You know what? It's about time for some Youtube drama.
Intertwined? Psh! Give that a 9 outta 10.
OH SHOOT! ROASTED!
Dodie got roasted, okay. Might as well be an almond because she's toasted (unintelligible)!
I don't even know what I was trying to say there.
There is some hot goss, going round the community right now.
Such hot goss that I've been spreadin', might as well call me Ryan Gosling, okay.
Don't actually... call me that.
It has to do with views.
Now another youtuber by the name of h3h3Productions
which I believe I talked about in a video 3 weeks ago
just uploaded a video on the same topic a couple days ago
And I'm very happy he did, because I, at this point thought it was just a UK issue
Maybe the US youtubers were doing great
Nope, turns out it's everyone
If you haven't watched that video yet, by him, please go watch it
And while I mostly agree with all of his theories, I also have extra insight to add to the conversation.
About 4 weeks ago I uploaded a video
where, within the first five minutes of me uploading it, I realised something was wrong.
It wasn't being delivered the way it normally is.
Well how did I notice that?
It wasn't getting as many views initially
and as a youtuber that gets most, the majority of my views, between the first 24 to 48 hours
It was a bit upsetting
But you know I just let that roll of my shoulder
and I thought "that's obviously something to do with me"
Maybe my content isn't the best today
and no one even got a chance to watch it to say that
they just didn't wanna watch it
Okay
Move on to next week, the same thing happened, but worse
And this is when I started asking quesions
and I started noticing, a lot of other youtubers in the UK were experiencing the same thing
Now I'm not one of those people that's going to be complaining and saying
"Oh no my videos aren't in the sub box, what's going on?"
Because I feel like that's just a typical youtube response to, I don't know, becoming irrelevant.
But I've always been irrelevant, so that's not my problem
After talking with over ten youtubers in the UK, with all of us feeling the same thing
It's obviously systemic
It's not something to do with me, or with just one other person, but all of us
And therefore I believe, something happened at Youtube.
Now I do have some contacts at Youtube and I reached out to each of them like,
"Hey, do you know what's going on? Because, like everything from these youtubers has been bombing.
Do you know if you've changed the algorithm a bit, you know, you scamps?"
Each one of those people told me "oh no, there has been no algorithm change".
And there's two possible reasons they told me that.
One, I've heard from many sources that the marketing team
and the engineering team do not talk to each other at Youtube.
Which is a bad thing
I mean, communication's really important in any job
but the engineering team can be like "boop boop bop messin' with some stuff"
and the marketing team will not know about it.
So that's a possibility.
Or two, they do know and they're just advised not to talk about it
because that's just the path Youtube is going in right now
and they don't want to upset anyone so they're just gonna sweep it all under the rug.
Now I'm not in any way trying to bite the hand that feeds me.
In fact, I'm just playfully biting, like a puppy, asking for food "please feed me, Youtube".
Why did I do that? That just looked gross.
Because I have heard from sources that when you make a certain video
that angers Youtube, they have the ability to flip a certain switch.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory but
I mean I've seen stats for a certain channel which I'm not talking about where
makes a video, upsets Youtube, everything kinda goes downhill.
And now I'm a conspiracy theorist but
I mean, I'm just saying that I know that it's a possibility.
I just wanna get the word out there that Youtube is changing, and it's a bit scary
and in case you don't see your faves' videos in your youtube feed, there are ways around this.
Now, it is a shame that the subscribe button isn't what it used to be.
It used to be, from what I used it for,
"I really wanna watch all this content, I wanna make sure I don't miss any of these videos".
I mean, that's what it was for.
But nowadays it's more like a "I'm mildly interested in this content
and I think I might wanna watch a video later"
and Youtube's like [WHISPERS] "you don't, you'd rather watch this one".
Which is fine. That's always what it seems Youtube is doing, they're constantly doing that
Fine, I'm going to try and embrace that
If you're a youtuber, or if you're a viewer
and you want to sadly embrace the inevitable
I've got some tips for you
One: meet the bell. The bell on desktop and the bell on mobile
This is the new subscriber button
so if you haven't hit this button for my videos yet, and you really wanna make sure you don't miss a video
Please, do this, tingtatink, click that bell
Why? It is the subscribe button. You get notified
you can join the notification squad, if you will
and be notified whenever I make a new video
Now I'm not saying "hurry up and go through all your subscriptions and bell everyone"
because I can imagine that'd be really annoying
Do you remember when instagram, like a couple of months ago, changed their algorithm
and every single youtuber posted this image on instagram, like
"Instagram's changed, if you wanna make sure you don't miss my instagrams add me on notifications"
Can you imagine having every youtuber on instagram notifications?
Like, oh, there's another selfie. Hey mom! Oh, another selfie, oh-
Like, I don't got time for that
Basically what I'm recommending is: if you don't wanna miss any videos from a certain channel that you really like
and you want to "actively subscribe," please click that bell
So if you do like my stuff, please, click that bell
If you're a youtuber and you're wondering what you can do to kind of fix this whole situation
I have some extra tips for you as well
Because I've heard from multiple sources, for instance: tags don't really mean anything anymore
That's weird
All about that title, all about the description
So, fill out your description with lots of stuff, "with links?" you might ask
Despite the fact that, in the past, Youtube said "loads of links are great in the description"
I've just heard from someone, this week, that Youtube has now changed that
and they're saying "don't let people click away from Youtube
because if people click away, to your twitter for instance, as a link in the description
they will not watch any more videos and the algorithm will affect you" and geez
It's almost like a catch 22
Basically, I don't like this conversation, I don't like having to talk about this
I wish Youtube would just do good for- for people
It'd be nice
But that's just the current situation
and as with every Youtube update, you have to adapt to survive
If you don't, you die
I'd really like to give Youtube the benefit of the doubt here and think that maybe they really don't know what's going on
and four weeks ago things just changed and they're trying to fix it
I mean, that'd be nice
Either way I'm still trying to help you as a creator or you as a viewer
make sure you can watch the stuff you wanna watch
or make sure people that want to watch your stuff, can
So, the best bet for you right now is that bell
so if you haven't belled yet, bell-ieve it, you should
Puns
So do you think I'm right or do you have your own conspiracy theories about what's going on with Youtube right now
Please be sure to leave them in the comment section below
And if you're wondering where I am right now and how I'm being lit by the sun
as opposed to the giant soft box in the sky known as "British clouds"
I'm in Los Angeles, and I always associate LA as my happy place
I mean, it's the first place I ever travelled to in my life
and every time I go, I always end up hanging out with friends
I know a lot of people in LA, and so the last month has been tumultuous
if that's the right word
I've been up and down, but LA, with the palm trees, the good weather, the sun, the friends
I'm feeling a lot better. So, yeah!
I'm really enjoying the fact that I can go outside wearing just a t-shirt in the month of november
Definitely couldn't do that in England right now
And of course I am travel vlogging while I'm over here
so if you haven't checked out any of those vlogs I've uploaded on my travel vlog channel
please go do that, because, they are pretty rad
Anyway, the sun is going down, so thank you very much for watching this video
and if you haven't belled me yet, please be sure to do that at the end of this video
Thanks, I'll see you guys next week, goodbye
So if you haven't seen any of those yet
please go watch them, 'cause, they're rad dad!
Oh...
it's too soon