u/Football_holic69

The Ling 2.6 1T non-reasoning model emphasizes that it can optimize token consumption. Is that really the case? Is it actually useful?

I’ve noticed that whenever someone asks what I do and I mention YouTube, the reaction is always kind of awkward. Some people immediately assume it’s not serious, others think it means you’re trying to become famous, and sometimes it just feels embarrassing explaining content creation to people who don’t really understand the amount of work behind it.
The strange part is that I can spend hours editing, scripting, recording, fixing thumbnails, and stressing over uploads, but saying “I make YouTube videos” still somehow feels less respected than a normal job title. Even when channels are doing well financially, a lot of creators still seem hesitant talking about it publicly.
Curious if other YouTube creators feel this too or if confidence around telling people eventually gets easier once your channel grows more over time

What makes Ling-2.6-1T interesting to me is the shape of it's profile. It's an open-sourced flagship with about 1T total params / 63B activated params, up to 1M native context, 256K currently exposed through the official API, and repeated emphasis on fast thinking plus lower token overhead.But if you added Ling would you use it for intake, long-context synthesis, planning across messy inputs, or something else? My instinct is that the most natural slot is the layer that has to hold a lot of material together without turning every pass into a very expensive deep-reasoning run.
Where would you put it first in your stack?

I used to schedule every YouTube upload around peak audience hours from analytics, usually between 6 PM to 9 PM, but some of my best performing videos recently were uploaded at completely random times like 2 AM or early afternoon. Meanwhile “perfect timing” uploads sometimes flop badly. Starting to wonder if posting time matters less now or if YouTube just pushes videos whenever it wants. Have other creators noticed random upload times outperforming scheduled peak times lately?

When my channel was smaller around 5k to 10k subscribers, it felt like almost everyone who subscribed actually watched new uploads. Now at around 70k subscribers, new videos sometimes struggle to even reach 10k views in the first week. It’s making me wonder if subscriber quality drops as channels grow bigger or if YouTube simply stops showing uploads to a large part of the audience over time. Anyone else seeing this happen?

5 years on this platform. Never posted anything that violated guidelines. Brand deals. Consistent growth. Real audience.

Gone overnight.

Submitted 4 appeals. Every single response was automated. Not one human looked at my case. Not one real explanation of what rule I apparently broke.

The scariest part is how common this is becoming. I have seen at least 10 posts this month from creators saying the exact same thing.

Instagram has built a system where an algorithm can destroy years of work in seconds and there is literally no human you can reach to fix it.

No accountability. No transparency. No support.

If you are building seriously on this platform please have a backup. Email list. Another platform. Anything.

Because if it happened to me after 5 years of doing everything right it can happen to anyone.

Has anyone here successfully recovered a disabled account? What actually worked?

One of my recent YouTube videos crossed 120k views in about 10 days, but it only brought around 430 new subscribers which feels way lower than expected. Watch time was decent too at around 52 percent average retention. Starting to wonder if viral views are becoming less valuable for actually building an audience now. For creators getting bigger numbers lately, are you seeing the same thing or is my conversion rate just bad?

Lately I’ve been seeing smaller creators put out genuinely entertaining videos that barely hit 300 views while recycled trends keep blowing up instantly. I get that trends matter, but sometimes it feels like TikTok only rewards accounts that already have momentum. Makes me wonder how many good creators just quit before ever getting a real push. Did any bigger creators here go through that phase where nothing worked for months?

Let me explain what happened.

Got permanently banned 3 weeks ago. Made a new account. That got banned within 48 hours.

Made another one. Same thing. Banned before I even posted anything.

At that point I knew it wasn't the content. It was my phone.

I've read that TikTok tracks your device fingerprint. Things like your screen resolution, phone model, network adapters, sensors. Basically a unique ID for your device that survives even if you delete the app and reinstall it.

So creating new accounts on the same phone means you're walking back into the same room TikTok already kicked you out of.

What I don't know is whether there's any actual fix for this short of getting a new device.

I've seen people mention clearing your phone's advertising ID. Some say resetting network settings helps. Someone told me to use a VPN before making the new account but I've also read that using a VPN can itself trigger a flag.

Tried the advertising ID reset. New account still got banned in 4 days.

I'm not trying to do anything shady. I just want my account back and I'm not in a position to just go buy a new phone right now.

Has anyone actually resolved a device ban without new hardware in 2026? What actually worked?

Genuine question because I see this constantly and nobody talks about how demoralizing it actually is.

You spend years building an audience. Hit a number that used to mean something. And then realize the platform has made that number almost completely meaningless.

100,000 people allegedly follow your account. Instagram shows your content to 2,000 of them. The other 98,000 never see it unless you pay.

At what point does follower count stop mattering entirely and engagement rate become the only metric worth chasing?

And is anyone here genuinely getting solid reach relative to their follower count or is everyone dealing with the same thing?

A lot of creators start YouTube because they enjoy making things, but over time everything becomes about outperforming others. Better thumbnails, longer watch time, more clicks, higher retention. It can start feeling less like creativity and more like constantly competing for attention. Do you think YouTube still rewards genuine creative expression, or has the platform turned content creation into nonstop competition now?

Posted a video Tuesday night.

Checked it an hour later. 0 views.

Checked next morning. Still 0.

Not 10. Not 50. Literally zero.

I've had slow videos before but never zero. Something felt wrong immediately.

So I went through the usual checklist everyone talks about.

Checked for guideline violations nothing flagged.

Searched my hashtags from another account all looked fine.

Took a break for 24 hours came back, still zero.

At this point I was convinced I was shadowbanned or worse, device banned.

Started googling everything. Read every thread on this sub. Watched YouTube videos about TikTok algorithm fixes.

Three days of actual stress over this.

Then someone in a comment thread mentioned checking your internet connection type when uploading.

I didn't think that was it because my phone was working fine.

But I checked anyway.

Turns out TikTok had been having a backend issue where recent uploads were simply not receiving views or engagement nothing to do with the account at all.
It was a platform side problem the whole time.

My account was completely fine.

Three days of spiraling for absolutely nothing.

Here's what I wish someone told me earlier before you assume shadowban, check if TikTok itself is having issues. There are sites that track TikTok outages in real time and they'll tell you within minutes if the problem is on their end or yours.

Saved that link permanently now.

Never putting myself through that again.

Anyone else lose their mind over something that turned out to be TikTok's fault and not yours?

A lot of creators say they love making content, but I wonder how many would keep uploading if there was no recognition attached to it at all. No growing audience, no praise, no people knowing your name, just making videos quietly forever. Do you think most YouTubers are driven more by creativity or by the feeling of being noticed and recognized online?

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People might visit your profile after seeing a post, but not everyone follows. That gap is hard to understand because the content may be decent, yet something about the profile doesn’t convince them. It could be the bio, highlights, or overall clarity. Curious how others evaluate their profile and what changes helped turn visitors into followers.

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Some creators plan every line before recording, while others prefer to talk naturally and keep it spontaneous. Both approaches can work, but they lead to very different styles and workflows. Curious which method you follow for your YouTube videos and what has worked better for you so far.