TooManyGames

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[–] TooManyGames@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago

That also wouldn't have a drastic immediate effect. On the long term this is likely to eat some views of long form content.

[–] TooManyGames@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Yes, but even if they hid everything I have from teens and suspended teens, the drop would be way less. And that's why I think they are wrong about the reason for the drop.

[–] TooManyGames@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

They're wrong, my channel has under 4% viewers in the up to 18 year segment, this effect is way bigger than if I lost then completely. Also my channel features no swearing or inappropriate content so, it should not affect it at all if this was the case.

[–] TooManyGames@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] TooManyGames@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

AI slop most likely. Well, to be serious, I think the drop is due to them trying to fight AI slop and miserably failing.

[–] TooManyGames@lemmy.world 148 points 12 hours ago (15 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.