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TIL people take commenting on YouTube seriously.
Yeah I’ve blocked the comments section with uBlock. Most of the time it’s just garbage in there.
Me: watching a car repair video
Some asshat: dId YoU kNoW bIdEn eAtS bAbBy'S?!
a link to a religios video completely unrelated to the discussion
I take supporting creators with engagements seriously.
youtube doesn't actually care if you comment, "engagement" is through sharing, and watching. that's all youtube cares about for engagement. how many watch hours, how many adverts, how many click throughs on those adverts.
also literally every large social network has shadow bans, it's the only successful way to deal with unwanted elements. if you tell the unwanted element that they are banned, then they just go make a new account.
Actually, it seems like engagement is through any kind of interaction, commenting, upvoting, even downvoting, are used to boost a video visibility, because, as you say, their ultimate goal is maximizing money from ads.
OP is right to support creators via comments.
Note also that YouTube has automatic filters for comments, which will remain visible for its author only, but the creator can also shadowban someone from their channel.
"actually", no it doesn't. that's the old youtube logic. now youtube actively buries any kind of engagement like comments or liking, it's not useful. youtube does not care about who is leaving comments or not, and leaving comments itself is highly susceptible to bots.
again, all youtube cares about is about watch time, and if you share something with someone else as that leads to more watch time. people arguing in the comments has zero relevance on how many ads people see.
It was my understanding from years ago. If it changed in between, I stand corrected.
Commenting isn’t support. Not sure if you know that. see, I’m commenting on your post- this is not support.
Then you would not comment on their videos, and the whole thought of "supporting" them via watching their videos is questionable but at least there's some direct, material, merit to that.
I like adverts and hammering nails into my head.
"I only watch trashy scumbag creators and not nice ones who actually struggles when engagements really fluctuates on a whim. I also have never been on the other side to emphatize with them."
It's like Reddit. If you only consume trash the algo gives you you're not using it right.
Article one, an electronics expert performs a circuit analysis.
Article two, a philosopher performs a societal analysis
Which one of these is 'doing it right'?
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Probably shouldnt. Youtube comments are rightful Serbian soil and should be treated as such
This comment is hilarious, and it being downvoted is sad.
Remove kommentkebab!
He says in a comment on another social network.
You realize that commenting on lemmy isn’t the same the as commenting on YouTube, right?
How is it really that much different?
How is lemmy different from YouTube? Seriously? If you can’t tell the difference, there’s no way I can help you.
That’s not an answer.
The whole point of lemmy is to be decentralized and made up of different instances with different rules. You are a lemmy.ca user talking to a lemm.we used on a lemmy.world topic. Some instances are fully of toxic shit, some aren’t. If you’re calling YouTube comments garbage, there’s garbage to be had in the fediverse too. Acting like someone’s dumb for caring about YouTube comments while posting on lemmy is also dumb. Let people care about what they want to care about.
YouTube grifts its content creators. Lemmy does not. Commenting on YouTube videos support YOUTUBE- Not the content creators.
What?
I said:
YouTube grifts its content creators. Lemmy does not. Commenting on YouTube videos support YOUTUBE- Not the content creators.
Where is the grift?