If anything actually manages to kill YouTube, it will be Hulu or something like it. There will come a time when people tire of shitty produced and written content. Either YouTube grows with it with a big all star roster that produces it’s own quality content that is very well written, very well executed, and decently produced content. Notice I said DECENT with the production. It doesn’t have to look like a studio film, but believe me, there will be a shift.

Notice vlogging dying down more? Pretty sure I said it would. Vlogging is a dime a dozen and will become the secondary form of internet entertainment. It is going to be the radio to produced content’s television.

I’m mostly just playing devil’s advocate here. Like you, the folks who watch my stuff aren’t the YT key demographic, and I don’t plan on trying to win over the 13 year olds any time soon.

I agree that most of success is persevering, but it’s also nice when your content outlet doesn’t make it more of a challenge.

The profanity thing doesn’t bug me. I think in my whole 90-some video history, the worst I’ve used on camera is “crap”. The only thing that really bugs me is that center frame issue. I enjoy the challenge of getting just the right shot to hit dead center, so this whole random frame thing is a little bit of a drag on my party. But even that isn’t a big deal.

Like you said, the best advice is to keep on producing content. That’s my plan as well.

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Careful there bud, your sarcasm is splattering all over the walls.

YouTube’s just trying to clean up the Most Viewed/Discussed pages for nice, safe, sterile, corporate-friendly content like your good friend Nalts makes.

Nalts will be on the top of those lists now, you should be happy for him.

I notice nothing different today. Still crappy sxephil videos in the top 10, loaded with profanity. I really have a feeling it’s going to be less severe than people think – in a similar way to almost every “restriction on our free speech” on YouTube in the past.

The reaction people are giving to this widespread, I find pretty childish. I see all over the net people getting outraged over a video site and the policies they are completely free to implement. It’s going to make things a bit harder, yes, but I really don’t see how it is going to be THAT much harder for people who aren’t already megastars. We don’t get thrown bones anyway.

The only way I would be honestly upset about this is if it was due to government intervention. THAT would make me shit angry bricks.

I hate to be “that guy” on this one, but come on. YouTube is a business now whether people want to accept it or not. They are going to make concessions and rules. Man up and adjust or stop making YouTube videos. True success is 99% perseverance, 1% luck.

I say fuck that 1%. I’m doing what I’ve always done, even before YouTube.

The only problem is that YouTube is making it difficult for you to reach that 20-40% who love your stuff. Random thumbnails, dropping people off the lists for profanity use. And 20% of the millions of folks who visit YouTube would still be a good number, but they can’t find the true talent anymore. That’s one of the reasons I just started a new program to feature the little guys on YouTube. Great talent aught to be seen, even if they don’t have a lot of subs, and YouTube is bent against them.

As long as I am still allowed to post that – even if it’s kept away from the full YT audience – I’m fine. I even feel that this is in some ways good, because I don’t make videos for kids. I don’t want kids watching my videos, either, unless they are being watched with a parent to explain what a kid might take literally and therefore incorrectly. I put morals into my videos, I think, but I honestly put them there because adults are idiots and don’t have common sense – and the ones that do enjoy the laughs at their expense.

I don’t expect to ever get on “today’s most viewed,” and I have planned around that. I an basically building a base of people who enjoy my stuff and share it with others. That is how I am doing better each month, because I have never had anything go viral quick enough to chart.

I make stuff that isn’t for 60-80% of YouTube’s audience and I’m well aware of that, and as long as I am allowed to keep doing what I’m doing, 18+ labels probably won’t hurt me. There will ALWAYS be a market for it, and this is why South Park is still on, still a hit, still doing very well with ad dollars, and has its creators in a 50 million dollar contract until 2015 with renewal options.

Yes, they are on later than the majority of tv audiences care to watch and have a reputation for being filthy, but people figure out ways to watch them.