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First of all, there's no ads on this video,
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believe it or not.
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This is not about money for me.
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Hillary Clinton, I am voting for Hillary Clinton.
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It's about fixing this problem with YouTube.
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Now you've probably heard already that YouTubers are complaining because their views are dropping...
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Significantly...
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Now I know you're thinking "Oh PewDiePie, he already made enough money, now he dares complain about this"
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But this is not just about me, it's about smaller, and larger, channels that are being affected,
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And the direction it's heading is very concerning for the future of this platform.
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People won't believe me if I say I really don't care about views and making more money .
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I care about reaching my audience and that the videos that I am working on, the people who are subscribed to me can actually see them.
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I really truly care about that more.
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I want to be clear that technically overall views are not being affected,
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it's just on the newer uploads since about a month ago.
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I feel a huge responsibility to make this video because not everyone has a voice on YouTube.
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I know people might think, "I don't really care, this does not affect me, YouTubers are already making enough money."
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But it's still peoples' livelihood at stake.
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I think if this continues, it's gonna kill a lot of channels.
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And trust me, I am fine. I'll be fine, but there are smaller channels that are just barely getting by.
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All of a sudden 40% of their views are getting cut out.
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and they can't keep making a living on YouTube which I think is really sad, and really stupid, and a mistake.
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It's extremely frustrating not being able to reach your audience when my latest videos are being record low.
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Out of nowhere...
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And then you ask YouTube, "Hey what is the problem here? Something's clearly changed."
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And they're basically saying, "No, we didn't change anything, there's been no algorithm change, it's you."
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and then I'm like, well it's not just me, it's so many YouTubers talking about this.
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I'm not crazy.
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JackSepticEye, the nicest person on the platform, he wouldn't be complaining about this just because he wants to complain.
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He's complaining because it's an actual problem, it's a real thing, YouTube.
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I promise.
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Now the thing is YouTube had a rough year.
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YouTubers noticed that complaining about YouTube gets you views.
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It's a topic that people like to know about, so I think people complain probably more than they should've.
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and I realize now that there is actual consequence to that,
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because now that there is an actual really important issue,
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YouTube is kinda closing an eye to it thinking, "Well, they're just conspiring against us again, it's just one of those things."
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It's very concerning that they are not taking this seriously.
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Now there's been so much confusion on what the problem is.
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No one seems to know... I think I know what it is, so I am gonna try to explain it.
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On YouTube you hear a lot of times about subscribing.
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"Please subscribe to my channel, PewDiePie has 50 million."
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But YouTube has really been moving away from a subscription type based viewing experience for a long time.
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They want you to watch other videos as well.
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So basically what they replace it with... is... let me show you.
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If you subscribe to someone and you watch their content, their videos will show up as recommended,
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or, in the suggested thing... suggestion majigger,
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Now, most creators...
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I'm gonna use the word creator, I don't know what the f*** to call it, f***ing YouTubers.
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Most people on the platform get half of their views from these two things.
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This doesn't matter if you're a small channel, or a big channel, okay?
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So, just to show an example on some statistics.
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Here you see that I get 30% of my views from suggested videos.
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That is not counting Browse Featured, which is home page, which is 53%.
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Let's just ignore that for now, let's just focus on suggested.
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Because I know this is a lot to take in, okay?
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Now, suggested views, I get 30% of my views from.
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That's what I noticed got cut off.
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I noticed my views are dropping roughly that amount.
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Now if you check an old video,
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oh look, I got 60% of my views from suggested videos.
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This one is 62%.
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This one is 63%.
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These were videos that were uploaded in October.
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Now something 100% happened in November, alright?
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Because all of a sudden we've got suggested videos... 0.7%.
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What...?
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And it's not just one video.
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Look at this one... 0.2%.
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Now this is a video that I didn't make, it was an animator, Jae, who worked on this for like a month,
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and we share the ad revenue.
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and since this did so poorly compared to the other one.
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So, seeing this, I'm like, what the f*** is going on.
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This is so clear that it is a problem, but YouTube is saying,
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"But Felix, it's not a problem because look, your suggest views are still 30%,
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even if you close in on the last 14 days, look.
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Suggested videos, 32%, they went up! You should be thanking us!"
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So from now on, I am just going to put theories out there. Just, let that be clear.
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But, it's suggesting older videos.
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It's something I noticed at least.
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If you click on one of my newer videos, it is essentially suggesting ancient f***ing videos.
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Like videos I did 6 months ago...
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Which, you know what, it's a good idea,
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but you can't completely cut out the new ones putting them at 0.2%.
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Now what I think has happened is that these old videos have already qualified to be as suggested videos,
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but now, you need to qualify to show up as suggested videos,
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and what will qualify is essentially videos with really high click through rate.
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Like videos that people really want to click on really fast,
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and if you upload on a daily schedule, you're not gonna get that.
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Maybe if you upload weekly, you're not gonna get affected by this at all.
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Where are all the views then?
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Maybe if you haven't made it this far in the video, but you probably think,
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"Well, if PewDiePie is getting less views, that's good, I don't like that guy's content anyway. F*** that guy."
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Alright, I get it, you don't like PewDiePie,
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It's really nice that you have to point that out everytime.
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You're just talking about PewDiePie every single article... you don't like PewDiePie.
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That fine. I don't care. (cri ;-;)
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What I notice showing up instead, which you probably notice as well,
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f***ing breast feed video.
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This video got 61 million views...
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All of a sudden people see giant a** f***ing t**s in the sidebar.
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and they're like, "Oh mama, I'm gonna click on that."
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Gets a lot of clicks, keeps getting suggested.
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I've seen porn show up in the suggested feed, which is just insane.
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How is that possible? Look, I'm watching gameplay.
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Gameplay, gameplay, gameplay, gameplay, PORN!
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F***ing porn!
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Look at this s***, 18+.
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What the hell is happening to YouTube.
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This f***ing s***, like 10 million views.
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Bee movie memes, which you know, I can support but the rest just seems a bit like,
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is this really the content that we want on this website.
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So it seems like it's more focused on viral videos, somehow.
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You need a really really strong video for it to show up.
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And it shows because I did the "I'm gonna delete me channel video."
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Which really did really well, and way more than I ever expected.
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It's like going from 0 to 100, I just want to find a middle ground, you know?
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Now, I've spoken to YouTube and they've acknowledged that this is a problem, and it is weird
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how this has changed.
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They won't say if they did this intentionally or not,
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I would like to give them the benefit of the doubt that this is just a glitch.
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and hopefully they work on fixing this as soon as possible, and that is why I am making this video; to strenthen that
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and making you guys know what the problem is.
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I really don't want to spread false rumors and I don't want people to get riled up,
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I just want to keep pressing YouTube on fixing this one issue.
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There are more issues as well with subscription disappearing,
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but I think this is the main important one to focus on right now.
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I appreciate that YouTube is working on this and trying to fix this.
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because it doesn't only affect me, it affects everyone on YouTube.
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I honestly thought YouTube was about what content the majority want to watch.
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but, it seems like it's becoming less and less of that.
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It's not about who you want to watch, it's about who's gonna yell the loudest.
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If this is all intentional and YouTube is focusing away from Creator based content and less personality based,
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well then don't be surprised if personality starts leaving YouTube.