70% accurate, but in no way covers all of my subscribed channels. I am forced to go down the links on the left looking for round new contents icons, and the go to the page and check for the latest videos. It is irritating, and even when I am paying attention, I can miss new content.

veritanuda

I've actually found that youtubers that I thought I had subscribed to had mysteriously been unsubscribed. It was only seeing them on my home page that prompted me to resubscribe. It is possible that my kids have been messing. As it's my youtube account on the family TV. I whilst I know you work very hard creating content, I do wonder if less is more and maybe releasing slightly less content would bring more views. I'm just thinking of people like "8 Bit Guy" I find that as he only posts one or 2 videos per month I eagerly watch them and they get my full attention (even the long ones).

Jon (0ryn) Westgate

There's some pretty good investigations out there on how blind demand for bigger numbers tends to build systems that radicalize people and generally makes life worse for everyone. Like an innocuous example would be if you look up a few things on jogging, sites will try to get you into running marathons, because the people who are super into a topic generate the highest engagement numbers and those numbers are how you sell your site to investors and advertisers. Now apply this to topics that aren't as innocuous as jogging and you can imagine how bad this kind of thing can get, entirely automatically, as a side effect of something that seems completely unrelated. Not sure if I have a point here other than Fran, do what makes you happy and I will keep watching. I don't know if you can keep the lab going on just people like me, but man do I hope so.

Shame Boy

I've heard people say their subscribe page is *also* messed with by ~the algorithm~ or something and they miss a video here or there. I've noticed that myself maybe once or twice, but nowhere near the level of people missing videos because they're just expecting the home page to show them everything and it's actually hiding 90% of the content *they subscribed to* because it doesn't score well enough on metrics or whatever.

Shame Boy

It's bizarre that more people don't like, use the "subscriptions" page of youtube instead of the home page. It shows you the latest videos people you subscribe to put out, in chronological order, with no algorithmic bullshit. That is all it does. It's great. And yet a ton of people don't even know it exists apparently? What exactly do people think "subscribe" means??

Shame Boy

Fran, you obviously put a whole ton of work into your channel. That's an understatement. I didn't know about all this "hamster wheeling" and trend monitoring. It almost sounds like in order to be "popular" you have to have an open door policy for all of the negative off-subject commenters and invite total chaos into your videos. While the faceless YouTube algorithms cast you aside, you know you have people who really enjoy, learn and benefit from your content. I know it's cold comfort, but with attention spans getting shorter by the year, I have no idea how to fix it. All I can do is be an appreciative patron and stick by you as those charts go up and down.

Matt Wietlispach