Thanks for the analysis. I’ve got to say. We on Lemmy can be vicious.
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TooManyGames@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Folks here are missing the point blaming LTT for the drop. This has been a sudden drop, too sudden to be fatigue or audience tastes changing.
Also I can see the same on my own channel. About 2 weeks ago views suddenly dropped to a third of the usual views. And even high performing videos have had trouble getting views since. Even videos with a high impression percentage are getting lower than average views.
The same wsd also reported by Second Wind (old Zero Punctuation) and their experience is the same: way too sudden drop to be anything else except YouTube adjusting their algorithm.
cardfire@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
TooManyGames@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah, it’s easy to bark at influencer we don’t like.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I wonder what they’re going to prioritize now
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I‘ve noticed the algorithm drizzles a good portion of smaller creators on my front page in recent months and that part is growing. I ala talking about videos with jusz a few thousand or few hundred views that make up roughly 10-15 percent or so.
I think Youtube is diversifying exposure so you don‘t see the same faces you‘ve seen the past 15 years as often and new channels get a chance to grow. I am guessing Youtube doesn‘t want to be too dependent on the same huge channels anymore either.
Of course that means huge creators are calling to the pitch forks and torches because they lose revenue but why should I care? Most of them are rich anyway and don‘t necessarily produce better videos than a guy with their phone in their garage workshop or a college student in their dorms.
There is a lot wrong with Youtube but I couldn‘t care less about huge channels being forced to slim down or try harder.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Noticed those as well.
Usually the side bar recommends the usual bunch or related content but then there is this totally random video of some small channel with 10 maybe <1000 views doing a let’s play or some random content which is completely unrelated to the content I watching at the moment.
TooManyGames@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
AI slop most likely. Well, to be serious, I think the drop is due to them trying to fight AI slop and miserably failing.
Klear@quokk.au 5 hours ago
DarkviperAU also mentioned it.
JayGray91@piefed.social 5 hours ago
In their video, Yahtzee said it could be related to Restricted Mode on youtube suddenly turns on by itself. Or at least that's their hypothesis, since they checked that if that mode is on, a lot of their videos vanished from their channel.
TooManyGames@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
They’re wrong, my channel has under 4% viewers in the up to 18 year segment, this effect is way bigger than if I lost then completely. Also my channel features no swearing or inappropriate content so, it should not affect it at all if this was the case.
Visstix@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s not about what your viewers are, it’s about what youtube now automatically hides by default. They show it in the video.
TooManyGames@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yes, but even if they hid everything I have from teens and suspended teens, the drop would be way less. And that’s why I think they are wrong about the reason for the drop.