It's still a bit early, but it's been very disappointing; the film I recently uploaded was, compared to the amount of subscribers the channel has, barely viewed by anyone. Not necessarily because they did not click on it, but mainly because, apparently, most of them weren't even notified whatsoever by YouTube that it was uploaded. I don't know how the site's system works exactly, but obviously there is some kind of system it has implicated in it (most likely recently) that picks and chooses who gets to see what. My theory is that Mick the Mercenary: The Movie, being a film and not a cartoon--as cartoons are primarily why people subscribed in the first place--had an extremely limited release; I've had viewers tell me they didn't see it in their subscription box.
I don't know what the system is and I don't know why it exists, but it's stupid. Regardless of what someone originally subscribed for, why limit the notifications down to less than 1% simply because a clearly faulty system believes it picked up on something somewhat unrelated to what the channel usually shows? What is this supposed to accomplish? When someone subscribes, they want to be notified when the channel has a new video uploaded. Why remove the one and only function of that? What's the point of even having people subscribe at that point?
There's a channel I have that has about 500 subscribers that had a video uploaded to it today. Within hours, it reached about 600 views. The channel with over 50,000 subscribers' video took 4 days to reach that. How innovative.
YouTube's just been a sinking ship for so many reasons the past few years, but unfortunately this, to me, is just a final nail in the coffin. Sadly, there currently aren't any realistic websites that provide the same services YouTube does. Nobody is or even knows about any of the site's equivalents. There's nowhere else to go.
It's a shame. I want to be doing this animating/directing stuff for real one day, and seeing the way things are now, that day couldn't come a moment too soon. Here's hoping.
-T4k
I don't know what the system is and I don't know why it exists, but it's stupid. Regardless of what someone originally subscribed for, why limit the notifications down to less than 1% simply because a clearly faulty system believes it picked up on something somewhat unrelated to what the channel usually shows? What is this supposed to accomplish? When someone subscribes, they want to be notified when the channel has a new video uploaded. Why remove the one and only function of that? What's the point of even having people subscribe at that point?
There's a channel I have that has about 500 subscribers that had a video uploaded to it today. Within hours, it reached about 600 views. The channel with over 50,000 subscribers' video took 4 days to reach that. How innovative.
YouTube's just been a sinking ship for so many reasons the past few years, but unfortunately this, to me, is just a final nail in the coffin. Sadly, there currently aren't any realistic websites that provide the same services YouTube does. Nobody is or even knows about any of the site's equivalents. There's nowhere else to go.
It's a shame. I want to be doing this animating/directing stuff for real one day, and seeing the way things are now, that day couldn't come a moment too soon. Here's hoping.
-T4k
