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What I don't like with CC's is when they play only OP tanks also with only purple equipment and 16 or whatever crew skills. This isn't realistic for 99.9% of the viewers to do. What I do like is when they make videos explaining what they do, like choosing a good starting position and why they relocate during the battle, which enemies that are crucial to kill and so on. That's how you can actually learn something from them.
To be fair to them, in most cases they already have those tanks and equipment on their accounts since they've been playing for so long. At the end of the day, there is nothing that says they have to help people learn the game. It is nice when they do that though :)
Well if they play on their own accounts it's totally fine of course. I was talking about CC/press accounts. They don't have to help but I.E. Kajzoos video on in game settings is his fourth most viewed video ever so spreading some knowledge is good for themselves and the viewers. @@Iksta
I'm late to Iksta's video, but he makes an incredibly important point. As a content creator on another platform for over the last 11 years, I've gained a rather large following/community through my ability to story tell. It's an incredibly important skill to master. My content alone, which is crime and news reporting, isn't enough to attract AND KEEP new people. If you can take your community along with you on your content creator journey by keeping their attention through storytelling, even including them, you're golden. The WoT CC program? No clue, I only mod for one CR and his skills lay in providing viewers with a friendly place to hang out. I've seen the disparity between servers AND CC's game wide, it's mindboggling and I don't understand why WG'ing uses the current business model. They could gain so much by just using common sense, unfortunately, common sense isn't so common these days. Well done Iksta101.
Oh contrair. Efe X Videos were very good and were stories told by players they set the flavour of what was exciting in wot. The little Lol Traktor Video of a journey of friends losing themselves and finding them again Works Videos were for some part also not bad. The haydays of story videos where around 2014 to 2017 and that is happening for most games afterwards the decline towards fast food shit style of videos has taken over sadly.
"the haydays of story videos were around 2014 to 2017". No. Your term "story videos" is not the "storytelling" i am referring to. Even the current "fast-paced" "over-stimulating" youtube content of the current era, still expresses story telling. It's just wot that is constantly lagging behind.
This is why I won’t become a content creator. The content I want to create is only meant as a hobby for me and I don't want to get forced into creating content that I will not enjoy. The majority of content creators are of course not this because they have to make income so they can live. It is possible to do both, but in the CC program, you need to stay relevant as much as possible.
It's not so much "forced" to create content. Rather, all the program really provides is access to things to create content about. But yea, its definitely not anything that really makes a difference in the content you make. At the end of the day it provides an opportunity, the obligation is on the creator to take full advantage of that opportunity.
I don't know why Iyouxin is not a CC yet. He has a big enough community and has content for new, medium and veteran players at every level from noob to expert. He also experiments with various equipment and tries new positions and tactics all the time. I find him very entertaining and also very helpful. The existing CCs are quite boring as you mentioned in this video, same, same every day.
Yeah, he did something naughty years ago, he's a different person now. Everybody makes mistakes. He deserves the opportunity to get early access to new Tanks to play and experiment with and share with his community.@@Iksta
Glad you noticed ;) I was intentional with dropping a few concepts that people don't take advantage of. Would be extremely hypocritical of me to not put the effort in, while also citing an issue of complacency in content creation.
In the beginning, I wanted to enter WarGaming's CC program. I was lucky that they never responded, and it make me innovate and experiment with different style of videos. Thankfully, my audience is growing in a natural, healthy way. WarGaming can kiss my @r$e!
I rather enjoyed participating in the WoT CC programme. At the time, I think our ANZ/Asia handlers did their best to give us the means to self promote, but I would agree that compartmentalisation of the global business did tend to gatekeep access to a global audience and would definitely agree we could have benefited from some upskilling in the content creation space. Viewcount is obviously an important metric for selection and status within the programme, but right at Tier I we're talking about CC's who've made careers of it, and when people make careers of it then the motivations change completely. It becomes less about creating quality objective content and more about getting clicks and optimising for the algorithm, while viewing other CC's not as colleagues but competitors in business and threats to lifestyle. I feel that for some CC's internationally, this need for clicks and sensationalism has often resulted in a disingenuous content spread and it's quite easy to see through. I'll watch this space, although I suspect a return to content creation is an unlikely prospect (at least until the mid life crisis hits and I buy a tank 😅)
The sad part is - " It becomes less about creating quality objective content and more about getting clicks and optimising for the algorithm" - this doesnt apply to most of the CCs who have made a career out of it in wot - they still all put out relatively low effort content due to the issues highlighted at the start of the vid. Either way, I am glad you enjoyed the vid!
I completely understand why so many WOT , CC's leave the program............................CC expected to bend over backward for WOT with WG doing little to nothing for them other then u get a press account
WoT userbase is generally in the "older" side. Zoomer clickbait thumbnail soyfaces and caplocks text won't move this audience a lot. I've been a daily follower of RUclips CCs since 2018 and noticed the trend some of them are trying, yet they don't get any more views from those clickbait thumbnails. Kudos to QB for keeping it to minimum compared to like Skill or Dez. Or the smaller creators who just pull their clips from their Twitch channel to RUclips, there's a reason nobody cares about your RUclips channel. I believe that Chems is the one that puts the most effort in the video making. No matter how obnoxious the guy is he has the most unique and creative videos in the WoT community. Something handcrafted and not bulk order.
Clickbait and trends is 1 thing - but genuinely understanding what makes high quality content is an entirely different story. Keeping it minimal and avoiding understanding things that benefit the quality of content are 2 drastically different things, while i completely understand your viewpoint - a lot of ppl tend to mistake these 2 things as being the same. They aren't. Same can be said about "clickbait" and "sensationalism" - while there are crossovers, they arent the exact same thing, and understanding this difference is important to create the best possible content you can, out of respect to your audience. But I am totally onboard with everything else you mention! There is an argument to be made about QB only staying relevant due to the echo chambers that promote him and the fact that he has had a monopoly on wot audiences for a long time, but thats not worth getting into here, I will have a video coming out at some point within the next few months on why people should just trust what he says at face value becasue he makes a lot of errors in the things he says at times. However, nothing against the guy, I just wish he educated himself a bit more on content creation and learn how he could improve his own content further, like i said, for his audiences experience above anything else. I personally see not wanting to create the best you can as a disservice to your communities.
i know he's not niche, but i think why i go back to might jingles over most of the others is because he plays more than just wot lol. and like you said, i think he does well with the storyteller aspect you were talking about. i put his videos on background cuz its like have an uncle yap, calming but funny
Not quite the type of storytelling I am referring to - but yes, he definitely does better at entertaining his existing audience more than most creators ngl. It's why he can get away with posting whatever content he wants, and why his community love him. He built an actual connection with his audience by emotionally connecting with them, it's such a great thing to see when it happens!
Very well put video, topic covered in great detail. I personally share the same thoughts on content not being made for wide audience like big youtube creators have been doing for years now with various different sandboxy games.
A CC that actually tries to help the balance of the game would make alot of people happy. A CC that highlighted and tried to improve the MM would be such a big improvement. I think they dont want to offend the hand that feeds them. So the imbalanced MM is always ignored.
As a person that had bad experience with twich streamers overall CC of world of tanks very strongly advise to NOT comunicate or view that type of content, just to keep your sanity in check
@@Iksta Thanks for the update, I thought it was being done on purpose, a lot of other youtubers do it as well, I don't find it capturing my attention. Who knows, maybe other people like it.
@@ChargedPulsar nah dude, eekeeboo does it so much on the official channel, it genuinely makes it so hard to focus for me too - its one of the small things that bugged me about this edit but cameras kept over-heating so i just decided to run with it for the final take xD
You must not watch Claus kellerman he is a great storyteller. WoT hates him, I've never seen them promoting him once. But then again he doesn't promote buying T8 garbage 🗑️
If you think Claus is good at storytelling in a video, go educate yourself on what videography and content creation actually entails. You did not comprehend the "storytelling in terms of video structure," I am referring to. Claus is nothing but an act who preys on the lack of information and awareness the majority of his audience actually have about WG and WoT by putting out hot takes and rhetoric that he doesn't even believe. He's a showman who plays his audience like a fiddle. As for your claim about WG not supporting him, he is literally a CC and has access to CC discord channels where he can respond to WG when it comes to events and activities. He chooses not to, his lack of actual care is ever evident in the half-assed quality content he puts out. His viewers need to stop putting him on a pedestal.
no idea what you mean by w8s - but, this is pretty much my views on what the program is lacking to help create more diverse styles of content in wot, based on my experience both from being within the program, working for the company and learning about content creation externally.
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dude, you're so underrated. i didn't expect such high quality content in WoT, keep going
I appreciate your kind words!
Very thorough and the content of information is very well structured. Great job Iksta.
Thanks Seven!
What I don't like with CC's is when they play only OP tanks also with only purple equipment and 16 or whatever crew skills. This isn't realistic for 99.9% of the viewers to do. What I do like is when they make videos explaining what they do, like choosing a good starting position and why they relocate during the battle, which enemies that are crucial to kill and so on. That's how you can actually learn something from them.
To be fair to them, in most cases they already have those tanks and equipment on their accounts since they've been playing for so long.
At the end of the day, there is nothing that says they have to help people learn the game. It is nice when they do that though :)
Well if they play on their own accounts it's totally fine of course. I was talking about CC/press accounts. They don't have to help but I.E. Kajzoos video on in game settings is his fourth most viewed video ever so spreading some knowledge is good for themselves and the viewers. @@Iksta
@@menfaaanda oh yea 100% - I totally agree, it's defo much more beneficial to the wot community as a whole!
Even in this case there is tons of things to learn when watching them play.
@@znk0r Learning as a byproduct of them just posting highlights isnt't quite the point we are discussing.
I'm late to Iksta's video, but he makes an incredibly important point. As a content creator on another platform for over the last 11 years, I've gained a rather large following/community through my ability to story tell. It's an incredibly important skill to master. My content alone, which is crime and news reporting, isn't enough to attract AND KEEP new people. If you can take your community along with you on your content creator journey by keeping their attention through storytelling, even including them, you're golden. The WoT CC program? No clue, I only mod for one CR and his skills lay in providing viewers with a friendly place to hang out. I've seen the disparity between servers AND CC's game wide, it's mindboggling and I don't understand why WG'ing uses the current business model. They could gain so much by just using common sense, unfortunately, common sense isn't so common these days. Well done Iksta101.
Thank you for your kind words!
i thought this was from the official world of tanks channel at first because the camera quality is so good
Good lighting makes even low-budget camera's look good ;) Another aspect of content creation not a lot of wot creators utilise either.
Well to be fair, World of tanks is just not a good content creator game.
Partially true, but also it's primarily a lack of creativity from creators that's the issue.
Oh contrair.
Efe X Videos were very good and were stories told by players they set the flavour of what was exciting in wot.
The little Lol Traktor Video of a journey of friends losing themselves and finding them again
Works Videos were for some part also not bad.
The haydays of story videos where around 2014 to 2017 and that is happening for most games afterwards the decline towards fast food shit style of videos has taken over sadly.
"the haydays of story videos were around 2014 to 2017". No. Your term "story videos" is not the "storytelling" i am referring to. Even the current "fast-paced" "over-stimulating" youtube content of the current era, still expresses story telling. It's just wot that is constantly lagging behind.
This is why I won’t become a content creator. The content I want to create is only meant as a hobby for me and I don't want to get forced into creating content that I will not enjoy.
The majority of content creators are of course not this because they have to make income so they can live.
It is possible to do both, but in the CC program, you need to stay relevant as much as possible.
It's not so much "forced" to create content. Rather, all the program really provides is access to things to create content about. But yea, its definitely not anything that really makes a difference in the content you make. At the end of the day it provides an opportunity, the obligation is on the creator to take full advantage of that opportunity.
I don't know why Iyouxin is not a CC yet. He has a big enough community and has content for new, medium and veteran players at every level from noob to expert. He also experiments with various equipment and tries new positions and tactics all the time. I find him very entertaining and also very helpful. The existing CCs are quite boring as you mentioned in this video, same, same every day.
He is a CA. WG have said they have not made him a CC yet due to his history in the game.
Yeah, he did something naughty years ago, he's a different person now. Everybody makes mistakes. He deserves the opportunity to get early access to new Tanks to play and experiment with and share with his community.@@Iksta
Agreed - but yea, he has been a community ambassador for atleast a year now so he defo does get some access.
what is a ca? @@Iksta
@@mile_381 ruclips.net/video/G4sEG0BPuSQ/видео.htmlfeature=shared&t=99 - CA = Community Ambassador
The quality of the video light effects and plain speech got u a sub
Much appreciated!
The sheer amount of work you put into this video is astonishing 😮 Well done!
too kind.
Ngl great video and a lot of good pointers and also this video itself was perfect example of content wot has not seen yet 😅
Glad you noticed ;) I was intentional with dropping a few concepts that people don't take advantage of. Would be extremely hypocritical of me to not put the effort in, while also citing an issue of complacency in content creation.
In the beginning, I wanted to enter WarGaming's CC program. I was lucky that they never responded, and it make me innovate and experiment with different style of videos. Thankfully, my audience is growing in a natural, healthy way. WarGaming can kiss my @r$e!
I rather enjoyed participating in the WoT CC programme. At the time, I think our ANZ/Asia handlers did their best to give us the means to self promote, but I would agree that compartmentalisation of the global business did tend to gatekeep access to a global audience and would definitely agree we could have benefited from some upskilling in the content creation space.
Viewcount is obviously an important metric for selection and status within the programme, but right at Tier I we're talking about CC's who've made careers of it, and when people make careers of it then the motivations change completely. It becomes less about creating quality objective content and more about getting clicks and optimising for the algorithm, while viewing other CC's not as colleagues but competitors in business and threats to lifestyle. I feel that for some CC's internationally, this need for clicks and sensationalism has often resulted in a disingenuous content spread and it's quite easy to see through.
I'll watch this space, although I suspect a return to content creation is an unlikely prospect (at least until the mid life crisis hits and I buy a tank 😅)
The sad part is - " It becomes less about creating quality objective content and more about getting clicks and optimising for the algorithm" - this doesnt apply to most of the CCs who have made a career out of it in wot - they still all put out relatively low effort content due to the issues highlighted at the start of the vid. Either way, I am glad you enjoyed the vid!
I completely understand why so many WOT , CC's leave the program............................CC expected to bend over backward for WOT with WG doing little to nothing for them other then u get a press account
Wow Iksta, that was a fantastic video, well worth waiting for.
Glad you enjoyed Randall!
WoT userbase is generally in the "older" side. Zoomer clickbait thumbnail soyfaces and caplocks text won't move this audience a lot. I've been a daily follower of RUclips CCs since 2018 and noticed the trend some of them are trying, yet they don't get any more views from those clickbait thumbnails. Kudos to QB for keeping it to minimum compared to like Skill or Dez.
Or the smaller creators who just pull their clips from their Twitch channel to RUclips, there's a reason nobody cares about your RUclips channel.
I believe that Chems is the one that puts the most effort in the video making. No matter how obnoxious the guy is he has the most unique and creative videos in the WoT community. Something handcrafted and not bulk order.
Clickbait and trends is 1 thing - but genuinely understanding what makes high quality content is an entirely different story. Keeping it minimal and avoiding understanding things that benefit the quality of content are 2 drastically different things, while i completely understand your viewpoint - a lot of ppl tend to mistake these 2 things as being the same. They aren't. Same can be said about "clickbait" and "sensationalism" - while there are crossovers, they arent the exact same thing, and understanding this difference is important to create the best possible content you can, out of respect to your audience. But I am totally onboard with everything else you mention!
There is an argument to be made about QB only staying relevant due to the echo chambers that promote him and the fact that he has had a monopoly on wot audiences for a long time, but thats not worth getting into here, I will have a video coming out at some point within the next few months on why people should just trust what he says at face value becasue he makes a lot of errors in the things he says at times. However, nothing against the guy, I just wish he educated himself a bit more on content creation and learn how he could improve his own content further, like i said, for his audiences experience above anything else. I personally see not wanting to create the best you can as a disservice to your communities.
you really cooked with this holy
Thanks brother, i want to cook again, chefs need to stay in the kitchen right?
very professional video. Great work.
Glad you liked it!
i know he's not niche, but i think why i go back to might jingles over most of the others is because he plays more than just wot lol. and like you said, i think he does well with the storyteller aspect you were talking about. i put his videos on background cuz its like have an uncle yap, calming but funny
Not quite the type of storytelling I am referring to - but yes, he definitely does better at entertaining his existing audience more than most creators ngl. It's why he can get away with posting whatever content he wants, and why his community love him. He built an actual connection with his audience by emotionally connecting with them, it's such a great thing to see when it happens!
Very well put video, topic covered in great detail. I personally share the same thoughts on content not being made for wide audience like big youtube creators have been doing for years now with various different sandboxy games.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Waited so long for this.
Hope it was worth the wait
love the transparency 👍
Thank you, thank you!
I'm not even a CC I just love uploading how I "nerf" premium tanks >l:)
At the end of the day, the most important thing is that you enjoy and love making the content that you put out!
Yeah I do enjoy "NERF/DELETE" premium tanks for fun but I only played once a month because upload RUclips video is just a hobby not a job
nothing wrong with that
A CC that actually tries to help the balance of the game would make alot of people happy. A CC that highlighted and tried to improve the MM would be such a big improvement. I think they dont want to offend the hand that feeds them. So the imbalanced MM is always ignored.
No that's not it. CCs and Devs have no say in those matters. People often forget Devs have to do what their bosses tell them to do unfortunately.
Thanks Iksta, very interesting.
My pleasure!
good info shared
Thanks for watching
As a person that had bad experience with twich streamers overall CC of world of tanks
very strongly advise to NOT comunicate or view that type of content, just to keep your sanity in check
truth
Can't focus with the constantly right and left tilting head.
i apologise it was like 3am and the 10th take xD
@@Iksta Thanks for the update, I thought it was being done on purpose, a lot of other youtubers do it as well, I don't find it capturing my attention. Who knows, maybe other people like it.
@@ChargedPulsar nah dude, eekeeboo does it so much on the official channel, it genuinely makes it so hard to focus for me too - its one of the small things that bugged me about this edit but cameras kept over-heating so i just decided to run with it for the final take xD
@@Iksta I just checked eekeeboo, you are right :)
Give a person power then you see who they truly are
Its not a failure m8
Its a dizaster
truth! It was an absolute mess. I'm glad they made a few changes. But only time will tell if they continue making adjustments or not.
I miss sliphantom and oneandonly's contents
Oneandonly is a true OG 👑
I got clickbaited in before the video even went live
Welcome to the waiting party
You must not watch Claus kellerman he is a great storyteller. WoT hates him, I've never seen them promoting him once. But then again he doesn't promote buying T8 garbage 🗑️
If you think Claus is good at storytelling in a video, go educate yourself on what videography and content creation actually entails. You did not comprehend the "storytelling in terms of video structure," I am referring to. Claus is nothing but an act who preys on the lack of information and awareness the majority of his audience actually have about WG and WoT by putting out hot takes and rhetoric that he doesn't even believe. He's a showman who plays his audience like a fiddle. As for your claim about WG not supporting him, he is literally a CC and has access to CC discord channels where he can respond to WG when it comes to events and activities. He chooses not to, his lack of actual care is ever evident in the half-assed quality content he puts out. His viewers need to stop putting him on a pedestal.
Second
Where is First HUH
No Who's on first
this feels and sounds like how to improve ur w8s
no idea what you mean by w8s - but, this is pretty much my views on what the program is lacking to help create more diverse styles of content in wot, based on my experience both from being within the program, working for the company and learning about content creation externally.