Hearted Youtube comments on Zackary Smigel (@ZackarySmigel) channel.

  1. One thing that YouTube has been doing that helps with scammers (but only on your videos) is that it highlights the content creator's name. Also, now that YouTube shows handles and not plain display names (which it doesn't do any real checks on), it's harder for people to impersonate you.
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  2. As a smaller creator, I highly appreciate you speaking up about the for you page. I was wondering why my CTR and videos haven't been doing even worse the past few months, and this answers it. THANK YOU! šŸ˜­
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  3. I think the "authenticity era" prediction could wind up true. I have friends who only ever watch video essays and stuff when they're with me because I'm good at picking out which videos and creators aren't "Mr. Beastified".
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  4. Is this data normalized for time? Are you comparing men who swiped 50k times over 2 years to women who swiped 19k times over 4 years?
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  5. There's no way you're verified! I remember when you only had a few thousand subscribers and I thought to myself, " This content is too good for this guy not to be wildly popular." and now here you are! Amazing job my man!
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  6. I am still waiting for Ryan Higa and Jenna Marbles to come back!! Great video, man. And I hope to be this video's sponsor!!
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  7. Guess I've got the next million minutes of my schedule filled up now
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  8. Itā€™s amazing that you were able to condense all this info into a 32 min video. This is YEARS of YouTube history
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  9. SUPER proud of how this video came out, and a REALLY accurate representation of how VidCon really felt for a lot of us :ā€™) come back to LA soon! It was a ton of fun working on this with you šŸ˜Š
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  10. Rebecca from Dollar Tree Dinners has an excellent channel which informs about the options for living off this kind of food. I'm not from the US but her videos are so interesting to me. Your video is the other side of that
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  11. Your commentary content feels personal. Never change that, itā€™s fucking rare out here
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  12. the intro feels like you're trying to sell a computer using course to 60 year olds
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  13. I don't hate you, I just hate Apple. If someone wants to judge me by my green bubble I don't have the time of day for them either. Also congrats on 50k and 70k subs since my last comment šŸ˜…
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  14. OH MY GOSH I WON'T STOP GETTING THESE ADS. You literally read my mind.
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  15. Absolute banger of a video! It's interesting because YouTube already has a copyright system that flags unoriginal content from other channels and gives us the opportunity to submit removal requests, yet they don't suppress those videos (even ones that the system recognizes as 100% reuploads). The revenue split seems like the perfect solution to this, as you mentioned YouTube already puts a great deal of effort into their music copyright system. I also remember the days when RE: videos were an integral part of the platform and 2024 seems like the perfect time to bring this back. They have so much of the infrastructure already in place, I just hope YouTube listens to this!
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  16. As a European who never ate at a gas station, I'm fascinated to see this very other side.
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  17. I went into this video with basic expectations of it being a video showing what you ate at dollar tree for 10 days, but it was a lot more than that. Your great editing, great flow, and great research, made this a fantastic and yet informative watch. I will be subscribing ā¤
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  18. If YouTube had allowed everyone to use stories, and used that to revive the old ā€œvideo reply featureā€ (ie allowing users to reply to a story with a story) as wellā€¦ I think this video would be talking about the YouTube story subculture niche.
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  19. Perfect timing since I guess your Sheetz vid is getting lots of love from the algorithm. I finished that one yesterday and to have this new one immediately the next day is awesome. Also, I appreciate you sharing some of your hobbies and social activities with friends etc in these vids (as well as even dates in the last one) and just the random fun you have alone. It adds personality and relatability, not to mention it feels more well rounded + diversified than a lot of other similar vids I've watched. I get bored easily and it just doesn't happen with your content.
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  20. Vermonter here. Great video, nearly spit out my coffee when I saw the ā€œDowntown BHSā€ image pop up around the 14 minute mark. The building used to be a very large 2 story Macyā€™s, who ended up abandoning the building about 7-8 years ago. The only reason the high school is there now is because the old campus in the north end of town was found to be over run with PCBā€™s and other toxic chemicals, so this was the solution while the actual high school was being demolished and rebuilt. Apparently itā€™s a disaster inside, and itā€™s kind of the laughing stock of the entire town.
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  21. I cant believe you personally closed the Shenango valley mall
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  22. i dont use ad block cuz of you guys, legit youtubers, but i freaking hate the repeated ads, i wish i was able to dislike ads like it was in the past
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  23. Hank & John Green feel like a huge influence for a very long time, influencing both the YouTube world as well as culture outside of it, and theyve kept up pretty consistently.
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  24. The biggest surprise from this video is there are some people that aren't narcissistic a-holes. Most of them come across that way but a few actually seem like people I could bear to be around for more than 15 seconds.
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  25. Honestly I could do with a video like this on Reddit so any time my mum asks ā€œwhat a Reddit is?ā€ I can easily explain it with one very well made comprehensive video <3
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  26. this was a great video, it's cool to think about each individual journey that brought all those creators together. ty for the interview homie
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  27. love the transparency and the earnestness in all of your videos
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  28. Youtubers once they make good money are like "omg guess its time to hire an editor!" no, how about a BODYGUARD. How about a 12 foot fence around your house. Ppl are insane.
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  29. As an employee i can tell that the 2 for 6 hack on the subs is definitely something a lot of people use.
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  30. It definitely felt different, but i think it's going in a good direction. Seeing smaller creators on my recommended gave me motivation as a small creator myself. Still not a good system, but it has potential to be improved upon
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  31. Zack, when will you finally realize that we are meant for eachother and that if you accept the truth we would have the best marriage that ever marriaged?!?!?
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  32. Can the dinosaurs in office maybe try putting out some legislation to get this shit under control? Genuinely terrified that my voice can potentially be cloned and used to make shitty prank calls to depressed wage workers. Among other things.
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  33. i really like how your thumbnails and titles compliment eachother. congrats on your much deserved success!
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  34. Excellent video, I wish Jacksfilms would have gotten an honorable mention, but I can't disagree with your choices.
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  35. The Jojo voice is a jump scarešŸ¤£
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  36. The comments section is an integral part of the YouTube experience. I, alongside many other I imagine, read the comments of a video while watching it. And just by coincidence too, a lot of comments I scroll past by talk about an exact moment that just happened in the video. There is a sense of comfort in reading the comments while watching YouTube videos that I'm not sure why that platform has given so little thought in improving its features. I would like to think YouTube factors in comments as another part of its algorithm when it comes to engagement since more people commenting generally means an interesting discussion is sparked or there's simply a large fan base, so to see it go largely ignored sucks. I mean watching YouTube on the computer means I sacrifice the ability to watch videos and read comments at the same time and the growing viewer base of people who watch YouTube on their T.V means commenting isn't even a thing anymore. I think all the suggestions that you pointed out Zack is definitely a great jumping point for YouTube to start taking action as so much of YouTube's identity and community is built within the comments section, flaws and all. Hopefully with enough outcry about this topic YouTube can actually take notice and do something about this. I've loved your recent videos by the way and I'm glad you've managed to find your groove with the latest uploads and the title/thumbnails. Major congrats and I personally hope I can grow as fast as you have!
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  37. 19:26 - I can confirm this is 100% true. Last year I decided to try my hand at making 1 minute short animations in blender (as at the first quarter of 2023, all my analytics were down by around 50%) to try and boost my channel a bit. The subscriber boost was insane, from the first short ( March 6th) to the last (June 24th) I gained almost 200k subscribers ... and for someone who was in a slump for around 2 years it was a great feeling. But after about 10 shorts I realised that the shorts were not translating into actual views/revenue or anything else ... nothing changed except the number beside my username. It made me feel awful as i had this feeling that youtube had kind of ... tricked me into making shorts in return for a vanity number. I felt disappointed in myself that it worked on me as I really wanted that gold play button. Anyway ... i'm rambling. Thanks for the insightful video!
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  38. I cannot stand ads on YouTube, I understand the need for them of course but they are so aggravating its infuriating. If there was a YouTube premium option that solely removed ads for a much smaller fee than the current YouTube premium I would happily pay for it.
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  39. Since no one has mentioned it yet, that segue into an ad IN the video by saying, "Let me introduce you to advertising." was absolute genius, you keep outdoing yourself Zack.
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  40. A.I should have brought incredible new innovations, but all I see online are the downsides, like you've shown. There is now so much AI content around, that people often accuse my work of being AI, which is pretty frustrating, as I actually put in hard work. Another banger of a video mate. Loving your content recently.
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  41. Thank you for the very thoughtful feedback, Iā€™ve passed it on to our teams. The goal of the discovery system is always to try and surface the most satisfying videos possible at the time, and for the device, and weā€™re continually working to improve that!
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  42. From PA and people here love Sheetz. PA gas stations offer a lot for food options now a days with competition between GetGo, Country Fair, Wawa, 711, and a variety of other options in this area. I think the food from these places are healthier than McDonalds, but there is a lot of greasy options of course. We had a Sheetz shut down around here and there was a petition to bring it back it was such a hangout spot for locals.
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  43. Why is there no option to see the exact dates of when comments were posted? And also the ability to search comments based on the date(s) they were posted and maybe by certain users too.
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  44. Hopefully time for another viral hit!
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  45. The whole notifications system is busted anyway. I regularly get notifications for livestreams that happened days ago on channels I didn't turn on notifications for.
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  46. Wow, the fact that this video did drastically better than any of your others speaks volumes. Iā€™m someone who doesnā€™t know u (but did know everyone in your top YT creator list lol) and randomly got recommended this video. Iā€™d love to hear a follow up on how u feel about the results of 1.7 million views! Crazy. It was also interesting when you said you were trying to get monetized by the end of summer because seeing the amount of subscribers you have, you would think you would be monetized. I feel like the rules for that are also kind of messed up. For example, I have another channel where I have a little over 10 K subscribers but Iā€™ve had the channel for a very long time and so I was monetized very quickly back when these new monetization rules didnā€™t apply. The sad thing is I didnā€™t post for about a year due to personal issues and Im now no longer monetized and I have to basically start the monetization process over. My videos still get views on a daily basis, I still get subscribers on a daily basis, ads are still being shown in my videos, so itā€™s really sad to know that Iā€™ve lost that monetization. Itā€™s actually made me not even fully want to go back to that channel because I feel like itā€™s just not fair. All this to say, as someone who has also been watching YouTube since it started, and has had a channel for many many years, it really does feel different these days. And Iā€™m not super happy about it.
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  47. I gained 1.8m shorts subs. I've only met 3-4 that actually knew my name from watching my videos. but I have 8k long form subs on a different channel, and those people message me & comment on videos like they're genuine friends, they know my name, and multiple life events ive shared with them through my vids. shorts and long form views are completely different
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  48. I think you hit the nail on the head when you said Steve is gone and he's never coming back. I can only speak for myself but Apple (Steve) sold me that vision and just as I got on board, Steve would soon be gone. And now I feel stuck where switching would be more problematic than its value.
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  49. This is great, It's really refreshing to see somebody act like an adult and talk about these things out in the open. I am not a content creator, but I've seen some reaction videos from people that I actually like and well, now that I know how much more damaging they can actually be it's much less likely I'll be clicking on those reactions. I'm sorry that people are giving you hate, that's I guess to be expected but also as someone that's pretty sensitive to things like that myself, I hope that you've got friends to talk to you about it if it is something you're sensitive to as well. Remember that a lot of us really appreciate what you do and have been here for a long time. That's really exciting about your camera by the way, I hope it's as great as you wanted!
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  50. Watching this as a Sheetz employee hits a lot differently šŸ˜‚
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