I saw countless good animations not even getting 10k views on youtube while any lazy Pewdiepie rip off can get over 100k by playing some shitty indie horror game.
How the fuck this shit works? How can you make an animation get at least noticed enough to be watched at least a little instead of being completelly ignored?
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That reminds me, is the Bee Movie still up or has it been taken down again?
People don't want quality, they want memes.
here's how to get your animation noticed on youtube
1) make it a parody of something way popular than you are
2) animate fat nerds sitting around talking about video games
3) have a misleading thumbnail or obvious fanservice
4) skin-clad female characters because sex sells
5) make it look like anime
6) whore yourself out on social media
7) already have an established audience
8) have actual self-respect and take the hobby seriously by releasing good content and then waiting patiently for people to discover you
You have to realize that plebs only like to watch crudely edited memes and fortnite. Anything slightly less mainstream and they'll look the other way. Not everyone appreciates animation.
Try to appeal to fandoms that are , for example if today you notice that the JoJo fandom is euphoric because king crimson, make an animation about the most popular meme with him, in this case "how the fuck king crimson works xDDDD"
Any way to make original projects noticed? Salad Fingers and Madness Combat are famous but they are from a time when Newgrounds was big and youtube was not a complete monopoly.
Social media is a tool, get on it.
Twitter, Facebook, ect.
consistency, doesn't matter if it's good. People like something that update regularly.
Shill it to hell and back. Get other more popular artists to shill it, and hell maybe even tell Pewdiepie to shill it for you.
Original art isn't really actively sought after, so you have to find some way or someone to help you spread it around the internet. Otherwise you're pretty much hoping someone stumbles across your obscure shit under millions of other peoples obscure shit.
>lazy Pewdiepie rip off can get over 100k by playing some shitty indie horror game.
Hi mr.boomer, if you want views steal memes from Yea Forums, reddit and instagram and make funny dank maymays comps
YouTube algorithm hates animators. I’m sorry
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that newgrounds reply gets me everytime
just make a controversial title and controversial thumbnail
Talking from experience, animations today seems to only be shared if they're related to the trend of the week or appeal to a fandom. I don't have a lot of subs but i reached the million views because i animated something trendy on time and shared it on the twitter hastag, reddit and amino. Youtube then worked it's magic and recommended the video to everyone. You'll never see original stuff like Sublo & Tangy Mustard recommended to you. I would suggest animating stuff that you like and then after getting a certain following create original animations.
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You know it won't make you money? Like, no money at all. Just make your shit and throw it at people who like this stuff, NG is good place to start then cross link between those two sites and run around social media and people bigger than you.
>You know it won't make you money? Like, no money at all.
David Firth said that his channel give him dozens to hundreds of dollars every month.
Post your favorite underground animations
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This thing is pretty obscure. Kinda meh but also lewd. Found it today by accident while looking for something else.
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Volume. Youtube celebs all have hundreds of videos and they update with new content weekly, or even daily. Their videos are throw away, but after awhile they find an audience that feeds on their type of content.
An animation takes time. If they do update regularly, it's usually to status their project or a blog post, things that only interest the people waiting for the final product without drawing in a new audience. By the release date, people watch it once and move on. If they're lucky it gets tossed around some animation circles, and even gets repeat views. Meanwhile the Youtube celeb has posted 30 different nostalgic topics with a dozen meta filters.
There's no embedded promotion system in Youtube. The algorithm focuses on large data sets. Volume will win every time.
Odds are already stacked against you since YT's algorithms don't favor you, so basically just do something that appeals to wide audiences ,like a fight sequence ala Monty Oum or some other shit that has mass appeal.