Absolutely, I can relate to that frustration. I often find myself manually searching for my favorite channels or clicking on the Subscriptions Tab to hunt down a specific channel because, as you mentioned, it seems like notifications occasionally slip through the cracks. It can be quite a hassle, but staying dedicated to the content you love is worth the extra effort.
I completely agree with you. I am not a content creator, yet. As a viewer and subscriber I have become increasingly annoyed with the changes happening at UA-cam. That has spurred me on to searching for other platforms to support. Clearly the philosophy has changed at UA-cam. UA-cam does not seem to be creator or supporter friendly anymore. It seems like greed is taking over the company and that is unlikely to change. As for Patreon, my hope is that creators will offer very low dollar amount levels along with their higher options because there are some channels that I would like to support even if I don't really fit in with their target demographic. For example, I am not an artist that draws but I find your videos on this channel and your Creators First channel to be very useful so I would like to show my support even if I don't have need for the art tutorials. Anyway, thank you for posting this video. I think UA-cam is having their "jump the shark" moment so it's likely time for everyone (creators and viewers) to start looking around for other options. Best of luck to you.
Yeah, UA-cam started nagging me last week about running an ad blocker. They want me to spend a lot of money on Premium or shut off my ad blocker and watch the ads. They were going to cut off my access after 3 videos. I can't stand advertising, so my time on UA-cam has gone through the floor. Waiting for the next best thing.
I dislike shorts, and for long form video content (including streaming TV), I watch about 95% UA-cam. Disappointing that UA-cam is trending towards short, viral clips and away from the quality content that creators like yourself have been producing for many years
I totally hate shorts, first I unsubscribed from everyone that had more than 5 shorts on his channel, but then youtube started showing them in my subscription page separately, so I was forced to install an extension on microsoft edge "noshortsplease" to prevent them from showing up in my list. I just hate them, why can't they make normal videos and if you use your phone, the correct way to hold your phone is diagonally. Anyways, I hope you never leave youtube, because even when I'm not that active in drawing and painting anymore, I still love to watch your videos.
I think segmenting your content on to different channels as well as turning comments off on a lot of your videos probably didn't help. Just a thought. Also, I'm pretty sure UA-cam can still show ads on your videos if they want to even when you turn them off. I believe they added that to the Terms last year or maybe the year before.
I have experimented with comments seveal times over the years and it hasn't had a measurable effect either way in my analyitics. Segmenting defintely did have at least some effect, but other channels are having the same problem who have not done that. Also in regards to showing ads on videos where I disabled them, it only applies to channels not in the YPP: support.google.com/youtube/answer/2475463?hl=en
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I really hate shorts: you can't put them into a playlist or skip around in the video. UA-cam also angered a ton of people with their recent Anti-Adblock where they were cutting off our ability to watch videos if we had an adblocker enabled. Way to alienate your user base youtube.
UA-cam gave me a warning for a "spam" comment the other day, which I think was because I used words suggestive of software piracy(but were actually about open-source alternatives). It's discouraging as a user too. I want to leave detailed commentary on creator's videos. They put a lot of work in, and I want to respect that.
I moved already to rumble and bitchute. UA-cam went crazy with censorship. I won't support that. And now they harassing people for not paying for youtube premium.
Just want to say how much I have appreciated your videos. You are inspiring and such a good teacher. Big thank you. Well done for speaking out. Hope you have come to the conclusion that you are the best.
The other thing about short form is its ruined every platform. Most creators are just uploading the same content to IG, FB, tik tok and YT. So the days of looking at art on IG, fan pages on FB, long form on YT and streams on Twitch are over. Its all watered down now.
things have changed and will continue to change because publicly trading companies have to out perform past expectations and so not everything lasts forever but viewmanship and that hasn't shown any decrease. the one thing that has decreased is income for all in this world.
You're probably right to hop off the youtube bandwagon honestly. With the recent update to stop people using ad blockers it looks like youtubes days are numbered. Atleast in terms of growth as a business.
Very interesting content, I have always really enjoyed your videos and it is really sad that UA-cam and there leadership is hell bent on destroying this unique and wonderful entity for greed and money. Just know that your content is beautiful and impactful to many people, and nothing can ever take that away. Best of luck and God Bless.
Interesting video. I haven’t been watching your videos lately because I’m just not interested currently. Though I’m sure I’ll look through your content and might find a helpful tutorial. I appreciate you trying this new leaf of not having ads on your videos, superchats, etc.
You’re great I hope your content still is posted here although you have to make a living, there’s no doubt that the powers that be are playing around with the algorithm.
Shorts are just a distraction. I've found myself spiraling downward on a shorts/tik tok binge at times. The thing that always stands out is how i always walk away feeling like i wasted a huge chunk of time with no return on investment. If others are like me, they don't actually enjoy short form content, they just get sucked into the vortex.
@Aaron Rutten Its not use. While I am micro compared to you, my tablet review videos did really well for scale. I think in my case, the market dried up because almost all tablets are good now. Plus, there are less people in the market now to buy pen displays. Shorts has killed long form. I am pivoting to live streaming and havent posted in 6 months. Im not giving up but I am doing new content. (At some point)
What a great video Aaron. I've been looking at the past 2 years at my own insights and have come to the same conclusion. The short video format works well for entertainers and comedians, but a large group of us artists rarely are all that. Once we were comfily growing our audiences with nary a problem, garnering thousands of views, likes and shares, growing our livelihoods alongside it and now even with all that growth and improvement we garnered over the years, our reach is limited to about 1 to 5% unless it somehow triggers several little algorithmic keystones that make things go viral. I too can recommend to everyone out there that it's probably good to have social media around, but focus on your products on the side. Either things come around again for us on social media, or it won't. Either way, if you don't put all your eggs in this basket of treadmilling content out, you'll have nothing to fear! And I agree Aaron, if sponsors and clients want to monetize your videos, they better pay you good, ideally based even more on how well the video does!
I'm one of those viewers who hates shorts. I won't watch them. I wish there were a way to make the feed stop showing them to me. I'm very grateful to people like you who are still putting up long format videos. Thank you! I hope you hang in here and things pick up again for you.
I’ll be honest the landscape of UA-cam has changed dramatically. Art stuff used to be viewed regularly. Jazza is having the same issue even if his channel is able to maintain a few hundred thousand views, it is still gradually decreasing every year. It’s the algorithm that’s changed heavily not viewers. It’s recommending videos that don’t even make sense. I don’t have a channel that I upload to but have been getting videos into my recommended that have nothing to do with what I watch. Why? I think it might have something to do with peak interest or actually how many people find that video in their feed. I’ve seen countless times where a video released a decade ago somehow gets Viral only because it’s recommended to so many people. Curiosity gets the better of you after your recommended it over 10 times. Wacky thing is it could have the most default thumbnail ever generated by UA-cam but it will still get the views. This means that in my eyes at least. The thumbnail does not matter at all. It could be a photo that doesn’t have anything to do with the video and it will still gets clicks only because of what I previously mentioned. TL:DR you are not to blame. UA-cam changes the algorithm all the time. It has failed to help smaller channels with niche topics or content and only appeals to trending stuff/big established UA-camrs. This is bad because it’s against diversity in the UA-cam Ecosystem. And sometimes, it does not make sense either way. Wacky nonsense.
wow youtube goes greedy years ago and starts offering cash incentives for content and it makes big channels big money but then along comes competition with short content making as many click-throughs in an hour as big channels make all day because 'long content is long' and decided that they had to adapt so they implemented shorts, found it to be the cash cow they wanted due to heavily established infrastructure, forced conversion is necessary and that includes forcing ads on people who have no interest in those nonse and the people who thought the offer of making money from ads pushed by the platform was a good business model are now finding out how stupid it was of them to bite that golden apple i got no sympathies for distressed creators who took the google cash, they made the choice to put their future in the hands of a company who decided the motto 'dont do evil' was a Bad Thing and had it removed from all google property
There in lies the problem. You want us to create content but you aren't willing to support it directly. There's nothing wrong with creators making money, we shouldn't have to work for free, just like you don't. But I agree that ad revenue was not the best way to make that possible. It was the only option at the time because of this "free content" attitude.
I’m just at the beginning of the video. I think what’s happening is that UA-cam is flooded with people, so it’s hard to get to the top. I’m thinking this because I self-published a book a long time ago and had it on Audible. It was doing well. Then everyone started self-publishing and then it just did average. Venues come and go. I think UA-cam might be on its way out for many people and that means there’s something new and better out there that will become popular next.
Shorts are a waste of time. I don't view them. From what I can tell, I rarely get notifications of new releases from my subscriptions. I stumbled across this video from you although I've subscribed.
you bashed youtube for its hidden agenda but honestly man you started to close your comment section for months, ofc it would have ramifications, you say youtube doesnt show your videos to more audience and suppressing your channel, honestly i think it is you who did that, im not a youtuber nor work for youtube, but i dont need to be either to understand people are less likely to watch a video when they know there is no place to have a discourse or feedback. it creates a once sided atmosphere which people generally dont apperciate. i dont want to sound like a hater but as someone watched your channel for at least past two years, ive been watching your videos less and less over time because it feels like an unwelcomed enviroment.
By that logic, I should be seeing some difference in my analytics with comments reenabled, but nope. I have disabled comments in the past and it never made a difference. Plus this is happening to channels who never disabled comments.
This tiktok/reel/short plague spreading everywhere is painful to watch. I hate it with a passion. Shorts feel especially out of place on youtube and are terribly implemented, lack of playback controls or even volume...
i can tell your content isnt recommended much... i watch you and brad colbow somehow he gets lots of recommendmentds and you a lot less.. funny enough now that you made a video on this you get reccommended.. hmmz also i can see by looking at my gf sons cos media behaviour . kids these days cant even watch a video longer then 5 min before swiping to the next .. its insane.. and i dont get it. i love watching stuff for 10 to 30 min. the idea i get short clips thrown at me and i need to swipe themas if im on tinder is not appealing
You need hire sssniperwolf maybe... Maybe it's a Gen Z thing, when I see these young people, they think they're smart and don't need to learn and they end up being very stupid. It's very sad if that is going happen what you said... :(
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Honestly, I'm getting tired of my feed swamped by clearly AI-generated content, long or short form. It's making me start to question why I visit UA-cam. Sadly it's going to get ever harder for human creators to cut through all the AI "noise".
@@kennethrohen5963 lol dond be silly. it might get you but the time before real ai exists (sentient) and not just a selflearning program emulating human behavour whilst not being able to think on sentient level is long enough that i wont be there anymore lol
Since a week or so I switched back to Firefox together with Ublock to block the adblocker. Hell no I'm paying a sub for a website that making my stay here worse by the day. I hope YT gets taken down a notch or some proper competition grabs their change. Wish you the best as a creator regardless. Hope you don't take a too big hit because of all this.
The problem is across the board for creators that aren't considered mainstream media, such as CNN, NBC, ABC, etc. Content doesn't seem to matter much as I've seen this problem with everything I watch on YT from art to entertainment to fashion to politics. Even creators that have been on since YT started 15 years ago have noticed low volume across the board. They are killing what made YT special in the first place in favor of mainstream media.
If you just take a pick at drama regarding jackfilms you could get an idea who yt prefers on the platform this days. And with clear open war on adblockers, I would rather go and pay 10-30$ monthly fee on schoolism or save up for colosco course. UA-cam should know that seeing ads unrelated to content, annoying and often harmfull or fishing ads during videos makes me hate the ad and product in it. p.s. yt premium is not available where I live, so often no real options left besides to support on other platforms.
I went ahead and bought UA-cam premium for my viewing experience, but prior to that I wasn't watching it anymore due to the way UA-cam inserts ads. I completely understand that ads need to happen to generate revenue; however, the way they are inserted was extremely disturbing to me. They're just stuck in randomly in the middle of sentences or important segments, which is jarring and takes me out of the flow. If they were inserted at natural breaks, or where creators planned for a break, I could take it, but I can't deal with them the way they are. It's also why I stopped watching TV - completely. Now, I decided to buy UA-cam Premium, as I said. But a lot of people I know are going elsewhere.
Shorts are a rathole and I won’t watch them, time wasters. To date, I’ve never installed TicTac and refuse to purchase products with ‘as seen on TicTac’. Instead, I watch real content such as yours Aaron and I’ve been doing this for years because of the admiration I have for how hard you and other artists work. That you share knowledge of art and tablets is generous, you’ve always been a beacon in the dark. I love how well you edit what you record and waste no time saying what you mean. When your comments were turned off I asked Skip Allen if he knew why, hoping nobody was harassing you. Today is the first chance I’ve had to stop by and say hello and ensure you know how precious you’ve been to the art community. I hope you never leave but understand your concerns as they are like those I'm hearing from other content creators, entirely valid. UA-cam needs to rethink how they are treating everyone, viewers included. Blessings to you on your journey and know you have many admirers who stand with you on this.
I watch a lot of shorts. I'm too old for TikTok, and I feel like shorts are better than Instagram reels. I really miss when Instagram was just pictures, and prefer shorts because I feel like I get to opt into watching shorter content when I want to instead of being forced in by Instagram.
I’d give you 2 thumbs up if I could. This isn’t just a UA-cam trend but even platforms like Etsy, Facebook, Instagram…it’s all getting to be shallow and valueless content.
I am curious why you get that impression when I have tutorials for several dozen art and design applications on my channel and other channels dedicated to Corel Painter and Rebelle. Maybe they are not easily found?
Thank you Aaron for this contribution. I'm happy that this post reached me without any hastle and I agree with you. Without quality content creators like you, UA-cam will die earlier than you, because eventually, sooner or later, people will begin to see that their lives are just too short for getting advertisements shoved through their throats a great part of their valuable time. In due time, I will find you on patreon, or maybe on your brand new advertisement channel on youtube... 😁 Anyway. Good luck!
I am hearing this from a lot of content creators. Is there a way to wake up the algorithm? I don't know the answer. If there is something we, your consumers, can do to fire things up?
What I mean is that if it's a matter of having to pay UA-cam to promote myself, then that might be the only way to awaken the algorithm. But I'd rather get fewer views and instead more direct support from fans through memberships and product sales.
@@aaronrutten It looks like I need to step up my game, to support you (and my other favorite creators). I have been rather non-present, for a multitude of reasons.
Absolutely, I can relate to that frustration. I often find myself manually searching for my favorite channels or clicking on the Subscriptions Tab to hunt down a specific channel because, as you mentioned, it seems like notifications occasionally slip through the cracks. It can be quite a hassle, but staying dedicated to the content you love is worth the extra effort.
I completely agree with you. I am not a content creator, yet. As a viewer and subscriber I have become increasingly annoyed with the changes happening at UA-cam. That has spurred me on to searching for other platforms to support. Clearly the philosophy has changed at UA-cam. UA-cam does not seem to be creator or supporter friendly anymore. It seems like greed is taking over the company and that is unlikely to change.
As for Patreon, my hope is that creators will offer very low dollar amount levels along with their higher options because there are some channels that I would like to support even if I don't really fit in with their target demographic. For example, I am not an artist that draws but I find your videos on this channel and your Creators First channel to be very useful so I would like to show my support even if I don't have need for the art tutorials.
Anyway, thank you for posting this video. I think UA-cam is having their "jump the shark" moment so it's likely time for everyone (creators and viewers) to start looking around for other options. Best of luck to you.
Yeah, UA-cam started nagging me last week about running an ad blocker. They want me to spend a lot of money on Premium or shut off my ad blocker and watch the ads. They were going to cut off my access after 3 videos. I can't stand advertising, so my time on UA-cam has gone through the floor. Waiting for the next best thing.
Bravo, Aaron. I appreciate your explaining all of this.
I dislike shorts, and for long form video content (including streaming TV), I watch about 95% UA-cam. Disappointing that UA-cam is trending towards short, viral clips and away from the quality content that creators like yourself have been producing for many years
I totally hate shorts, first I unsubscribed from everyone that had more than 5 shorts on his channel, but then youtube started showing them in my subscription page separately, so I was forced to install an extension on microsoft edge "noshortsplease" to prevent them from showing up in my list. I just hate them, why can't they make normal videos and if you use your phone, the correct way to hold your phone is diagonally. Anyways, I hope you never leave youtube, because even when I'm not that active in drawing and painting anymore, I still love to watch your videos.
I have bought a wacom 27 inch pro because of your review! You are great dude and I also bought your coral painter course!
Awesome! Thank you!
I think segmenting your content on to different channels as well as turning comments off on a lot of your videos probably didn't help. Just a thought. Also, I'm pretty sure UA-cam can still show ads on your videos if they want to even when you turn them off. I believe they added that to the Terms last year or maybe the year before.
I have experimented with comments seveal times over the years and it hasn't had a measurable effect either way in my analyitics. Segmenting defintely did have at least some effect, but other channels are having the same problem who have not done that.
Also in regards to showing ads on videos where I disabled them, it only applies to channels not in the YPP: support.google.com/youtube/answer/2475463?hl=en
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Sadly, I fear at one point or another, Google/youtube will just monetize your channel regardless, if too many people do this.
I really hate shorts: you can't put them into a playlist or skip around in the video. UA-cam also angered a ton of people with their recent Anti-Adblock where they were cutting off our ability to watch videos if we had an adblocker enabled. Way to alienate your user base youtube.
UA-cam gave me a warning for a "spam" comment the other day, which I think was because I used words suggestive of software piracy(but were actually about open-source alternatives). It's discouraging as a user too. I want to leave detailed commentary on creator's videos. They put a lot of work in, and I want to respect that.
I moved already to rumble and bitchute. UA-cam went crazy with censorship. I won't support that. And now they harassing people for not paying for youtube premium.
Just want to say how much I have appreciated your videos. You are inspiring and such a good teacher. Big thank you. Well done for speaking out. Hope you have come to the conclusion that you are the best.
The other thing about short form is its ruined every platform. Most creators are just uploading the same content to IG, FB, tik tok and YT. So the days of looking at art on IG, fan pages on FB, long form on YT and streams on Twitch are over. Its all watered down now.
things have changed and will continue to change because publicly trading companies have to out perform past expectations and so not everything lasts forever but viewmanship and that hasn't shown any decrease. the one thing that has decreased is income for all in this world.
You're probably right to hop off the youtube bandwagon honestly. With the recent update to stop people using ad blockers it looks like youtubes days are numbered. Atleast in terms of growth as a business.
Very interesting content, I have always really enjoyed your videos and it is really sad that UA-cam and there leadership is hell bent on destroying this unique and wonderful entity for greed and money. Just know that your content is beautiful and impactful to many people, and nothing can ever take that away. Best of luck and God Bless.
Interesting video. I haven’t been watching your videos lately because I’m just not interested currently. Though I’m sure I’ll look through your content and might find a helpful tutorial. I appreciate you trying this new leaf of not having ads on your videos, superchats, etc.
You’re great I hope your content still is posted here although you have to make a living, there’s no doubt that the powers that be are playing around with the algorithm.
Shorts are just a distraction. I've found myself spiraling downward on a shorts/tik tok binge at times. The thing that always stands out is how i always walk away feeling like i wasted a huge chunk of time with no return on investment. If others are like me, they don't actually enjoy short form content, they just get sucked into the vortex.
@Aaron Rutten Its not use. While I am micro compared to you, my tablet review videos did really well for scale. I think in my case, the market dried up because almost all tablets are good now. Plus, there are less people in the market now to buy pen displays. Shorts has killed long form. I am pivoting to live streaming and havent posted in 6 months. Im not giving up but I am doing new content. (At some point)
What a great video Aaron. I've been looking at the past 2 years at my own insights and have come to the same conclusion. The short video format works well for entertainers and comedians, but a large group of us artists rarely are all that.
Once we were comfily growing our audiences with nary a problem, garnering thousands of views, likes and shares, growing our livelihoods alongside it and now even with all that growth and improvement we garnered over the years, our reach is limited to about 1 to 5% unless it somehow triggers several little algorithmic keystones that make things go viral.
I too can recommend to everyone out there that it's probably good to have social media around, but focus on your products on the side. Either things come around again for us on social media, or it won't. Either way, if you don't put all your eggs in this basket of treadmilling content out, you'll have nothing to fear!
And I agree Aaron, if sponsors and clients want to monetize your videos, they better pay you good, ideally based even more on how well the video does!
I'm one of those viewers who hates shorts. I won't watch them. I wish there were a way to make the feed stop showing them to me. I'm very grateful to people like you who are still putting up long format videos. Thank you! I hope you hang in here and things pick up again for you.
I’ll be honest the landscape of UA-cam has changed dramatically. Art stuff used to be viewed regularly. Jazza is having the same issue even if his channel is able to maintain a few hundred thousand views, it is still gradually decreasing every year. It’s the algorithm that’s changed heavily not viewers. It’s recommending videos that don’t even make sense. I don’t have a channel that I upload to but have been getting videos into my recommended that have nothing to do with what I watch. Why?
I think it might have something to do with peak interest or actually how many people find that video in their feed. I’ve seen countless times where a video released a decade ago somehow gets Viral only because it’s recommended to so many people. Curiosity gets the better of you after your recommended it over 10 times. Wacky thing is it could have the most default thumbnail ever generated by UA-cam but it will still get the views. This means that in my eyes at least. The thumbnail does not matter at all. It could be a photo that doesn’t have anything to do with the video and it will still gets clicks only because of what I previously mentioned.
TL:DR you are not to blame. UA-cam changes the algorithm all the time. It has failed to help smaller channels with niche topics or content and only appeals to trending stuff/big established UA-camrs. This is bad because it’s against diversity in the UA-cam Ecosystem. And sometimes, it does not make sense either way. Wacky nonsense.
Good Aaron, nice one.
wow youtube goes greedy years ago and starts offering cash incentives for content and it makes big channels big money but then along comes competition with short content making as many click-throughs in an hour as big channels make all day because 'long content is long' and decided that they had to adapt so they implemented shorts, found it to be the cash cow they wanted due to heavily established infrastructure, forced conversion is necessary and that includes forcing ads on people who have no interest in those nonse and the people who thought the offer of making money from ads pushed by the platform was a good business model are now finding out how stupid it was of them to bite that golden apple
i got no sympathies for distressed creators who took the google cash, they made the choice to put their future in the hands of a company who decided the motto 'dont do evil' was a Bad Thing and had it removed from all google property
There in lies the problem. You want us to create content but you aren't willing to support it directly. There's nothing wrong with creators making money, we shouldn't have to work for free, just like you don't. But I agree that ad revenue was not the best way to make that possible. It was the only option at the time because of this "free content" attitude.
Move to X.. as a content creator and Rumble
As a high school teacher- short form like Tik Tok is destroying our youth
I’m just at the beginning of the video. I think what’s happening is that UA-cam is flooded with people, so it’s hard to get to the top. I’m thinking this because I self-published a book a long time ago and had it on Audible. It was doing well. Then everyone started self-publishing and then it just did average. Venues come and go. I think UA-cam might be on its way out for many people and that means there’s something new and better out there that will become popular next.
I'm not even trying to get to the top, just to get UA-cam to serve my content to anyone. It's not like I am just starting out or anything.
I guess YT has been getting way too greedy. And oh man! I abhor that Shorts cr@p! 😡
Shorts are a waste of time. I don't view them. From what I can tell, I rarely get notifications of new releases from my subscriptions. I stumbled across this video from you although I've subscribed.
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you bashed youtube for its hidden agenda but honestly man you started to close your comment section for months, ofc it would have ramifications, you say youtube doesnt show your videos to more audience and suppressing your channel, honestly i think it is you who did that, im not a youtuber nor work for youtube, but i dont need to be either to understand people are less likely to watch a video when they know there is no place to have a discourse or feedback. it creates a once sided atmosphere which people generally dont apperciate. i dont want to sound like a hater but as someone watched your channel for at least past two years, ive been watching your videos less and less over time because it feels like an unwelcomed enviroment.
By that logic, I should be seeing some difference in my analytics with comments reenabled, but nope. I have disabled comments in the past and it never made a difference. Plus this is happening to channels who never disabled comments.
This tiktok/reel/short plague spreading everywhere is painful to watch. I hate it with a passion. Shorts feel especially out of place on youtube and are terribly implemented, lack of playback controls or even volume...
i can tell your content isnt recommended much... i watch you and brad colbow somehow he gets lots of recommendmentds and you a lot less.. funny enough now that you made a video on this you get reccommended.. hmmz
also i can see by looking at my gf sons cos media behaviour . kids these days cant even watch a video longer then 5 min before swiping to the next .. its insane.. and i dont get it. i love watching stuff for 10 to 30 min. the idea i get short clips thrown at me and i need to swipe themas if im on tinder is not appealing
I hate SHORTS!!! So much click bate... like 99% of it.
I wondered what happened to your channel... I didn't see it for months at a time.
You have been a fan for a long time so that really says something if they weren't serving my videos to you despite me still posting regularly.
@@aaronrutten Yes indeed... since 2016 I think.
I’m not a fan of shorts and I hope more and more youtubers fight against it. Perhaps post long format videos on X just to make youtube think twice?
UA-cam banned russian content creaters, they migrated to rutube + yandex dzen, youtube traffic drop down.
You need hire sssniperwolf maybe...
Maybe it's a Gen Z thing, when I see these young people, they think they're smart and don't need to learn and they end up being very stupid.
It's very sad if that is going happen what you said... :(
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Honestly, I'm getting tired of my feed swamped by clearly AI-generated content, long or short form. It's making me start to question why I visit UA-cam. Sadly it's going to get ever harder for human creators to cut through all the AI "noise".
every AI art channel i press dont reccomend.. its helping me keep them away and i hope teaching youtube ai isnt the way
@@sadev101 Yes, but AI is rapidly becoming more intelligent, at an exponential rate. It is coming for all carbon based lifeforms, and IT WILL GET YOU!
@@kennethrohen5963 lol dond be silly. it might get you but the time before real ai exists (sentient) and not just a selflearning program emulating human behavour whilst not being able to think on sentient level is long enough that i wont be there anymore lol
Since a week or so I switched back to Firefox together with Ublock to block the adblocker. Hell no I'm paying a sub for a website that making my stay here worse by the day. I hope YT gets taken down a notch or some proper competition grabs their change. Wish you the best as a creator regardless. Hope you don't take a too big hit because of all this.
UA-cam = NotYourTube.
I'm afraid you are a victim of the corporate greed grab of social media.
P.S. I hate shorts, and never watch them!
Do you think the explosion of AI on the scene could be a factor?
The problem is across the board for creators that aren't considered mainstream media, such as CNN, NBC, ABC, etc. Content doesn't seem to matter much as I've seen this problem with everything I watch on YT from art to entertainment to fashion to politics. Even creators that have been on since YT started 15 years ago have noticed low volume across the board. They are killing what made YT special in the first place in favor of mainstream media.
If you just take a pick at drama regarding jackfilms you could get an idea who yt prefers on the platform this days.
And with clear open war on adblockers, I would rather go and pay 10-30$ monthly fee on schoolism or save up for colosco course.
UA-cam should know that seeing ads unrelated to content, annoying and often harmfull or fishing ads during videos makes me hate the ad and product in it.
p.s. yt premium is not available where I live, so often no real options left besides to support on other platforms.
I went ahead and bought UA-cam premium for my viewing experience, but prior to that I wasn't watching it anymore due to the way UA-cam inserts ads. I completely understand that ads need to happen to generate revenue; however, the way they are inserted was extremely disturbing to me. They're just stuck in randomly in the middle of sentences or important segments, which is jarring and takes me out of the flow. If they were inserted at natural breaks, or where creators planned for a break, I could take it, but I can't deal with them the way they are. It's also why I stopped watching TV - completely. Now, I decided to buy UA-cam Premium, as I said. But a lot of people I know are going elsewhere.
Shorts are a rathole and I won’t watch them, time wasters. To date, I’ve never installed TicTac and refuse to purchase products with ‘as seen on TicTac’. Instead, I watch real content such as yours Aaron and I’ve been doing this for years because of the admiration I have for how hard you and other artists work. That you share knowledge of art and tablets is generous, you’ve always been a beacon in the dark. I love how well you edit what you record and waste no time saying what you mean.
When your comments were turned off I asked Skip Allen if he knew why, hoping nobody was harassing you. Today is the first chance I’ve had to stop by and say hello and ensure you know how precious you’ve been to the art community. I hope you never leave but understand your concerns as they are like those I'm hearing from other content creators, entirely valid. UA-cam needs to rethink how they are treating everyone, viewers included. Blessings to you on your journey and know you have many admirers who stand with you on this.
I watch a lot of shorts. I'm too old for TikTok, and I feel like shorts are better than Instagram reels. I really miss when Instagram was just pictures, and prefer shorts because I feel like I get to opt into watching shorter content when I want to instead of being forced in by Instagram.
Always enjoy your content, Aaron . Personally, I dislike shorts I hope you continue to make the wonderful content I and many others have enjoyed
I’d give you 2 thumbs up if I could. This isn’t just a UA-cam trend but even platforms like Etsy, Facebook, Instagram…it’s all getting to be shallow and valueless content.
Your de-monetize youtube strategy might be working. This video is the first time in a very long time that they recommended your content to me.
Icsubdcribed hoping to find videos about how to use various graphic software, but that isn't really what you do.
I am curious why you get that impression when I have tutorials for several dozen art and design applications on my channel and other channels dedicated to Corel Painter and Rebelle. Maybe they are not easily found?
@@aaronrutten I don't see them.
@@aaronrutten Oh, I don't use that particular software. I have Gimp.
Thank you Aaron for this contribution. I'm happy that this post reached me without any hastle and I agree with you. Without quality content creators like you, UA-cam will die earlier than you, because eventually, sooner or later, people will begin to see that their lives are just too short for getting advertisements shoved through their throats a great part of their valuable time.
In due time, I will find you on patreon, or maybe on your brand new advertisement channel on youtube... 😁
Anyway. Good luck!
Good insights. Things are changing and forcing creators to adapt in uncomfortable ways.
I am hearing this from a lot of content creators. Is there a way to wake up the algorithm? I don't know the answer. If there is something we, your consumers, can do to fire things up?
Yes. With money.
@@aaronruttenhow can we help?
What I mean is that if it's a matter of having to pay UA-cam to promote myself, then that might be the only way to awaken the algorithm. But I'd rather get fewer views and instead more direct support from fans through memberships and product sales.
@@aaronrutten It looks like I need to step up my game, to support you (and my other favorite creators). I have been rather non-present, for a multitude of reasons.
Hate being forced to scroll through shorts. Wish we could turn them off