Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Youtube Losing One of Its First Major Figures Due to Algorithmic Unfairness" video.

  1. This is because the left thinks only in terms of POWER and when they HAVE it, they abuse the shit out of it.
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  2. YouTubers LOVE the monetization feature, but those advertising dollars come from very repressed advertisers, who are terrified of their brand being associated with ANYthing controversial. If you want to stay monetized, your content needs to look and feel like the content that the MSM have been cranking out on commercial t.v. since the '50s. You're free to use foul language and take risks on YouTube, but don't expect advertisers to follow you there. YouTubers are in the unique position of decrying corporate practices while relying on corporations to fund their offerings. It wasn't going to last long, anyway. If you want to make it on YT, for REAL, and post the content you WANT to post, then you need to reach out to direct subscribers and get them to part with some coin. That's why viewers are smart to support the people they really like, and cut the corporations out of it. I think it's a bit hypocritical to whine about being de-monetized, when you're posting content that Big Business doesn't want to support.
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  3.  @r.cogburn816  : Hey, Rooster! What government does NOT have is millions of volunteers who can overwhelm just about anything they try to do on the Interwebz. VEWRY difficult for them to totally suppress real news, when everybody everywhere has a smart phone. Sure, the MSM still control what THEY put out, but for the last 10 or 20 years, they haven't had the absolute monopoly that they enjoyed for decades. We see what Google's doing, and we recognize it for the clumsy top-down control-everything bullshit that the establishment has always done, but they can't QUITE shut us all down at the same time, and they have no counter to the "Streisand Effect." We've gotta flip all the questions, like - dare I say - Trump does. Got an administration shot full of never-trumpers and other leftists? Don't worry about getting rid of them. Just keep appointing your own people, to where anybody up to no good in can no longer be sure that his pal over in State or her buddy in the DOJ has got their back. Can't fight those infiltrators, directly, but you just keep building the pressure on them, until they end up fighting each other, which we're about to see, I hope. Most of all, with ALL the programming talent out there, we need something like Bit-Chute only BETTER. Take the key functionalities of YT and improve on them. Make your new platform quicker, slicker, and with better discussion clients. YT client is better than Bit-Chute, but that's setting a pretty low standard.
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  4. Just being contrary, here, but I wonder how many YouTubers blame the algorithm, when it's actually just their schtick getting old. Maybe they grab audience because they're unique or events promote their content. I can think of one or two, like Alistair what's-his-name who did the Burger-King-BREXIT routine that went viral. I subscribed to his channel, thinking he'd have tons of fresh things to say, but he's either not as funny as he thinks or the sound reproduction is crap, or his rapid-fire dialect is just too mushy for me to understand, or something (He doesn't know how to work a mic like a pro should), but I'm not as enamored of his close-ups as he is, and that seems to be his favorite thing. Say something edgy and then zoom in on his grinning face. Zeducation is kind of like that, too. Good stuff, but I don't want his face FILLING the screen, while he murmurs at full volume in my ear. Dude! Don't be a close-talker! Give me my 3 feet of personal space. The only time I'm that close to a person's face on purpose, it's because I'm about to kiss her. Even without the algorithm pushing independents to play the game and post click-baity videos on a daily basis, sometimes multiple postings every day. Tim Pool's the biggest click-bait whore out there, but he puts in the work finding stories people are likely to click on. He's a liberal whose content is mostly critical of the left, not only because they have it coming, but also because he knows he'll get more views by grabbing conservatives than he'll get by catering to his skate-board buddies. Conservatives are HUNGRY for news that isn't totally sanitized of conservative ideology and then drenched in left-wing talking points. The bottom line is that independent content creators often have GREAT things to say, but they run out of anything really fresh after a week or a month, like that Alistair what's-his-name. This happens to legacy media as well. The NFL is so big that there are daily hour-long or 2-hour shows from the same group of people, who ran out of fresh insights about 5 minutes into the show, and they've got another 2 hours to fill with drama and speculation. As a football fan, there's an ENDLESS amount of content that would keep me going, but they'd have to actually drill down to the deeper questions, analyze game film, and present some unexciting x's and o's analysis. I'd eat that shit up. But let's spend an hour on Colin Kaepernick, instead. That's trendy, right? gag I think you've got enough stuff to share from your regular researches that your stuff is pretty fresh. Coming to YouTube with hours and hours of content already more or less queued up is smart. Plus it's just refreshing to see a guy I got my weed from in the '70s, but with libertarian/constitutionalist philosophy, instead of a trust-fund hippy's "Soak the rich! Corporations evil! Don't touch MY money or tax the property I inherited!" world view. Plus we're not getting baked, together. Just a smart, long-haired reprobate-lookin' dude who reminds me of people I grew up around and knew in school. I wish that you independents would start collaborating and create a space where your stuff isn't going to be pushed down the stack by 3rd-party platform operators. Then you guys could trim what you put out, and refine it to that one half-hour of "fresh" that most creators can crank out per week without burning out or wasting the time of viewers. A few, like you and Pool and Dice and... who have survived the YT gauntlet should band together and lead the/a community of content creators. I know I can generate an hour or two every day that's fresh. But I don't think there's a huge audience for higher mathematics, unless you're signed up for it! LOL! But you could reduce the pressure on creators to crank out something, every day, whether they have anything new to say or not. If they put out 1/2 hour per week of the best stuff they can dig up and refine for an audience, I think the quality and viewership would support a lot of people.
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