So many channels on YouTube that came out of nowhere in the last year or so and out the gate have tens of thousands of views.
Knowing the median view per video is 35 and that it takes years to establish a channel because 95% do not get pushed by the algo makes me think something is up - either these are complete outliers making insanely good content or they are serving the algo's agenda.
I felt less affected by the bot situation since my main medium is long form video, but this is tied to the exact same issue Jeff described in his article; our attention is being farmed on all platforms through all content types and its getting harder and harder to tell what is genuine or real, and that's the point.
https://jeffreybooth.com/articles/youre-talking-to-a-bot-and-thats-the-point
Knowing the median view per video is 35 and that it takes years to establish a channel because 95% do not get pushed by the algo makes me think something is up - either these are complete outliers making insanely good content or they are serving the algo's agenda.
I felt less affected by the bot situation since my main medium is long form video, but this is tied to the exact same issue Jeff described in his article; our attention is being farmed on all platforms through all content types and its getting harder and harder to tell what is genuine or real, and that's the point.
https://jeffreybooth.com/articles/youre-talking-to-a-bot-and-thats-the-point