Youtube has issued a warning that Creators are probably going to be losing subscribers
over the next two days.
And this drop is going to be huge, youtube said that this drop in subscribers is going
to be noticeable.
Its like ugh I worked so hard to get those subscribers and now you’re going to take
them away youtube?
There are some definite positives to this big negative, so don’t get too upset just
yet.
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Youtube is cleaning house.
But the difference between you cleaning your house and youtube cleaning its house is that
you’re going to see a loss of subscribers.
And also youtube doesn’t clean its house in its underwear.
Caman I know you do.
Soooo here’s the deal.
Pay attention because this concerns you.
Over the next two days, youtube is going to be purging spam accounts, which means that
if you’re a creator, you’re going to see a significant drop in subscribers.
Every time youtube purges spam accounts, sub counts have gone down by quite a lot.
Youtube announced on Thursday that it deleted 1.67 million channels in the 3rd quarter of
2018.
80 percent of those channels youtube classified as spam violations.
Those channels had 50 million videos which were also deleted.
Youtube finds these videos using quote industry leading techniques and proprietary technology.
Creators are going to be notified over the next few days if their account was affected
by fake subscribers.
When you go into the creator studio, you will see a little banner.
On the plus side, once these spam accounts are gone, there are only going to be real
subscribers left.
In a tweet, youtube said, ‘this should help give you confidence that the subs you do have
are real fans…yayyy.
like I get youtube is trying to put a positive spin on it but like ugh I’ve been struggling
to get to 10k subscribers on my personal channel.
But I’m not going to complain about my sub count for too long, I actually have it okay.
The huge bummer here is, if you’re a channel with 1 thousand subscribers , you officially
meet the thrreshold for monetization.
The purge could make subscriber counts dip below that threshold so you will no longer
be eligible for monetization until you reach 1 thousand subs again and apply.
I will also take this opportunity to address all those people who say that IO bought fake
accounts because we have 1.1 million subscribers but we dont appear to have view counts that
match that.
this right here, this purge is proof that our subscribers are real.
News channels on youtube typically aren’t favoured in the algorithm.
Im not really sure why, I think it might have something to do with how often news channels
post, and also the fact that our videos aren’t 10 minutes.
If you look at a channel like Tomo news, a news channel with more than double the subscribers
as IO, their videos, initially only get 2 to 3k views.
So from that perspective, IO actually does pretty well for a news channel on youtube.
SO THERE.
In other youtube news, Because the platform is experiencing a lot of pressure from the
media, Youtube is also currently doing a purge of content.
They also said that they also deleted 7.85 million videos that were detected by automated
systems.
These videos were deleted be violations of its guidelines prohibiting spam and adult
content, as well as low volume areas like violent extremism and child exploitation.
224 million comments were also deleted because they violated the spam community guidelines.
Even though youtube regularily does these purges, a lot of content gets past its radar.
The youtube algorhytm still recommends extremist content.
Because of this, youtube has been the subject of several investigations on how it highlights
extremist content and allows it to spread.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai had to give a congressional testimony about a conspiracy theory involving
Hillary clinton and other politicians and celebrities drinking childrens blood.
One of the main places these conspiracy theories spread
is youtube.
Pichai admitted that youtube is constantly undertaking efforts to deal with misinformation,
but there was more work to be done.
The purge should officially be over by the weekend, so once your subs drop, they shouldn’t
drop again.
Let me know in the comments, did your sub count drop, please complain I love complaining.
For now, that’s all I have for you on that, I’m going to respond to some comments.
Wind ward – what do you call a fake noodle.
An inpasta.
Chaleur Magnifique – how many subs do I need to get noticed.
Subs don’t matter.
Tap water – we need io to upload hourly.
Nooo im tired.
Just a breeze – IO is becoming woke.
Thank you for having common sense.
Snowy – if pewdiepie says something I immediately agree.
True.
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