I love the idea that UA-cam support can't wrap their head around people _not_ concerned with getting as many views as possible. Like they can't parse the idea of someone making content for any other reason other than to get as much engagement as possible.
@@senabecool7232 Technically, it started as a dating website. But no one was using it so the creators started posting home movies to get people to come see it and it exploded into this.
I completely agree with everything you said about blaming the algorithm being a cope. UA-cam has always used a pretty standard metric to promote your video: PEOPLE. If people wanna watch your video, they will. So if you made an uninteresting video, it will get less views. There are obviously other factors such as sub count, thumbnail, title, etc but I feel like frustrated UA-camrs who want more eyes on their stuff don't seem to be willing to improve the quality of their future videos and instead will gravitate towards trying to improve the way they market them. UA-cam culture has unfortunately become so focused on promoting a video that they forgot that making a good video is just as important, if not more so. I'm happy to see someone finally acknowledging this, and someone in the TF2 community to boot.
To be fair, marketting gets way more instant short term results and is something that applies to a lot of things. It's like with video games pursuing realistic graphics instead of solid gameplay. One is easier to market to a broader audience then the other.
It's not cope, it's basic site functionality: New people do not watch videos that UA-cam does not put in front of them. How much it snowballs from there is up to the video, but that first push is entirely out of your control.
Forgot to clarify, for the links present at 8:36, they don't work. Even after quadruple checking I was on the appropriate account, I still wasn't given perms to see the analytics they sent. This is why I posited two separate situations (and subsequent debunkings) rather than just guess at which one they were refering to. I had to rely solely on context clues to figure out what they meant, but on either side of the coin, something is still very, very off.
What I'm curious about is whether the stats shown to Weezy are the same ones used for any algorithm stuff, or if the algorithm uses proper 24-hours-from-time-of-upload stats, and the creator dashboard just does the lazy calculation. Giving UA-cam the benefit of the doubt it would explain why support saw nothing out of the ordinary--they were looking at the unskewed stats.
This is actually a terrible time to post a video. That's midnight on the west coast of the US, 3AM dead hour on the east coast, and 9AM "get ready for work" hour in Europe. _Almost none of the English speaking audience is on UA-cam at that time!_ My lowest view counts in a 24 hour cycle are _always_ between 2am-4am eastern (11pm-1am west coast). I'm really skeptical of a lot of the claims/advice being thrown around in these comments. I also regularly see other channels drop videos in the dead of night, right before midnight PST (the worst possible time according to this theory) that go on to do crazy views. UA-cam analytics constantly attempt to account for how long a video has been out, and I find it really hard to believe the algorithm itself wouldn't do the same thing. Cash rules everything around it; whatever videos generate the most revenue for google get promoted.
@@theftkingthe whole "it was a joke" thing aside, I'd like to stress that weezy was indeed not very much invested in "crazy views" as you put it. It was all about non subscriber engagements.
THIS, UA-cam being incompetent is no new story, but having a video sabotaged because they dont account for timezones is so goddamn stupid it makes me want to think twice about even trying to make my own content anymore
Yeah, matpat talked about this at some point. Its infinitely better to hold off an upload of a video until a specific timezone because otherwise your views are just low for no reason. Its pretty fucking retarded lol.
…eh. Don’t get me wrong, UA-cam already has several issues that make me second guess any desire to make videos myself (mainly the demonetization and copyright algorithms that can kill a video even if you’re not in it for money). This, however…well, it’s important to keep in mind and definitely should not be a thing, but it’s a mere bump in the road by comparison.
I think it's fair to say that the UA-cam algorithm isn't a slot machine, it's just the ways that it *does* work can sometimes be really bullshit. Very interesting video and while I am one of those subbed accounts, I am really curious how much reach this video will get.
Man, you're so honest. I really love that about your content. You really do steelman your opponent's argument in any situation. Really appreciated that with the cheaters in MvM video(s), really appreciate it here. The section about the youtuber schtick about getting people to click the subscribe button from the subs to non-subs ratio actually did make me realize I hadn't subbed yet, so there's that.
I really appreciate the recognition of steelmaning opposing arguments to the best of my ability, it’s an easy thing to miss but it takes a massive amount of mental bandwidth on my end. Appreciate it my man!
Hey weezy, Just saying that a "non original" video is not necessarily a bad one. I would 100% watch one of your videos covering a well known/commented topic just to see your opinion on the subject, because different people have different things to say. That's all, thanks for being my favorite tftuber, i wish you the best.
Ditto. Even if a topic has been covered, I may not have watched it. And even if I have, this UA-camr might have something to say or a way of saying it that the first one didn't.
I mean that's fine for a subscriber like you but isn't the point he is making is that you shoudn't be surprised that a video that isn't original isn't gonna do as well as an original?
You killed it man, you talked about 90% of what I wanted to cover with better visuals and more fluent explanations. Never apologize for making the best video on a topic.
It's extremely rare to see anything Spiral Knights related outside of its own sphere on UA-cam. I had to take a moment in shock and awe when I heard 'Main Theme' from Spiral Knights. With all due respect, thank you for giving me quite a very pleasant surprise
15:45 You only have to hit the sentry until upgrade level 1! The animations for going to level 2 + 3 are at set speeds and won't go faster from wrench hits
99% sure that he already knows this and so does everyone else, especially from the audio cues of the wrench swinging sound because it makes the same sound that it makes if you try to heal or upgrade a sentry while you have no ammo indicating that your hit registered but didn't do anything. I already know this and still do it, because it's just a force of habit. And plus, he was putting the sentry in a very aggressive spot and was possibly swinging to start healing it right away in case it took damage while it was being built
@@Captain_Shadow10 i'm genuinely surprised that you didn't know this literally everyone else does. again, the wrench makes the same noise when you are hitting it as when you try to upgrade a building at level 3 or when you have no metal, indicating that you're not doing anything when you are swinging. it's just a force of habit, especially if you need to heal your sentry after placing it like weezy might've needed to when he put his sentry in a very aggressive spot.
Wait though, if this really was the fault of a daily computational error on UA-cam's end, then how is it that not a single youtuber you talked to had seen the same thing? I've seen a lot of "minute before midnight" uploads, and not to mention the fact that probably thousands of videos are uploaded to this site daily. It feels like this is an issue that, by its hypothetical nature, should have occurred to others before. I'm not a creator, and maybe I misunderstood something here, but it doesn't line up in my head.
I'm no creator either, but my guess is just that the sample size was too small, it's entirely possible someone has encountered this issue before, just not anyone he's talked to, although I've personally never seen any youtubers I watch encounter this before, and my only guess for that is they just chalk it up to the algorithm or other factors and don't really research it like weezy has, but that does seem kinda lacking so it's still a weird issue even with the small sample size idea in mind
It wouldn't surprise me if there was some other programming weirdness going on here too. Using a "days" even if a video has been uploaded 2 minutes before the day ends is so stupid is something that will have been noticed and fixed years ago. But perhaps a system update rolled out that midnight? Perhaps some system was scheduled to reset at that time? A financial report was due to be written up at midnight that month and that was the new algorithm's start point? Something like that seems like the sort of weirdness that wouldn't be caught in standard testing.
Great video as always weezy. Just a little thing to point out, unless you live chat with youtube partner support, you're basically always dealing with AI. That is why you saw the exact same message from yt support and the useless messages on twitter.
This was so interesting and informative of the creators side! Thanks for sharing and not just being irate and depressed about UA-cam's future for your channel lol
Truthfully, I appreciate your view on The Algorithm(tm). There are some UA-camrs I used to enjoy for years but then they started shifting to making content to "game" the algorithm instead of making stuff they like, and it sucks to see something you once enjoyed become absolutely intolerable. It's a breath of fresh air to see a UA-camr NOT complain about The Numbers for once like its a mythical, untameable beast.
This is why I love your videos. You went so hard into the details and thought outside of the box. Incredible video, sorry that this happened. And if you won't swear at UA-cam, we will. Fuck UA-cam.
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Finished the video and I had no idea you even uploaded a new video! I was a non-sub but now I am subbed just so I don't miss an upload. Tbh I didn't even know I wasn't subbed in the first place because of what you talked about near the beginning of the vid with the home page being pretty good nowadays.
Could the drop off be influenced by the summer update directing non subscribers away from MvM content? Sorry you had to deal with all of this. Thanks for making great videos and getting me into MvM.
defintley a possibility, but i would assume it plays a relativley small factor in comparison to the fact that it was posted just 3 minutes before the end of the "day"
It’s debatable that’d there even be a decrease of any sort, seeing as the more TF2 content grows in a broad sense, the more content gets recommended. Granted, that does necessarily mean more tf2bers clogging the feed, so it could go one way or the other. Would it be responsible for a 98% decrease in any capacity though? No shot.
there is no way you get a 9:1 ratio only cuz of that. the yt algo would actually recommend more tf2 related videos and in turn, this channel, which with his content i would be sure its also bingeable for the algo
@@WeezyTF2 i think its worth noting that the summer update would bring a more significant change to the amount of views that you get than i originally thought since most tf2 players, old and new alike, generally want to see more content about the new update than about a bad change in mvm implemented over 2 years ago at this point. Giving good reason why, even in those first few minutes, the non-subscriber to subscriber rate was so astronomically different. I would assume that in the first 2 or so days within the release of a massively hyped update, people who saw an mvm video posted 2 minutes ago would be less likely to click on it compared to one of their favorite youtubers like thebutt89 or monkey giving their first impressions on the new maps and taunts. people want something fresh, and mvm really hasn’t received that in almost 10 years now since the two cities update. i think that this only affected the difference by maybe about 10% but when looking at what actuallu happened and the actual ratio, 10% seems like a very large difference
@@bonkbonk420 Generally I would agree with you. However, I was just wondering if since so much content was made for the summer update that would be recommended in place of MvM content. It wouldn't make sense for it to have that much of a drop off in non sub views I agree. I was just wondering if that was a factor. It could have been supposed to have the opposite effect because TF2 hype = more TF2 views. But, I've never had access to the same analytical sample size Weezy does so I can't say if either of these are true.
I think it will be interesting to see how this video fares with its analytics. It seems so weird and confusing how that video has that percentage spike. Also PST moment lmao
I actually dont sub to smaller channels, and just always check on them, even If im not the biggest fan ever, bc I know it bumps their engagment. now my home is my sub page for new tubers I havent commited to, and my sub page is the guys I can fall onto a backlog for content droughts
I'm not a subscriber, yet I typically get video from you and I find them to be very good, but I had never heard or saw of the video in question once. I assume that might have been the case for many others like me, doesn't explain why this is happening though
In today's YT algorithm and content treadmill environment, I think it's a rite of passage to make a video complaining about the platform in some way. Always a new problem every few months... No matter what though, I'm still glad we have great creators like yourself making fantastic content even with all of the stupid problems. Love your work, thanks for all that you do. :)
Im gonna be real when you dropped that video it was probably because no one cared about MvM at the moment and was looking up all the other videos talking about the new Update, ignoring your upload. Even I thought it was a little oddly timed when I saw it lol. I watched it as your Sub, but that was about it
This probably doesnt have to do anything but i want to share a story about a drop in views that happened to my friend , he's a small meme short channel with almost 400 subscribers and he gets about 4 thousand views per video , a few days ago he posted a pizza tower screaming meme and got 7 thousand views , but when he posted a short the next day it had 4 views , then he posted a meme compilation and got 3 views , hes channel died in the span of 2 days ... wtf youtube
Man, i loved this video, it shows how much we need to try our best in making our best, and not sit around, and blame something else, i thank you so much for this video man!!!
Something interesting to add to this, i was recommended most of your videos, and even your newest one from 2 days ago within a few hours, but i just got recommended this one and I didnt even know the video you are talking about existed. UA-cam is weird man, wtf.
I make GMod animations based around TF2. While there are plenty of other great animators who make similar content (Eltorro64Rus, Crazyscout Fin, STBlack, along with the whole SFM community and countless others). I still have managed to carve out a niche for myself. Luckily animation is a great way to make yourself unique, as you can come up with truly crazy and unique ideas that no one else has made yet. I've blamed the algorithm my fair share, especially with how unforgiving it can be when you are first starting out, but I feel more comfortable now that I have settled into a niche and people keep coming back; I feel like I have "mastered" it. I am 100% aware of the "supply and demand" stuff as well. I think the one thing aspiring creators trip up on is that they feel like people will WANT to watch their content just because they feel like it is good. Kinda like "I am the main character". Some might operate like they are in a vacuum and while that sometimes works, it means you won't be in the prime position to take advantage of the overall "market". Especially with "easier/quicker" to make content like TF2 funny moments and montages, it REALLY hard to make space for yourself unless you bring something truly original and novel to the table.
i absolutely cannot imagine or fathom the feeling of crafting videos tailored specifically for engagement and revenue streaming. UA-cam just used to be for random joes and schmoes to share funny clips with other people through the internet. *sigh*...
Late to the party apparently, but this sounds a lot more like UA-cam was responding with automatic canned responses after seeing keywords in the messages. The fact that the second email came back with the same wording, and that they only looked at a "canned" 28 day period instead of doing any more "reasonable" digging, makes it fairly obvious that it wasn't a person behind that investigation, just an algorithm telling you why your algorithm was 'normal'. While there might be more context in the twitter messages that I didn't pay attention to, the verbal description of the messages almost immediately made me think it was a bot talking to you, and the later stuff just sealed it.
Small note on the algorithm: It is highly unlikely (though I don’t know for sure) that there is anyone actually programming it. CGP Grey did a video explaining this better than I ever could, but the tl;dr is that it is far too complex for anyone to actually really code or “understand”, and that it works simply because it tests itself against massive amounts of data, and when it gets things right those changes stick around. It’s like evolution. It isn’t intelligent decision making, it is survival of the random adaptations that pass the test. (Captchas are a good example of a “test”, though I am unsure how UA-cam sculpts theirs) And clearly, it does work most of the time.
Hey Weezy, if you ever do anything like this again (in whatever unlikely event that is hopefully) I’d be more than happy to watch mate, you did your research and figured out the likely cause and didn’t just assume the algorithm screwed you, good on ya mate and have a wonder day
3:43 probably the most based thing I've heard added to the algorithm dicourse. It's so easy to blame the algorithm for videos doing poorly and that begets lazy content since creators become apathetic to their work
I'm not a subscribed viewer, for pretty much the reason you stated, it's not strictly necessary anymore considering the homepage will recommend videos from channels you've watched frequently regardless. I was surprised to see however the previous video you talked about here, was actually uploaded weeks ago but I never got notified. Maybe I should just subscribe after all 😅
I had a theory for a long time that UA-cam's algortithm favored TikToks since they've introduced their Shorts program. I tested it with a Shorts that got just under 3,000 views within 2 days of it being uploaded, but then it dropped out of absolutely nowhere on the third day. Perhaps its because I called Reddit a site full of... um.. EDP fans, if you catch my drift... but the views I was getting just stopped out of nowhere. It wasn't claimed, or (visibly) age restricted, the views just dropped out of literally nowhere with no explanation. The weird part for me is that most of my other videos don't get anything like that, they don't get traction to fall off in the first place. I have some content with a couple hundred, and I think two or three videos with over 1,000 views. But for the most part my videos will get few dozen views at max. My new theory aligns more with yours, that the algorithm actually favors if the video is more original or not. It just so happens that my most viewed videos are unique, so perhaps that's the real reason why they got promoted.
I'm a tiny creator but I've had this happen on a few of my my videos too. For some it makes sense because they are about me so would only make sense if you know who I am, but for most they are just regular videos just like everything else I make, getting few impressions despite good looking click through rates and watch time percentages. I agree that complaining about the algorithm is a waste of time better spent making your content actually better, but having a video you spent days working hard on not get seen through seemingly no fault of your own is pretty damn disheartening. Happy to see one of the "real" creators I follow talk about it, though I have no clue what to do about it. I don't think any of my videos were post close to midnight PST so I'm not sure if it's the same cause. But thanks for talking about this, I like to see behind the curtain, so to speak, really useful stuff.
I've... never seen those things people say about the algorithm as any sort of actual blame, more as just a joke about random videos going viral like memes on a channel that's never gone above 400 views or an old thing that you never put any effort into. I don't think I've heard a single person say anything about the algorithm when it comes to bad performances actually.
He just said it's not youtube and rather a skill issue on the part of the youtuber. I like this guy but it's like logical whiplash for me for him to say "stop blaming youtube" but then goes right to doing so. It's *never* youtube is the implication I get from his tone when talking about it.
I love the "Enemy Approaching" music soundtrack from Undertale at the start of the video (yes, it's named Enemy Approaching and not Enemy is Approaching)
Ok now I’m confused, I was subscribed to you then some how it unsubscribed me and now I’m getting this video 11 days later and for the first time seeing the MvM worst change what the hell
Well tbh I believe the reason is because not many people are interested in mvm compared to the regular game. I know that I as a recurring viewer of your channel haven't watched it because I don't find mvm fun to watch or play. So maybe the only reason that video performed like that was it's topic
The thing about having a lot of unsubscribed viewers being a good thing is something I've been thinking about since youtubers started doing the stupid "only x amount of you are subscribed" thing. Glad to see that I was probably right!
I know you say not to blame the algorithm but let's not pretend that it's very good either. A ton of amazing content creators go by unnoticed despite putting a lot of effort in their videos. Yes, putting time and effort in a video raises your chances but some luck is neeeded too since it's all a machine that picks at random what videos explode in views and which fly under their radar
Just another case of UA-cam's platform and support structure being absolutely broken. I implore people to also comsider the dozens, if not hundreds of channels who don't have enough views and subs to get noticed when things like this happen to them.
I think the reason why the big spikes up and down are due to the algorithm changing as I believe that UA-cam is having a pretty wild time fluctuating between being liberal and conservative since looking up the CEOs brings up two of them.
Tbf youtube does have an internal weighting system for different tags (this was a long time ago tho). They do this to promote certain kinds of content over others, probably to help shift the kinda content they think will attract more watchers to the platform. Like if they want to court more of a demographic, they'll boost content that demographic tends to watch. Especially if that demographic tends to click on ads. A recent blatant example was when shorts were introduced, they heavily weighted recommendations for it to make the system popular and get users used to it (and hopefully attract younger audiences). This is all big picture stuff tho, and not really something an individual creator can change because their niche as a whole will be affected. However, if youtube has introduced machine learning AI, that could change things. As those do pick up bias, then reinforce it. Like instead of humans naturally clicking on a soyface thumbnail, it could have learned to search for those thumbnail styles to recommend in the first place, rather than waiting for users to do it organically.
It's one of those things where if feels like there are times UA-cam hasn't fucked up and people are just not wanting to take responsibility for their own issues, but it feels like when UA-cam DOES fuck up, they fuck up HARD. Good example is Balena Productions, who does Sonic animations. Despite the fact that they can sometimes have some touchy subjects and some adult content (just look at his GMod ragdoll video parody series, Sonic Zombies), a lot of his videos have been marked by youtube, not Balena, as "made for kids" fucking up his channel He has fought them tooth and nail, pointing out example after example of things in his videos that should disqualify them from being made for kids, even putting viewer discretion warnings at the beginning, and UA-cam just held firm that they were made for kids and nothing he could do about it. Even worse, they say it was manually reviewed, but it seems whoever is "manually reviewing" the vid - if someone even is - just sees Sonic and animation and groups it in with shit like a Baby Shark video. It's to the point he just announced he's stepping away from videos because of how badly this is affecting his channel, and UA-cam refuses to listen to him about the issue.
13:44 I am not crazy! I knew those UA-cam statistics were saying something! I knew it was odd to have such a high subscribe watch rate. I just - I just couldn't prove it. You - UA-cam covered their tracks, they got those idiot at the help center to lie for them. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? They've done worse.
I honestly think that with all the brain rot a lot of people seem to have concerning MVM (like complaining A LOT about a small change that is actually good), some people just have said "nope, i'm not letting this person take my time and use it to complain without being constructive" even if you did a perfectly good video because they did NOT know you. Still does not explain a drop that big though.
only Weezy is the kind of guy that, while others (if not everyone) shouts and blames at the bigger picrture. This guy would bust out the Magnifying glass and go: *"no...nono. that sounds too naïve. whats Actually going on here?"* *and more people SHOULD BE BEHAVING LIKE WEEZY* *BLAME THE CODE, NOT THE CORP.*
Something crazy is that I completely missed your last vid, despite being subscribed, when up to now your videos would always be at the top of my home feed.
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I love the idea that UA-cam support can't wrap their head around people _not_ concerned with getting as many views as possible. Like they can't parse the idea of someone making content for any other reason other than to get as much engagement as possible.
UA-cam support can't wrap their heads around anything lmao. They're one of the most useless job in Google
Didn't UA-cam start as exactly that, people making content just for fun
@@senabecool7232 Technically, it started as a dating website. But no one was using it so the creators started posting home movies to get people to come see it and it exploded into this.
God tier PFP btw
@@ramirezthesilvite huh, didn't know that till now, the more you know!
I completely agree with everything you said about blaming the algorithm being a cope. UA-cam has always used a pretty standard metric to promote your video: PEOPLE. If people wanna watch your video, they will. So if you made an uninteresting video, it will get less views. There are obviously other factors such as sub count, thumbnail, title, etc but I feel like frustrated UA-camrs who want more eyes on their stuff don't seem to be willing to improve the quality of their future videos and instead will gravitate towards trying to improve the way they market them. UA-cam culture has unfortunately become so focused on promoting a video that they forgot that making a good video is just as important, if not more so. I'm happy to see someone finally acknowledging this, and someone in the TF2 community to boot.
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To be fair, marketting gets way more instant short term results and is something that applies to a lot of things.
It's like with video games pursuing realistic graphics instead of solid gameplay. One is easier to market to a broader audience then the other.
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It's not cope, it's basic site functionality: New people do not watch videos that UA-cam does not put in front of them. How much it snowballs from there is up to the video, but that first push is entirely out of your control.
Forgot to clarify, for the links present at 8:36, they don't work. Even after quadruple checking I was on the appropriate account, I still wasn't given perms to see the analytics they sent. This is why I posited two separate situations (and subsequent debunkings) rather than just guess at which one they were refering to. I had to rely solely on context clues to figure out what they meant, but on either side of the coin, something is still very, very off.
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well i hope we all learned a new thing today:
schedule videos so they go up at 12:01 PST
Gotta max out those numbers mate.
What I'm curious about is whether the stats shown to Weezy are the same ones used for any algorithm stuff, or if the algorithm uses proper 24-hours-from-time-of-upload stats, and the creator dashboard just does the lazy calculation. Giving UA-cam the benefit of the doubt it would explain why support saw nothing out of the ordinary--they were looking at the unskewed stats.
This is actually a terrible time to post a video. That's midnight on the west coast of the US, 3AM dead hour on the east coast, and 9AM "get ready for work" hour in Europe. _Almost none of the English speaking audience is on UA-cam at that time!_
My lowest view counts in a 24 hour cycle are _always_ between 2am-4am eastern (11pm-1am west coast).
I'm really skeptical of a lot of the claims/advice being thrown around in these comments.
I also regularly see other channels drop videos in the dead of night, right before midnight PST (the worst possible time according to this theory) that go on to do crazy views.
UA-cam analytics constantly attempt to account for how long a video has been out, and I find it really hard to believe the algorithm itself wouldn't do the same thing. Cash rules everything around it; whatever videos generate the most revenue for google get promoted.
@@theftkingMate, I'm pretty sure OP was making this thing we call a "joke"
@@theftkingthe whole "it was a joke" thing aside, I'd like to stress that weezy was indeed not very much invested in "crazy views" as you put it. It was all about non subscriber engagements.
THIS, UA-cam being incompetent is no new story, but having a video sabotaged because they dont account for timezones is so goddamn stupid it makes me want to think twice about even trying to make my own content anymore
Yeah, matpat talked about this at some point. Its infinitely better to hold off an upload of a video until a specific timezone because otherwise your views are just low for no reason. Its pretty fucking retarded lol.
…eh. Don’t get me wrong, UA-cam already has several issues that make me second guess any desire to make videos myself (mainly the demonetization and copyright algorithms that can kill a video even if you’re not in it for money). This, however…well, it’s important to keep in mind and definitely should not be a thing, but it’s a mere bump in the road by comparison.
Nice pfp
UA-cam trying not to fuck up with their creators be like:
challenge impossible
I still don't understand why Gabe is cosplaying god heavy. BTW comment for the algorithm.
I think it's fair to say that the UA-cam algorithm isn't a slot machine, it's just the ways that it *does* work can sometimes be really bullshit.
Very interesting video and while I am one of those subbed accounts, I am really curious how much reach this video will get.
I dunno I would say it is a machine that works 1 times out of 100
Yeah it's less a slot machine and more of a competitive game of bullshit
the UA-cam algorithm isn’t a slot machine, it’s just so bullshit that nobody has been able to understand how it works yet.
Still has its slot machine things because clearly videos who are terrible still get into recommended
Also UA-cam plans to make it pay to win...
It is a slot machine.
Man, you're so honest. I really love that about your content. You really do steelman your opponent's argument in any situation. Really appreciated that with the cheaters in MvM video(s), really appreciate it here.
The section about the youtuber schtick about getting people to click the subscribe button from the subs to non-subs ratio actually did make me realize I hadn't subbed yet, so there's that.
I really appreciate the recognition of steelmaning opposing arguments to the best of my ability, it’s an easy thing to miss but it takes a massive amount of mental bandwidth on my end. Appreciate it my man!
@@WeezyTF2you should also upload on new tech as well
@ChickenPatty1993
Ask him his SSN while you’re at it, why don’t you
It's nice to hear that atleast SOMEONE understands not to blame everything on the algorithm, thank you weezy
Hey weezy, Just saying that a "non original" video is not necessarily a bad one. I would 100% watch one of your videos covering a well known/commented topic just to see your opinion on the subject, because different people have different things to say. That's all, thanks for being my favorite tftuber, i wish you the best.
Ditto. Even if a topic has been covered, I may not have watched it. And even if I have, this UA-camr might have something to say or a way of saying it that the first one didn't.
I mean that's fine for a subscriber like you but isn't the point he is making is that you shoudn't be surprised that a video that isn't original isn't gonna do as well as an original?
2:36 damn now i regret making it because you would've had infinitely better insight :')
You killed it man, you talked about 90% of what I wanted to cover with better visuals and more fluent explanations. Never apologize for making the best video on a topic.
It's extremely rare to see anything Spiral Knights related outside of its own sphere on UA-cam. I had to take a moment in shock and awe when I heard 'Main Theme' from Spiral Knights.
With all due respect, thank you for giving me quite a very pleasant surprise
ah yes, i sure do love "game you play for an hour to get the funny tf2 hat"
spiral knights my beloved
so far the only other comment ive found related to the game
15:45 You only have to hit the sentry until upgrade level 1! The animations for going to level 2 + 3 are at set speeds and won't go faster from wrench hits
I was today years old when I learned this information.
99% sure that he already knows this and so does everyone else, especially from the audio cues of the wrench swinging sound because it makes the same sound that it makes if you try to heal or upgrade a sentry while you have no ammo indicating that your hit registered but didn't do anything. I already know this and still do it, because it's just a force of habit. And plus, he was putting the sentry in a very aggressive spot and was possibly swinging to start healing it right away in case it took damage while it was being built
@@Chimpin_ "so does everyone else" Me and they comment before you say otherwise
@@Captain_Shadow10 i'm genuinely surprised that you didn't know this literally everyone else does. again, the wrench makes the same noise when you are hitting it as when you try to upgrade a building at level 3 or when you have no metal, indicating that you're not doing anything when you are swinging. it's just a force of habit, especially if you need to heal your sentry after placing it like weezy might've needed to when he put his sentry in a very aggressive spot.
New information for me
Thx
This was refreshingly level headed.
Wait though, if this really was the fault of a daily computational error on UA-cam's end, then how is it that not a single youtuber you talked to had seen the same thing? I've seen a lot of "minute before midnight" uploads, and not to mention the fact that probably thousands of videos are uploaded to this site daily. It feels like this is an issue that, by its hypothetical nature, should have occurred to others before.
I'm not a creator, and maybe I misunderstood something here, but it doesn't line up in my head.
I'm no creator either, but my guess is just that the sample size was too small, it's entirely possible someone has encountered this issue before, just not anyone he's talked to, although I've personally never seen any youtubers I watch encounter this before, and my only guess for that is they just chalk it up to the algorithm or other factors and don't really research it like weezy has, but that does seem kinda lacking so it's still a weird issue even with the small sample size idea in mind
It wouldn't surprise me if there was some other programming weirdness going on here too. Using a "days" even if a video has been uploaded 2 minutes before the day ends is so stupid is something that will have been noticed and fixed years ago.
But perhaps a system update rolled out that midnight? Perhaps some system was scheduled to reset at that time? A financial report was due to be written up at midnight that month and that was the new algorithm's start point?
Something like that seems like the sort of weirdness that wouldn't be caught in standard testing.
I appreciate your different perspective on the algorithm. It's refreshing to hear someone say that hey, for the most part, it's fair.
Great video as always weezy.
Just a little thing to point out, unless you live chat with youtube partner support, you're basically always dealing with AI. That is why you saw the exact same message from yt support and the useless messages on twitter.
Don’t worry weezy, I’ll unsubscribe and rewatch the video 200 times
"the algorithm is simply human psychology manifested into a digital marketplace"
you are so good at phrasing stuff its a gift
This is by and large the reason I do not and _will_ not ever upload a video to this site under any intention other than "it's fun".
Can't wait to see what "a bit more seriously" involves with your uploaded content
Are you happy for the summer update?
They fixed a few of the exploits he talked about
Me is! Seal is great and the exploit fixes are cool
Im happy Valve is listening to the tf2 fanbase to fix problems
Im happy because Seals 🦭
@@sophieheart2707if all it took is a seal to appease you then something is deeply wrong
This was so interesting and informative of the creators side! Thanks for sharing and not just being irate and depressed about UA-cam's future for your channel lol
Truthfully, I appreciate your view on The Algorithm(tm). There are some UA-camrs I used to enjoy for years but then they started shifting to making content to "game" the algorithm instead of making stuff they like, and it sucks to see something you once enjoyed become absolutely intolerable. It's a breath of fresh air to see a UA-camr NOT complain about The Numbers for once like its a mythical, untameable beast.
I've had the same thing with some. Which ones did it on your front?
This is why I love your videos. You went so hard into the details and thought outside of the box. Incredible video, sorry that this happened. And if you won't swear at UA-cam, we will.
Fuck UA-cam.
Wikipedia - Chair
One of the basic pieces of furniture, a chair is a type of seat. Its primary features are two pieces of a durable material, attached as back and seat to one another at a 90° or slightly greater angle, with usually the four corners of the horizontal seat attached in turn to four legs-or other parts of the seat's underside attached to three legs or to a shaft about which a four-arm turnstile on rollers can turn-strong enough to support the weight of a person who sits on the seat (usually wide and broad enough to hold the lower body from the buttocks almost to the knees) and leans against the vertical back (usually high and wide enough to support the back to the shoulder blades). The legs are typically high enough for the seated person's thighs and knees to form a 90° or lesser angle.[1][2] Used in a number of rooms in homes (e.g. in living rooms, dining rooms, and dens), in schools and offices (with desks), and in various other workplaces, chairs may be made of wood, metal, or synthetic materials, and either the seat alone or the entire chair may be padded or upholstered in various colors and fabrics.
Chairs vary in design. An armchair has armrests fixed to the seat;[3] a recliner is upholstered and under its seat is a mechanism that allows one to lower the chair's back and raise into place a fold-out footrest;[4] a rocking chair has legs fixed to two long curved slats; a wheelchair has wheels fixed to an axis under the seat.[5]
Etymology
Chair comes from the early 13th-century English word chaere, from Old French chaiere ("chair, seat, throne"), from Latin cathedra ("seat").[6]
History
Main article: History of the chair
Five three-legged chairs around a low-legged table from Sliven 19th Century Lifestyle Museum
Early 20th-century armchair made in eastern Australia, with strong heraldic embellishment
The chair has been used since antiquity, although for many centuries it was a symbolic article of state and dignity rather than an article for ordinary use. "The chair" is still used as the emblem of authority in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom[7] and Canada,[8] and in many other settings. In keeping with this historical connotation of the "chair" as the symbol of authority, committees, boards of directors, and academic departments all have a 'chairman' or 'chair'.[9] Endowed professorships are referred to as chairs.[10] It was not until the 16th century that chairs became common.[11] Until then, people sat on chests, benches, and stools, which were the ordinary seats of everyday life. The number of chairs which have survived from an earlier date is exceedingly limited; most examples are of ecclesiastical, seigneurial or feudal origin.[citation needed]
Chairs were in existence since at least the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt (c. 3100 BC). They were covered with cloth or leather, were made of carved wood, and were much lower than today's chairs - chair seats were sometimes only 10 inches (25 cm) high.[12] In ancient Egypt chairs appear to have been of great richness and splendor. Fashioned of ebony and ivory, or of carved and gilded wood, they were covered with costly materials, magnificent patterns and supported upon representations of the legs of beasts or the figures of captives. Generally speaking, the higher ranked an individual was, the taller and more sumptuous was the chair he sat on and the greater the honor. On state occasions the pharaoh sat on a throne, often with a little footstool in front of it.[13]
The average Egyptian family seldom had chairs, and if they did, it was usually only the master of the household who sat on a chair. Among the better off, the chairs might be painted to look like the ornate inlaid and carved chairs of the rich, but the craftsmanship was usually poor.[12]
Ok now what about a couch
“Hello, Gordon!”
Look! A rope!
Hello Gordon
why
UA-cam has actually shit the bed as of recent, the lack of competition has made it so there are no consequences for their constant fuck ups
Finished the video and I had no idea you even uploaded a new video! I was a non-sub but now I am subbed just so I don't miss an upload. Tbh I didn't even know I wasn't subbed in the first place because of what you talked about near the beginning of the vid with the home page being pretty good nowadays.
looking up tf2 mvm on a guest account yields that video as literally the first video that pops up right before the weezytf2 channel.
I haven't slept this night
Could the drop off be influenced by the summer update directing non subscribers away from MvM content? Sorry you had to deal with all of this. Thanks for making great videos and getting me into MvM.
defintley a possibility, but i would assume it plays a relativley small factor in comparison to the fact that it was posted just 3 minutes before the end of the "day"
It’s debatable that’d there even be a decrease of any sort, seeing as the more TF2 content grows in a broad sense, the more content gets recommended. Granted, that does necessarily mean more tf2bers clogging the feed, so it could go one way or the other.
Would it be responsible for a 98% decrease in any capacity though? No shot.
there is no way you get a 9:1 ratio only cuz of that. the yt algo would actually recommend more tf2 related videos and in turn, this channel, which with his content i would be sure its also bingeable for the algo
@@WeezyTF2 i think its worth noting that the summer update would bring a more significant change to the amount of views that you get than i originally thought since most tf2 players, old and new alike, generally want to see more content about the new update than about a bad change in mvm implemented over 2 years ago at this point. Giving good reason why, even in those first few minutes, the non-subscriber to subscriber rate was so astronomically different. I would assume that in the first 2 or so days within the release of a massively hyped update, people who saw an mvm video posted 2 minutes ago would be less likely to click on it compared to one of their favorite youtubers like thebutt89 or monkey giving their first impressions on the new maps and taunts. people want something fresh, and mvm really hasn’t received that in almost 10 years now since the two cities update.
i think that this only affected the difference by maybe about 10% but when looking at what actuallu happened and the actual ratio, 10% seems like a very large difference
@@bonkbonk420 Generally I would agree with you. However, I was just wondering if since so much content was made for the summer update that would be recommended in place of MvM content. It wouldn't make sense for it to have that much of a drop off in non sub views I agree. I was just wondering if that was a factor. It could have been supposed to have the opposite effect because TF2 hype = more TF2 views. But, I've never had access to the same analytical sample size Weezy does so I can't say if either of these are true.
I find it odd that youtube KNEW what happened, but still gave the wrong answer for the wrong question in the wrong scenario.
I think it will be interesting to see how this video fares with its analytics. It seems so weird and confusing how that video has that percentage spike. Also PST moment lmao
I actually dont sub to smaller channels, and just always check on them, even If im not the biggest fan ever, bc I know it bumps their engagment. now my home is my sub page for new tubers I havent commited to, and my sub page is the guys I can fall onto a backlog for content droughts
Leave it to youtube to foul up data presentation by tieing it to end of day reporting systems lol.
I'm not a subscriber, yet I typically get video from you and I find them to be very good, but I had never heard or saw of the video in question once. I assume that might have been the case for many others like me, doesn't explain why this is happening though
Hey wait a minitne....
That’s enough microstress for today
In today's YT algorithm and content treadmill environment, I think it's a rite of passage to make a video complaining about the platform in some way. Always a new problem every few months...
No matter what though, I'm still glad we have great creators like yourself making fantastic content even with all of the stupid problems. Love your work, thanks for all that you do. :)
Im gonna be real when you dropped that video it was probably because no one cared about MvM at the moment and was looking up all the other videos talking about the new Update, ignoring your upload.
Even I thought it was a little oddly timed when I saw it lol. I watched it as your Sub, but that was about it
The "fuck this video in particular" incident.
This probably doesnt have to do anything but i want to share a story about a drop in views that happened to my friend , he's a small meme short channel with almost 400 subscribers and he gets about 4 thousand views per video , a few days ago he posted a pizza tower screaming meme and got 7 thousand views , but when he posted a short the next day it had 4 views , then he posted a meme compilation and got 3 views , hes channel died in the span of 2 days ... wtf youtube
Man, i loved this video, it shows how much we need to try our best in making our best, and not sit around, and blame something else, i thank you so much for this video man!!!
Something interesting to add to this, i was recommended most of your videos, and even your newest one from 2 days ago within a few hours, but i just got recommended this one and I didnt even know the video you are talking about existed. UA-cam is weird man, wtf.
thank you, wheezy.
im trying to start on making content, so this was useful.
have a wonderful day!
12:08 I'm not a scientist but those don't add to 100%
I’ve been subbed for over a year watched almost every single video and even have notifs on and even I didn’t get your last video recommended
I make GMod animations based around TF2. While there are plenty of other great animators who make similar content (Eltorro64Rus, Crazyscout Fin, STBlack, along with the whole SFM community and countless others). I still have managed to carve out a niche for myself. Luckily animation is a great way to make yourself unique, as you can come up with truly crazy and unique ideas that no one else has made yet. I've blamed the algorithm my fair share, especially with how unforgiving it can be when you are first starting out, but I feel more comfortable now that I have settled into a niche and people keep coming back; I feel like I have "mastered" it. I am 100% aware of the "supply and demand" stuff as well.
I think the one thing aspiring creators trip up on is that they feel like people will WANT to watch their content just because they feel like it is good. Kinda like "I am the main character". Some might operate like they are in a vacuum and while that sometimes works, it means you won't be in the prime position to take advantage of the overall "market". Especially with "easier/quicker" to make content like TF2 funny moments and montages, it REALLY hard to make space for yourself unless you bring something truly original and novel to the table.
i absolutely cannot imagine or fathom the feeling of crafting videos tailored specifically for engagement and revenue streaming. UA-cam just used to be for random joes and schmoes to share funny clips with other people through the internet. *sigh*...
How to truly test this: Get some people to upload at 11:45 P.M. Pacific, and others to upload by 9 A.M. Pacific.
Late to the party apparently, but this sounds a lot more like UA-cam was responding with automatic canned responses after seeing keywords in the messages. The fact that the second email came back with the same wording, and that they only looked at a "canned" 28 day period instead of doing any more "reasonable" digging, makes it fairly obvious that it wasn't a person behind that investigation, just an algorithm telling you why your algorithm was 'normal'. While there might be more context in the twitter messages that I didn't pay attention to, the verbal description of the messages almost immediately made me think it was a bot talking to you, and the later stuff just sealed it.
Small note on the algorithm: It is highly unlikely (though I don’t know for sure) that there is anyone actually programming it. CGP Grey did a video explaining this better than I ever could, but the tl;dr is that it is far too complex for anyone to actually really code or “understand”, and that it works simply because it tests itself against massive amounts of data, and when it gets things right those changes stick around. It’s like evolution. It isn’t intelligent decision making, it is survival of the random adaptations that pass the test. (Captchas are a good example of a “test”, though I am unsure how UA-cam sculpts theirs) And clearly, it does work most of the time.
Hey Weezy, if you ever do anything like this again (in whatever unlikely event that is hopefully) I’d be more than happy to watch mate, you did your research and figured out the likely cause and didn’t just assume the algorithm screwed you, good on ya mate and have a wonder day
3:43 probably the most based thing I've heard added to the algorithm dicourse. It's so easy to blame the algorithm for videos doing poorly and that begets lazy content since creators become apathetic to their work
I'm not a subscribed viewer, for pretty much the reason you stated, it's not strictly necessary anymore considering the homepage will recommend videos from channels you've watched frequently regardless.
I was surprised to see however the previous video you talked about here, was actually uploaded weeks ago but I never got notified. Maybe I should just subscribe after all 😅
I subbed at the last video. not sure about the rest of the 98% swing though.
If it makes you smile I’m one of those guys from the other side of the globe, greetings from Kuwait 👋
I had a theory for a long time that UA-cam's algortithm favored TikToks since they've introduced their Shorts program. I tested it with a Shorts that got just under 3,000 views within 2 days of it being uploaded, but then it dropped out of absolutely nowhere on the third day. Perhaps its because I called Reddit a site full of... um.. EDP fans, if you catch my drift... but the views I was getting just stopped out of nowhere. It wasn't claimed, or (visibly) age restricted, the views just dropped out of literally nowhere with no explanation.
The weird part for me is that most of my other videos don't get anything like that, they don't get traction to fall off in the first place. I have some content with a couple hundred, and I think two or three videos with over 1,000 views. But for the most part my videos will get few dozen views at max. My new theory aligns more with yours, that the algorithm actually favors if the video is more original or not. It just so happens that my most viewed videos are unique, so perhaps that's the real reason why they got promoted.
Good to know video upload metrics are subject to Mogwai rules, specifically in PST.
I'm a tiny creator but I've had this happen on a few of my my videos too. For some it makes sense because they are about me so would only make sense if you know who I am, but for most they are just regular videos just like everything else I make, getting few impressions despite good looking click through rates and watch time percentages. I agree that complaining about the algorithm is a waste of time better spent making your content actually better, but having a video you spent days working hard on not get seen through seemingly no fault of your own is pretty damn disheartening. Happy to see one of the "real" creators I follow talk about it, though I have no clue what to do about it. I don't think any of my videos were post close to midnight PST so I'm not sure if it's the same cause. But thanks for talking about this, I like to see behind the curtain, so to speak, really useful stuff.
I've... never seen those things people say about the algorithm as any sort of actual blame, more as just a joke about random videos going viral like memes on a channel that's never gone above 400 views or an old thing that you never put any effort into. I don't think I've heard a single person say anything about the algorithm when it comes to bad performances actually.
This was very educational and interesting. I had absolutely no idea that stuff like this could ever happened
UA-cam is always fucking with people, hope everything works out for you.
He just said it's not youtube and rather a skill issue on the part of the youtuber. I like this guy but it's like logical whiplash for me for him to say "stop blaming youtube" but then goes right to doing so. It's *never* youtube is the implication I get from his tone when talking about it.
Can we appreciate for a sec how good Weezer is at soldier???
Yeah
Weezer gaming
Spiral knights music??? Wow, I haven't heard that in a video for a WHILE. Cultured, Weezy. Cultured.
I love the "Enemy Approaching" music soundtrack from Undertale at the start of the video (yes, it's named Enemy Approaching and not Enemy is Approaching)
Anybody else notice that the analytics percentage added up to 101%?
"I don't have a problem retaining viewers, literally only my viewers saw this"
OH MY GOD WEEZYTF2 PLAYS SPIRAL KNIGHTS! HOLY SHIT! What's your in-game name dude!
4:20 SPIRAL KNIGHTS SONG!!! NOW I LOVE YOU INFINELY MORE!!1! (I have 600h of SK)
Yeah, I post on YT but now am going to be streaming on YT, Rumble, and Kick.
Actually pretty insightfull video, thanks
I appreciate that the non-sub views to sub views graph that was showed throughout the video was 99.8% and 1.2 %
Gotta get that 101% viewership
Ok now I’m confused, I was subscribed to you then some how it unsubscribed me and now I’m getting this video 11 days later and for the first time seeing the MvM worst change what the hell
Well tbh I believe the reason is because not many people are interested in mvm compared to the regular game. I know that I as a recurring viewer of your channel haven't watched it because I don't find mvm fun to watch or play. So maybe the only reason that video performed like that was it's topic
UA-cam support: "Your last video was in line with the ammount of views you normally get"
The last video being the least viewed video on the channel:
The thing about having a lot of unsubscribed viewers being a good thing is something I've been thinking about since youtubers started doing the stupid "only x amount of you are subscribed" thing. Glad to see that I was probably right!
I know you say not to blame the algorithm but let's not pretend that it's very good either. A ton of amazing content creators go by unnoticed despite putting a lot of effort in their videos. Yes, putting time and effort in a video raises your chances but some luck is neeeded too since it's all a machine that picks at random what videos explode in views and which fly under their radar
Ur gonna hate this, but even tho I'm subbed and watching tf2 stuff constantly, ur last 2 videos were essentially invisible on this platform
Just another case of UA-cam's platform and support structure being absolutely broken. I implore people to also comsider the dozens, if not hundreds of channels who don't have enough views and subs to get noticed when things like this happen to them.
I think the reason why the big spikes up and down are due to the algorithm changing as I believe that UA-cam is having a pretty wild time fluctuating between being liberal and conservative since looking up the CEOs brings up two of them.
Elementary, my dear weezy. As a social media platform, UA-cam is legally obligated to be run in the shittest way possible
Tbf youtube does have an internal weighting system for different tags (this was a long time ago tho). They do this to promote certain kinds of content over others, probably to help shift the kinda content they think will attract more watchers to the platform. Like if they want to court more of a demographic, they'll boost content that demographic tends to watch. Especially if that demographic tends to click on ads.
A recent blatant example was when shorts were introduced, they heavily weighted recommendations for it to make the system popular and get users used to it (and hopefully attract younger audiences).
This is all big picture stuff tho, and not really something an individual creator can change because their niche as a whole will be affected.
However, if youtube has introduced machine learning AI, that could change things. As those do pick up bias, then reinforce it. Like instead of humans naturally clicking on a soyface thumbnail, it could have learned to search for those thumbnail styles to recommend in the first place, rather than waiting for users to do it organically.
i thlammed my penith in the car door
Why didn't you use crit canteens in your gameplay, you could have gotten much more kills
9k views and 1 hour of uptime. Sure seems like your resonating with your viewers this video 😂
It's one of those things where if feels like there are times UA-cam hasn't fucked up and people are just not wanting to take responsibility for their own issues, but it feels like when UA-cam DOES fuck up, they fuck up HARD.
Good example is Balena Productions, who does Sonic animations. Despite the fact that they can sometimes have some touchy subjects and some adult content (just look at his GMod ragdoll video parody series, Sonic Zombies), a lot of his videos have been marked by youtube, not Balena, as "made for kids" fucking up his channel
He has fought them tooth and nail, pointing out example after example of things in his videos that should disqualify them from being made for kids, even putting viewer discretion warnings at the beginning, and UA-cam just held firm that they were made for kids and nothing he could do about it. Even worse, they say it was manually reviewed, but it seems whoever is "manually reviewing" the vid - if someone even is - just sees Sonic and animation and groups it in with shit like a Baby Shark video. It's to the point he just announced he's stepping away from videos because of how badly this is affecting his channel, and UA-cam refuses to listen to him about the issue.
Hey Weezy, MvM fix dropped. Let's hope it actually fixed the griefer problem in MvM pertaining to keeping the bots from leaving their spawn areas.
How odd. Hopefully, this problem won't happen again. I'm still having fun with your videos, man.
12:58 Bro ain't no way he just casually mentioned Wamo- I mean Internet Anarchist and moved on
Wait, 99.8 and 1.2? Something ain't right there.
13:44
I am not crazy! I knew those UA-cam statistics were saying something! I knew it was odd to have such a high subscribe watch rate. I just - I just couldn't prove it. You - UA-cam covered their tracks, they got those idiot at the help center to lie for them. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? They've done worse.
Anyone who has taken a basic stats course will look at that ratio and think, man this is not normal
hol up is that SPIRAL KNIGHTS MUSIC I HEAR
usage of the spiral knights OST is unfathomably based
I honestly think that with all the brain rot a lot of people seem to have concerning MVM (like complaining A LOT about a small change that is actually good), some people just have said "nope, i'm not letting this person take my time and use it to complain without being constructive" even if you did a perfectly good video because they did NOT know you.
Still does not explain a drop that big though.
only Weezy is the kind of guy that, while others (if not everyone) shouts and blames at the bigger picrture. This guy would bust out the Magnifying glass and go: *"no...nono. that sounds too naïve. whats Actually going on here?"*
*and more people SHOULD BE BEHAVING LIKE WEEZY*
*BLAME THE CODE, NOT THE CORP.*
Er, what about the fact that the Corp was the ones who developed the Code? I still say Blame Both, and hold both accountable.
4:32 man I haven't heard that song for so long, spiral knights soundtrack hits hard
Wait, am I stupid or does 99.8%+1.2%=101%?
Something crazy is that I completely missed your last vid, despite being subscribed, when up to now your videos would always be at the top of my home feed.
You are very generous towards UA-cam, but of course, no good deed goes unpunished.