Post by glizcaldo on May 16, 2018 9:55:09 GMT
I've started to get monthly newsletters from YouTube, immediately after the new YouTube Partner Program (suspicious suspicious).
The newsletters show your statistics for that month. Like uploads, watch time minutes, subscribers, likes, shares and so on. The bulk of the newsletters are basically short articles on how you can expand your YouTube channel, new features and honestly it's full of absolute meaningless garbage. At least to me it's full of garbage, because when it talks about what the creator spotlight is: I don't care. When it teases the diamond play button trophy: I don't care. When it shows me a slight change to a feature that already exists on the website: I REALLY don't care.
I don't care for these newsletters because of how my channel's been stuck in the mud for nearly seven years. Why should I care about the possibility I might be invited to one of these YouTube creator events, when I haven't breached 200 subscribers? Why should I even listen to the new changes to YouTube's features when all I care about is my will to even start making a video, which I know will go unnoticed and I've wasted my time and effort. With that said, why should I even give one unit of care about the diamond play button when I know without a doubt that I'll never receive such a thing?
These newsletters in my opinion are a spit in my face each month. They talk about how I could expand my channel with the same old tired methods I keep hearing about over and over again:
Optimize your tags: Bruh, I've been doing that down to the letter.
Get as many social media platforms as possible: Tumblr, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook and G+. Should I go far as Snapchat and Instagram? If I get those will I suddenly get noticed? Just only takes five additional pages. Not very efficient when I know that someday that all my fans will pay attention to my Twitter.
Just make interesting content: I've made deep fried gosh-darn whole potatoes this year. Who else has done that recently? Should I have done it drunk while twerking to the Globgogabgalab?
Be family friendly: I ain't family friendly and I'm not going to force myself to do so. You'd think a non-politically correct med student who swears like a sailor would be an absolute blast. However, we just need to conform to these particular ideas of what YouTube wants of it's creators and it's just messed up.
That's what I think about the newsletters and monthly reports.
In summery, I don't like them because they regurgitate old information and tease what-abouts and the might-could-have-beens. All while trying to convince you to produce videos in their particular way and not your own way as a creator. They use the word creator as the name of their ideal husk YouTuber and not what it really is: someone whose creative and produce their own content unique to their own. Not just this empty shell of an expectation.
The newsletters show your statistics for that month. Like uploads, watch time minutes, subscribers, likes, shares and so on. The bulk of the newsletters are basically short articles on how you can expand your YouTube channel, new features and honestly it's full of absolute meaningless garbage. At least to me it's full of garbage, because when it talks about what the creator spotlight is: I don't care. When it teases the diamond play button trophy: I don't care. When it shows me a slight change to a feature that already exists on the website: I REALLY don't care.
I don't care for these newsletters because of how my channel's been stuck in the mud for nearly seven years. Why should I care about the possibility I might be invited to one of these YouTube creator events, when I haven't breached 200 subscribers? Why should I even listen to the new changes to YouTube's features when all I care about is my will to even start making a video, which I know will go unnoticed and I've wasted my time and effort. With that said, why should I even give one unit of care about the diamond play button when I know without a doubt that I'll never receive such a thing?
These newsletters in my opinion are a spit in my face each month. They talk about how I could expand my channel with the same old tired methods I keep hearing about over and over again:
Optimize your tags: Bruh, I've been doing that down to the letter.
Get as many social media platforms as possible: Tumblr, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook and G+. Should I go far as Snapchat and Instagram? If I get those will I suddenly get noticed? Just only takes five additional pages. Not very efficient when I know that someday that all my fans will pay attention to my Twitter.
Just make interesting content: I've made deep fried gosh-darn whole potatoes this year. Who else has done that recently? Should I have done it drunk while twerking to the Globgogabgalab?
Be family friendly: I ain't family friendly and I'm not going to force myself to do so. You'd think a non-politically correct med student who swears like a sailor would be an absolute blast. However, we just need to conform to these particular ideas of what YouTube wants of it's creators and it's just messed up.
That's what I think about the newsletters and monthly reports.
In summery, I don't like them because they regurgitate old information and tease what-abouts and the might-could-have-beens. All while trying to convince you to produce videos in their particular way and not your own way as a creator. They use the word creator as the name of their ideal husk YouTuber and not what it really is: someone whose creative and produce their own content unique to their own. Not just this empty shell of an expectation.
