this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
359 points (91.6% liked)

Technology

74873 readers
2980 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
359
"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership (www.sportskeeda.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
387 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

A lot of Youtube channels are reporting declining viewership lately.

EX1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpVnx4_yqTo
EX2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0tmhEtVJE

Fun times. Looks like a lot of channels are seeing a decline not just Linus. Hes just the latest to talk about it.

Then I saw this article as well and thought I would share.

Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] TooManyGames@lemmy.world 230 points 1 day ago (26 children)

Folks here are missing the point blaming LTT for the drop. This has been a sudden drop, too sudden to be fatigue or audience tastes changing.

Also I can see the same on my own channel. About 2 weeks ago views suddenly dropped to a third of the usual views. And even high performing videos have had trouble getting views since. Even videos with a high impression percentage are getting lower than average views.

The same wsd also reported by Second Wind (old Zero Punctuation) and their experience is the same: way too sudden drop to be anything else except YouTube adjusting their algorithm.

[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 69 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Thanks for the analysis. I've got to say. We on Lemmy can be vicious.

[–] TooManyGames@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's easy to bark at influencer we don't like.

[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I think his org has consistently done its best and I still tune in across the channels. I know that I couldn't do better with matched resources, without experience and a lot more considerations.

Listening to everyone hate on a whole media group puzzles me a bit.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

LTT has done bad things and never apologized. For example he copied a gamersnexus script and never acknowledged it.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 hours ago

And stole an item to auction off! I can’t believe people here defend their ass D:

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (23 replies)