Thoughts on youtube a a game video platform? Is it getting worse? Is it easier to start up a gaming channel than they say? Was thinking about doing some vids once a month just to test the waters. What's Yea Forums's experience been like?
Thoughts on youtube a a game video platform? Is it getting worse...
Jordan Murphy
Jacob Rodriguez
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This change in the algorithm killed all gaming channels on the platform and its been confirmed that video games are never allowed to grow in the way entertainment channels are.
They are considered second class channels.
Organic growth is now impossible as all places Yea Forums included view sharing OC even created inhouse is no longer allowed while shilling heavily for corporations is encouraged.
Corporations have successfully taught communities that its members are garbage and that they should consume only what is paid for to be served to them.
Its all about corporate image now and paid for large channels with private contracts with fed opinions and basedboys shitpost down everything in contrary to the corporate agenda as well as the bots/workers assigned to "clean" the content.
The second wave of this destruction is discord where all content is now divided into millions of random discords and content is deleted on sight by power hungry moderators.
There is little to no community to be found anywhere anymore.
Its really sad.
/vg/ is a joke and just shitposts from furries and waifu spam and nothing about the game itself.
Josiah Bell
unless you shill like a madman and have no shame you will never grow
Ayden Nelson
>NOOO WHY DOESN'T GOOGLE PAY ME FOR SCREECHING RACIAL SLURS
>MUH COMMUNITY
get fucked shitkid
Adrian Jenkins
For reference saying poop too many times triggers a profanity flag. Meaning basically every video game.
Bleeps trigger the profanity flag on a lesser level.
There are multiple levels of flagging per each category according to youtube's creator inside channel.
A game like Overwatch has guns and is considered violent content and will trigger the flag which means everything is considered violent.
An army men game has the word army in it, so its considered a sensitive social issue flag and a tragedy and conflict flag and a violence flag.
If someone else uploads the game, it will flag your content based on their content's flag rating even if your content is clean and FCC ready.
The ai can read thumbnails and identify objects just like google captcha like your video about "Best sniper Rifle" will flag on the word and the picture of the gun for violent content. etc.
If you share your content anywhere, you will be massively downvoted and then have to listen to everyone complain about having corporations and kids fill their youtube feeds with minecraft and fortnite.
Also the system even flags your content and channel based on the comments others leave on your videos as well as flags your channel based on the videos in your private playlists or favorites too.
Joshua Lewis
Think to yourself
"would I watch some random faggots videogame youtube video with less than 10 views"
if the answer is no, don't start a youtube channel
if the answer is yes stop lying and don't start a youtube channel
Carson Wright
better off doing live streams on mixer/twitch
Brandon Sullivan
Its not racial slurs.
You misunderstand the level of conservatism in the ai algorithm.
Its literally ANYTHING.
If you said poop like 5 times in the video.
You might as well have said nigger.
You saying shit. Flagged.
You using the word "racial" or "slurs" in the video will flag it for controversial.
this guy saying madman will probably trigger a flag for violent content
Getting demonetized with the yellow flag is different from getting flagged.
As far as I know there are many different hidden flags on accounts.
Accounts are rated: Babies, Kids, Preteens, Teens, Young Adult, Mature.
Hence why minecraft and fortnite are pushed so hard. Fortnite mostly because of numbers and probably paid off on youtube but it still falls in preteens.
Minecraft videos are kid channels so they get boosted hard.
Everything else is told to fuck off.
Someone like jontron or dunkey or vincesauce is mature adult and is only able to push numbers because they have the subs and the view counts to exceed the 200,000 views on a video to push past the ai 33% limiter.
But even then, they are getting restricted.
This is also why pewdiepie went back to minecraft because the ai can push it and wont push his other content and youtube wont do it either. I imagine they allowed him to grow and gain those bigger audience groups and then flipped him back to minecraft to push the ads.
TLDR:
You make content for 5 year olds or you get blacklisted.
Camden Stewart
maybe you shouldn't have built your community on being edgy and toxic and then advertising companies wouldn't shun you
Owen Baker
Exactly. There is no growth in this content even if its what people enjoy from the bigger channels.
You can't go against the google leftist agenda either.
But even then, being "le edgy and toxic" doesnt have any applicable value to the argument.
Even if you were the cleanest person ever like a nun, but you play Dying Light 2, then the algorithm views you as being a person who uploads "dying" videos with the word "mother fuckers" in them even if you cut it out, because someone uploaded the videogame with it saying motherfuckers and it was flagged making your content flagged as well. And since "dying" is a word that appears in gore videos, the ai thinks you uploaded a video of a corpse and welcome to the blacklist, even though you did nothing wrong but made an informative how to guide video to help people out on a boss or whatever, that had nothing edgy or toxic or mean etc at all.