Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder

Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims... by CM30 on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:12AM (#37889102)

> Professional YouTubers are also making content for rankings above all, but the fact that it's their own face/voice keeps some of the rot at bay.

YouTube's stuck in its own algorithm hellhole. Mostly due to their insistence that creators have to post on a regular basis, creative block or lack of things to cover be damned. So if your niche has nothing to talk about right now, well you'll need to find something, anything to cover to stay relevant. And if your fans/viewers want something that you don't care about anymore, well that sucks even more. Changing to a topic you do care about will probably tank everything for weeks, potentially longer.

It's like a video creating version of a factory production line for those trying to become popular/famous there.

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Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims... by likeabbas on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:19AM (#37889143)

Hmm, Jesse Michels posts videos so infrequently (he just did the first one in a year) and he still got 2 million views instantly..

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Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims... by dartos on Sunday October 15, 2023 @10:58AM (#37890291)

I think the algorithm is geared now towards higher production value videos that encourage viewers to click on other videos

That’s why there are so many collabs now

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Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims... by dalbasal on Sunday October 15, 2023 @11:27AM (#37890530)

Maybe at the margin. Broadly though, the way to do YouTube professionally is high frequency.

Most channels these days attract pretty consistent views per vid. The most straightforward way to increase revenue is frequency.

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Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims... by narag on Sunday October 15, 2023 @03:07PM (#37892453)

If the experts that I've listened to are right, the thing that YouTube promotes is keeping the user hooked for the longest time possible.

That doesn't mean that you, the youtuber, must create a lot of videos or very long videos or very frequently, but you must create a video that induces the person watching it to watch more videos, yours or others'.

There are different kinds of videos that fits that purpose: a series of videos for a course of some subject, a video that points to another video of the same subject, a video that complements other video that the user might have watched before...

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