I'm not going to name the guy, but there's one particular youtuber I used to watch quite a lot years ago because his videos were quite well made and entertaining, and he made lots of good points. He was (well, still is) a skeptic, ie. someone who examines, criticizes, comments on, and sometimes makes fun of all kinds of quacks, charlatans, anti-scientific religious ideologies, the most ridiculous cult practices, and so on and so forth.
He has been making YouTube videos for quite a long time, 9 years now. Examining his list of videos chronologically, especially when it comes to view counts, paints a rather interesting picture:
His videos from 9 years ago, when he started his YouTube career, have an average number of views in the ballpark of about 20k to 30k apiece, with some individual videos breaking the 100k mark.
As you scroll up the list, the average number of views starts steadily increasing. Videos he made 8 years ago already have about 40-50k views on average. 7-years-old videos have about 80k, some more, some less. There's a somewhat steady increase over the years, up until the absolute height of his YouTube career about 5 years ago, with several videos surpassing 2 million views, several others surpassing 1 million, and even the average being in the ballpark of 300k views.
These numbers keep about stable for the next few years and then... a sudden drop in view counts. The average suddenly drops to somewhere around 50k, and then about 30k, with some individual (but rare) videos still surpassing the 100k mark, while other videos have abysmally low view counts compared to his peak (even in the 10k range). He has been somewhat steady on that about 30k area, but some videos have really low view counts, like one having only a bit over 5k views.
What happened? Well, that question is better answered with the answer to another question: When did that sudden drop happen? Answer: A bit over 2 years ago. Donald Trump being the President of the United States during this time is not a coincidence.
Yes, he is a YouTube skeptic with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Perhaps not one of the worst cases out there, but he, too, doesn't seem to be able to talk about anything else anymore. And if it's not Trump, then it's about anti-SJWs and other such political subjects. The vast majority of his videos over the past 2-3 years have been about politics (especially identity politics), attacking other YouTube skeptics, and Trump. Only few videos are about the other subjects he became famous for anymore.
I don't think it's very surprising that his view counts have dropped significantly from his heyday.
This isn't even a unique case. As the adage goes, "get woke, go broke". Or in this case, see your viewership drop.
He has been making YouTube videos for quite a long time, 9 years now. Examining his list of videos chronologically, especially when it comes to view counts, paints a rather interesting picture:
His videos from 9 years ago, when he started his YouTube career, have an average number of views in the ballpark of about 20k to 30k apiece, with some individual videos breaking the 100k mark.
As you scroll up the list, the average number of views starts steadily increasing. Videos he made 8 years ago already have about 40-50k views on average. 7-years-old videos have about 80k, some more, some less. There's a somewhat steady increase over the years, up until the absolute height of his YouTube career about 5 years ago, with several videos surpassing 2 million views, several others surpassing 1 million, and even the average being in the ballpark of 300k views.
These numbers keep about stable for the next few years and then... a sudden drop in view counts. The average suddenly drops to somewhere around 50k, and then about 30k, with some individual (but rare) videos still surpassing the 100k mark, while other videos have abysmally low view counts compared to his peak (even in the 10k range). He has been somewhat steady on that about 30k area, but some videos have really low view counts, like one having only a bit over 5k views.
What happened? Well, that question is better answered with the answer to another question: When did that sudden drop happen? Answer: A bit over 2 years ago. Donald Trump being the President of the United States during this time is not a coincidence.
Yes, he is a YouTube skeptic with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Perhaps not one of the worst cases out there, but he, too, doesn't seem to be able to talk about anything else anymore. And if it's not Trump, then it's about anti-SJWs and other such political subjects. The vast majority of his videos over the past 2-3 years have been about politics (especially identity politics), attacking other YouTube skeptics, and Trump. Only few videos are about the other subjects he became famous for anymore.
I don't think it's very surprising that his view counts have dropped significantly from his heyday.
This isn't even a unique case. As the adage goes, "get woke, go broke". Or in this case, see your viewership drop.
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