Oh boy, how this sucks

GrgakGames

GrgakGames

Phoenix Games Enthusiast (Please end my life)
SO PRETTY MUCH
I uploaded a video yesterday called GOING CRAZY

I was just trying out new things and honestly, the video was fun to make. It was easy, and did not take as long as a review usually does.

In one day it already has 80 views which is not a lot but for a day it is for me.

Then you have my Super Mario World video which was made a week ago and it's sitting at around 110 views.

It sucks to see a video like that which took not that long to make almost reaching the same amount of views as the video that took me 2+ days to make.

I shouldn't be complaining at all. I know there are channels that don't even get ten views but man that was like salt in my mouth.

SO I'M PLANNING ON DOING THIS.

I'm going to upload videos like GOING CRAZY once every day this week. if it does really good for the whole week i'll keep on doing it.

I have my game reviews scheduled for wednesday and saturday and those are going to be monitored to see how those fair against the other videos i'll be posting.

I guess we will see.

Is this a good idea? or am I just being a bit salty?
 
I know the feel. Some of my best/longest to make videos never even got more than 20-30 views, while my first ever video that was really rushed and not made very well has 11,200 views now and got me most of my subscribers. I can't complain but it's kinda funny how that is.

It's one of the things that motivated me to start working on a series now though, because it means if one of the videos in the series really takes off - then hopefully some of the people watching it will realise "Oh this says Episode 14, I should check out the other episodes".
 
If you are getting good amount of views for GOING CRAZY videos, then you should continue making the sequel of those videos. You are being little salty, but the views will grow eventually when you will have bunch of GOING CRAZY videos.
 
You're being salty for sure, but whether you wanna milk the teat of what you think will be more popular is all up you and what you want out of your channel.

I have a worse case of this than you I think. I predominantly have cartoon reviews that garner me a few thousands views each (mileage may vary). I also have some videos that focus on more specific topics which are off-shoots of the reviews I make (either what I discuss in these videos was constructed while I was writing up the review outline itself and I split one topic into its own video while the rest goes into the review, or I literally take a topic I had already discussed in my review and just elaborate on it).

As I said, the reviews get a few thousand views. The off-shoot videos have gotten over 100k views though (despite most of them technically being afterthoughts or revisions of something I had already discussed in a review).

So yeah - I remain very salty about that, but I enjoy making review videos and I'm going to continue doing it. But I can understand when people think something they enjoy more is not worth it when it gets far less attention so they abandon it. While I understand it, I'm definitely not doing that though - YT is still a hobby for me and I won't force myself to focus on something when I'd rather make something else.

(The bright side of this, of course, is doing reviews of episodes helps me get my thoughts into a communicable format, and of course I can use these thoughts at a later time to synthesize the sorts of videos that tend to get more views if I so choose to. And as I said, sometimes I just split a topic into its own video instead of including it in the review, but when the review gets 20x less views despite having equal or more effort put into it, yeah man, that blows.)
 
I just checked out my worst case I have of this for the numbers:
It is 4k vs 130k views. That's over a 30x difference.

I basically attribute this to people being "trained" to click on specific types of s**t on YT over time.
In my opinion, what some people call "market forces" are being driven by chronically-regurgitated stupidity (in other words, run-away emulation of what is perceived to be "working") at the heart of it all.
 
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annoyingly, effort doesn't equal views, though for my older and worse videos doing so we'll i just find it funny. That so many people saw that daft video xD
 
I was a bit embarrassed about a Halloween video I posted so I made another, better video for that week as well. The Halloween video does not have a record amount of views but somehow it is my biggest money maker. It is frustrating.

Please keep us updated on how the daily videos work out for you.
 
Uncivilized Elk said:
I just checked out my worst case I have of this for the numbers:
It is 4k vs 130k views. That's over a 30x difference.

I basically attribute this to people being "trained" to click on specific types of s**t on YT over time.
In my opinion, what some people call "market forces" are being driven by chronically-regurgitated stupidity (in other words, run-away emulation of what is perceived to be "working") at the heart of it all.
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God I had to look up three words that you typed.
I need to brush up on my english lol


Lightsen said:
annoyingly, effort doesn't equal views, though for my older and worse videos doing so we'll i just find it funny. That so many people saw that daft video xD
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Oh my god I just saw your oldest video

Oh my god i'm crying


Redford1900 said:
I was a bit embarrassed about a Halloween video I posted so I made another, better video for that week as well. The Halloween video does not have a record amount of views but somehow it is my biggest money maker. It is frustrating.

Please keep us updated on how the daily videos work out for you.
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I will keep people posted if it interests them lol :P
 
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