Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I'm noticing a lot more ai generated videos myself. Or at least they look like it. Its kinda slop.

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  • clif@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been getting recommendations for videos with 2 to 10 views. Noticed it about three months ago.

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    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same. I kinda like it.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    mr beast has always been shady asf, thats why hes desperate as in the type of content he puts out, eventhough he has huge a base and his shitty food company.

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• TooManyGames@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yes, ive seen an increase in AI slop + propaganda too, and yt also is allow ISRAEL to make pro-IDF propaganda to flood the site now.

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hope anything but LTT, a shit clickbait channel that steals things to auction off

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• ronigami@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nazi salutes and brotein supplements

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