I'm making a video on updated youtube monetization policy and the rise of ai slop on the platform and i made this thumbnail for the video
Do you like it? would you click on it? if not any and all helpful critiques and suggestions would be greatly appreciated
thanks.
I have absolutely no idea what to do.
My impressions have completely collapsed since june. It's been 20+ hours since i have uploaded a video and i haven't even broken 50 impressions this is totally unprecedented. By this time i get at least a couple thousand no idea what's going on it's been like that for every upload since june. the situation seems to be getting worse with every upload, don't know what to do and its deeply demoralizing
I have absolutely no idea what to do.
My impressions have completely collapsed since june. It's been 20+ hours since i have uploaded a video and i haven't even broken 50 impressions this is totally unprecedented. By this time i get atlease a couple thousand no idea what's going on it's been like that for every upload since june
which one of these thumbnails would you click on?
I genuinely have no idea what I'm doing wrong, and it's driving me crazy.
Back in March and April, my channel was growing steadily. Multiple videos crossed 500 views, several reached 1,500+, and the pattern was incredibly consistent.
Typically, a new upload would get around 1,000–1,500 impressions in the first 24 hours, mostly from Suggested Videos. Then, after about 24 hours, Browse Features would kick in and I'd get a huge surge in impressions. Some videos ended up getting over 50,000 Browse impressions.
Since around the middle of May, that has completely stopped.
Now every upload gets its initial Suggested traffic for the first day or so, but then it just... dies. Browse Features never picks it up. I'm talking fewer than 100 Browse impressions on every single upload. The videos just flatline after 24–48 hours.
What's frustrating is that I don't feel like I've become lazy. If anything, I've done the opposite. I'm spending significantly more time researching ideas, improving my scripts, and editing thumbnails than I was when the channel was growing. The content feels objectively better, yet the performance keeps getting worse.
Has anyone else experienced something similar over the last month or two? Was there some change to Browse Features or the recommendation system around mid-May, or is this more likely something specific to my channel?
I'd really appreciate any insight because it's been going on for over 1.5 months now, and I'm honestly at a loss.
I genuinely have no idea what I'm doing wrong, and it's driving me crazy.
Back in March and April, my channel was growing steadily. Multiple videos crossed 500 views, several reached 1,500+, and the pattern was incredibly consistent.
Typically, a new upload would get around 1,000–1,500 Impressions in the first 24 hours, mostly from Suggested Videos. Then, after about 24 hours, Browse Features would kick in and I'd get a huge surge in impressions. Some videos ended up getting over 50,000 Browse impressions.
Since around the middle of May, that has completely stopped.
Now every upload gets its initial Suggested traffic for the first day or so, but then it just... dies. Browse Features never picks it up. I'm talking fewer than 100 Browse impressions on every single upload. The videos just flatline after 24–48 hours.
What's frustrating is that I don't feel like I've become lazy. If anything, I've done the opposite. I'm spending significantly more time researching ideas, improving my scripts, and editing thumbnails than I was when the channel was growing. The content feels objectively better, yet the performance keeps getting worse.
Has anyone else experienced something similar over the last month or two? Was there some change to Browse Features or the recommendation system around mid-May, or is this more likely something specific to my channel?
I'd really appreciate any insight because it's been going on for over 1.5 months now, and I'm honestly at a loss.
I genuinely have no idea what I'm doing wrong, and it's driving me crazy.
Back in March and April, my channel was growing steadily. Multiple videos crossed 500 views, several reached 1,500+, and the pattern was incredibly consistent.
Typically, a new upload would get around 1,000–1,500 impressions in the first 24 hours, mostly from Suggested Videos. Then, after about 24 hours, Browse Features would kick in and I'd get a huge surge in impressions. Some videos ended up getting over 50,000 Browse impressions.
Since around the middle of May, that has completely stopped.
Now every upload gets its initial Suggested traffic for the first day or so, but then it just... dies. Browse Features never picks it up. I'm talking fewer than 100 Browse impressions on every single upload. The videos just flatline after 24–48 hours.
What's frustrating is that I don't feel like I've become lazy. If anything, I've done the opposite. I'm spending significantly more time researching ideas, improving my scripts, and editing thumbnails than I was when the channel was growing. The content feels objectively better, yet the performance keeps getting worse.
Has anyone else experienced something similar over the last month or two? Was there some change to Browse Features or the recommendation system around mid-May, or is this more likely something specific to my channel?
I'd really appreciate any insight because it's been going on for over 1.5 months now, and I'm honestly at a loss.
So this is not some template thumbnail being used as a clickbait I have weaved a 18 minute video with a clear thread with all the levels and 3D motion graphics and great editing
The video is about "7 Levels of Crisis Destroying the gaming Industry"
Would this intrigue you?
I'm not making a Mamdani hate documentary. it's just a video about New York State's finances. I don't really care about him, so don't come at me. he's a part of the video for less than 15 seconds
I'm not new to After Effects, but I've never made these kinds of collage animations before, so they're taking a lot more time and effort
any comments on this one?
So First of the all the assets and compositing is the stuff i made in photoshop. i used ai for some lens flares and chromatic aberration (rgb split on the edges in the first image) and refine some shadows. so please don't accuse me of creating ai thumbnails
now which of these would you click on?
So First of the all the assets and compositing is the stuff i made in photoshop. i used ai for some lens flares and chromatic aberration (rgb split on the edges in the first image) and refine some shadows. so please don't accuse me of creating ai thumbnails
now which of these would you click on?
So First of the all the assets and compositing is the stuff i made in photoshop. i used ai for some lens flares and chromatic aberration (rgb split on the edges in the first image) and refine some shadows. so please don't accuse me of creating ai thumbnails
now which of these would you click on?
I made the composition on photoshop and asked ai to do final touches like lens flare and some glow...
Hey everyone, I hope you're all doing fine... I recently started posting on YouTube and need your help My channel was on a solid trajectory got my first 100 subs a week ago but around that time something changed
My views plummeted my CTR and AVD are both above average but I'm simply not getting any more impressions I have no idea what happened
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.