u/Free-Response5017

I use shorts to drive views for my long form content. It only gets me a handful of views, but I don't mind so long as it finds a few people who genuinely want/are looking for my type of content. My shorts rarely give me subscribers, but the two times it has happened have been on the ones that have tanked miserably. Today I had my lowest performing short with 144 views and a grand total of 4.9% chose to stay (95.1% swiped away) but yet this drove a sub lol. I'm trying to figure out why this is. Maybe it's so niche that the masses hate it, but because it's rare the ones who vibe with it really vibe. I just found it an odd pattern at first!

I guess I find it a bit baffling as someone who just does it because I enjoy it for the following reasons:

1. I'm not claiming to be a real musician
2. I'm not trying to sell my work
3. I'm not spamming or placing songs in subs with rules against AI usage
4. I'm not reducing my creativity (I would probably just be watching youtube or something otherwise)
5. I'm not replacing someone who I may have otherwise hired (I just wouldn't have created that music)
6. I'm not hiding the fact that I use it in my stuff (I post in my song descriptions)

I do get the professional angle - if people are profiting off their songs at the expense of artists who could be making that money (especially at the broader industry level). But I'm just a Joe blow and no one wants to listen to my songs anyway, so why the hate?

Of course it's all about prompting... but what is the secret sauce that people have when they're making it higher quality? And what specific aspects of the prompt do you think make the most difference?

For me I like to think it's the amount of specificity I put in my lyrics - not just generic "I feel this, I feel that" that could apply to anyone. But maybe specific details that made a memory feel special. And telling a story where pieces are revealed verse to verse. But in terms of the music generation itself... apart from picking the genre, vocalist gender, and some emotions that I want the song to embody, I think a lot of it is more just patience than anything? Giving it enough time to get the right combination of melody and rhythm with the words you have given it.

Is there a skill involved in the "curation" process involved? Is it that some people have a better ability to hear what works and what doesn't?

I feel like I can tell when people have put more time and love into their tracks - but I feel like I want to pinpoint more precisely it is that makes the artists who generate better tracks "good".

It's hilarious, because on all accounts my channel isn't doing "well". But even if I notice a certain video gets an extra view, I'm so excited. I'm particularly smitten when someone enjoys it enough to leave a comment. Every subscriber feels like winning the lottery. I literally went from 6-10 subscribers today and I was over the moon. Anyone else feel the gravity of a single person on their work?