Trolling YouTube producers who take themselves too seriously as a grassroots marketing strategy
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Wait - what? What are these guys doing?
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The Beat Strangler
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That sounds both evil and interesting. Post the video! Or don't. Either way let us know.
Dusty B
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I'm mostly testing the algos to understand how engagement with an "influencer" impacts your views (or doesn't). a way that helped me grow on another platform (not music related) was getting return engagement from big folks so I'm testing that with YT starting with silly shit like this.
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From what I've learned about Youtube, their algorithm is a mystery. For a while everyone was supposed to make videos at least 10 minutes long so they can show more ads, but then there's videos that are short and get a ton of views because YT recommended it everywhere for some reason.
Dusty B
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yeah I don't really get it, after 9 months or so of actively posting. tags don't really seem to do anything. Thumbnails seem to be important. volume seems to be important. but it also seems to be pretty random idk
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I'm surprised they still have tags because even though I always put them, even YT says they're not important. It's thumbnails, title, and video length they seem to like.
Dusty B
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hence why I just made/posted a short Ive sensed that they're trying to move in that direction. maybe 1min beats will be the thing lol.
attention spans regularly declining! also because there's just so much content now
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Dusty B
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I don't see anything wrong here?Brain cells and manners too:
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That's the brain damage talking.
The algos get xhanged a lot too.
I think it's a bullshit thing that has ruined content... "content creators" (read artists) forced to churn out tonnes of content or work so the algo pushes them;
Over saturation degrades and devalues artists own work and then the medium collectively.
Quality also goes down due to merely needing to push content.
Self perpetuates now we have just flooded absolute bullshit type beat nonsense coupled with the one society where everyone wants to be the same.
Artists doing it proper way won't get algo or benefit of it. And ones who do probably don't either.
There will somehow be a new platform which will prioritise the artists. And direct to fan will likely come back into play with it. I don't know. Has to change.
I think it's a bullshit thing that has ruined content... "content creators" (read artists) forced to churn out tonnes of content or work so the algo pushes them;
Over saturation degrades and devalues artists own work and then the medium collectively.
Quality also goes down due to merely needing to push content.
Self perpetuates now we have just flooded absolute bullshit type beat nonsense coupled with the one society where everyone wants to be the same.
Artists doing it proper way won't get algo or benefit of it. And ones who do probably don't either.
There will somehow be a new platform which will prioritise the artists. And direct to fan will likely come back into play with it. I don't know. Has to change.
Dusty B
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Battle Points: 37
Eventually, yes. I honestly don't see how it can change near term unfortunately. We're probably stuck with the current landscape until there's the next round of "big tech"
It was called MySpace
Dusty B
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Admittedly my peer group (30some Millennials) probably drove the decline of music biz since I remember selling burned CDs of songs I'd download from Napster and my first "music collection" was me organizing 1000s of mp3s I downloaded. Looking back I think I only ever bought a few CDs... Marshall Matters LP, Slim Shady LP, 2001, And Then There was X..., I think Restless (the album with X), and that may really only be it. My mom had a bunch of greatest hits CDs like Eagles, Journey, Billy Joel, Queen. I bought vinyl in highschool to be cool and make beats the classic way. But then it was Pandora and then Spotify and then here we are today.
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The Beat Strangler
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It's the technology that contributed to the decline. Things are easier to do so there's less creativity (in the traditional sense) and we're left with people trying to be creative with very advanced tools.