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

  1. Something to consider: saying you made 8k in a year doesn't sound like a lot. Saying you started a small business on the side that generated you an extra 8k this year sounds like a great success that anyone would want to achieve
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  2. New chapter on the 30-day-food lore dropped. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Let's gooooo
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  3. Drawing the parallel to Spotify was such a great idea, their discoverability is so solid. I've found a couple bands that are teeny tiny but are some of my favorites. No reason YouTube can't do a similar thing.
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  4. kevin hart gains 1 centimeter of height for each sportsbetting ad he does
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  5. just found ur channel from the dating apps video and binged all ur vids! love the work keep it up man!!!
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  6. I work at the Macy's as a detective/undercover shopper in the Topanga Mall from what I've seen in the past years I would say that the crime increased (especially organized crime) but the mall is striving here! Nothing has been closing lately only opening but the stores opening are more higher end brand and not those cool little shops we all grew up loving with those nice deals
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  7. I remember wanting to start a channel kind of like that called "COPPA Cop" back when COPPA was threatening to take down a bunch of channels with its super vague rules. The channel would have been a critique of COPPA and shown how the law could have been used against almost any creator. I didn't end up making it because I wanted someone to play a rookie that doesn't understand everything about it yet, (I feel like they would have been super helpful for a wider audience so they didn't feel out of the loop) but I couldn't find anyone interested in the role.
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  8. This was a refreshingly neutral breakdown of a few very complex issues and had a good message attached to it. Gj lad
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  9. You have to have guts to ignore all the rules of succeeding in YouTube and to prioritize authenticity. Great video once again!
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  10. Many, many years ago, Google did have a bit of fine print about not sharing ad rates/revenue data, and as far as I'm aware, they never made any sort of announcement about removing it. While I can see some creators assuming that rule is still in effect, it's a benefit of the doubt that I would only grant to someone with a very old channel.
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  11. great video! yeah the hyatt thing was weird and makes the event very different. you should come to vidsummit this year! its great for meeting other like minded people and creators
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  12. ZACKARY SMIGEL UPLOAD??? best day ever
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  13. i love this guys editing! He's on a green screen, he's on a rooftop, he's on the stairs, he's at the bottom of the stairs...!
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  14. This was a great perspective on Google and the internet as a whole, and makes me feel even better about using the internet everyday. I practically live in the internet now, and it's incredibly cool how useful and connective it is. For example, it is mind blowing that I (someone from the West US) can be sitting next to someone from the EU or Japan and we can chat within 500 milliseconds (VRChat).
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  15. I’m so glad that you’ve been able to grow so quickly. Keep it up😊😊
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  16. I think they pivoted well and knocked it out of the park with "Shorts". I've heard multiple creators say those have helped boost their engagement
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  17. hey that’s me! thanks for the McDonalds, friend! 🖤
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  18. Can't wait to see a vid tomorrow with the title YOUTUBER ROASTS ASMONGOLD, React content isn't good?!? Great video and great points man! Especially the revenue split. While they aren't making the content, they are having an impact by reacting to it, both negative and positive. Revenue splitting would be a fantastic start to a healthy partnership with content creators and reacters!
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  19. I really love that you choose a variety of outdoor locations to record your videos. Always refreshing and unique to find on youtube.
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  20. This doesn't surprise me too much. I remember 10-15 years ago people were using video game character soundboards to prank call people and getting lots of views on YouTube. It was kind of funny when they had Cicero from Skyrim talking nonsense to sex hotlines until they realised it wasn't a real person. Less so when they were wasting the time and resources of the emergency services. As for the legal implications, as someone who wrote his master's thesis on personality rights vis-à-vis Ai voice clones, it's complicated. Unlike other copyright-adjacent rights, personality rights aren't harmonised within the US, or within the EU, so there's a mess of different systems offering different levels of protection across states and countries, and very little case law regarding voice rights in particular. And the case law there is tends to be about the use of voice impersonators in adverts, which doesn't necessarily apply to this sort of thing, because there's a legal distinction between doing something for the purposes of a commercial and doing something for commercial purposes. Basically, if you're using an Ai voice clone of Betty White to sell something, you're probably in trouble, but if you're using her voice to read a story you wrote on YouTube, it might be protected speech in one or other category. And having an Ai give responses of its own in someone else's voice opens another whole can of worms regarding who's responsible, the person doing the prank or the company that put the voice clone chatbot in their hands. Tl:Dr it's complicated, and we won't know until someone either has a big ol' lawsuit about it or legislators get off their arses and hamonise the rules.
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  21. What a great video! Two people that I missed in this list were Jacksfilms and Bo Burnham: both spectacular and influencial in their own ways. However, I see how creating such a list could have been very hard and I cannot disagree with your suggestions. Also, s/o to your latest video about youtube. It lead me all the way here. You deserve way more recognition, man!
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  22. Funny you mentioned it. Literally my worst fear is finally going viral right before getting monetized.
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  23. Another absolute slapper of a video Zack.
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  24. The part about ownership is sooo true. We face the same thing in Canada. But where I live, we have invested owners who try to outsmart online business and I'm so grateful for that. Our malls are doing pretty well. It ain't perfect but it's something at least. As always your video is super interesting. Thanks ! :)
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  25. We almost need to have separate shorts and long form content. I sometimes want to subscribe to only shorts or only long form from certain creators, and I really don’t like that my feed is all mixed up with both in my subscription box. Sometimes I like someone’s shorts, but their only long form content is for example live streams of video games I don’t play, so it spams up my sub box
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  26. This was such a fascinating ride, you're a really good story teller. I'm excited to see the wawa version!
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  27. I really like your suggestion on YouTube introducing a video tagging system. Especially since they have that for shorts right now. You always come up with banger ideas and I think you making this video really brings to light a lot of unspoken issues on YouTube. Keep up the good work man, super proud of you ❤❤❤
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  28. Sometimes I click on videos and get actual headaches because of the obsessive yelling, constant transitions, 3 new video clips every 2 seconds, "one word per-line" subtitles on screen, it becomes overstimulating and it becomes too much. I cannot manage 10+ minute videos with this over-the-top pacing. I feel like a year or two from now, the trend is going to go in the other direction, where the in demand channels will be the soft spoken, calm, and personal-feeling videos will be the ones most in demand.
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  29. Australian here! While my family doesn't bet, we do watch a lot of sport and there have been points in my life where I've been able to recite sports betting ads easily. They all finish with a "gamble responsibly" card but I guarantee you most people don't pay attention to that part. Great video!
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  30. 1:46 that is my video, for those curious that video paid me $11,115.00 as of Jan 2nd 2024
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  31. It’s always nice to see these lesser known, but great, channels posting entertaining and consistent videos.
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  32. I recently noticed I get slight headaches when I eat bread. Maybe I should get on the gluten free app 🍞 😆
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  33. oh man I totally agree. I like a lot of Apple products - M1 and M2 macs are actually incredible, every so often they make an iPhone upgrade which is actually worth it, and their display tech is just perfect (shame they're in no hurry to put it in non-pro models) - but the practices (as you'd expect from a trillion dollar TNC, unfortunately) are absolutely disgraceful.
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  34. The more Starbucks raised their prices, the more I cut back. So, I was spending $150-$200 a month there but the price hikes pissed me off, so instead of going every day, I started going every other day. Then another price hike, so it became three times a week. Then another price hike, became ‘just on weekends.’ Now I spend $20 per month there if that. They weened me off their product with their bullshit. Great job 💯💫
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  35. 5.2k views, 2.6k likes, 651 comments. What a ratio, what a channel. Thanks for the engaging content. Exactly what youtube connoisseurs been looking for
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  36. The way you were too sane and normal to assume Anthony and Ian had a falling out and were just being respectful about it online but also I cannot imagine how amazing it must have felt for them to say they are literally going to go back to making intimate sketches on their own literally less than a month after you posted this............unlessyousecrelyknewthiswholetime?!?!?!?! 😵🧐🙊👽🤔
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  37. I got almost 5 million views every single month for 4 straight years but then youtube shorts launched. That month, my views dropped for the first time. Literally since then I've only been able to get almost 2 million views every single month for the last 3 years. As someone who has been very consistent for the last 9.5 years I can say that more than half of users went to watch shorts and didnt come back. The only way I can see to make up for the lost audience is to make even longer videos since they pay more ad revenue. I think thats why we've seen an explosion in very long form content. I'm kind of just tired of everything being a short or a long video essay. I miss fun, nonsensical creative 5-15ish minute videos. Even I feel pressured to extend every video and I know that doesn't make the content better. Idk in the end it is what it is. We can only try and adapt and do our best.
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  38. I absolutely love the locations used for these videos, a pretty nature background while presenting depressing data
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  39. Important note- these devices are not waterproof, they are water resistant up to a certain standard depending on the device. I only say this as I worked at a phone store and met too many people that had that impression and damaged their devices. Great video, it is important to be aware as consumer of all the flaws of these giant companies. We as a large group can push these companies to change.
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  40. Agreed, I also hate all the AI narrated videos... I want real humans with some personality, not some monotone soulless AI.
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  41. I really love the way you just give glimpses into your life. It's good to see someone genuinely engaging with their community and I think more people should do that
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  42. Interesting, I didn't even know Stories was going away! I kind of want to make a few now!
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  43. Keep doin what u do man, I'm so glad the algo picked you up.
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  44. Thank you for this video! This topic is very important. I called my parents now and told them to be aware that things like these are happening. Always love your videos and I think that this was one of your best! 👏
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  45. Same I had no idea and I use YouTube ALOT. Hours and hours every day.
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  46. really appreciate how you balance a fun "challenge" with real facts and a throughput narrative that tells a larger story
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  47. People making silly vids for strangers on the internet turning into influential micro celebrities and THEN beating the shit out of each other for money is very strange indeed.
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  48. Another banger yet again. These videos you post allow me to think about these issues WAY more critically than ever before. I always thought I was crazy thinking about these topics. Glad to see I'm not alone here. Thanks Zackary!
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  49. Also I love the creative approach you have to inverting the thumbnail and the video title! It’s kind of genius as so many people look at the thumbnail first, and then the title to try and add context to it. I wouldn’t be surprised if people start copying that technique in the coming months.
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  50. I've heard about events where TikTok creators with millions of followers have like 5 people that come out to meet them because almost no-one actually cares.
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