WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.500 --> 00:00:02.540 First of all, there's no ads on this video, 00:00:02.540 --> 00:00:03.500 believe it or not. 00:00:03.500 --> 00:00:05.420 This is not about money for me. 00:00:05.420 --> 00:00:10.240 Hillary Clinton, I am voting for Hillary Clinton. 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:12.500 It's about fixing this problem with YouTube. 00:00:12.500 --> 00:00:18.140 Now you've probably heard already that YouTubers are complaining because their views are dropping... 00:00:18.140 --> 00:00:19.440 Significantly... 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:25.760 Now I know you're thinking "Oh PewDiePie, he already made enough money, now he dares complain about this" 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:33.220 But this is not just about me, it's about smaller, and larger, channels that are being affected, 00:00:33.220 --> 00:00:37.860 And the direction it's heading is very concerning for the future of this platform. 00:00:37.860 --> 00:00:42.540 People won't believe me if I say I really don't care about views and making more money . 00:00:42.540 --> 00:00:49.180 I care about reaching my audience and that the videos that I am working on, the people who are subscribed to me can actually see them. 00:00:49.180 --> 00:00:51.160 I really truly care about that more. 00:00:51.160 --> 00:00:55.220 I want to be clear that technically overall views are not being affected, 00:00:55.220 --> 00:00:59.100 it's just on the newer uploads since about a month ago. 00:00:59.100 --> 00:01:04.340 I feel a huge responsibility to make this video because not everyone has a voice on YouTube. 00:01:04.380 --> 00:01:11.380 I know people might think, "I don't really care, this does not affect me, YouTubers are already making enough money." 00:01:11.380 --> 00:01:13.660 But it's still peoples' livelihood at stake. 00:01:13.660 --> 00:01:17.200 I think if this continues, it's gonna kill a lot of channels. 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:22.940 And trust me, I am fine. I'll be fine, but there are smaller channels that are just barely getting by. 00:01:22.940 --> 00:01:25.880 All of a sudden 40% of their views are getting cut out. 00:01:25.880 --> 00:01:31.800 and they can't keep making a living on YouTube which I think is really sad, and really stupid, and a mistake. 00:01:31.800 --> 00:01:37.620 It's extremely frustrating not being able to reach your audience when my latest videos are being record low. 00:01:37.620 --> 00:01:38.660 Out of nowhere... 00:01:38.660 --> 00:01:43.720 And then you ask YouTube, "Hey what is the problem here? Something's clearly changed." 00:01:43.720 --> 00:01:52.140 And they're basically saying, "No, we didn't change anything, there's been no algorithm change, it's you." 00:01:52.140 --> 00:01:56.960 and then I'm like, well it's not just me, it's so many YouTubers talking about this. 00:01:56.960 --> 00:01:58.620 I'm not crazy. 00:01:58.620 --> 00:02:04.420 JackSepticEye, the nicest person on the platform, he wouldn't be complaining about this just because he wants to complain. 00:02:04.420 --> 00:02:08.380 He's complaining because it's an actual problem, it's a real thing, YouTube. 00:02:08.380 --> 00:02:09.300 I promise. 00:02:09.300 --> 00:02:11.540 Now the thing is YouTube had a rough year. 00:02:11.540 --> 00:02:15.620 YouTubers noticed that complaining about YouTube gets you views. 00:02:15.620 --> 00:02:21.440 It's a topic that people like to know about, so I think people complain probably more than they should've. 00:02:21.440 --> 00:02:25.180 and I realize now that there is actual consequence to that, 00:02:25.180 --> 00:02:28.280 because now that there is an actual really important issue, 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:34.880 YouTube is kinda closing an eye to it thinking, "Well, they're just conspiring against us again, it's just one of those things." 00:02:34.880 --> 00:02:38.480 It's very concerning that they are not taking this seriously. 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:43.120 Now there's been so much confusion on what the problem is. 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:48.440 No one seems to know... I think I know what it is, so I am gonna try to explain it. 00:02:48.440 --> 00:02:51.640 On YouTube you hear a lot of times about subscribing. 00:02:51.640 --> 00:02:54.800 "Please subscribe to my channel, PewDiePie has 50 million." 00:02:54.800 --> 00:03:01.560 But YouTube has really been moving away from a subscription type based viewing experience for a long time. 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:03.880 They want you to watch other videos as well. 00:03:03.880 --> 00:03:07.340 So basically what they replace it with... is... let me show you. 00:03:07.340 --> 00:03:12.340 If you subscribe to someone and you watch their content, their videos will show up as recommended, 00:03:12.340 --> 00:03:17.360 or, in the suggested thing... suggestion majigger, 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:19.060 Now, most creators... 00:03:19.060 --> 00:03:22.100 I'm gonna use the word creator, I don't know what the f*** to call it, f***ing YouTubers. 00:03:22.100 --> 00:03:26.340 Most people on the platform get half of their views from these two things. 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:31.660 This doesn't matter if you're a small channel, or a big channel, okay? 00:03:32.100 --> 00:03:35.140 So, just to show an example on some statistics. 00:03:35.140 --> 00:03:40.240 Here you see that I get 30% of my views from suggested videos. 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:46.600 That is not counting Browse Featured, which is home page, which is 53%. 00:03:46.600 --> 00:03:49.620 Let's just ignore that for now, let's just focus on suggested. 00:03:49.620 --> 00:03:52.080 Because I know this is a lot to take in, okay? 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:55.700 Now, suggested views, I get 30% of my views from. 00:03:55.700 --> 00:03:58.400 That's what I noticed got cut off. 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:01.240 I noticed my views are dropping roughly that amount. 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:02.940 Now if you check an old video, 00:04:02.940 --> 00:04:06.360 oh look, I got 60% of my views from suggested videos. 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:08.200 This one is 62%. 00:04:08.200 --> 00:04:09.740 This one is 63%. 00:04:09.740 --> 00:04:12.380 These were videos that were uploaded in October. 00:04:12.380 --> 00:04:17.740 Now something 100% happened in November, alright? 00:04:17.740 --> 00:04:22.760 Because all of a sudden we've got suggested videos... 0.7%. 00:04:24.980 --> 00:04:25.820 What...? 00:04:25.820 --> 00:04:27.760 And it's not just one video. 00:04:27.760 --> 00:04:30.440 Look at this one... 0.2%. 00:04:30.440 --> 00:04:35.900 Now this is a video that I didn't make, it was an animator, Jae, who worked on this for like a month, 00:04:35.900 --> 00:04:38.420 and we share the ad revenue. 00:04:38.420 --> 00:04:42.400 and since this did so poorly compared to the other one. 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:45.200 So, seeing this, I'm like, what the f*** is going on. 00:04:45.200 --> 00:04:48.740 This is so clear that it is a problem, but YouTube is saying, 00:04:48.740 --> 00:04:54.200 "But Felix, it's not a problem because look, your suggest views are still 30%, 00:04:54.200 --> 00:04:57.480 even if you close in on the last 14 days, look. 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:01.460 Suggested videos, 32%, they went up! You should be thanking us!" 00:05:01.460 --> 00:05:07.520 So from now on, I am just going to put theories out there. Just, let that be clear. 00:05:07.520 --> 00:05:09.920 But, it's suggesting older videos. 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:12.160 It's something I noticed at least. 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:17.820 If you click on one of my newer videos, it is essentially suggesting ancient f***ing videos. 00:05:17.820 --> 00:05:19.980 Like videos I did 6 months ago... 00:05:19.980 --> 00:05:22.820 Which, you know what, it's a good idea, 00:05:22.820 --> 00:05:27.220 but you can't completely cut out the new ones putting them at 0.2%. 00:05:27.220 --> 00:05:33.220 Now what I think has happened is that these old videos have already qualified to be as suggested videos, 00:05:33.220 --> 00:05:36.820 but now, you need to qualify to show up as suggested videos, 00:05:36.820 --> 00:05:41.580 and what will qualify is essentially videos with really high click through rate. 00:05:41.580 --> 00:05:44.880 Like videos that people really want to click on really fast, 00:05:44.880 --> 00:05:48.440 and if you upload on a daily schedule, you're not gonna get that. 00:05:48.440 --> 00:05:52.460 Maybe if you upload weekly, you're not gonna get affected by this at all. 00:05:52.460 --> 00:05:53.540 Where are all the views then? 00:05:53.540 --> 00:05:57.780 Maybe if you haven't made it this far in the video, but you probably think, 00:05:57.780 --> 00:06:02.440 "Well, if PewDiePie is getting less views, that's good, I don't like that guy's content anyway. F*** that guy." 00:06:02.440 --> 00:06:04.440 Alright, I get it, you don't like PewDiePie, 00:06:04.440 --> 00:06:07.920 It's really nice that you have to point that out everytime. 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:12.880 You're just talking about PewDiePie every single article... you don't like PewDiePie. 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:14.860 That fine. I don't care. (cri ;-;) 00:06:14.860 --> 00:06:18.800 What I notice showing up instead, which you probably notice as well, 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:20.520 f***ing breast feed video. 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:23.000 This video got 61 million views... 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:26.520 All of a sudden people see giant a** f***ing t**s in the sidebar. 00:06:26.520 --> 00:06:28.840 and they're like, "Oh mama, I'm gonna click on that." 00:06:28.840 --> 00:06:31.780 Gets a lot of clicks, keeps getting suggested. 00:06:31.780 --> 00:06:35.880 I've seen porn show up in the suggested feed, which is just insane. 00:06:35.880 --> 00:06:38.620 How is that possible? Look, I'm watching gameplay. 00:06:38.620 --> 00:06:41.580 Gameplay, gameplay, gameplay, gameplay, PORN! 00:06:42.280 --> 00:06:43.500 F***ing porn! 00:06:43.500 --> 00:06:45.720 Look at this s***, 18+. 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.120 What the hell is happening to YouTube. 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:51.920 This f***ing s***, like 10 million views. 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:56.740 Bee movie memes, which you know, I can support but the rest just seems a bit like, 00:06:56.740 --> 00:06:59.800 is this really the content that we want on this website. 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:03.980 So it seems like it's more focused on viral videos, somehow. 00:07:03.980 --> 00:07:06.640 You need a really really strong video for it to show up. 00:07:06.880 --> 00:07:11.280 And it shows because I did the "I'm gonna delete me channel video." 00:07:11.280 --> 00:07:15.200 Which really did really well, and way more than I ever expected. 00:07:15.200 --> 00:07:19.480 It's like going from 0 to 100, I just want to find a middle ground, you know? 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:24.340 Now, I've spoken to YouTube and they've acknowledged that this is a problem, and it is weird 00:07:24.340 --> 00:07:25.740 how this has changed. 00:07:25.740 --> 00:07:30.240 They won't say if they did this intentionally or not, 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:34.460 I would like to give them the benefit of the doubt that this is just a glitch. 00:07:34.460 --> 00:07:40.400 and hopefully they work on fixing this as soon as possible, and that is why I am making this video; to strenthen that 00:07:40.400 --> 00:07:42.860 and making you guys know what the problem is. 00:07:42.860 --> 00:07:46.920 I really don't want to spread false rumors and I don't want people to get riled up, 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:50.300 I just want to keep pressing YouTube on fixing this one issue. 00:07:50.300 --> 00:07:54.260 There are more issues as well with subscription disappearing, 00:07:54.260 --> 00:07:57.880 but I think this is the main important one to focus on right now. 00:07:57.880 --> 00:08:01.380 I appreciate that YouTube is working on this and trying to fix this. 00:08:01.380 --> 00:08:05.600 because it doesn't only affect me, it affects everyone on YouTube. 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:10.420 I honestly thought YouTube was about what content the majority want to watch. 00:08:10.420 --> 00:08:14.000 but, it seems like it's becoming less and less of that. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:17.820 It's not about who you want to watch, it's about who's gonna yell the loudest. 00:08:17.820 --> 00:08:24.360 If this is all intentional and YouTube is focusing away from Creator based content and less personality based, 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:28.140 well then don't be surprised if personality starts leaving YouTube.