Sometimes the YouTube algorithm will recommend me some video with just a few (and sometimes even no) views, sometimes even when the content has very little to do with what I usually watch. Well, kudos to the YouTube developers for trying to help small creators get more views, I suppose.
Sometimes I check these YouTube channels, and a few times I have encountered channels that I find rather incomprehensible, in a rather peculiar way.
You see, there are YouTube channels in existence where the author uploads several videos per week, and has been doing so for numerous years (and thus the channel having several hundreds if not even several thousands of videos), where the overall quality of the videos seems relatively good (good picture and sound quality, ie. relatively good camera and sound equipment, interesting background, in most cases the author's living room or similar), but where each video has an abysmally low number of views.
I kid you not, nor am I exaggerating in any way, but I recently stumbled across such a channel where 99% of the videos had less than 50 views. The channel had been going on for many years, and there were probably over a thousand videos, and about 99% of them had less than 50 views. Only a couple of videos had some (low) hundreds of views. The channel had started something like five years ago, and the number of views per video, less than 50, was completely consistent throughout the entire history of the channel, without going up or down.
And these were not some kind of auto-generated videos, or AI videos, or sloppily made videos. It was the author reviewing movies, games and gaming hardware, and as mentioned, with a quite decent picture and audio quality, and a quite clean room (those with shelves full of video games etc in the background). It was quite clear that the author had spent at least some money on recording equipment, and was doing at least some work to edit the videos.
And it was not like the guy had been making videos for a few years, trying to become popular, and then stopped. Even after something like five years he was still making and uploading videos several times a week.
That was, perhaps, the most extreme example I have encountered (other such channels typically have at least a few hundreds of views per video), but it's by far not the only one.
What puzzles me about these channels is why these people bother. I suppose a hobby is a hobby, and kudos to them for sticking to a hobby they feel passionate about. But still, why? Getting less than 50 views per video (some videos even getting less than 10 views!) for years and years and years. Why even bother at that point? Why continue? Why not do something more productive?
It would be one thing if they were channels that years ago got hundreds of thousands of views per video but then lost popularity. These are channels that have been going on for years and are getting abysmally low view counts in all of their videos. At that point, why even bother?
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