Re:YouTube Bans Award-Winning Short
by vanderZwan on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:01PM
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What you might not be aware of is how the following claim by GP is implemented:
> What DOES create a problem for artists is the tuning of the algorithms to be highly preferential to long form frequently posted content
Disclaimer: I'm typing this on mobile so can't look up the sources as the same time, so this is from memory, might get some details wrong
A relatively recent change in YT policy is that you don't see every video you're subscribed to. They select among your subscriptions. How? Well, apparently one very important part of the algorithm is that you have to upload at least one long form video every week. If you break the streak, you're at the bottom of the priority queue.
Which is crazy, because if anything, one reason to subscribe is to not miss out the content of people who only very rarely upload!
Or what if you're a regular content uploader but just so happen to feel like you deserve a holiday for one or two weeks a year?
Now this might have changed since they first started doing it and youtubers rightfully complained about it, but the fact that this was implemented in the first place, and the big effect it has on content creators is pretty disturbing.
(aside: this is why I don't rely on YT subscriptions; NewsBlur has the ability to turn a channel into an RSS feed. Of course, that in turn means I don't show up in the YT subscription statistics, hurting the content creators I follow, so I symbolically subscribe but ignore the YT subscription service. How bonkers is that?)
> What DOES create a problem for artists is the tuning of the algorithms to be highly preferential to long form frequently posted content
Disclaimer: I'm typing this on mobile so can't look up the sources as the same time, so this is from memory, might get some details wrong
A relatively recent change in YT policy is that you don't see every video you're subscribed to. They select among your subscriptions. How? Well, apparently one very important part of the algorithm is that you have to upload at least one long form video every week. If you break the streak, you're at the bottom of the priority queue.
Which is crazy, because if anything, one reason to subscribe is to not miss out the content of people who only very rarely upload!
Or what if you're a regular content uploader but just so happen to feel like you deserve a holiday for one or two weeks a year?
Now this might have changed since they first started doing it and youtubers rightfully complained about it, but the fact that this was implemented in the first place, and the big effect it has on content creators is pretty disturbing.
(aside: this is why I don't rely on YT subscriptions; NewsBlur has the ability to turn a channel into an RSS feed. Of course, that in turn means I don't show up in the YT subscription statistics, hurting the content creators I follow, so I symbolically subscribe but ignore the YT subscription service. How bonkers is that?)