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madires:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 25, 2022, 12:18:41 pm ---For those who don't know what's going on here with Naomi, it's called algorithmic demotion. Youtube have publicly admitted they do this for independent news sources, famously promoting only  "authoritative sources".
And as much as they publically mouth support for LGBT stuff, there has been many complaints from trans content creators about being algorithmly demoted.
Several other categories as well. Same thing across all these types of channels hit, you can't find much of your own content even with exact title searches.
Some of it is ideologically woke driven, some politcially driven, some advertiser driven, but Naomi is just one in a vast number of channels it happens to.

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From Schiller's Wilhelm Tell: The best cannot live in peace, if it does not please the bad neighbour.
Ranayna:
There is one youtuber I regularly follow that is openly trans. She transitioned a couple of years ago, but i followed that channel many years before that already.

Her videos are still regularly suggested to me.
But that may be due to the fact the she very regularly releases a video each and every monday, and did so for many, many years, even before she came out as trans. In generally her videos are very critical about anything related to capitalism, she regularly uses foul language, and also complains a lot about being shafted by the algorithm. But i still get her monday video each and every time one is released.

I follow another youtuber that was actually "canceled" for a couple of months, due to a scandal involving the suspicion of "underage relationships". That was resolved after a couple of months though, and that channel is slowly gaining traction again. There the algorithm seems to have forgotten, or never even noticed, that this happened. Though his subscriber count took a *massive* hit back in the day. I do not know if he already surpassed the losses yet though, since i don't really care about the subscriber count of channels anymore. Or rather the other way around: i am inherently distrusting of channels with high subscriber counts :D

So i have no idea how the algorithm works. I wonder if it is somewhat related to the location of the viewer. Considering the perceived "prudishness" of US Americans, that would actually not surprise me.
tszaboo:

--- Quote from: madires on April 25, 2022, 11:08:58 am ---Everything boils down to attention. Content related and social media platforms are businesses which want to make money. So they need to get as much attention of their customers as possible. Controversial and extreme content/opinions draw a lot of attention. This creates a classic win-win situation for the two groups. Don't pay attention! ;)

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Attention, you really think? I have x subscribers, who explicitly told Youtube by pressing the button that they are interested in my content.
And I have videos that didn't have 1/4th the impressions than my subscriber count. Meaning that they haven't been shown the video, because the mighty Algorithm decided it is not Worthy of their time. At this point, asking to subscribe is completely pointless.
If you turn off monetization your channel dies because no ads.
If you don't upload in regular intervals, 2-3x a week, your channel dies because no impressions.
You upload a few bad videos in a row, have a bad streak, your channel dies, because no impressions.
If you say a bad word your channel is killed, banned etc...
If you post videos that are less than 8:00 long, you loose advertising money because no midroll ads. You can either pad the video with useless content (which makes people click off) or loose midroll, which means less impressions.
YurkshireLad:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on April 25, 2022, 02:03:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: madires on April 25, 2022, 11:08:58 am ---Everything boils down to attention. Content related and social media platforms are businesses which want to make money. So they need to get as much attention of their customers as possible. Controversial and extreme content/opinions draw a lot of attention. This creates a classic win-win situation for the two groups. Don't pay attention! ;)

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Attention, you really think? I have x subscribers, who explicitly told Youtube by pressing the button that they are interested in my content.
And I have videos that didn't have 1/4th the impressions than my subscriber count. Meaning that they haven't been shown the video, because the mighty Algorithm decided it is not Worthy of their time. At this point, asking to subscribe is completely pointless.
If you turn off monetization your channel dies because no ads.
If you don't upload in regular intervals, 2-3x a week, your channel dies because no impressions.
You upload a few bad videos in a row, have a bad streak, your channel dies, because no impressions.
If you say a bad word your channel is killed, banned etc...
If you post videos that are less than 8:00 long, you loose advertising money because no midroll ads. You can either pad the video with useless content (which makes people click off) or loose midroll, which means less impressions.

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Sadly this is the world we live in where AI rules the roost.
madires:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on April 25, 2022, 02:03:23 pm ---Attention, you really think? I have x subscribers, who explicitly told Youtube by pressing the button that they are interested in my content.
And I have videos that didn't have 1/4th the impressions than my subscriber count. Meaning that they haven't been shown the video, because the mighty Algorithm decided it is not Worthy of their time. At this point, asking to subscribe is completely pointless.

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Electronics is a niche topic. Too uninteresting to be promoted. The algorithms promote stuff which has potential for much more views (= more ad revenue).
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