so I was just making my rounds over there on Twitter and I happened to see
hashtag save socialblade trending and I'm like oh my god we finally got to sit
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some of you might be wondering like why why are people trying to save
socialblade well this is something that people have been talking about because
YouTube just came out with news that they are changing the visibility of
subscriber counts okay and what they're going to be doing is they're basically
going to like be wounding them so when you see them instead of it saying like
you know fifteen point three million it'll just say fifteen million I won't
say like fifteen million three hundred sixty-six thousand four hundred
thirty-two it'll just say fifteen million
all right now a conversations been happening between YouTube and then third
party platforms like social blade like how will that affect their API okay so
not to get all techno tianyou but a website like social blade is pulling
data Oh YouTube for their website to run and
socialblade is a place where youtubers can check their own numbers but anybody
out there can go and check the numbers of different youtubers alright there's a
long and short of it so it's going to affect it and people are freaking out I
see so many fellow creators on Twitter freaking out I think PewDiePie said
something keemstar said something my boy I never
said something and you guys we have to have a conversation about how social
blade is affecting your mental health not only is it affecting the mental
health of creators it's affecting the mental health of the audience and like I
just tweeted about this too like it literally reminds me of my days in like
my addiction when I was like wondering when I was gonna get the next pill that
I can crush up and snort and the idea that I might not have those pills
anymore I started freaking out like that's how people are acting the same
thing happened with Instagram announced that they were playing around with the
idea of removing visible lights and don't get me wrong let me make it very
very clear I am a data nerd okay I can spend hours in the YouTube analytics I
can spend hours on social blade just kind of looking at things because I like
to take data and see what I can improve I like to take data about myself in my
life and that that is how I see if I'm improving how am i doing what's working
what's not working so in that sense I get it I get it but on the other hand
too like we have to face the reality that there's a lot of sick twisted toxic
things going on with these numbers okay so what are the arguments that
socialblade has is talking about like the live subscriber count feeds right
and it talks about the one between PewDiePie and t-series okay like I get
it I get what they're saying there but here's what I want you to think of
socialblade ask like Big Pharma okay Big Pharma knows they're creating drug
addicts with things like opioids like socialblade ain't dumb like most if not
all major social media applications and things like that
they have people who are literally there to figure out ways to get you hooked on
their platform okay and socialblade is definitely one of them they're trying to
figure out ways to get you hooked on your plan on their platform so like I
don't really like how they're like what we like to show the numbers in the
competition like I want everybody to sit back sit back for one second and
honestly answer this question aside from PewDiePie versety series when
has there ever been a healthy subscriber count' feed competition don't worry I'll
wait you can't think of one all right like when when this was announced it was
right around the time of the the recent drama with James Charles and T Westbrook
and Jeffrey star and this isn't new this is not new okay
like when drama happens that people get quote-unquote exposed but people are
watching the subscriber feeds like it's a freakin bloodsport okay I've made a
video about this I was talking about how like at one point like when I went into
the live subscriber count there was like over 20,000 people just sitting there
watching these numbers go just walk in like what are you doing like what do
what is happening because we as people we experience schadenfreude ah okay and
that is getting pleasure out of somebody's pain as a creator I can tell
you this it's happened to me and I've seen that happen to many other creators
when people don't like you they like to point out your flaws right and something
they often do is they point out your subscriber numbers and they use that as
kind of a kind of a little job to you a little a little knife stab right and
that's what blows my mind about creators like oh yeah hashtag same social blade
like creators are in such a state of denial if they're not going to admit
that things like social blade keep them in a state of anxiety right like you
guys something that I had to work on during my mental health break something
that other creators have talked about like a lot of creators are sitting there
refreshing their numbers like I Las Vegas so the best way I can kind of
like I give you something to relate this to if somebody like mindlessly sitting
in front of a slot machine or a video poker machine just completely zoned out
just tap in and tap in and wasting life away right and people are doing this
with their social blade numbers they're just refreshing refreshing refreshing
refreshing all right and they're saying did I go up did I go down and when they
go up they get a little dopamine hit when they go down they feel a little bad
about it and it's crazy that people are I don't know if they're unwilling to
admit it or if they actually don't know that it's happening like I'm trying to
sit back and think and understand I'm like okay
create your best argument for having socialblade like create your best
argument okay my best argument is it keeps a pretty a pretty long track of
somebody's growth in different statistics and everything like that look
if I'm being honest with you the YouTube analytics back-end does the same exact
thing all right the only difference that I see is that
social blade keeps us live subscriber count okay now something else the social
blade tried to argue is we like to celebrate milestones we love to
celebrate milestones like anybody I can't believe like social play like the
the board members of social blade or the creatives a social blade I you know what
we need to create a website that you know really highlights people's
milestones no social blade knows that people are getting addicted to this and
when I see my fellow creators like freaking out about this and trying to
make up excuses as to why this thing should exist I'm absolutely blown away
it reminds me of like an alcoholic who gives you every every excuse on earth
like why they need to go to a bar like no no I don't want to go to the bar to
drink they just they just have the best they just have the best chicken wings in
town you know what I mean like think about that for a sec
and I'm more than happy I am more than happy to hear from all of you down in
the comments below if you want to present me with your best arguments as
to why social blade should exist but here's the thing for as much as people
try to throw social blade numbers in people's faces and everything like that
but anybody who's been around here for the last two months based on social
blade I've lost a ton of subscribers the reality is I've gained more subscribers
more new subscribers than a lot of people okay
I was cautionary to even mention that in this video but this is something that I
realized was that social blade was affecting my mental health and and
people aren't even seeing the full story with social blade you know what I mean
so aside from social blade just creating something where people can watch it like
it's a bloodsport keep creators addicted to it I really don't see the point in
why should it and why it should exist alright and I hope if any other creators
are watching this if you make some videos about this and like you want to
change my mind I am more than happy to hear other sides of this conversation
but from my relationship with myself and social blade and my relationship with
other creators my relationship was seeing how the community uses social
blame I can't think of too many positive aspects of social blade so with all
these changes happening right now I'm not I'm not really worried about it I
think it'll actually help a lot of people and a lot of people don't realize
how much their anxiety will be reduced how much their depression will be
reduced if they cannot keep obsessing over their numbers because at the end of
the day if you are basing your self-worth on those numbers there are
much bigger issues that you need to address baby girl all right anyways
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