Seeing our channel in the middle of the video was quite the surprise! Very cool of you to share these insights with everyone. In our six years here it's certainly been a bit of a roller coaster as the algorithm has gone through changes. I can only imagine how many factors the YT team has to consider. It's a good reminder to simply pursue what you love and give the best effort you can. Trying to ride a trend might work in the short term, but the world invariably moves on to something new.
I don't think they understand...most youtube viewers don't care about mainstream media...Now I respect the old...but its like playing with your big bro & friends everday, vs hanging out with your Grandparents everyday....
Holy crap! +SoCloseToToast you watch Game Theory? Wow two of my favorite youtubers. But yeah I am getting a sick feeling and completely agree. This isn't good for people who do youtube as a job.
Amazon bought twitch as well and its become the cheaper way to broadcast news or e-sports. Going to be interesting as it overtakes television, going to lose those " mom and pop : shows.
JTEgaming yep it's nearly impossible to get big now, it's been that way for a few years. Unless you have a really cool and unique idea that someone *has never done before* it's nearly impossible.
Make a company, basically you need way more then one person for your channel to be successful, because one person trying to put out the amount of content required to stay retentive is nearly impossible. My channel isn't monetized and I only put out videos when it's what I want to do, I'm not looking to make money or get popular I just want to share my fun with others when I have it. That's one of the ways you got to approach making content, do you want to make money or have fun, or make a lot less money and have fun.
I've had my channel for a while now and my videos are decent quality too. But i'll never blow up because it's just me, in college and no time to create a ton of content to keep up with demand. I'll probably never be super big but that's okay. I record game play with my best friends because we're hilarious! I edit because I find video editing fun (Except for editing my own voice *Eww*). I upload to UA-cam (a magical place that I spend a lot of my life) because I hope for people to watch my content and maybe get some giggles out of it. I don't care if I become huge. Would I like it? SURE! But who wouldn't? No matter what happens just keep creating because its what YOU enjoy. That's what every one like you, like me, and everyone like us must do.
It's impossible to "start something popular" even in the real world. If you WANT to be popular, you will make the same thing than the other popular peoples, right? But in this case, why bother with you if the popular one is doing exactly the same? It's like thinking "there are already 6 restaurants in my street so i will create a 7th" and only AFTER that, the owner understand he can't get the needed customers to make the business work : they are already in the other restaurants. And if you have an original idea... well it will be so original that nobody will search for it in the search tab. The popular channels weren't popular just by doing videos and simply waiting the money to come, they did what they wanted to do when they noted it wasn't already on UA-cam. Else you are a professional and doing many advertising through your network of relations or your money, else you will need to be lucky ;)
It's stupid. UA-cam used to be a place where I could find stuff that isn't on TV. Made by regular people who I can relate with and have their own unique content. I didn't want it to be TV #2.
Ethan Schmidt TV#1 The way we used to watch Television has been in decline for a while. Not to say it will die off but it won't be the same as it was several decades ago.
Eric Nick It's been in decline because of things like Netflix. If I wanted a TV experience, I'd watch TV or Netflix, not UA-cam. UA-cam was supposed to be something completely different
+Ethan Schmidt You are speaking me from the soul. (I hope that sentence works in English since I'm German) That new algorithm is promoting exactly what we never wanted to be promoted. Seriously: One 30+ minute video a day is waaay to much! For me as a tiny gaming channel uploading 3 10-15 minutes videos a week it is so unfair! And I don't want to be speaking just for myself but for all these sincere non-clickbait small channels: We do not have the time to make long videos every single day. We simply cannot. If you have other things to do besides UA-cam, you won't be able to become big on that platform anymore. Atm we might have channels created by normal people who suddenly became big but with that algorithm it will be nearly impossible in the future...
You are right. That is what is want to do, yet it want to give power to the creators as well. That is why there is a button called "Donate to this Channel". I believe the best way to promote the creators we like is to click that button or go to "Patron" where one donate money for them to continue what they like.
OMG THE ALGORITHMS CHANGED AGAIN, I watched this vid just over 2 years ago and when I searched “hunger games” I got the same results you predicted. I decided to do this again a year later to see if it still worked... there was absolutely nothing about Minecraft. Instead it was what you showed first as an example of what wasn’t what would show... if that makes sense. Maybe UA-cam trying to prove you wrong, please do a new UA-cam vid!
The moment UA-cam began taking down videos "due to Copyright" was the moment I've realized that UA-cam became The Babylon Whore of the Entertainment Mobsters. The rest of the changes were signs of bad transformations into, as you said, the extension of the Old Trolls Mainstream Media.
i have a decent fanbase - it's tough to maintain and grow when youtube doesn't even tell any of them about videos I post - plus the random unsubscribe thing doesn't help. Patreon is super nice, but channel growth = sustainability. Guess I just need to hope for the best.
ragii Well Rooster Teeth was still a sizeable company then, but they have stayed humble with incredible people and content compared to the likes of buzz feed.
So basically UA-cam is trying to move away from UA-camr content creation, to company content creation as they want to move more towards something like netflix, leaving what UA-cam once was, to a typical corporate snooze fest?
I'll brake it down for you Longer: youtubers need to produce longer videos Faster: youtubers need to produce videos faster Constant: youtubers need to produce videos constantly
Ali G On WA They have the power to take the video down without any warning, so what do they care? They don't. If they did, this video wouldn't be around to be trending.
They won't. What youtube is doing is most likely going to be succesfull, so Matpat explaining it doesn't bother. While youtube is loosing the "old" creators, it wins new ones. Those who can turn youtube into the new television.
In 2022, when I type in hunger games I see a buy or rent option for mockingjay pt.1 as the first, then your video “How to SURVIVE the Hunger Games pt.1”
Remember when UA-cam was a hobby and not a job? Remember when you had customization on your channel (full custom background, color, font, transparency)? THAT was my UA-cam, the Trutube.
THANK YOU, its like those of us who only watch/use youtube for revenue sold their souls. Sure, its great people can make money off stuff they like, but like in everythin in life, it comes wit ha price--and not only a price, the purity and whole foundation this site was founded on...
you do realize it's the money that allows people like matpat to do this full-time right? Like the only reason many creators can invest so much time into this Hobby is because the money makes it so they don't have to get a job somwhere else . I doubt matpat would be putting out such hevily edited videos if he wasn't getting paid.
Civil Car Back before you could make money on YT... many people(especially from the OG PC days...) were just fine seeing a new upload once a week or so. This was a website made for SHARING content, a community. Not to give people jobs. So I , nor others wouldnt have even met those people you mention, we wouldve simple been satisfied with how YT was. Pretty much, the butterfly effect.
This is kinda fucked up. Something that I def noticed this year, was that more and more UA-camrs seemed to loose their motivation or simply just strentgh and I guess now I know why. It's honestly heartbreaking to watch.
nah thats just part of it most youtubers have now gone into into this "ClickBait" bandwagon effect you can upload the most random crap and walk away with views just b/c of the overly hyped title. It makes other youtubers that actually upload content the traditional way with factual stuff demoralized with less viewers. Big youtubers are the least likely to be affected by this. I'm just not buying all this crap about Pewdiepie loosing his channel its just ClickBaiting at best
busi magen Not if they are already have a big channel at that point they pretty much build a fanbase off it they are just taking an advantage over click baiting. Like the guy who claimed to have a Nintendo Switch. That little stunt went viral just about every vlogger was talking about it even tho it was fake. It's not just the title it could be misleading thumbnails or only partially talk about what their title states. Views count towards monetization with the help of ads. Bounces may occur, but the fact remains... they are still making money in a cheap way and try to be enthusiastic behind it. Click bating/Content leaks is a trend in today's time maybe not in the music, or review genres of youtbe, but its everywhere on the gaming, movie side. I had to unsub 7 ppl b/c I grew tired of it. When I see videos like Pewdiepie gonna delete his channel 1st thing that comes to mind is that is complete BS. This guy is making thousands of dollars every month probably even more its crap like that big youtubers can get away with in terms of click baiting. Would you cut off your thousand dollar investment after achieving 50 million subs?
2018: problem solved by the Community!!!! Creators can take vacation for a week!! Because the audience care about their stars health and understand that everyone needs a break sometimes....
2020: Problem is made worse by the Community!!! Creators are stuck inside giving them more time to work on videos and get demonetized for saying [insert certain virus] on their channels!
Fantastic information and video MatPat. Your findings line up with mine nearly perfectly; Audience Retention is far less important than Total Minutes Watched, likes and comments do very little, and not making daily long form content makes growing much more difficult. What I would add into this is UA-cam's push for Total Session Watch Time which is resulting in an explosion of children's content as well as the Click through rate receiving increased importance. I loved your analogy of the treadmill continuing to increase in speed.
So if decided to make a youtube channel i would grow just by making 30 minutes long videos of watching paint dry, where i use a different color every day? Time to go buy myself a camera :D... and a lot of paint
Why doesint gt just use yt algorithm to advantage and use some simple software to slow the video and audio to a speed of 0.5 and then at the beginning of the gt's videos ask us to turn the playback speed to *2 thus earning him minutes watched and longer videos?
You might also be seeing bigger paychecks as a result because UA-cam Red divides the subscription revenue similarly. People like TotalBiscuit who regularly upload a three hour podcast make bank from UA-cam Red because of this.
Adrien Arnaldi He forgot to mention that most big UA-camrs never bother to implement a proper SEO. Pewdiepie for an example, he never bother to write any proper description beside copy paste links. If you have TubeBuddy or something can see other channels video tags. His tags are super lazy at best with only less then 10 tags are implemented. If he actually put some effort on his SEO, he could double his views.
We should not have to rely on SEO to find good content. Otherwise it would just be big corps with craploads of SEO experts getting their stuff to the frontpage.
"Burn with enthusiasm and people will come from miles to watch you burn" - someone who is smarter than I am. I kinda want UA-cam to struggle to see how sites that have prepared to be better than UA-cam will do, but also I want some constant. I vote for death!
It sounds doable but you'd have to be really creative and cut back on editing at the same time to make entertaining content. Say goodbye to everything that's even remotely educational, allot of quality content takes time to produce and it's just nice and organic. How many people can work with these constraints?
The funny part is, I only got a few MC videos, mostly trailers for all different movies, Mats own Thery of the hunger games, too. But probably because I've been watching a lot of trailers the last few days
I don't watch TV because it is expensive, not because the content is bad. Which it is, but I do like watching it sometimes. But its not worth the 150 a month price tag.
tv is much more watched then yt, so u are saying, yt should never want to become whole family can sit and watch together.... you are such shallow dumb person.
Must have changed since those 7 years because typing "hunger games" into UA-cam now gives me small, weird clips from the movie as well as a lot of commentary videos. No Minecraft.
I was once solely a consumer of Mat's actual theories about games but there's something about turning 20 that sparks your sudden interest in the mechanism that lies below. As English is not my first language, had I watched this some years before the whole video would just fly over me and I'd click away after the first 3 minutes. I really appreciate Mat crunching numbers for us and I'm sure this will stay relevant until UA-cam implemented another new algorithm (which by the time this is written they might have). It's a shame though now that with this algorithm, channels with videos that have a long span of relevance will lose over channels that update videos daily regardless of its content.
JakeB Animations I've always wanted to learn to animate, but UA-cam is like "screw your animation even though it's good, we want relevance and riches." Stupid corporate UA-cam.
If a lot of big youtubers disappear, a lot of people will stop watching youtube. And maybe then that will wake them up and say "Oh hey! Maybe we should change it back!"
Cartoon Fluffle because an animation channel would have no chance at growing with this algorithm. Unless its a team of animators uploading a video a day
DJ-Two-Bears Most animators, like myself, are not doing it for growth and popularity on youtube. It's more for growing as an animator and improving your skills/meeting new people.
look at gbay99's video discussing the matter,the thing is that google has actually made no money since they bought youtube up until they started getting ads up and recommending videos promoting big companies
It's greatest strength was that it allowed people a platform to be themselves and make money so of course the next logical step of action is to develop a system to where only mainstream networks make money and compete.
Yep, which is stupid because the big companies already had access to youtube. What gets youtube money is views to sell adspace and data. What gets those views is good content. What gets youtube the best content is giving as open of a platform as possible for the most people to be able to compete with the giants on a level playing ground. This will only result in a decline in youtube's traffic as they lower the bar by making the conditions preferable to giants who release inferior content.
Just like when we could have went with Tesla's concept for energy but instead went with Edison. Building Tesla coils and proposing free energy doesn't help big companies profit from the 99%
dont forget about the feminist agenda they're pushing. turn on that kid friendly no adult content feature and stuff like steven crowder will vanish from search lists.
It's interesting that this has historically happened to almost all new media platforms previously. Telephone, radio, film, TV, social networks, and now UA-cam. Hopefully UA-cam doesn't go down this dark path and force a competitor to stand up, but it might. Business Idea: Create a platform that uses UA-cam's API to basically be what UA-cam was a year ago.
Who even is H3H3? UA-camrs are always talking about H3H3, but I've never even seen the guy's channel on UA-cam. He's like a ghost.. that everyone else can see
This video was the first I heard of him and I instantly dislike him. And I watch channels like Game Grumps so it's not like I prefer highbrow humor or anything.
It seems like long older videos are all that show up in my recommended nowadays, at least after I watch the two sets of shows that I follow daily (yogscast civ games and lagtv starcraft casts).
i rarely look through the recommended and ive noticed that it only seems to show all the videos ive /already/ watched it doesnt show anything new anymore except for maybe a few new stuff by game grumps/markiplier/matpat
Something I personally noticed is that UA-cam would recommend me older videos if I had been watching older videos. For example, I am a huge Roosterteeth/AH fan, and I started to rewatch old Let's Plays, more and more of these videos would pop up as recommended.
Watching youtube everyday and don't freakin care about about big companies with thousand employees. UA-cam forgot who's watching videos. We don't come here to just look at annoying vids. We come here to watch people we like to watch. Want to remove what we like and kill the channels we follow? Go ahead, and when you will be as deserted as older video platforms, don't come crying to us. UA-cam was great BEFORE.
What's sad is that after all this, UA-cam is still a company and like every other company, no matter how good or bad they are to the people working for them, they will still care first and foremost about their profit. It's the blood of every company that keeps them running.
What makes me upset is that people are upset. I know youtube is where a lot of people make a living, but youtube itself is a business that cares less about creative rights and more about the video views from creators. UA-cam has always been fickle, going back and forth on what gets you a copyright strike and what doesn't, and there's so much drama and poison there that I wouldn't want to make it big and garner the attention of the things and types of youtubers that I hate. UA-cam should be a hobby, not a job, especially because it is its own business that hardly has any relationship with those who partner with it and make their own content. It's a weird quagmire that I enjoy being a part of from afar, especially knowing that all the drama doesn't affect me personally.
UA-cam has become "too big to fail" I think. The people complaining that UA-cam isn't acting for the viewers/youtubers are the same who think a picture posted on Internet is free of Copyright rights. "going back and forth on what gets you a copyright strike and what doesn't" Well, that's probably the only thing UA-cam can't control at all : if they don't want to be sued according to DMCA, they must remove any content asked by the right-holding companies... So their rules have been created according to limits given by producers.
rongdisk23 If that were true, the website would not be up anymore. What we really need is a competitor to UA-cam. A website offering what UA-cam isn't, making people migrate to said website. A website that can force Google to get off there asses.
That feeling when I'm watching in August 2018 and searching for phrase "Hunger Games" gave me results (I'll say first 3): - "THE HUNGER GAMES (2012) | Full Movie Trailer" - "The Hunger Games - Katniss and Peeta reaping scene" - "Film Theory: How to NOT DIE - Hunger Games pt.2"
I wish youtube would not allow large companies to create content on the platform. Ive been super motivated to grow my channel and continue to push forward, but after this video I just don't know if its even worth trying anymore.
youtube shouldnt allow big companies to monetize their videos. but some companies need to post videos (ie. hasbro posts tutorials on how to assemple certain toys)
Son_0f_Ares Throughout history novel ideas are corrupted for enhanced profit. Radio was originally small stations and then moved on to multiple large franchises. This kind of thing is only preventable by going against the system and watching your favorite youtuber's videos multiple times in order to increase total view time like he said they want.
Well I don't mind big companies like Nintendo, Sony, etc. coming to UA-cam to promote their games and stuff, that makes sense, a lot of people use the site so that to me is passable. What I outright hate is how UA-cam has, as you said son of ares, started to move away from the thing that made it cool, which is the creators like mat pat, pewdiepie, etc.(again) that make content that people like. I didn't come to UA-cam to basically watch TV, I came to watch interesting fun videos
You keep getting unsubscribed because you come to channels like this and think that your "verified" mark makes you seem cool. Oh and you have shitty content.
overtflow a glitch i assume. Its happening to a lot of people including myself. Or maybe UA-cam is going a bit too far on the "channel cleansing" if you knnow what i mean ;)
ISoulReaper1994 It's the natural way of things. They'll always try to push themselves, and the audience will keep on moving away to new competitors. A garden requires patience and nurture. Maybe someday they'll learn this.
Instead of a CIrcle of Life, it's a Circle of Suck. Something new comes up where ordinary people can exchange ideas; the corporate money-men look to shoehorn their way in.
The Rogue Wolf Big-money influences always seem to be their own downfall. Though this does make me curious about some economic ideas. I'm rather fond of Basic Income, and I wonder how it might affect situations like this.
Pammeelex I think they are tying to force the group like us who watch gameplay, funny vids, animations and so on away from youtube, removing our favourite channels, in order to look more apperable to the world of politics and reality bullshit show:(....this was my timeout zone for several years. I really dont hope it will come to that...
GenericPixel Meaning anyone from the outside world. All those lunatics and assholes who can enjoy everything the world has to offer. Those peoble could potentionally end up taking OUR place
Bonkaholic ! both... I'll just slow down my speed paints from 5 minutes to 10 or 15. It won't make the video boring but it'll supply me with more watched minutes
oh please, its been 9 years, I think we can all look back and see that cory in the house only got popular because it replaced traditional cliches with more non traditional cliche's, I mean remember the episode where cory fused with mount Rushmore to create link-on? it was done so much better in Barney the Dinosaur
Very well made video, looking forward to the next one :) The more we know and learn, the better everything gets!
jacksepticeye Exactly. This is something we all need to do something about.
Also JAAAAAAAACK!
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Remember when UA-cam's motto was "Broadcast Yourself?"
I guess their new one would be "Broadcast your multi-million dollar business on our website."
Damn. This is a really bad omen.
Ah, the good old days.
Machew San I think it's more of desperate attempt to copy Netflix. UA-cam is forgetting it's original purpose and now wants to become something else.
Well, somebody got to pay those new server storage everyday. It ain't cheap you know.
What UA-cam wants is to make a profit, something that it still cannot do, so is constantly changing
Deleting the channel at 100 TRILLION likes...
NOOOOOOOOOO
that'd be cool
The Game Theorists liked
OK
lies it all lies
Once UA-cam becomes TV I don't have a reason to watch it anymore
Its worst than tv....you can swear on tv and stay monitized.
A show like south park would never get ads on youtube.
UA-cam TV is a thing.
Google! If I wanted to watch Jimmy Kimmel, I'd be paying for cable instead of internet.
For me once all the non-company creators can’t do it anymore I will not watch anymore
I feel really bad for all of those animators who put effort into their videos...
Sorry to hear that.
Sucks for us yep
animators?
Yeah.
Dude james, you need more subs and attention, its animators like you and me that get screwed over 100%
Seeing our channel in the middle of the video was quite the surprise! Very cool of you to share these insights with everyone. In our six years here it's certainly been a bit of a roller coaster as the algorithm has gone through changes. I can only imagine how many factors the YT team has to consider. It's a good reminder to simply pursue what you love and give the best effort you can. Trying to ride a trend might work in the short term, but the world invariably moves on to something new.
It's good to see big channels getting involved with other videos and being an active part of the community
Corridor when is Freddie coming back :(
lol love you corridor....somehow i was unsubbed to you but i fixed it. resubbed. u earned it.
It's sad that Videos like yours suffer from the algorithm :(
Because thats the kind of stuff I want to see on UA-cam!
Corridor love your vids
This explains why I haven't found any "new" channels as of late.
I was thinking the same thing
All the upcoming youtubers are trash, daily uploaders. The good channels are being screwed by these changes
Force2Reckon I am a new channel, congrats, you just found me 😉
TOP 100 DUMB USERS THAT CLICKED ON THIS 99 MINUTES VIDEO AND WHO WATCHED IT ENTIRELY PRANK (GONE WRONG/SEXUAL) ft. PewDiePie [Porn]
Force2Reckon well, you didn't find a new channel! A new channel found you!
UA-cam is a game..
And everyone is losing.. Even pewdiepie
WAAHHH
And we just leave and come back better
Not T-series
well t-series is winning
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I watch youtube every single day and still haven't clicked the trending tab yet lol
I don't think they understand...most youtube viewers don't care about mainstream media...Now I respect the old...but its like playing with your big bro & friends everday, vs hanging out with your Grandparents everyday....
neither have I, although that probably depends on the fact that I have quite the subscription feed so I pretty much have no entertainment problems
Keith Killingly ikr
same.
same
UA-cam is literally turning intoTV....Its kinda sad. Anyone else have this upset feeling?
suh dude
SoCloseToToast hi
Holy crap! +SoCloseToToast you watch Game Theory? Wow two of my favorite youtubers. But yeah I am getting a sick feeling and completely agree. This isn't good for people who do youtube as a job.
SoCloseToToast me
影 Productions wow, seriously?
At this rate we may need a channel called "UA-cam Theory" on it's own.
Pls lol
Proraptor Gaming yes!!!!
Proraptor Gaming I was thinking the same thing, but then MatPat would have to make 3 vids a week
iMarshie Mellow Probably means RIP Livestreams
***** He might not be able to keep up (i.e. the treadmill analogy)
Aaaaand of course this vid has no ads
Jed Zuno the demonetization or the end sponsor message
Yea. I guess you aren't allowed to slander UA-cam at all
I saw a cards against humanity video right after this and there were 3 or 4 ads in that :/
what are youtube ads?
peanutbutterrobot how do you not know
youtube isnt "broadcast yourself" anymore
Totally forgot about that slogan...
Jack Leeper I'm sure you're not the only one who forgot. sadly.
Man, you've made me feel old now...
That became super obvios for months, maybe even a year or two.
Amazon bought twitch as well and its become the cheaper way to broadcast news or e-sports. Going to be interesting as it overtakes television, going to lose those " mom and pop : shows.
I STOPED WATCHING TV FOR A REASON DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!
You and me both man. You and me both.
Stupid commercials have killed TV.
What's a TV?
its like youtube but with 5 minutes of ads every 10 minutes
B Del Monte the thing that people connect video game consoles to.
Helpful insight as always! Thanks.
PeanutButterGamer first reply!!
PeanutButterGamer oh pbg what would we do without you?
PeanutButterGamer pbg!!!
PeanutButterGamer OMG! PBG! I loveeeeeeeee you! Your vids are awesome!!!!
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You pronounced Jack Septic Eye wrong, it’s pronounced
“Jack-Spa-Dice-Ee”
@@spella6452 yeah exacly
@@spella6452 you better not know lol
that makes no sense
@@ortherner it makes sense if you know the context in which he's talking about
@@ortherner ua-cam.com/video/pdjIAVwQ3rA/v-deo.html
It has something to do with this
so what youre saying is it's completely impossible for people to start a popular channel. that's cool
JTEgaming yep it's nearly impossible to get big now, it's been that way for a few years. Unless you have a really cool and unique idea that someone *has never done before* it's nearly impossible.
one word: clickbait
Make a company, basically you need way more then one person for your channel to be successful, because one person trying to put out the amount of content required to stay retentive is nearly impossible. My channel isn't monetized and I only put out videos when it's what I want to do, I'm not looking to make money or get popular I just want to share my fun with others when I have it. That's one of the ways you got to approach making content, do you want to make money or have fun, or make a lot less money and have fun.
I've had my channel for a while now and my videos are decent quality too. But i'll never blow up because it's just me, in college and no time to create a ton of content to keep up with demand. I'll probably never be super big but that's okay. I record game play with my best friends because we're hilarious! I edit because I find video editing fun (Except for editing my own voice *Eww*). I upload to UA-cam (a magical place that I spend a lot of my life) because I hope for people to watch my content and maybe get some giggles out of it. I don't care if I become huge. Would I like it? SURE! But who wouldn't? No matter what happens just keep creating because its what YOU enjoy. That's what every one like you, like me, and everyone like us must do.
It's impossible to "start something popular" even in the real world.
If you WANT to be popular, you will make the same thing than the other popular peoples, right?
But in this case, why bother with you if the popular one is doing exactly the same?
It's like thinking "there are already 6 restaurants in my street so i will create a 7th" and only AFTER that, the owner understand he can't get the needed customers to make the business work : they are already in the other restaurants.
And if you have an original idea... well it will be so original that nobody will search for it in the search tab.
The popular channels weren't popular just by doing videos and simply waiting the money to come, they did what they wanted to do when they noted it wasn't already on UA-cam.
Else you are a professional and doing many advertising through your network of relations or your money, else you will need to be lucky ;)
Me: *searches hunger games and sees minecraft*
MatPat: "You're probably seeing a lot of minecraft"
Me: WITCHCRAFT
Omg he mentioned the beautiful Kursgesagt in a nutshell
KURSGESAGT HYYYYYYPE
Not only did I see that, but I saw a TF2 livestream.
The heck?
No, Minecraft.
TurquoiseCrow
nice Pun bro
It's stupid. UA-cam used to be a place where I could find stuff that isn't on TV. Made by regular people who I can relate with and have their own unique content. I didn't want it to be TV #2.
Ethan Schmidt TV#1 The way we used to watch Television has been in decline for a while. Not to say it will die off but it won't be the same as it was several decades ago.
Eric Nick It's been in decline because of things like Netflix. If I wanted a TV experience, I'd watch TV or Netflix, not UA-cam. UA-cam was supposed to be something completely different
Eric Nick It's so freaking stupid.
Ethan Schmidt Yeah I'm with you. After watching this video, i really became discouraged. Now I'm curious what will happen to my favorite UA-camrs.
+Ethan Schmidt You are speaking me from the soul. (I hope that sentence works in English since I'm German)
That new algorithm is promoting exactly what we never wanted to be promoted. Seriously: One 30+ minute video a day is waaay to much! For me as a tiny gaming channel uploading 3 10-15 minutes videos a week it is so unfair! And I don't want to be speaking just for myself but for all these sincere non-clickbait small channels: We do not have the time to make long videos every single day. We simply cannot. If you have other things to do besides UA-cam, you won't be able to become big on that platform anymore. Atm we might have channels created by normal people who suddenly became big but with that algorithm it will be nearly impossible in the future...
This was a while back. If you could make one for 2019 it would help a lot of people out. Meanwhile, love your work. Keep it up.
Yeah
And now 2021
@@Callie_Padrick same here
UA-cam is literally turning back into TV. This is 2016
They're killing what made youtube special in the first place
I guess UA-cam didn't think this year sucked enough, so they wanted to jump on the bandwagon since it made them money in the process.
'Member television?
Zachar Art 2016 is a bad yeah for youtuber and for news and votes and war sooo yeah
Almost 2017
so basically youtube is turning into TV
JUAN MATA j
You are right. That is what is want to do, yet it want to give power to the creators as well. That is why there is a button called "Donate to this Channel". I believe the best way to promote the creators we like is to click that button or go to "Patron" where one donate money for them to continue what they like.
that's why it's gonna die
The very thing it tried so hard to *NOT* be for years.
So... not really UA-cam, moreso THEYtube.
JUAN MATA dont hug me im scared "theory" is true! we are falling back into tv monopoly, but with youtube instead.
Super informative: Watch Time + Viewers Returning Daily.
swiftor heyy
I'm glad we finally got some concrete information regarding the "system"!
Oh dude. Your channel. Oh it's painful. 2 million subs but the views man :'(
OMG THE ALGORITHMS CHANGED AGAIN, I watched this vid just over 2 years ago and when I searched “hunger games” I got the same results you predicted. I decided to do this again a year later to see if it still worked... there was absolutely nothing about Minecraft. Instead it was what you showed first as an example of what wasn’t what would show... if that makes sense. Maybe UA-cam trying to prove you wrong, please do a new UA-cam vid!
UA-cam REALLY needs a competitor to keep it in check.
Roguery I could if we all moved over to Vimeo
that's if other video sharing sites offer good monetization.
Roguery vid.me new to the game
or vidme
There are a few, but they are even wierder and crazier. UA-cam still feels mostly kid friendly, and that's priority #1
This is absolutely the best video on this topic, woah. Really informative, man!
RogersBase Hi Roger!!!!!!
notice me senpai!!
Noticed.
Wow that was fast
Roger Kreygasm
In short: UA-cam wants to be like the Main Stream Media.
"Mainstream" is a single word. But what we really need is for UA-cam to divide and parse content into different categories for examination.
Because revenue
More like the mainstream media landscape wants UA-cam to be their extension on the Internet.
The moment UA-cam began taking down videos "due to Copyright" was the moment I've realized that UA-cam became The Babylon Whore of the Entertainment Mobsters. The rest of the changes were signs of bad transformations into, as you said, the extension of the Old Trolls Mainstream Media.
I looked up Frozen in 2019 and I saw that a screening of Frozen 2 led to a machete attack involving 14 year olds.
superpaul it’s probably because of the violence video games and UA-camrs bestow among kids
great. just wish I knew how to compete as someone that BARELY manages a weekly upload schedule.
Perhaps by doing a monster hunter cover *nudge nudge*
Once you have a decent and healthy fan base, then make a Patreon.
RichaadEB your like my favorite cover artist! :D keep up the good work man
i have a decent fanbase - it's tough to maintain and grow when youtube doesn't even tell any of them about videos I post - plus the random unsubscribe thing doesn't help.
Patreon is super nice, but channel growth = sustainability. Guess I just need to hope for the best.
It's probably a lost cause. You can't compete with entire production teams.
UA-cam in 2011 was amazing. No big companies, no drama, no bullshit, just amazing content creators trending.
Sadly, it's 2016, and I can't see (m)any good things that could happen next year.
ragii yeah he's right
2006 is the year UA-cam went downhill. When UA-cam started paying content creators, it stopped being fun and started being about money.
i wasn't allowed in 2011 to watch youtube, so idk
ragii Well Rooster Teeth was still a sizeable company then, but they have stayed humble with incredible people and content compared to the likes of buzz feed.
So basically UA-cam is trying to move away from UA-camr content creation, to company content creation as they want to move more towards something like netflix, leaving what UA-cam once was, to a typical corporate snooze fest?
What do you mean by that?
longer videos, faster turnout and on a schedule
I'll brake it down for you
Longer: youtubers need to produce longer videos
Faster: youtubers need to produce videos faster
Constant: youtubers need to produce videos constantly
John Dwight Alejandro couldn't
Woah I didn't expect to see you here snob.
Oh god.... I just time traveled to the start of 2018 AND MINECRAFT VIDEOS STILL FILL THE RESULTS WHAT
Ikr😂
Well, fortnite will make a history soon
Fortnites fan boys and girls are retarded
Not anymore!
Now it’s parodies
UA-cam will hate this being number 1 on trending
as if they care.... what is the opinion of a few million people to them :/
Ali G On WA They have the power to take the video down without any warning, so what do they care? They don't. If they did, this video wouldn't be around to be trending.
They won't. What youtube is doing is most likely going to be succesfull, so Matpat explaining it doesn't bother.
While youtube is loosing the "old" creators, it wins new ones. Those who can turn youtube into the new television.
Good thing it currently is.
hehehehe muahahahaha
Last time I was this early Game Theory did videos on Video Games.
Video Games*
Ronan Layden so... last week?
yup
I'm pretty sure it was just a joke. Sometimes it can be hard to tell
Ronan Layden .... so.... last week?
Pretty sad to see the direction in which UA-cam is going ;(
Bern Skon This as ASRIEL as it gets.
Conbin Spark Not the time. Or the place.
Chris Wedemann
What do you mean? You're making it sound like it's nearing the end of the world and we don't have time for jokes!
Bern Skon Its not the end of the world. But its the beginning of the end for UA-cam. For real creative content.
Chris Wedemann True. The people who really care about UA-cam are the ones being fucked over by it.
In 2022, when I type in hunger games I see a buy or rent option for mockingjay pt.1 as the first, then your video “How to SURVIVE the Hunger Games pt.1”
Remember when UA-cam was a hobby and not a job? Remember when you had customization on your channel (full custom background, color, font, transparency)? THAT was my UA-cam, the Trutube.
it was amazing in every way
THANK YOU, its like those of us who only watch/use youtube for revenue sold their souls.
Sure, its great people can make money off stuff they like, but like in everythin in life, it comes wit ha price--and not only a price, the purity and whole foundation this site was founded on...
KazuichiX
Yep, for the most part anytime money is involved, it's corrupts everything sadly.
you do realize it's the money that allows people like matpat to do this full-time right? Like the only reason many creators can invest so much time into this Hobby is because the money makes it so they don't have to get a job somwhere else . I doubt matpat would be putting out such hevily edited videos if he wasn't getting paid.
Civil Car Back before you could make money on YT... many people(especially from the OG PC days...) were just fine seeing a new upload once a week or so. This was a website made for SHARING content, a community.
Not to give people jobs. So I , nor others wouldnt have even met those people you mention, we wouldve simple been satisfied with how YT was.
Pretty much, the butterfly effect.
in other words, youtube is killing what makes youtube special
TazzeOptical yup
Hey now is the time for everyone to move their channel to Vimeo
Glorious_Britannia Before 18 hours.
“Broadcast -yourself- the big companies“
viral suicide?
This is kinda fucked up.
Something that I def noticed this year, was that more and more UA-camrs seemed to loose their motivation or simply just strentgh and I guess now I know why.
It's honestly heartbreaking to watch.
...you just made me think of Daniel and Melissa ;(
Das Eiki Lose, ffs
Das Eiki It really is, mate. Soon many of our best UA-camrs will be gone.
nah thats just part of it most youtubers have now gone into into this "ClickBait" bandwagon effect you can upload the most random crap and walk away with views just b/c of the overly hyped title. It makes other youtubers that actually upload content the traditional way with factual stuff demoralized with less viewers. Big youtubers are the least likely to be affected by this. I'm just not buying all this crap about Pewdiepie loosing his channel its just ClickBaiting at best
busi magen Not if they are already have a big channel at that point they pretty much build a fanbase off it they are just taking an advantage over click baiting. Like the guy who claimed to have a Nintendo Switch. That little stunt went viral just about every vlogger was talking about it even tho it was fake. It's not just the title it could be misleading thumbnails or only partially talk about what their title states.
Views count towards monetization with the help of ads. Bounces may occur, but the fact remains... they are still making money in a cheap way and try to be enthusiastic behind it. Click bating/Content leaks is a trend in today's time maybe not in the music, or review genres of youtbe, but its everywhere on the gaming, movie side. I had to unsub 7 ppl b/c I grew tired of it. When I see videos like Pewdiepie gonna delete his channel 1st thing that comes to mind is that is complete BS. This guy is making thousands of dollars every month probably even more its crap like that big youtubers can get away with in terms of click baiting. Would you cut off your thousand dollar investment after achieving 50 million subs?
2018: problem solved by the Community!!!!
Creators can take vacation for a week!! Because the audience care about their stars health and understand that everyone needs a break sometimes....
2020: Problem is made worse by the Community!!!
Creators are stuck inside giving them more time to work on videos and get demonetized for saying [insert certain virus] on their channels!
Fantastic information and video MatPat. Your findings line up with mine nearly perfectly; Audience Retention is far less important than Total Minutes Watched, likes and comments do very little, and not making daily long form content makes growing much more difficult. What I would add into this is UA-cam's push for Total Session Watch Time which is resulting in an explosion of children's content as well as the Click through rate receiving increased importance. I loved your analogy of the treadmill continuing to increase in speed.
Both of your theories are nearly identical! It's good to hear more UA-camrs talking about the algorithm.
So if decided to make a youtube channel i would grow just by making 30 minutes long videos of watching paint dry, where i use a different color every day? Time to go buy myself a camera :D... and a lot of paint
Chad Wild Clay Pewds dont like you
Winkys World and I'm expecting jack doesn't like him either...
Pewds an Jack do like him. Pewds even leave a comment on Chads video saying he loved it
THIS WAS SO HELPFUL, OMG.
BEEZ no way you're really big
Why doesint gt just use yt algorithm to advantage and use some simple software to slow the video and audio to a speed of 0.5 and then at the beginning of the gt's videos ask us to turn the playback speed to *2 thus earning him minutes watched and longer videos?
Ben Birchman, yup and he has a million subs
how you have a million subs but no content??
Andrew Richmond i think he usss videos but he doesint place them on the" my conten"t page"
Well this explains why my channel is exploding. I had no idea why I was growing so quickly. Who knew long, boring videos were the answer.
Sargon of Akkad I didn't expect to see you here.
I'm a fan of your videos, glad you're channels doing good!
SARGON!?!?!?! i did NOT expect to see THIS comment here!!!
You might also be seeing bigger paychecks as a result because UA-cam Red divides the subscription revenue similarly. People like TotalBiscuit who regularly upload a three hour podcast make bank from UA-cam Red because of this.
WTF are you doing here? Whatever, love your videos.
When he said “it’s time to set the record straight” I said “is that a Beatles record?!”
I love how MatPat reminds us its "just a theory" even though I'm utterly convinced he got everything he just said 100% correct
Adrien Arnaldi He forgot to mention that most big UA-camrs never bother to implement a proper SEO. Pewdiepie for an example, he never bother to write any proper description beside copy paste links. If you have TubeBuddy or something can see other channels video tags. His tags are super lazy at best with only less then 10 tags are implemented. If he actually put some effort on his SEO, he could double his views.
Not sure what that has to do with the thought that this is more truth than theory
We should not have to rely on SEO to find good content. Otherwise it would just be big corps with craploads of SEO experts getting their stuff to the frontpage.
Adrien Arnaldi I know
Adrien Arnaldi YAH
So this is how UA-cam dies...
TJ Boyte with thunderous applause.
"Burn with enthusiasm and people will come from miles to watch you burn" - someone who is smarter than I am.
I kinda want UA-cam to struggle to see how sites that have prepared to be better than UA-cam will do, but also I want some constant.
I vote for death!
TJ Boyte but wait... will the Empire Strike back??
TJ Boyte - Not with a bang, but with a wimper.
So, everyone, time to go to Minds?
so basically youtube wants us to make 30 minutes videos
Gumbino daily 30+ min vids
***** i really hope that was sarcasm
+Gumbino
oh it aint that simple bud.
30 minute videos
everyday
with new ideas everytime so the viewer doesnt get bored.
Hell has broken lose.
It sounds doable but you'd have to be really creative and cut back on editing at the same time to make entertaining content. Say goodbye to everything that's even remotely educational, allot of quality content takes time to produce and it's just nice and organic. How many people can work with these constraints?
30 minute videos...Everyday.
I want everyone to say this with me, 👏UA-cam👏is👏managed👏by👏dumbasses!👏
(Looked up Hunger Games in another tab)
*2 trailers, 1 "biggest mistakes" thing, 50 minecraft videos, a review, more minecraft.*
Oh, yeah. Matpat guessed correctly.
I got the exact same thing, even in the same order as you
"Guessed"
Minecraft videos are the cancer of youtube, literally. They just keep popping up everywhere.
The funny part is, I only got a few MC videos, mostly trailers for all different movies, Mats own Thery of the hunger games, too.
But probably because I've been watching a lot of trailers the last few days
I think the "New" feature is something that needed to be shown. New videos EXPLODE for recommended then hardly at all.
Verlisify fancy seeing you here...
Hey Verlisify
Verlisify The clickbait cancer of the Pokemon community hello 😘
StuckDucks no, he made a new video how he knows it all
Verlisify Oh snap
UA-cam isn't Tv, that's what people like about it. It needs to stop trying to be tv.
Not to mention the fact that people are watching less and less TV these days. Kinda of idiotic to copy a system that people are getting tired of.
it's like if netflix had tried to copy blockbuster. it's just totally illogical, lol.
I don't watch TV because it is expensive, not because the content is bad. Which it is, but I do like watching it sometimes. But its not worth the 150 a month price tag.
It's not trying to copy Tv.
It's trying to copy what made tv successful
tv is much more watched then yt, so u are saying, yt should never want to become whole family can sit and watch together.... you are such shallow dumb person.
Must have changed since those 7 years because typing "hunger games" into UA-cam now gives me small, weird clips from the movie as well as a lot of commentary videos. No Minecraft.
So, in essense, UA-cam is killing what made it enjoyable in the first place...
yeah.... sad ..... someone know of some other sites like youtube?
Kirito the Abridged God Unfortunately, yes
Kirito the Abridged God not everyone enjoys what you do so it's inaccurate to say that
Yeah, they're killing all the meme channels
The C.E.O. of UA-cam should be Fired.
***** Or that
You'd think UA-cam would have its own internal management, no? It's hardly a small branch of Google.
To add insult to injury the CEO is a Clinton donor. Therefore, she needs to -be executed- step down.
The Sixth Guy YES
Why? UA-cam is making more money now than they ever have before.
I honestly don't know what shows up on my homepage, as soon as I get to the site I go to my subscriptions.
Same ._. ... everything is so mixed up when I look in the page.
I've bookmarked my subscription pages so I never have to look at home/recommend/trending page ever.
This is exactly what I've done as well. It keeps me watching what I want to watch and ignoring everything that I honestly don't care about.
Yup, I did the same thing.
Sandra King Same here!
NOW THE TRENDING TAB AND HOME PAGE IS PAID PROMOTIONS. it's sad bro.
Awesome video MatPat!
This video is still relevent even though it was made in 16..
lol i thought it was made in the last week, then i read the date
Oh Really I Thought UA-cam Was Found In 2004
+TsaR BomBa Radioactive Bomb 2004
2018
I was once solely a consumer of Mat's actual theories about games but there's something about turning 20 that sparks your sudden interest in the mechanism that lies below. As English is not my first language, had I watched this some years before the whole video would just fly over me and I'd click away after the first 3 minutes. I really appreciate Mat crunching numbers for us and I'm sure this will stay relevant until UA-cam implemented another new algorithm (which by the time this is written they might have).
It's a shame though now that with this algorithm, channels with videos that have a long span of relevance will lose over channels that update videos daily regardless of its content.
Welp i'm screwed and so are the rest of the animators on youtube lets just go back to newgrounds
Not like it will help anymore, but I will sub. Animations...they always come first for me
Not just animators, people who do short skits, music and such are also screwed.
albino blacksheep
JakeB Animations I've always wanted to learn to animate, but UA-cam is like "screw your animation even though it's good, we want relevance and riches." Stupid corporate UA-cam.
Newgrounds is having a hard time staying alive
Its a scary world we've found ourselves in. I wonder how many people will have to close shop eventually :(
If a lot of big youtubers disappear, a lot of people will stop watching youtube. And maybe then that will wake them up and say "Oh hey! Maybe we should change it back!"
TheBurtDude tell aviator I said hi
Well, theres VIDME
TheBurtDude I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS
TheBurtDude I hate your channel
Like 6:45 I think. I searched hunger games, found a clip, film theory, the movie, a hate vid, and the history of hunger games.
Rip animators... the REAL creators of UA-cam, oh well still have newgrounds 😀
Samuel Martinez Why rip?
I do animations here cuz its fun and also for practice!...
Cartoon Fluffle because an animation channel would have no chance at growing with this algorithm. Unless its a team of animators uploading a video a day
DJ-Two-Bears Most animators, like myself, are not doing it for growth and popularity on youtube. It's more for growing as an animator and improving your skills/meeting new people.
But is that your primary source of income?
Animators do great on Vid.Me
UA-cam is so difficult it's now considered a game.
Stray Pay When you play the Game Of UA-cam, You win or you die
UA-cam IS the Hunger Game
Stray Pay You mean job ?
skip the cat!!!
Well, if you want to link it to a game, I'd say Darksouls :v
I guess this is the point when I have to give up my dreams and stop considering building a channel.
Exactly.
powerrex don't worry I subbed to you
Ralph Anthony Espos mee too
There could be another platform that will arise.
Man you can spend 100 hours on every video you make and still only have 36 subs.
Whatever, I'm still gonna make content
Rewatching this video after shorts have come out and I still don't understand why youtube tried to restart vine
The dislikes of this videos are probably from UA-cam lol..
Riz Islam that actually makes a lot of sense
Riz Islam Z
This might mean the downfall of UA-cam as a platform to express yourself. Oh well, it's been a good run.
+Corinthian Maybe that's why UA-cam's slogan isn't Broadcast Yourself anymore.
Corinthian youtube hasn't been about expressing yourself for a looong time...
look at gbay99's video discussing the matter,the thing is that google has actually made no money since they bought youtube up until they started getting ads up and recommending videos promoting big companies
Corinthian youtube is becoming TV, and it's gonna die
hey
so basically youtube is pushing out it's content creator for big company
All Mighty Pixel yes
It's greatest strength was that it allowed people a platform to be themselves and make money so of course the next logical step of action is to develop a system to where only mainstream networks make money and compete.
Yep, which is stupid because the big companies already had access to youtube. What gets youtube money is views to sell adspace and data. What gets those views is good content. What gets youtube the best content is giving as open of a platform as possible for the most people to be able to compete with the giants on a level playing ground.
This will only result in a decline in youtube's traffic as they lower the bar by making the conditions preferable to giants who release inferior content.
Just like when we could have went with Tesla's concept for energy but instead went with Edison. Building Tesla coils and proposing free energy doesn't help big companies profit from the 99%
When he said open a tab and type something, I did and typed butt and I got that same creepy elsa and spider man video....
Censored bar!
UA-cam is trying to take the You out of UA-cam.
ever since the mutant that is google took over, it stopped being youtube. It became Theirtube and about making them as much money as possible.
Mysticfox2010 You're that special kind of stupid, aren't you?
The PineApple it's gonna become TVtube pretty soon. And Bye bye youtubers. It's getting worse and worse every month.
And replace you with red
dont forget about the feminist agenda they're pushing. turn on that kid friendly no adult content feature and stuff like steven crowder will vanish from search lists.
damn, i wish my toy reviews were cancerous enough for millions of views
ZeronXepher lol
FireFist watch next when you see a grown man DOES A SURPRISE EGG VIDEO.
ZeronXepher stop trying to advertise your channel. it's not Even subtle
kek
Ha ha 😂 Do it for an April Fools Day prank.
That's fucked up. UA-cam is un-UA-cam'ing itself.
Aryn Kolechi it has turned into youporn
Its turned into youbreastfeed
Aryn Kolechi HAHA
If this continues Gaming will disappear completely on UA-cam
We must listen to Leafy and have a UA-cam Purge.
11:35 Seeing Pewdiepie at no. 1 and T Series at no. 35 really make me nostalgic
It's interesting that this has historically happened to almost all new media platforms previously.
Telephone, radio, film, TV, social networks, and now UA-cam.
Hopefully UA-cam doesn't go down this dark path and force a competitor to stand up, but it might.
Business Idea: Create a platform that uses UA-cam's API to basically be what UA-cam was a year ago.
A year ago? try 2011
Movies as well. It happened to them twice
Dailymotion and Vimeo have tried
Vidme is doing rather well. It has Nostalgia Critic, ThioJoe, and I Hate Everything just to name a few.
It's hard when big channels stay here.
I don't have a UA-cam addiction... I have a MatPat addiction...
same
XD
Rip animators in UA-cam
They've been screwed for a long while actually.
knylla
Yeah that's true :'(
Valkyrie Stein IKR I LOVE YOU ANIMATION SQUAD
Indeed
they aren't able to keep up
Who even is H3H3? UA-camrs are always talking about H3H3, but I've never even seen the guy's channel on UA-cam.
He's like a ghost.. that everyone else can see
Ulquiorra Michaelis right like who even is he
Ulquiorra Michaelis lol true
Tried searching for the channel? maybe that might help
Ulquiorra Michaelis you should check him out, he is hilarious! :)
This video was the first I heard of him and I instantly dislike him. And I watch channels like Game Grumps so it's not like I prefer highbrow humor or anything.
*searches hunger games*
...Minecraft?
Sad, but true. The clips are old, the minecraft is fresh.
it's sad to see my fandom go to minecraft.... ugh! although i like minecraft, i liking it less and less... i hardly open the game anymore
REALLY UA-cam?!? WOW, Ok THEN…
I only got GTA V, there was only one Minecraft video... Well 2017 ain't 2016
search *"hunger games" -"minecraft"* problem solved
One day I will be telling my children about a famous website that died tragically.... UA-cam
***** lol
bing was famous?
Bing was mighty?
What's Bing?
Ismael Khan The 2nd largest search engine in the internet with tons of traffic everyday. I can see why it is dead. 😒
The third search result for "hunger games" was Matpat's film theory about how to beat the hunger games lol
But I'm getting old videos over a year old in Recommended tho :\
It seems like long older videos are all that show up in my recommended nowadays, at least after I watch the two sets of shows that I follow daily (yogscast civ games and lagtv starcraft casts).
i rarely look through the recommended and ive noticed that it only seems to show all the videos ive /already/ watched it doesnt show anything new anymore except for maybe a few new stuff by game grumps/markiplier/matpat
Something I personally noticed is that UA-cam would recommend me older videos if I had been watching older videos.
For example, I am a huge Roosterteeth/AH fan, and I started to rewatch old Let's Plays, more and more of these videos would pop up as recommended.
Enchant lol i get videos anywhere from 1 to 7+ years old and the comments are always "why is this in my reccommended?"
Enchant same here
Watching youtube everyday and don't freakin care about about big companies with thousand employees. UA-cam forgot who's watching videos. We don't come here to just look at annoying vids. We come here to watch people we like to watch. Want to remove what we like and kill the channels we follow? Go ahead, and when you will be as deserted as older video platforms, don't come crying to us. UA-cam was great BEFORE.
Newly Nothing thanks
I agree, full heartily.
LETS GO TO VIMEO
Before the bombs fell...
What's sad is that after all this, UA-cam is still a company and like every other company, no matter how good or bad they are to the people working for them, they will still care first and foremost about their profit. It's the blood of every company that keeps them running.
What makes me upset is that people are upset. I know youtube is where a lot of people make a living, but youtube itself is a business that cares less about creative rights and more about the video views from creators. UA-cam has always been fickle, going back and forth on what gets you a copyright strike and what doesn't, and there's so much drama and poison there that I wouldn't want to make it big and garner the attention of the things and types of youtubers that I hate. UA-cam should be a hobby, not a job, especially because it is its own business that hardly has any relationship with those who partner with it and make their own content. It's a weird quagmire that I enjoy being a part of from afar, especially knowing that all the drama doesn't affect me personally.
UA-cam has become "too big to fail" I think.
The people complaining that UA-cam isn't acting for the viewers/youtubers are the same who think a picture posted on Internet is free of Copyright rights.
"going back and forth on what gets you a copyright strike and what doesn't"
Well, that's probably the only thing UA-cam can't control at all : if they don't want to be sued according to DMCA, they must remove any content asked by the right-holding companies...
So their rules have been created according to limits given by producers.
Not making a loss is also important.
UA-cam loses Google hundreds of millions, if not billions every year..
rongdisk23 If that were true, the website would not be up anymore. What we really need is a competitor to UA-cam. A website offering what UA-cam isn't, making people migrate to said website. A website that can force Google to get off there asses.
That feeling when I'm watching in August 2018 and searching for phrase "Hunger Games" gave me results (I'll say first 3):
- "THE HUNGER GAMES (2012) | Full Movie Trailer"
- "The Hunger Games - Katniss and Peeta reaping scene"
- "Film Theory: How to NOT DIE - Hunger Games pt.2"
I wish youtube would not allow large companies to create content on the platform. Ive been super motivated to grow my channel and continue to push forward, but after this video I just don't know if its even worth trying anymore.
Sauce Stache I subbed for fun
Well u just got a new sub!
They wouldn't do that. Anyone is free to post on UA-cam.
youtube shouldnt allow big companies to monetize their videos. but some companies need to post videos (ie. hasbro posts tutorials on how to assemple certain toys)
Sauce Stache me in a nutshell
Rip UA-cam. The creators make this website great, not some multi-billion corporation.
Son_0f_Ares Throughout history novel ideas are corrupted for enhanced profit. Radio was originally small stations and then moved on to multiple large franchises. This kind of thing is only preventable by going against the system and watching your favorite youtuber's videos multiple times in order to increase total view time like he said they want.
That's a hell of a lot of HowToBasic.
Don't worry. UA-cam will die a slow death just like MySpace and everything else.
Well I don't mind big companies like Nintendo, Sony, etc. coming to UA-cam to promote their games and stuff, that makes sense, a lot of people use the site so that to me is passable. What I outright hate is how UA-cam has, as you said son of ares, started to move away from the thing that made it cool, which is the creators like mat pat, pewdiepie, etc.(again) that make content that people like. I didn't come to UA-cam to basically watch TV, I came to watch interesting fun videos
Thunderluigi Well to be honest for a lot of people this is their TV. For instance me.
this is why animation channels will never get the love they deserve :(
Khalil Khammash Ikr
Khalil Khammash what about theodd1sout
someone should bring back newgrounds
It's true. Bring Newgrounds back.
Bananawolf 64 True him and Jaiden are quite popular
When I looked up Frozen and Hunger Games, I got a few of your theories near the top of the list.
The real question is, why did he thumbtack a sticky note?
RickeyGaming haha
RickeyGaming maybe it is a sticky note that can no longer stick, so it needed a little help. :p
Because that's how he rooooooooooolls
RickeyGaming to make sure it stays
RickeyGaming or did he? Dun dun DUNNN!
UA-cam please!
The animators are already dead!
Stop beating them! Give them peace!
Mownage Vol Fulken that's true look at element animation barely any new videos. I just hope it doesn't happen to carbot or 44200ns
*+cb2001dino* Or Piemations
Yeah! Animators will really suffer from this!
why do you think egoraptor joined gamegrumps
Tanzunite Gem İts not "will" but it alerady did since 2015
So what if we all started hitting the "Not Interested" button over all the Corporate run accounts? :P
EssCee96 I've been doing that and there's no Jimmy Kimmel on my feed any more
then00best same here, only it's for all of the big companies. Now all I have are science channels and games channels everywhere.
Dont tell me there is such a button that Ive been unaware of?!
I tried that with all teh rap music its giving me but theres seemingly infinite rap artists
jupoawp maybe it's a sign 😂😂 but yeah, most mainstream rap is trash
Matpat: you only have a few days to get noticed with your videos
Me: watching almost 5 years later
Why do i keep getting unsubscribed from you and other channels?
probably a glitch in the algorithm?
overtflow still subscribed
You keep getting unsubscribed because you come to channels like this and think that your "verified" mark makes you seem cool. Oh and you have shitty content.
bellend
overtflow a glitch i assume. Its happening to a lot of people including myself. Or maybe UA-cam is going a bit too far on the "channel cleansing" if you knnow what i mean ;)
Oh look, UA-cam is neglecting the very things that make me interested in UA-cam.
Hey there, Twitch. You lookin' fine, gurl.
Murasaki Fox no!!! dont said that aloud! The companies that make UA-cam a corporate bitch could hear you!
ISoulReaper1994 It's the natural way of things. They'll always try to push themselves, and the audience will keep on moving away to new competitors.
A garden requires patience and nurture. Maybe someday they'll learn this.
Instead of a CIrcle of Life, it's a Circle of Suck. Something new comes up where ordinary people can exchange ideas; the corporate money-men look to shoehorn their way in.
The Rogue Wolf Big-money influences always seem to be their own downfall.
Though this does make me curious about some economic ideas. I'm rather fond of Basic Income, and I wonder how it might affect situations like this.
Nah, call it something else please - "Circle of Suck" sound really, really, REALLY fun. People might hear that an approve. :-P
It's gonna be hard for speedpainters. It's bad enough we have art block all the time, but watch minutes? Daily videos? Are we gonna die out?
Pammeelex I think they are tying to force the group like us who watch gameplay, funny vids, animations and so on away from youtube, removing our favourite channels, in order to look more apperable to the world of politics and reality bullshit show:(....this was my timeout zone for several years. I really dont hope it will come to that...
Well damn. UA-cam is just being silly now. Who wants to watch political BS and reality shows?
Pammeelex Peeps that don't understand UA-cam
GenericPixel Meaning anyone from the outside world. All those lunatics and assholes who can enjoy everything the world has to offer. Those peoble could potentionally end up taking OUR place
Pammeelex DANGIT, I love to post speedpaints, I'll guess I just won't be a UA-camr anymore, I don't really like gaming either :/
well alot have changed by 2020 Rip creepy joker/spiderman
so instead of speed drawing videos I should just upload the raw 5 hours of drawing?
Dunno. Do you value money, or quality?
Bonkaholic ! both...
I'll just slow down my speed paints from 5 minutes to 10 or 15. It won't make the video boring but it'll supply me with more watched minutes
yup!
Well, I saw your video and I saw that you took that serious 😂
TonyVile TV that was just the raw unedited live stream...
I'm planning on at least adding music to add a bit of quality to it
Game Theory is my favorite anime... that's a spicy anime opening.
Not better than Cory In the House...
Unit Lost xd
oh please, its been 9 years, I think we can all look back and see that cory in the house only got popular because it replaced traditional cliches with more non traditional cliche's, I mean remember the episode where cory fused with mount Rushmore to create link-on? it was done so much better in Barney the Dinosaur
Unit Lost did you really have to copy a youtuber name...
Very informative, nice to get a little more information with wtf UA-cam is doing
Patterrz omg didn't expect to see you in the comments XD love your videos
Omg its Patterz :O.....
Yes I spelled your name wrong...what you gonna do about it XD :P
Teh trubish has shown it self
Fancy seeing you here
what wtf
We need a updated version of this