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The Damn Algorithm (media.piefed.social)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

That’s not quite how I would phrase it. It’s not that the video was necessarily shit, but your audience was bored by it, and it doesn’t take a rocket-scientist-algorithm to figure out if people are bored by your video or not.

YouTube is still mostly a platform for entertainment, even when a video is supposed to educational. “Good” videos won’t get algorithm’d if people are bored by the video and/or your thumbnail + title don’t draw people in. Make an entertaining video that draws people in and it won’t matter how long your video is (granted, a 4 hour long entertaining video is a lot harder to make than a 2 minute video.)

Source: videos I’ve made that have and haven’t been algorithm’d.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)

    If your audience was bored by it, it wasn't a good video.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    Good is subjective, and I personally don’t think entertaining always has to equal good.

    I get where you’re coming from. There’s a lot of bitching about the algorithm and it’s tempting to just say, “Maybe your videos just suck, man”, but it’s not always true, and, as a a bonus, not very constructive feedback.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    I disagree about constructive feedback, if someone has decided "the algorithm" is the reason their video isn't getting views, they're not going to do anything to actually improve their content.

    By pointing out it's people who are choosing not to watch their content, they might decide to actually do something different.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I agree that you need to point out that the algorithm isn’t to blame, but saying, “Your videos aren’t getting algorithm’d because your videos suck” isn’t constructive and is far more likely to piss people off. If you don’t care about pissing people off then 🤷

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