DUDE CONGRATS ON THE SUCCESS my experiment was flawed for many reasons- I was impatient and was more focused on an entertaining video than an objectively accurate experiment- so I'm happy to see you perform it much better. Keep making video I believe you can make one of the great ones
Hey, youtuber from Brazil here who reached 1 million subs. Your video was recommended to me after I saw others about algorithm and youtube. I clicked out of curiosity, I stayed because your presentation was genuine and inspiring. There is no magic formula for being successful on RUclips, but I think being genuine helps a lot. I wish you the best!
There is many reasons why a video can explode, one of those is people liking a certain topic, and I find very interesting talking about the intros, EVEN THIS VIDEO!! you don't talk about "Ludwig" in the entire video, no, you talk about an experiment, and that's pretty interesting!!! Keeep it up JHX!! something that I can say with youtube is perseverance and experimenting is what makes the waters moves! Edit: and just to add to the pot, Ludwig is a smelly cheater
Have to agree. RUclips recommended you, but without a good thumbnail to peak my interest, I would never have even watched. 42k views in a single day is really impressive for a channel with less than 10k subs, so keep on grinding, I’m here supporting too now!
you earned your subs my man, i know how you have felt, it took me 7 years to make a single dollar on youtube, and i love seeing people not giving up on youtube!!
Lol i just uploaded some dmca content (attack on titan fights back in season 1) and it went over 1 million and 3 million views each vid before getting removed. Ez couple thousand bucks when ad revenue actually paid.
And proved exactly what everyone knows. Going viral one video gets you nothing lol. To make real consistent money you have to already have 100k+ subs, and much more consistent views. This is absolutely uck based and can take years until it "hits" just based on youtubes randomness.
@@OArchivesX Except going viral gives you extremely much higher chances to be able to get alot money from youtube than not going super viral. You get thousands / tens of thousands of subs and safe viewers for ur next videos. Even if its just a few hundret thats so much better than 0
Sad truth is that, one viral video can't guarantee your success. But you're already having your second quite successful video. Keep going and may the algorithm be with you.
@@peptobepto turns out ive watched your video before because it was recommended to me lol. but i will say that the main reason to me why you only have 1 standout video is because your uploads aren't consistent and kinda random, and not intensely made and edited like this video. you have to think what people want to watch nowadays based off your own interests.
@@ishrocc4489 yea I still upload like it’s 2008 lmao. Actually the first livestream I did after that vid got like 100 viewers all at once so I probably could have made something out of it.
I think the hardest part of youtube is keeping consistant in terms of content ideas and fanbase, while yes you can have viral videos it isn't guaranteed that all of your videos will become hits. You have to make things that will keep your viewers coming back, which can be very hard to do motivation (and insperation) wise.
Yup getting a hit video is super easy I have a 2nd yt channel with a vid and has 500k views and it's just me showing my desktop wallpaper and how I got it. keeping it consistent to have that specific view count is the hardest part if you want RUclips to be your job. otherwise it's a rough climb
and it's funny that you have a single vid in a channel with over 100k views be it a meme or whatnot then the rest of the vids are getting 200-300 views lmao
That is definitely 100% true. I got my channel kicked off with small momentum from being featured on another youtubers weekly Saturday video analysis where subscribers submitted cod gameplay as a case study on how to improve. I was featured 5-7 times, one of two people to be featured that many times in a year. I got 1000 subs from it, and maybe on average 100-300 viewers per video with a rare 600-1k video compared to
exactly, getting a viral video is completely to building a fanbase. if you get a video with 1 million videos, and 100k subscribers, but then each video onward only gets
Yeah engagement is the hardest part. A lot of people, mostly old ones, think content creation is easy without realizing how hard it is to maintain people's attention.
Hey! Congrats on the success mate! I was one of those who saw your video that popped off, and one of my mods informed me of this video which directly relates to a video I made so I wanted to give some thoughts due to having researched this a bit. At 1:32 you say "the algorithm did eventually pick it up" referring to Ludwig's video. This is true but unlike your video having this naturally occur, for Ludwig this was only because he promoted it on his main channel. After Mizkif watched the video, it got 2.5k useless views with no watch time and it was effectively dead. However, a few days later Ludwig mentioned on his podcast that the video existed, and that is what caused the spike of searches hitting it to 11k and boosting it in the algorithm. I have spoken to Ludwig and he claims he was unaware that he tainted his results, so when he made his video attributing this growth all to his 'method', it was merely in error. It was however an error he has done little to dissaude people on, and the video itself had many comments showcasing that they found it through the promotion he gave it so I question how he missed it. The main flaw of Ludwig's video is that it does take luck to succeed, because it takes luck to get "skill". You need to be in the right place at the right time to get the right information and to have the right variables to survive long enough to get it. It took MrBeast 5 years to grow succcessful, it took me a whole 6 years, hell it took Ludwig about as long. We were each passionate, driven people, but you do need things to coincidentally go your way and not everyone has half a decade of their lives to throw away on trying to become successful online. What most people need is an idea, a spark of inspiration that leads them to see an opening in the market, an idea that hasn't been capitalized on. Whether it be MrBeast saying he would be "trying random things" and stumbling onto spectacle videos, or me happening to see WitWix speedrunning GTA 5 and thinking "Maybe I can do that too". MrBeast once upon a time said "I think I might quit", and I almost had to quit for financial reasons. There were dozens of things that had to go just right for me to still be here, and not working as a counsellor in the public sector or something. People who grow successful here tend to be quite lucky already in the place that they happen to be in life, as not all life circumstances are really condusive to grinding RUclips. Saying "Luck isn't involved at all in succeeding on RUclips" is very different than saying "if you have sufficient skill you can make a successful video on a new channel". A person who has already succeeded as a surgeon, and has 20 years experience, is obviously going to have a much better chance at becoming a surgeon if they keep all that experience and re-enrol in university. That doesn't mean it doesn't require some luck to become a surgeon the first time round. Ludwig was relying on endless resources he only had because he had already succeeded, to make the channel and video he did. Starting from the ground floor and surviving long enough to get sufficient skill to make something good on RUclips is no easy feat, and there are endless things that can bump you off your path that you need to be lucky to dodge. But you can probably imagine how if you personally had Ludwig mentor you to make content, your chances of success would massively increase as it would in any field gaining a mentor who is a master of the craft. But not everyone is lucky enough to get a mentorship with Ludwig, as his new channel effectively recieved. RUclips constantly promotes small videos, even if the amount of space they give to them is limited relative to the size of the platform, and I have seen many small channels pop off or individual videos blow up. I actually keep a collection of them should I ever want to use them for a video. RUclips even now has particular places small videos tend to be shown (3rd down on the right side bar for example). RUclips has an invested interest in finding new talent, it is just a really hard thing to do given the insane amount of content that is uploaded. I just wish Ludwig hadn't wrapped testing the viability of new channels, in the very limited capacity he did, with philsophical claims about the nature of how success is achieved and I wish his original test was not done so very poorly. I guess the silver lining will always be inspirational stories like yours, but I suppose we will never know the portion of people who did exactly as you did but failed miserably. I do think, as you do, that a great video on a new channel can get somewhere. But I do know for certain that videos on already established channels are given far more reach than new ones, I have uploaded similar videos on a new channel and an established one and received a quarter of the views. The growth of the video isn't JUST about how good the video is. Ludwig found this out when he uploaded a MrBeast video to his channel, having it only recieve 12 million views when ANY video on MrBeast channel get 50+ million. Failing to succeed on RUclips shouldn't be reduced to a 'skill issue' nor should those who gained success be suggested to have only got their because they 'worked hard'. There are endless hard working talented people on this site who will just never be in the right place to make something algorithmically viable, but at least it does seem like RUclips does give people a chance to get somewhere.
@@sean2mush Ludwig is just a bigger defender of reaction content and him making a video responding to ludwigs video gaved him informations that let him say about him many intresting things. He didnt wanted to be "obsessed" we can say matt knows more about Ludwig than we all do. But Matt says good arguments on Ludwig video.
As a professional editor, I hope that one day my channel will peak out from obscurity. When I put more effort into videos, I usually pull way less views, but when I make a meme, it pops off. RUclips is wild, it's truly a game of luck, skill and timing. I remember I posted a looped video from the opening of chainsawman, and it ABSOLUTELY popped off. I did it just because in the moment I thought "hey, that's a funny little jig that animated dude is doing, people will probably love seeing it looped". I along with tons of others apparently thought the same thing, because after I posted it looped with a little bit of animation put into the visuals to spice it up, it blew up. I used that success to change my content from horror review, to general media review/ video essays on anime and media. They definetly got more views and attention, but not as much as the meme. I made a decent quality video essay on Joe Pera, posted it to Reddit and that also "blew up" at least as someone I wrote and edited myself. 50 likes was huge for me, even if it was one of my least intense edits. Moral of the story, RUclips is totally luck+skill+timing, and you've gotta roll those die each time hoping you'll strike it big, because a lot of the time, you don't.
Actually no.. here let me explain. Quality over quantity is always better. Lets take mark rober, lemmino, mr.beast. they spend alot of time making great videos also they only upload once per month. Once a few months. But that one video is made with the highest quality(time research) possible and most important it brings a topic that many people can talk. Like D.b Cooper or porch theft or "curing blind people". no luck requires. However, other side of the coin is if u just re-upload content then yeah its all luck base. Pick someone popular add them # and keywords and hope for the best.
@@MrBooonehey your video is nice. But heres where you could be bring more views add keywords and hashtags to the related topic your doing like #anime or just enter anime in the keywords, add something on description like a short summary this will also help. this way YT knows where to show ur vid.
@@Josh-dm8uw different people like different things that includes voices, topics, technical or entertainment videos, scripted or non-scripted videos, programming or playing etc
The LUCK seems to just be finding the chord that truly resonates with people. You were preparing for years until you found it and by then had the skill to take it home. Congrats. So well deserved.
At certain point skill becomes a second nature of things, and for those who haven't reached that level of skill it seems like it's luck. Like those kids calling you a hacker/luck in games.
Right, the chord that RESONATES with people... my thoughts exactly 5 years ago when I made my channel ... it's an interesting coincidence that you say that...and I read it...
I keep seeing it and I know it's true.. if you make quality videos that people want to watch, youtube's algorithm will eventually pick up increased metrics and snowball your content to success. it sometimes takes it a month to figure out it's got a good video that tracks well and people stick to, but statistically if your video is good it should always work. I have a lot of confidence in it. I genuinely think good videos can't hide, they will eventually be found if they're good enough for people to enjoy watching all the way through, and I think it's true here too. you just made a good video and that's why it worked.
I don't know. I mean it might be true in most cases, but there are at least a few channels around that make good quality content yet don't get many views.
Massive oversimplification. Your video also needs to be the right balance of generic vs. unique. If your videos are too different then you will not get picked up, you have to follow the crowd and the dominant style, if you try to do something different or try to do a different style of presentation, it will not track well
This is so specific to my experience that I'm surprised RUclips didn't recommend it a lot earlier. A little over a year ago, my channel was only for posting the occasional dumb gameplay clip and my subscribers were just a handful of my friends. Then I made what I considered to be a polished video that I put a lot of effort into, and it got a 38 views in the first day. It stayed pretty low until the fifth day, when it suddenly shot off (comparatively) and ended up with over 7k views in the first month. Even though I wasn't making barely anything else or promoting it. And I got a flood of the same kind of comments that they were surprised that quality videos could come from a channel with so few subs. While I haven't reached your level of success on here, I got back into it in the past month and have been consistently surprised by the response. Thanks for making this, and here's to your continued success.
Being viral isnt hard however having an audience who will continue watching you is hard. Ludwig video got viral but it meant nothing if people who viewed the video werent there to watch him.
yeah the whole informative video essay thing is souless it is the same format over and over. 1.guy explains topic 2. joke,bit 3.guy continues 4.joke/bit
@@csapomate7372 you sound like a typical hypocryte that has never went through anything in life before, if you have and youre behaving like this somethings up
keep crushing it mate. it's an amazing feeling to have viewers and subscribers behind you, who are there for your content specifically, and you definitely have a community like that in the making. I've been thinking about transitioning this channel into a sort of video essay channel, not quite sure if I'll have the time and energy to do it though, we'll see. but this vid gave me a bit of motivation, so thanks for that! good luck
@@piplupdabest i did tbf. but youtube fell off too. ever since shorts got introduced, the content I used to make isn't pushed to people in the recommended as much as it was before. that's why like 90% of similar meme channels either quit or changed niche. sad stuff.
Never heard of you at all before until this video. Is super inspiring to see you were right and you did get 1 Million Views on this video. Happy for you and best wishes for the future
I felt like Ludwig’s video ended up proving that RUclips growth was all about having money to pay other people rather than skill, but your video actually did what I had hoped Ludwig’s would. Great stuff!
Here's my opinion on that, he spent money for it, sure. And made it viral, if that virality is what eventually keeps that channel going then it's part of his skills. Sure he used money to pay someone to do a bunch of stuff, including mizkiff to react to the video. But Lud knows twitch react content spreads like wildfire, paying 50$ is a small cost, an investment to the channel even to hopefully bring in more clicks and view, which makes the algorithm notice that video, and thus recommends it more. Is it 100% organic? No, but the views are real. If you wanted to grow as fast as possible, having good content is one thing, good editing being a 2nd, but hoping to get lucky isn't going to be useful. Paying and hoping mizkiff would watch is a smaller hurdle in luck than hoping via word of mouth someone tells mizkiff to watch it. An ex Minecraft youtuber once said "It takes skills to grasp those luck."
All the money he really needed was paying for the promo to Miskif. It could've been a free comment but it just would've taken longer. It could've also been like 20 $. If you're ready to spend 1000 $ on an iPhone, why aren't you ready to invest 10, 20 or 50 $ in yourself. The other money he used was just because he couldn't use his own voice and he wanted to show that people don't necessarily need to spend a lot of time learning to edit to get a channel going.
My man, video essays are the peak of RUclips. If you have thoughts and can formulate them into neat words and good visuals that’s all you need to make it big on RUclips, it literally boils down to what do you think about and how good you are at communicating your thoughts. Also people love learning when they don’t know that they’re learning, so if you can teach someone something in a fun way they’re hooked
Yeah, I love learning and I love seeing hours of videos about random topics explained in an interesting way. You could talk about an obscure videogame's lore, student loans, city building, rare internet events of the past, I would see them all even if I know nothing about the subject. I watch videos about the history of a certain model of a toy, they make it interesting so I just watch.
Praying doesn't either, but people have been doing it for millennia. Placebos also technically do nothing, except that sometimes, they do. Keywords in files is probably a placebo, but if it makes the creator of the video more confident, it's still technically doing its job.
So damn ironic that this video actually hit over a million views, but I think it's brilliant and you deserve it. You've got a solid style and I think your channel is going places.
It really is wild what can happen with a little bit of inspiration and algo-magic huh? Of course there will be the people who only watch 1 or 2 topics that interest them and get bored, but I'm happy to be among the few who've watched every video on this channel. Whether it be touching on topics I knew a lot about, to ones I've been dying to hear more perspectives of, to things I never knew existed, I too am excited for what's to come in the future for you and this channel. Hope to see more soon, stay strong!
That's so cool man. I am happy for you. It's quite inspiring. Everything has a reason. It is all cause and effect. As long a you study yourself, what you create and the audience you will be able to replicate success. Just focusing on improving and believing that this is possible and the only thing that matters will create success.
@@a---------------yeah good marketing is just manipulation. It’s why celebs are in ads so much. Just to turn ur brain off and buy the product cause it’s someone you like
Congrats on your video blowing up man! I know what it's like to have your channel dying relying on a topic you don't enjoy anymore, but just keep trying new things, putting in quality, and you'll keep going farther!
Breaking free of a loop is the hardest thing a content creator can do. Being stuck to 1 game is the worst thing ever yet trying to switch will almost never succeed
when you said 'my channel was dead and the game that it was about' in the beginning of the video, I for some reason immediately thought it'd be about Krunker, I can't believe I was right HAHA
While I agree this to a degree, that we may just be seeing one succeeding channel out of perhaps countless tried-and-failed channels, I think it's also important to see that not everyone games the algorithm for "topics you think are niche but turns out not really", and that success still require constant upkeep to maintain (even if it is maintainable). But on the other hand, I suppose there is still a certain amount of luck involved in gaming the algorithm.
I mean, seems to me like this guy had a channel with a couple thousands of subs, he makes a new one and it manages to do the same. others have done the same, so I dont actually think its hard to prove
@@saiboT805d how many others? 3? 5? 10? 100? the thing is, no matter how many successful examples you see, you don't know if that is only a fraction of a fraction of ALL the people who attempted, including those who didn't succeed, cause you wouldn't even see the unsuccessful examples. this is called the survivorship bias. think of an old joke: this parachute has a rating of 5 stars! it must work 100% of the time! if you understand this joke, you understand my point.
@@WinderTP I 100% agree. like I said, I believe that it is near impossible to prove if it's skill or luck to go big, but I also believe that consistency is the key. If you upload a one-off video, even if it goes super viral, it wouldn't grow your channel much, as I've seen channels with a viral video but all other videos are only a few hundred views. on the other hand, if you keep your uploads consistently and keep them high-quality, you don't need a "viral" video, just a few normal good performing videos, to slowly grow your audience.
@@AsiccAP The thing is there are VERY few people who actually understand how social media and specifically RUclips work. There are a million behind the scenes things going on that could affect the performance of an entire channel. The difference between uploading an hour later or an hour earlier can be the difference between a 1k view video and a 100k view video. You can make a channel big without luck however a bit of luck can make a channel that would've gotten big either way big faster. At the end of the day the algorithm is something you can learn and we can see in people like Alpha Gaming, This video, Ludwig, etc that you can do it without any crazy luck.
One thing that also made ludwig's experiment flawed was that he talked about the channel on his podcast on two separate occasions and once more somewhere else iirc. This wasn't clarified in the final video and he talked about the views he got from people finding it through his podcasts as if they were genuine. Haven't fully watched the video yet but I'm glad you managed to make a seemingly genuine version of his experiment. Good job.
To be fair, I already had 4+ years of editing and voiceover experience with my old channel, which not everyone has. So you can't really just start youtube fresh without experience and just "make it right away."
@@jhxc64 yea I don't think that was really the point of his experiment anyway. It just proves that if you have the resources and knowledge you can make good content that gets noticed organically.
@@jhxc64 i do have to say that this is not a perfect experiment because of the experience form before and the fact u did mention it in your main channel witch did help it a little no matter how little it may have been the thing that kick started it, but i think it still proves a point as according to what u said your main channel was basically dead at that point in time anyway, but the success depends on the topic, skill, talent, experience etc.
He talked about it after the video already got the 1k views he wanted for the videos. He didn’t even mention those views of people searching for it from the yard. He only used the stat of recommended views which is algo recommended. So maybe the video had more videos than it should have, but his point was to get only 1k in a day and he did that.
Found this video today, after doing some research on how to give my videos on youtube the best chance of being seen. I'm completely new to this and the plethora of advice and "Things you need to do as a small channel to get views" is almost exasperating. Watching your essay on your experience really uplifted me a bit, looking at similar videos of the one I made from other channels who were smaller, I felt like I put a lot of work and effort into it and made something that is genuinely entertaining. I just may need to be a bit more patient it's only been a few days. Congrats on your newfound growth! You've encouraged me to stick to making videos that not only are quality and the best that i can do, but ones I enjoy making.
Watching this right before 1 million view and then hearing you mention that maybe this video will hit 1 million views at @8:23 is amazing. Being on the brink of hitting a goal that you set for yourself thinking that it may never been achievable must be a pretty wild feeling. Congrats to you!
Luck is very important to get your first viral video, but what makes a successful channel is the ability to capitalise on the luck and keep the ball rolling. You have certainly managed to do that with this video, and hopefully you are able to do it in the future
Exactly! It's important to acknowledge that luck isn't the only factor, it does take hard work and skill to be sure you'll capitalize on a lucky break if you eventually get one- but luck is still a major factor. Just like making it big in literally any industry.
Well, if the algorythm makes it so that the more people whatch ur video longer the more it shows it..... Its not luck to have a good tumbnail people click on
Seems like you have the winning combination. Starting and growing your channel is definitely the toughest part, but the thing is that you need to give viewers the content they want to see, the content they can't live without. Same like business owners give people products they need in their life. Also you have to stay hard working and consistent (and you should also use a little bit of Famester as well to make everything a lot easier). Good luck to everyone.
Being sincere when making YT videos is such an essential part of making good content in my opinion. Which is what you did, keep doing what you're doing man!
The absolute irony of this video hitting success has me in awe Given the topics presented in the video it actually hooked me in and made me want to watch more of what you have to offer. Hopefully this is a universal sentiment! Hell I even saw dark viper au in the comment section as well as sir pelo. It’s hitting a variety of people all of which are leaving impressed. I look forward to your future creations!
Came from that first video (obviously,) this already has half the likes it does views, that says it all man. It's really awesome to see someone grow from such a risk like that, especially after being locked in the grind for one specific genre or game for ages. Keep it up and I could absolutely see you becoming the next BobbyBroccoli, only for the internet instead of science... congrats overall man! great work and great content. Wholly deserved.
I used to watch Bobby broccoli from India and jokingly credited myself to boost his video in the algorithm and giving it a global reach when he only had few thousand subs at the time. But of course, his content is one of the best I have ever seen and the algorithm has done sort of "justice" there.
I watched your initial video without having any context of you or looking into your channel, it mostly came down to just me consuming content in my endless internet spiral. This video is pretty motivating and tells a really good story of how taking a risk like that pays off. I'm probably in a worse state as a creator myself with me just finding myself unable to create content, and when I do make stuff I feel it's garbage and private it the next day, leading to me never doing anything with any channels I have. I feel like this video somewhat gives me that little bit of hope in trying new things, that just a little bit of a risk can pay off. Also this video actually gained you even more respect from me considering you even make your own music for your content, like lemmino or something. I'm totally subscribing to your channel now, this is a fucking great video.
Came for the intros, stayed for the great videos that followed! I love your work and I appreciate your drive to keep making great videos(and not just on one single topic!)
Even after growing an audience and learning so much about how to make videos do better than others I still think RUclips requires luck to some degree. However it's 100% still more skill than luck but if you make good content you only ever have to get lucky once because the people who like your content will stay to see more.
I hope this gets 1 million views to show you can always improve, effort is never wasted, its not a once time success, but all your years that compile to create good storytelling. Only advice, stick to one specific topic, youtube loves picking an audience and content and serving the same to people!
i think his topic is going to be the internet… talking about things you didn’t know about before. the way i see it (which could be entirely wrong) the audience you gain that are return viewers (subscribers usually) are interested in an element of your videos that’s not necessarily the topic, it could be the style, or someone’s voice, or storytelling idk… but i think the point ludwig was trying (and in all honesty somewhat failed) to make is that one thing almost all viewers on the platform will value is quality. you don’t have so much of a chance without quality, you need something else to be special, but over 90% of successful channels thrive on what i’m sure we can agree on as the minimum standard of quality.
No I'm sorry but don't do that last part. Unless you're willing to dedicate your entire life to a single subject inside and out and forever always diversify your videos. There are way to many instances of channels dying overnight because the insane burnout of doing the same thing over and over again kills the content creator and when they finally DO decide to do variety none of their audience watches them because they come for the subject, not the person. He mentions it with his original channel.
This is cool, ur experience is similar to mine. I ran one of those reddit channels but in spanish a few years ago and the first videos I made I thought they were quite good considering the level at the time. I abandoned and returned to find the videos went "viral". I think theres so much content being uploaded to youtube, as long as theres an audience for the niche and the quality is good you are 60% on the way there
i havent even watched your previous viral video but i can say that your storytelling, editing, and just good topics are well deserving of many millions of views just from this video alone. I really hope to see this channel succeed and this video is already pulling views so who knows?
I can definitely relate to that same feeling you had with your old channel. Sometimes it feels like your restrained to only making one type of content even if you only are getting a few thousand views/subscribers, but it doesn't have to be that way! This has further motivated not only me but plenty others to not only step outside of their shell but ultimately pursue what you want :D
You simply sound like a genuine human, which is relaxing and enjoyable to listen to. You edit extremely well too. I think your thumbnails are really all that need help. They feel pretty weak and unintriguing, regardless of that you have it all figured out. Maybe hire someone to make them while you learn more yourself ?? I wish you great luck friend 🧡
This is one of the rare videos I watched from start till the end with rapt attention. Good job mate, you have a way of narrating when being yourself which just keeps us engaged. Love the content
Found this video from recommended, and I'm glad I did. I quickly went to check out your channel, watched your video on EmpLemon (also an amazing video), and am amazed at your storytelling & clean editing style. There's a reason why you've been picked up by the algorithm yet again, and I'm excited to follow your journey from here out! Keep up the amazing work!!
I am glad you are gaining traction to what would be an experimental channel! It had me thinking on what I could do for my own videos if I decide to upload anything. The simple yet interesting editing of your videos is what got me hooked and subscribed, as I was curious what next topic your future videos would cover.
this put a smile on my face. I've been stuck for ages. since I first got to youtube, and believe me, it was a long time ago, I wanted to have a youtube channel. I also watched that video and also got a funny feeling about it, even tho I really like Ludwig. But now, seeing someone actually follow those tips and succeding. its really awesome. I don want say its gonna make me go after my youtube channel, but it doesnt matter, one more person doing what they love and putting out in the world, is always a win. congrats dude!
Getting this video in my reccomended randomly, seeing 8t already having over 1 million views, And your audience growing, with me having intrest and subcribing after this first impression of you, and Ludwig having the pinned comment here, really makes this entire situation si winderfully poetic. Congrats dude, and good luck with 2024, I'm gonna go check out the rest of your content and probably subscribe now, as you seem very much in the vein of "people making high effort essays on very spesific unqiue topics they are interested in" I really love! :D
This hurts me to say, that I just got recommended this fantastic video, and I do feel like youtube doesn't really help smaller creators, but who am I to say? I also thought Lud's experiment was flawed, in ways that paying was key. You showed skill in ways that others can try this experiment and maybe, just maybe, we might see other creator rise with this sudden change of demonstration. Great video.
Gonna mark myself in the timeline... 730K!!!!!!! Dude congrats on the success and keep it going man!!! Keep striving for greatness!!! I've heard origin stories from so many streamers and a lot of them come back to either someone giving them the spotlight for a moment or them growing with a group of friends. Not many have been able to do it by themself. What you've done is amazing and inspiring to the other content creators out there!!!! Keep up the great work!!!!!!
there’s something so authentic about this video, and this channel. the editing is superb, and the topics are unique. you definitely got a new subscriber, and I hope this channel blows up soon cus it definitely deserves it!
Cool video, I definitely think there is a connection between time put into mastering the skill of making good videos and getting videos that hit, for example, you said you put a month into the first video and then a week into the second one and the first one did much better. I think any time single creators can keep up with creators that have entire production teams is cool.
Improving every upload is more freeing, more satisfying, and more rewarding, than aiming for higher and higher view counts. Good on ya for keeping with it!
I don’t know if anyone’s reading this. I actually started crying watching you describe your old channel and how it slowly died. It’s everything I experienced with my old channel from 2014 - 2022. It slowly died as well. I started doubting myself, my skills, my identity even. Amongst other hurdles in my life at the time I fell into depression. I didn’t want to think about coming up with a solution. So I deleted not only the channel, but my Google account. It surely helped in the short term. But I always felt that something was missing. Without a RUclips channel I wasn’t feeling confident, I wasn’t myself. Back to current day I‘m slowly recovering mentally and I‘m actively planning on starting from scratch. I know I have the skills and I know I can tell a good story. Thank you for the video 🙏
Ludwig has a really good perspective on this in my opinion. He isn’t naive enough to say that luck has no impact on success, but he’s said for a long time that you have to have the skill there for when luck eventually hits. It may not always hit for people when they need it, but it will likely eventually hit, and you just have to be ready for it
Love what you did here. Only seeing this in the feed now, but this seems so much more genuine. This is what most creators starting out need, a realistic view on what COULD happen and a reason to keep going. Both can work, throwing money at it is faster, but you did amazing well here.
I tend to skip through youtube videos often, watching the actual entertaining parts. This video had me interested from start to finish. The time and effort you put into making actual quality videos shows. Keep it up.
youve got to keep warming the room. people see one video get overnight success but they dont see the years of practice to produce something that COULD get viral. I know this is going to hit 1 million you are so inspiring!!!!
8:11 Foreshadowing is a narrative device in wich suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted. Next level writing skill! He even wrote his way to two viral videos!
I’ve noticed the channels with the best longevity are the one’s who’ve spent years building a back catologue with not many views but of good quality. Then one day one of these vids goes viral and the new subscribers have a ton of videos of good quality to dive into. These new viewers become loyal as long as the channel is consistent.
Great video dude! I recently felt the same way about Ludwig's experiment after seeing it recommended again. Glad to see a video like this get made from the viewer's perceptive and then evolve from not just talking about Lud the whole time. It's really inspiring! Keep up the quality work, I can't wait to see how big you make it!
Honestly, you're a quality content creator who needed a reset to use everything you learned in a valuable way, so glad you found it through this experiment.
This video is honestly a needed wake up call. I find myself in the current position that you were in on your last channel but to an even lower degree. Most of the views I get are from friends only and I have little to no interaction from viewers. This video has inspired me to try and change my outlook, attempt to further improve my skills and not just put out a video to get one out there. Thank you for sharing your experience. I will be taking this video to heart. Excellent video, wonderfully edited, and it looks so professional. I am jealous of your skills. Keep up the great work and best of luck!
This video is honestly great. I came in because I liked Ludwig's video but stayed because of your interesting storytelling. Wouldn't be suprised if this video will blow up too Edit: called it.
I edit videos for other people and seeing the videos grow so much is wild. I think what it comes down to is how well the research, editing, and presentation of the video to let the algorithm think "hey, this video is well made and is getting some traction. Let's bump it up a little.' and thankfully when it works, it works. My first video I edited for NewtC with the video on Prey (yes I will advertise it lol) and it passed a million views. And for some reason, that's one of the rarest videos on the channel we've worked on to reach that height. It's not all luck, but it might take at least a little to get going. The rest is up to you
This is awesome. Certain things like Ludwig's talk of keywords in file name are absolutely not true and meaningless. Also FWIW I think lower performance on some of your newer videos just has to do with more niche audiences (like Hitfilm). But this is going great and I'm stoked to watch this unfold.
Thank you for posting this. There are so many people struggling with the thought that luck hasn't been on their side while trying content creation. This video shows a realistic and objective look at something the average person that loves content creation can do and, at least for me, gave me the confidence to try again.
Feel pretty lucky to find your channel so early in it's lifespan, and I'm excited to see what you have to come up with in the future. You have genuinely interesting and well informed videos, and I truly wish you nothing but the best on your journey~ The only thing (as some others have pointed out) is that your thumbnails need a little work. Other than that, though, I feel your form of commentary is truly enjoyable to listen to. It's hard to describe the sort of feeling you get when you find a video like this, but lucky is all I can come up with for how I feel when I find a promising creator on the site. Your videos remind me of the old days of youtube where people were genuinely interested in just making content and didn't care about the money or having ulterior motives..So thank you so much for making this. Fucking legend.
man i am so happy for you and I am so glad that everyone else in the comments is too, this is what RUclips is about, community. As someone who has always been into content creation I understand the struggle, I’ve gone through many different channels, TikTok pages, and twitch accounts, hopefully I find my moment to shine one day just like you were fortunate enough to. Best of luck and wishes for your future success ❤❤❤
I have also had that video from Ludwig burned into my brain. Your success on your first video here actually inspired me to try the same. The video has been in the works for months now (Im switching from DaVinci to premier) but I think it might have some chance to catch a fraction of what you have. Also 7:33 💪
What I learned is that you just need to be consistent, never give up and learn all you can about making content. Quality, subject of the video and engagement are the things that gets you promoted.
Anyone else finds this oddly inspiring? With fingers twitching to try better that has nothing to do with RUclips or whatever? You got a knack for storytelling, no wonder you have built a tight community around your work over the years. So it probably is skill issue after all :) P.S. self-inflicted prophecy at the end is beautiful!
So glad you decided to make this! You have inspired me to start making content again, but actually put more effort and time into it. Not just taking a couple minutes to edit something and call it a day, like actually try and make it perfect. Keep doing what you’re doing! Hope you achieve your goal of getting millions of views!
I love seeing your passion for RUclips! Though it may or may not have been luck at first, you were the one who curated it to success! I know you have a bright future ahead of you man, keep it up! 🤙
This video's blown up pretty well already but I think it's gonna get REALLY popular really soon, I mean it's only been out 2 days! This is super high quality man, keep up the grind! Edit: pretty sure this had 87k or something and now it has 91k. A few minutes later. Dang yeah this is blowing up!
This is a very great video, seeing you not giving up after the bad period on your original channel to then rebirth from the ashes like a phoneix is inspiring in many way, keep up the good work.
DUDE CONGRATS ON THE SUCCESS
my experiment was flawed for many reasons- I was impatient and was more focused on an entertaining video than an objectively accurate experiment- so I'm happy to see you perform it much better. Keep making video I believe you can make one of the great ones
hi ludwig
booba
Hi lud
this guy....
i know your involved in the CIA psyop with “Schlatt”
"Maybe THIS video will get a million views." This statement aged like a fine wine.
agreed
1,381,529 views at the time of this comment.
1,385,626 views at the time of writing this@@GalaxyTreeMusic
1,4 m@@GalaxyTreeMusic
bro LITERALLYYY
I smiled a lot when he said that this video might not get 1 million views, and then seeing it had gotten a million views. Congrats so much!!!
Yeah, just found this video and from perspective of 1 million of people under it it's funny to watch
same lol
not only 1million but 1.5mil, was really cool indeed
1.9!!!
@@colerichardson6739 2.03 Million now
"Maybe THIS video will get a million views someday" with the "he was right." thumbnail in the background is so funny lol
And he's got 1.4M rn
1.5m rn
1.8m rn
2m rn
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Hey, youtuber from Brazil here who reached 1 million subs. Your video was recommended to me after I saw others about algorithm and youtube. I clicked out of curiosity, I stayed because your presentation was genuine and inspiring. There is no magic formula for being successful on RUclips, but I think being genuine helps a lot. I wish you the best!
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There is many reasons why a video can explode, one of those is people liking a certain topic, and I find very interesting talking about the intros, EVEN THIS VIDEO!! you don't talk about "Ludwig" in the entire video, no, you talk about an experiment, and that's pretty interesting!!!
Keeep it up JHX!! something that I can say with youtube is perseverance and experimenting is what makes the waters moves!
Edit: and just to add to the pot, Ludwig is a smelly cheater
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Have to agree. RUclips recommended you, but without a good thumbnail to peak my interest, I would never have even watched. 42k views in a single day is really impressive for a channel with less than 10k subs, so keep on grinding, I’m here supporting too now!
Hi Mokey
you earned your subs my man, i know how you have felt, it took me 7 years to make a single dollar on youtube, and i love seeing people not giving up on youtube!!
Looking at your subs now motivates me, been around 4years and still on my way to 1000 subs. Thanks for the motivation
That’s rough. Ot took me 2 years (not this channel). I still only make $10 per month haha
What’s the channel name then lmao
Lol i just uploaded some dmca content (attack on titan fights back in season 1) and it went over 1 million and 3 million views each vid before getting removed. Ez couple thousand bucks when ad revenue actually paid.
fuck fuck it im coming back they're not gonna take everything from me not again
8:29 Little did he know, this video did in fact get 1 million views.
And proved exactly what everyone knows. Going viral one video gets you nothing lol. To make real consistent money you have to already have 100k+ subs, and much more consistent views. This is absolutely uck based and can take years until it "hits" just based on youtubes randomness.
This luck is purely in your control though. Just do interesting things and if you are really bad at it you will pop off in a year @@OArchivesX
@@OArchivesX Except going viral gives you extremely much higher chances to be able to get alot money from youtube than not going super viral. You get thousands / tens of thousands of subs and safe viewers for ur next videos. Even if its just a few hundret thats so much better than 0
@@OArchivesX true
Sad truth is that, one viral video can't guarantee your success. But you're already having your second quite successful video.
Keep going and may the algorithm be with you.
yeah it has now surpassed the intro video
I can speak to that. A vid of mine got 2 million views but now I can’t even push 50
@@peptobepto turns out ive watched your video before because it was recommended to me lol. but i will say that the main reason to me why you only have 1 standout video is because your uploads aren't consistent and kinda random, and not intensely made and edited like this video. you have to think what people want to watch nowadays based off your own interests.
@@ishrocc4489 yea I still upload like it’s 2008 lmao. Actually the first livestream I did after that vid got like 100 viewers all at once so I probably could have made something out of it.
@@peptobepto truee honestly
I think the hardest part of youtube is keeping consistant in terms of content ideas and fanbase, while yes you can have viral videos it isn't guaranteed that all of your videos will become hits. You have to make things that will keep your viewers coming back, which can be very hard to do motivation (and insperation) wise.
Yup getting a hit video is super easy I have a 2nd yt channel with a vid and has 500k views and it's just me showing my desktop wallpaper and how I got it.
keeping it consistent to have that specific view count is the hardest part if you want RUclips to be your job. otherwise it's a rough climb
and it's funny that you have a single vid in a channel with over 100k views be it a meme or whatnot then the rest of the vids are getting 200-300 views lmao
That is definitely 100% true. I got my channel kicked off with small momentum from being featured on another youtubers weekly Saturday video analysis where subscribers submitted cod gameplay as a case study on how to improve. I was featured 5-7 times, one of two people to be featured that many times in a year.
I got 1000 subs from it, and maybe on average 100-300 viewers per video with a rare 600-1k video compared to
exactly, getting a viral video is completely to building a fanbase.
if you get a video with 1 million videos, and 100k subscribers, but then each video onward only gets
Yeah engagement is the hardest part. A lot of people, mostly old ones, think content creation is easy without realizing how hard it is to maintain people's attention.
Hey! Congrats on the success mate!
I was one of those who saw your video that popped off, and one of my mods informed me of this video which directly relates to a video I made so I wanted to give some thoughts due to having researched this a bit.
At 1:32 you say "the algorithm did eventually pick it up" referring to Ludwig's video. This is true but unlike your video having this naturally occur, for Ludwig this was only because he promoted it on his main channel. After Mizkif watched the video, it got 2.5k useless views with no watch time and it was effectively dead. However, a few days later Ludwig mentioned on his podcast that the video existed, and that is what caused the spike of searches hitting it to 11k and boosting it in the algorithm. I have spoken to Ludwig and he claims he was unaware that he tainted his results, so when he made his video attributing this growth all to his 'method', it was merely in error. It was however an error he has done little to dissaude people on, and the video itself had many comments showcasing that they found it through the promotion he gave it so I question how he missed it.
The main flaw of Ludwig's video is that it does take luck to succeed, because it takes luck to get "skill". You need to be in the right place at the right time to get the right information and to have the right variables to survive long enough to get it. It took MrBeast 5 years to grow succcessful, it took me a whole 6 years, hell it took Ludwig about as long. We were each passionate, driven people, but you do need things to coincidentally go your way and not everyone has half a decade of their lives to throw away on trying to become successful online. What most people need is an idea, a spark of inspiration that leads them to see an opening in the market, an idea that hasn't been capitalized on. Whether it be MrBeast saying he would be "trying random things" and stumbling onto spectacle videos, or me happening to see WitWix speedrunning GTA 5 and thinking "Maybe I can do that too". MrBeast once upon a time said "I think I might quit", and I almost had to quit for financial reasons. There were dozens of things that had to go just right for me to still be here, and not working as a counsellor in the public sector or something.
People who grow successful here tend to be quite lucky already in the place that they happen to be in life, as not all life circumstances are really condusive to grinding RUclips. Saying "Luck isn't involved at all in succeeding on RUclips" is very different than saying "if you have sufficient skill you can make a successful video on a new channel". A person who has already succeeded as a surgeon, and has 20 years experience, is obviously going to have a much better chance at becoming a surgeon if they keep all that experience and re-enrol in university. That doesn't mean it doesn't require some luck to become a surgeon the first time round. Ludwig was relying on endless resources he only had because he had already succeeded, to make the channel and video he did. Starting from the ground floor and surviving long enough to get sufficient skill to make something good on RUclips is no easy feat, and there are endless things that can bump you off your path that you need to be lucky to dodge. But you can probably imagine how if you personally had Ludwig mentor you to make content, your chances of success would massively increase as it would in any field gaining a mentor who is a master of the craft. But not everyone is lucky enough to get a mentorship with Ludwig, as his new channel effectively recieved.
RUclips constantly promotes small videos, even if the amount of space they give to them is limited relative to the size of the platform, and I have seen many small channels pop off or individual videos blow up. I actually keep a collection of them should I ever want to use them for a video. RUclips even now has particular places small videos tend to be shown (3rd down on the right side bar for example). RUclips has an invested interest in finding new talent, it is just a really hard thing to do given the insane amount of content that is uploaded. I just wish Ludwig hadn't wrapped testing the viability of new channels, in the very limited capacity he did, with philsophical claims about the nature of how success is achieved and I wish his original test was not done so very poorly. I guess the silver lining will always be inspirational stories like yours, but I suppose we will never know the portion of people who did exactly as you did but failed miserably. I do think, as you do, that a great video on a new channel can get somewhere. But I do know for certain that videos on already established channels are given far more reach than new ones, I have uploaded similar videos on a new channel and an established one and received a quarter of the views. The growth of the video isn't JUST about how good the video is. Ludwig found this out when he uploaded a MrBeast video to his channel, having it only recieve 12 million views when ANY video on MrBeast channel get 50+ million. Failing to succeed on RUclips shouldn't be reduced to a 'skill issue' nor should those who gained success be suggested to have only got their because they 'worked hard'. There are endless hard working talented people on this site who will just never be in the right place to make something algorithmically viable, but at least it does seem like RUclips does give people a chance to get somewhere.
i was about to send the video to you lol
You're obsessed with Ludwig.
@@sean2mush Ludwig is just a bigger defender of reaction content and him making a video responding to ludwigs video gaved him informations that let him say about him many intresting things. He didnt wanted to be "obsessed" we can say matt knows more about Ludwig than we all do. But Matt says good arguments on Ludwig video.
@@sean2mush You don't have to be "obsessed" with someone to try to stop missinformation.
I like your take on it DarkViper, I'm currently in that no views creator area and I'll be keeping in mind everything you've said!
Happy for you! Nice to see this video blow up and hit those 1 million views.
This video proves that there's absolutely an intersection of luck and skill. You're damn skilled at editing and making videos. Keep it up :)
As a professional editor, I hope that one day my channel will peak out from obscurity. When I put more effort into videos, I usually pull way less views, but when I make a meme, it pops off. RUclips is wild, it's truly a game of luck, skill and timing. I remember I posted a looped video from the opening of chainsawman, and it ABSOLUTELY popped off. I did it just because in the moment I thought "hey, that's a funny little jig that animated dude is doing, people will probably love seeing it looped". I along with tons of others apparently thought the same thing, because after I posted it looped with a little bit of animation put into the visuals to spice it up, it blew up. I used that success to change my content from horror review, to general media review/ video essays on anime and media. They definetly got more views and attention, but not as much as the meme. I made a decent quality video essay on Joe Pera, posted it to Reddit and that also "blew up" at least as someone I wrote and edited myself. 50 likes was huge for me, even if it was one of my least intense edits. Moral of the story, RUclips is totally luck+skill+timing, and you've gotta roll those die each time hoping you'll strike it big, because a lot of the time, you don't.
Actually no.. here let me explain. Quality over quantity is always better. Lets take mark rober, lemmino, mr.beast. they spend alot of time making great videos also they only upload once per month. Once a few months. But that one video is made with the highest quality(time research) possible and most important it brings a topic that many people can talk. Like D.b Cooper or porch theft or "curing blind people".
no luck requires. However, other side of the coin is if u just re-upload content then yeah its all luck base. Pick someone popular add them # and keywords and hope for the best.
@@MrBooonehey your video is nice. But heres where you could be bring more views add keywords and hashtags to the related topic your doing like #anime or just enter anime in the keywords, add something on description like a short summary this will also help. this way YT knows where to show ur vid.
@@MrBooone exactly - the luck+skill+timing perfect alignment is waiting for u bro
@@germany2546 Actually no..
We'll see this guy again in 2024 when he's chilling with 1 million subscribers
Ok
With his skills it may be possible
Ok
thats only in 5 months. thats not alot of time especially when you look at how he doesn't upload often
lol
I can't imagine this channel not growing bit sometime in the future. The editings too good and the content is super watchable
not really. his voice is annoying
@@Josh-dm8uw
@@Josh-dm8uwfax
@@Josh-dm8uw different people like different things that includes voices, topics, technical or entertainment videos, scripted or non-scripted videos, programming or playing etc
@@Josh-dm8uw keep thoughts like that to yourself
This hit my algo, awesome video man. Got me thinking a lot!
The LUCK seems to just be finding the chord that truly resonates with people. You were preparing for years until you found it and by then had the skill to take it home. Congrats. So well deserved.
At certain point skill becomes a second nature of things, and for those who haven't reached that level of skill it seems like it's luck.
Like those kids calling you a hacker/luck in games.
@@toobig7150"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity"
- Marcus Aurelius
@@toobig7150What the fuck is bro on about
Right, the chord that RESONATES with people... my thoughts exactly 5 years ago when I made my channel ... it's an interesting coincidence that you say that...and I read it...
My farts are better than JHXC64’s farts 💨
I never fucking noticed, YOU made the music?
Holy shit, that's sick. Doing absolutely everything for the video, even the music
I JUST NOTICED THAT TOO, ITS SO GOOD
I keep seeing it and I know it's true.. if you make quality videos that people want to watch, youtube's algorithm will eventually pick up increased metrics and snowball your content to success. it sometimes takes it a month to figure out it's got a good video that tracks well and people stick to, but statistically if your video is good it should always work. I have a lot of confidence in it. I genuinely think good videos can't hide, they will eventually be found if they're good enough for people to enjoy watching all the way through, and I think it's true here too. you just made a good video and that's why it worked.
Hi backhopping guy
I don't know. I mean it might be true in most cases, but there are at least a few channels around that make good quality content yet don't get many views.
Massive oversimplification. Your video also needs to be the right balance of generic vs. unique. If your videos are too different then you will not get picked up, you have to follow the crowd and the dominant style, if you try to do something different or try to do a different style of presentation, it will not track well
@jimpickensrulez cope.
bugs and glitches in half life 3 when?
Congrats reaching a million, really awesome content and love the drive for an objective experiment. Keep up the great work!
This is so specific to my experience that I'm surprised RUclips didn't recommend it a lot earlier. A little over a year ago, my channel was only for posting the occasional dumb gameplay clip and my subscribers were just a handful of my friends. Then I made what I considered to be a polished video that I put a lot of effort into, and it got a 38 views in the first day. It stayed pretty low until the fifth day, when it suddenly shot off (comparatively) and ended up with over 7k views in the first month. Even though I wasn't making barely anything else or promoting it. And I got a flood of the same kind of comments that they were surprised that quality videos could come from a channel with so few subs.
While I haven't reached your level of success on here, I got back into it in the past month and have been consistently surprised by the response. Thanks for making this, and here's to your continued success.
Wish you success I'm gonna keep improving and make better videos and hopefully get there 1 day
Being viral isnt hard however having an audience who will continue watching you is hard. Ludwig video got viral but it meant nothing if people who viewed the video werent there to watch him.
tbf, that's something you have to grow yourself and it's not something he can focus on for months for one main vid
yeah the whole informative video essay thing is souless it is the same format over and over. 1.guy explains topic 2. joke,bit 3.guy continues 4.joke/bit
Survivorship bias
@@csapomate7372 you sound like a typical hypocryte that has never went through anything in life before, if you have and youre behaving like this somethings up
@@csapomate7372most of the time the jokes suck. I can’t tell those channels apart so I actively choose not to sub to those channels
keep crushing it mate. it's an amazing feeling to have viewers and subscribers behind you, who are there for your content specifically, and you definitely have a community like that in the making. I've been thinking about transitioning this channel into a sort of video essay channel, not quite sure if I'll have the time and energy to do it though, we'll see. but this vid gave me a bit of motivation, so thanks for that! good luck
Dam u really fell off fr
@@piplupdabest i did tbf. but youtube fell off too. ever since shorts got introduced, the content I used to make isn't pushed to people in the recommended as much as it was before. that's why like 90% of similar meme channels either quit or changed niche. sad stuff.
Never heard of you at all before until this video. Is super inspiring to see you were right and you did get 1 Million Views on this video. Happy for you and best wishes for the future
I felt like Ludwig’s video ended up proving that RUclips growth was all about having money to pay other people rather than skill, but your video actually did what I had hoped Ludwig’s would. Great stuff!
Here's my opinion on that, he spent money for it, sure. And made it viral, if that virality is what eventually keeps that channel going then it's part of his skills. Sure he used money to pay someone to do a bunch of stuff, including mizkiff to react to the video. But Lud knows twitch react content spreads like wildfire, paying 50$ is a small cost, an investment to the channel even to hopefully bring in more clicks and view, which makes the algorithm notice that video, and thus recommends it more. Is it 100% organic? No, but the views are real. If you wanted to grow as fast as possible, having good content is one thing, good editing being a 2nd, but hoping to get lucky isn't going to be useful. Paying and hoping mizkiff would watch is a smaller hurdle in luck than hoping via word of mouth someone tells mizkiff to watch it.
An ex Minecraft youtuber once said "It takes skills to grasp those luck."
@@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong Techno never dies
All the money he really needed was paying for the promo to Miskif. It could've been a free comment but it just would've taken longer.
It could've also been like 20 $.
If you're ready to spend 1000 $ on an iPhone, why aren't you ready to invest 10, 20 or 50 $ in yourself.
The other money he used was just because he couldn't use his own voice and he wanted to show that people don't necessarily need to spend a lot of time learning to edit to get a channel going.
My man, video essays are the peak of RUclips. If you have thoughts and can formulate them into neat words and good visuals that’s all you need to make it big on RUclips, it literally boils down to what do you think about and how good you are at communicating your thoughts. Also people love learning when they don’t know that they’re learning, so if you can teach someone something in a fun way they’re hooked
No they are the decline of youtube, they are a soulless appeal to the algorithm with nothing unique or substantial about them
Yeah, I love learning and I love seeing hours of videos about random topics explained in an interesting way. You could talk about an obscure videogame's lore, student loans, city building, rare internet events of the past, I would see them all even if I know nothing about the subject. I watch videos about the history of a certain model of a toy, they make it interesting so I just watch.
My farts are better than JHXC64’s farts 💨
Video Essays have definitely gone downhill. Everyone makes them, and some people have horrible opinions.
Putting keywords in the file name doesn't do anything, this was a myth from 10 years ago, just letting you know.
Praying doesn't either, but people have been doing it for millennia. Placebos also technically do nothing, except that sometimes, they do. Keywords in files is probably a placebo, but if it makes the creator of the video more confident, it's still technically doing its job.
@@lanmandragoran8337 bro really?
@@lanmandragoran8337 what?🗣🗣🗣
what yes it does. it improves SEO value. there's image file naming conventions for a reason
@@lanmandragoran8337 well guess what a lot of people including me dont think that praying is a Placebo
So damn ironic that this video actually hit over a million views, but I think it's brilliant and you deserve it. You've got a solid style and I think your channel is going places.
It really is wild what can happen with a little bit of inspiration and algo-magic huh? Of course there will be the people who only watch 1 or 2 topics that interest them and get bored, but I'm happy to be among the few who've watched every video on this channel. Whether it be touching on topics I knew a lot about, to ones I've been dying to hear more perspectives of, to things I never knew existed, I too am excited for what's to come in the future for you and this channel. Hope to see more soon, stay strong!
That's so cool man. I am happy for you. It's quite inspiring.
Everything has a reason. It is all cause and effect. As long a you study yourself, what you create and the audience you will be able to replicate success. Just focusing on improving and believing that this is possible and the only thing that matters will create success.
This is lowkey hilarious to me ngl. People realising understanding an algorithm and branding/marketing and editing in favor of that is a skill
literally all you need to know is how to manipulate someone into clicking something, aside from making good content as well obviously
Yeah this is simply copywriting.
@@a---------------yeah good marketing is just manipulation. It’s why celebs are in ads so much. Just to turn ur brain off and buy the product cause it’s someone you like
My farts are better than JHXC64’s farts 💨
@@p-__ prove it 👀
Congrats on your video blowing up man! I know what it's like to have your channel dying relying on a topic you don't enjoy anymore, but just keep trying new things, putting in quality, and you'll keep going farther!
Breaking free of a loop is the hardest thing a content creator can do. Being stuck to 1 game is the worst thing ever yet trying to switch will almost never succeed
real.
its a good thing your also not confining yourself within gd
My farts are better than JHXC64’s farts 💨
crazy seeing you here
when you said 'my channel was dead and the game that it was about' in the beginning of the video, I for some reason immediately thought it'd be about Krunker, I can't believe I was right HAHA
Here before this video gets 1M views!!!
@Official_JPstuff i mean... its worth a shot
Same it’s only at 800 views rn
Here before 1000 views
Here before 1m !!
I am here before a thousand views
what i believe is that its hard if not impossible to "prove" going viral is not luck. Its the simplest illustration of survivorship bias
While I agree this to a degree, that we may just be seeing one succeeding channel out of perhaps countless tried-and-failed channels, I think it's also important to see that not everyone games the algorithm for "topics you think are niche but turns out not really", and that success still require constant upkeep to maintain (even if it is maintainable). But on the other hand, I suppose there is still a certain amount of luck involved in gaming the algorithm.
I mean, seems to me like this guy had a channel with a couple thousands of subs, he makes a new one and it manages to do the same.
others have done the same, so I dont actually think its hard to prove
@@saiboT805d how many others? 3? 5? 10? 100? the thing is, no matter how many successful examples you see, you don't know if that is only a fraction of a fraction of ALL the people who attempted, including those who didn't succeed, cause you wouldn't even see the unsuccessful examples. this is called the survivorship bias.
think of an old joke: this parachute has a rating of 5 stars! it must work 100% of the time! if you understand this joke, you understand my point.
@@WinderTP I 100% agree. like I said, I believe that it is near impossible to prove if it's skill or luck to go big, but I also believe that consistency is the key. If you upload a one-off video, even if it goes super viral, it wouldn't grow your channel much, as I've seen channels with a viral video but all other videos are only a few hundred views. on the other hand, if you keep your uploads consistently and keep them high-quality, you don't need a "viral" video, just a few normal good performing videos, to slowly grow your audience.
@@AsiccAP The thing is there are VERY few people who actually understand how social media and specifically RUclips work. There are a million behind the scenes things going on that could affect the performance of an entire channel. The difference between uploading an hour later or an hour earlier can be the difference between a 1k view video and a 100k view video. You can make a channel big without luck however a bit of luck can make a channel that would've gotten big either way big faster. At the end of the day the algorithm is something you can learn and we can see in people like Alpha Gaming, This video, Ludwig, etc that you can do it without any crazy luck.
One thing that also made ludwig's experiment flawed was that he talked about the channel on his podcast on two separate occasions and once more somewhere else iirc. This wasn't clarified in the final video and he talked about the views he got from people finding it through his podcasts as if they were genuine. Haven't fully watched the video yet but I'm glad you managed to make a seemingly genuine version of his experiment. Good job.
To be fair, I already had 4+ years of editing and voiceover experience with my old channel, which not everyone has. So you can't really just start youtube fresh without experience and just "make it right away."
@@jhxc64 yea I don't think that was really the point of his experiment anyway. It just proves that if you have the resources and knowledge you can make good content that gets noticed organically.
@@jhxc64 i do have to say that this is not a perfect experiment because of the experience form before and the fact u did mention it in your main channel witch did help it a little no matter how little it may have been the thing that kick started it, but i think it still proves a point as according to what u said your main channel was basically dead at that point in time anyway, but the success depends on the topic, skill, talent, experience etc.
@@kaimuu Been here for 4 years+ and still just over 200 subs. Unfortunately not everyone has that luck, and i'm okay with that.
He talked about it after the video already got the 1k views he wanted for the videos. He didn’t even mention those views of people searching for it from the yard. He only used the stat of recommended views which is algo recommended. So maybe the video had more videos than it should have, but his point was to get only 1k in a day and he did that.
Found this video today, after doing some research on how to give my videos on youtube the best chance of being seen. I'm completely new to this and the plethora of advice and "Things you need to do as a small channel to get views" is almost exasperating. Watching your essay on your experience really uplifted me a bit, looking at similar videos of the one I made from other channels who were smaller, I felt like I put a lot of work and effort into it and made something that is genuinely entertaining. I just may need to be a bit more patient it's only been a few days. Congrats on your newfound growth! You've encouraged me to stick to making videos that not only are quality and the best that i can do, but ones I enjoy making.
Watching this right before 1 million view and then hearing you mention that maybe this video will hit 1 million views at @8:23 is amazing. Being on the brink of hitting a goal that you set for yourself thinking that it may never been achievable must be a pretty wild feeling. Congrats to you!
My farts are better than JHXC64’s farts 💨
Luck is very important to get your first viral video, but what makes a successful channel is the ability to capitalise on the luck and keep the ball rolling. You have certainly managed to do that with this video, and hopefully you are able to do it in the future
Luck ain’t real especially with numbers
@@WadeWalker22 probability is literally luck with extra steps
Exactly! It's important to acknowledge that luck isn't the only factor, it does take hard work and skill to be sure you'll capitalize on a lucky break if you eventually get one- but luck is still a major factor.
Just like making it big in literally any industry.
Well, if the algorythm makes it so that the more people whatch ur video longer the more it shows it..... Its not luck to have a good tumbnail people click on
My farts are better than JHXC64’s farts 💨
I genuinely hope you make it big because you’d have one of the coolest come up stories ever
I like that your chapter title cards don't interrupt the pace of the video, really nice touch
Seems like you have the winning combination. Starting and growing your channel is definitely the toughest part, but the thing is that you need to give viewers the content they want to see, the content they can't live without. Same like business owners give people products they need in their life. Also you have to stay hard working and consistent (and you should also use a little bit of Famester as well to make everything a lot easier). Good luck to everyone.
My farts are better than JHXC64’s farts 💨
what's Famester?
lmao my comment was deleted, I'm definitely on to something lol.
@@elzilcho222 I replied to you and answered your question but my comment is no more, don't know if they'll delete this one too.
@@Enation9Lore very suspicious!
Being sincere when making YT videos is such an essential part of making good content in my opinion. Which is what you did, keep doing what you're doing man!
The absolute irony of this video hitting success has me in awe
Given the topics presented in the video it actually hooked me in and made me want to watch more of what you have to offer.
Hopefully this is a universal sentiment! Hell I even saw dark viper au in the comment section as well as sir pelo.
It’s hitting a variety of people all of which are leaving impressed.
I look forward to your future creations!
Bro the quality on this, the music selection and everything else, I'm subbing for the hustle.
Came from that first video (obviously,) this already has half the likes it does views, that says it all man. It's really awesome to see someone grow from such a risk like that, especially after being locked in the grind for one specific genre or game for ages. Keep it up and I could absolutely see you becoming the next BobbyBroccoli, only for the internet instead of science... congrats overall man! great work and great content. Wholly deserved.
Lol you found one of my editing influences w/ BobbyBroccoli
I used to watch Bobby broccoli from India and jokingly credited myself to boost his video in the algorithm and giving it a global reach when he only had few thousand subs at the time. But of course, his content is one of the best I have ever seen and the algorithm has done sort of "justice" there.
I watched your initial video without having any context of you or looking into your channel, it mostly came down to just me consuming content in my endless internet spiral. This video is pretty motivating and tells a really good story of how taking a risk like that pays off. I'm probably in a worse state as a creator myself with me just finding myself unable to create content, and when I do make stuff I feel it's garbage and private it the next day, leading to me never doing anything with any channels I have. I feel like this video somewhat gives me that little bit of hope in trying new things, that just a little bit of a risk can pay off. Also this video actually gained you even more respect from me considering you even make your own music for your content, like lemmino or something. I'm totally subscribing to your channel now, this is a fucking great video.
Came for the intros, stayed for the great videos that followed! I love your work and I appreciate your drive to keep making great videos(and not just on one single topic!)
Even after growing an audience and learning so much about how to make videos do better than others I still think RUclips requires luck to some degree. However it's 100% still more skill than luck but if you make good content you only ever have to get lucky once because the people who like your content will stay to see more.
Didn't even realize this wasn't the JHXC Channel! Amazing job, keep killing it :)
Ty bro!
@@jhxc64 HUGE SUB GROWTH OVER NIGHT LETS GOOOO
This is actually so impressive. It's inspiring. I might eventually get around to do this little experiment myself.
W video
I hope this gets 1 million views to show you can always improve, effort is never wasted, its not a once time success, but all your years that compile to create good storytelling. Only advice, stick to one specific topic, youtube loves picking an audience and content and serving the same to people!
i think his topic is going to be the internet… talking about things you didn’t know about before. the way i see it (which could be entirely wrong) the audience you gain that are return viewers (subscribers usually) are interested in an element of your videos that’s not necessarily the topic, it could be the style, or someone’s voice, or storytelling idk… but i think the point ludwig was trying (and in all honesty somewhat failed) to make is that one thing almost all viewers on the platform will value is quality. you don’t have so much of a chance without quality, you need something else to be special, but over 90% of successful channels thrive on what i’m sure we can agree on as the minimum standard of quality.
No I'm sorry but don't do that last part. Unless you're willing to dedicate your entire life to a single subject inside and out and forever always diversify your videos. There are way to many instances of channels dying overnight because the insane burnout of doing the same thing over and over again kills the content creator and when they finally DO decide to do variety none of their audience watches them because they come for the subject, not the person. He mentions it with his original channel.
This is cool, ur experience is similar to mine. I ran one of those reddit channels but in spanish a few years ago and the first videos I made I thought they were quite good considering the level at the time. I abandoned and returned to find the videos went "viral". I think theres so much content being uploaded to youtube, as long as theres an audience for the niche and the quality is good you are 60% on the way there
i havent even watched your previous viral video but i can say that your storytelling, editing, and just good topics are well deserving of many millions of views just from this video alone. I really hope to see this channel succeed and this video is already pulling views so who knows?
I can definitely relate to that same feeling you had with your old channel. Sometimes it feels like your restrained to only making one type of content even if you only are getting a few thousand views/subscribers, but it doesn't have to be that way! This has further motivated not only me but plenty others to not only step outside of their shell but ultimately pursue what you want :D
You simply sound like a genuine human, which is relaxing and enjoyable to listen to. You edit extremely well too. I think your thumbnails are really all that need help. They feel pretty weak and unintriguing, regardless of that you have it all figured out. Maybe hire someone to make them while you learn more yourself ?? I wish you great luck friend 🧡
I was recommended this video a year and a half after its release. RUclips algorithm doing its thing
8:23 foreshadowing
This is one of the rare videos I watched from start till the end with rapt attention. Good job mate, you have a way of narrating when being yourself which just keeps us engaged. Love the content
Found this video from recommended, and I'm glad I did.
I quickly went to check out your channel, watched your video on EmpLemon (also an amazing video), and am amazed at your storytelling & clean editing style. There's a reason why you've been picked up by the algorithm yet again, and I'm excited to follow your journey from here out! Keep up the amazing work!!
just seeing this pop up in my recommended i hope you continue to grow in your skills and your channel. This video was wholesome to watch.
Fuck dude, I love mini-documentaries of sorts like this and I’m all here for your continued success. Keep it up
I am glad you are gaining traction to what would be an experimental channel! It had me thinking on what I could do for my own videos if I decide to upload anything. The simple yet interesting editing of your videos is what got me hooked and subscribed, as I was curious what next topic your future videos would cover.
this put a smile on my face. I've been stuck for ages. since I first got to youtube, and believe me, it was a long time ago, I wanted to have a youtube channel. I also watched that video and also got a funny feeling about it, even tho I really like Ludwig. But now, seeing someone actually follow those tips and succeding. its really awesome. I don want say its gonna make me go after my youtube channel, but it doesnt matter, one more person doing what they love and putting out in the world, is always a win. congrats dude!
Getting this video in my reccomended randomly, seeing 8t already having over 1 million views,
And your audience growing, with me having intrest and subcribing after this first impression of you, and Ludwig having the pinned comment here, really makes this entire situation si winderfully poetic.
Congrats dude, and good luck with 2024, I'm gonna go check out the rest of your content and probably subscribe now, as you seem very much in the vein of "people making high effort essays on very spesific unqiue topics they are interested in" I really love! :D
This hurts me to say, that I just got recommended this fantastic video, and I do feel like youtube doesn't really help smaller creators, but who am I to say? I also thought Lud's experiment was flawed, in ways that paying was key. You showed skill in ways that others can try this experiment and maybe, just maybe, we might see other creator rise with this sudden change of demonstration.
Great video.
Gonna mark myself in the timeline... 730K!!!!!!! Dude congrats on the success and keep it going man!!! Keep striving for greatness!!! I've heard origin stories from so many streamers and a lot of them come back to either someone giving them the spotlight for a moment or them growing with a group of friends. Not many have been able to do it by themself. What you've done is amazing and inspiring to the other content creators out there!!!! Keep up the great work!!!!!!
790k now
there’s something so authentic about this video, and this channel. the editing is superb, and the topics are unique. you definitely got a new subscriber, and I hope this channel blows up soon cus it definitely deserves it!
Cool video, I definitely think there is a connection between time put into mastering the skill of making good videos and getting videos that hit, for example, you said you put a month into the first video and then a week into the second one and the first one did much better. I think any time single creators can keep up with creators that have entire production teams is cool.
Improving every upload is more freeing, more satisfying, and more rewarding, than aiming for higher and higher view counts.
Good on ya for keeping with it!
I don’t know if anyone’s reading this. I actually started crying watching you describe your old channel and how it slowly died. It’s everything I experienced with my old channel from 2014 - 2022. It slowly died as well. I started doubting myself, my skills, my identity even. Amongst other hurdles in my life at the time I fell into depression. I didn’t want to think about coming up with a solution. So I deleted not only the channel, but my Google account. It surely helped in the short term. But I always felt that something was missing. Without a RUclips channel I wasn’t feeling confident, I wasn’t myself. Back to current day I‘m slowly recovering mentally and I‘m actively planning on starting from scratch. I know I have the skills and I know I can tell a good story.
Thank you for the video 🙏
I’m reading this, I’m cheering for you, and I’m wishing you both good luck and also resilience! It’s all gonna work out 💪🏻 just keep going 🙏🏻
All the best on your journey
I hope you start your channel again
Ludwig has a really good perspective on this in my opinion. He isn’t naive enough to say that luck has no impact on success, but he’s said for a long time that you have to have the skill there for when luck eventually hits. It may not always hit for people when they need it, but it will likely eventually hit, and you just have to be ready for it
You need to be entertaining and know how to make stylized videos to be a yt entertainer.
Love what you did here. Only seeing this in the feed now, but this seems so much more genuine. This is what most creators starting out need, a realistic view on what COULD happen and a reason to keep going. Both can work, throwing money at it is faster, but you did amazing well here.
I tend to skip through youtube videos often, watching the actual entertaining parts. This video had me interested from start to finish. The time and effort you put into making actual quality videos shows. Keep it up.
you do WHAT?!?
same
youve got to keep warming the room. people see one video get overnight success but they dont see the years of practice to produce something that COULD get viral. I know this is going to hit 1 million you are so inspiring!!!!
8:11
Foreshadowing is a narrative device in wich suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted.
Next level writing skill!
He even wrote his way to two viral videos!
I’ve noticed the channels with the best longevity are the one’s who’ve spent years building a back catologue with not many views but of good quality. Then one day one of these vids goes viral and the new subscribers have a ton of videos of good quality to dive into. These new viewers become loyal as long as the channel is consistent.
Great video dude! I recently felt the same way about Ludwig's experiment after seeing it recommended again. Glad to see a video like this get made from the viewer's perceptive and then evolve from not just talking about Lud the whole time. It's really inspiring! Keep up the quality work, I can't wait to see how big you make it!
Now you got a million views! Congrats!
Honestly, you're a quality content creator who needed a reset to use everything you learned in a valuable way, so glad you found it through this experiment.
This video is honestly a needed wake up call. I find myself in the current position that you were in on your last channel but to an even lower degree. Most of the views I get are from friends only and I have little to no interaction from viewers. This video has inspired me to try and change my outlook, attempt to further improve my skills and not just put out a video to get one out there. Thank you for sharing your experience. I will be taking this video to heart.
Excellent video, wonderfully edited, and it looks so professional. I am jealous of your skills. Keep up the great work and best of luck!
I had my own doubts about Lud’s video, so I think it’s quite cool to see it done again more naturally. Good work mate!
Dude, the editing is superb and the commentary is great! Don’t know how long this took you to make but props man.
This video is honestly great. I came in because I liked Ludwig's video but stayed because of your interesting storytelling.
Wouldn't be suprised if this video will blow up too
Edit: called it.
exactl.y
it did blow up!
You called it 😂
I edit videos for other people and seeing the videos grow so much is wild. I think what it comes down to is how well the research, editing, and presentation of the video to let the algorithm think "hey, this video is well made and is getting some traction. Let's bump it up a little.' and thankfully when it works, it works. My first video I edited for NewtC with the video on Prey (yes I will advertise it lol) and it passed a million views. And for some reason, that's one of the rarest videos on the channel we've worked on to reach that height. It's not all luck, but it might take at least a little to get going. The rest is up to you
I hope your positive feelings stay, and your channel pays off. Always like to see someone who does cool things get loads of attention. Good luck bro!
This is awesome. Certain things like Ludwig's talk of keywords in file name are absolutely not true and meaningless. Also FWIW I think lower performance on some of your newer videos just has to do with more niche audiences (like Hitfilm). But this is going great and I'm stoked to watch this unfold.
My farts are better than JHXC64’s farts 💨
Love this ❤
Hey Ali! I love his videos too!
Ali with only 1 comment and 21 likes??
Weird to see you with less than 1 billion likes
When i got 2000 subscribers i post a baclflip video
Thank you for posting this. There are so many people struggling with the thought that luck hasn't been on their side while trying content creation. This video shows a realistic and objective look at something the average person that loves content creation can do and, at least for me, gave me the confidence to try again.
Luck may be a factor, but capitalizing and leveraging that luck to keep the snowball rolling is the real skill. Congrats on doing it again! 🎉
Yeah. Stupid to hear him say "rule out luck".
This was a breath of fresh air, very genuine and uplifting. Hope you hit one mill with this one.
Don't have to hope that hard any more lol
Feel pretty lucky to find your channel so early in it's lifespan, and I'm excited to see what you have to come up with in the future. You have genuinely interesting and well informed videos, and I truly wish you nothing but the best on your journey~ The only thing (as some others have pointed out) is that your thumbnails need a little work. Other than that, though, I feel your form of commentary is truly enjoyable to listen to. It's hard to describe the sort of feeling you get when you find a video like this, but lucky is all I can come up with for how I feel when I find a promising creator on the site. Your videos remind me of the old days of youtube where people were genuinely interested in just making content and didn't care about the money or having ulterior motives..So thank you so much for making this. Fucking legend.
man i am so happy for you and I am so glad that everyone else in the comments is too, this is what RUclips is about, community.
As someone who has always been into content creation I understand the struggle, I’ve gone through many different channels, TikTok pages, and twitch accounts, hopefully I find my moment to shine one day just like you were fortunate enough to.
Best of luck and wishes for your future success ❤❤❤
I have also had that video from Ludwig burned into my brain. Your success on your first video here actually inspired me to try the same. The video has been in the works for months now (Im switching from DaVinci to premier) but I think it might have some chance to catch a fraction of what you have.
Also 7:33 💪
YOOOOOOO
@@jhxc64YOOOOO
Moooooooooooo
What I learned is that you just need to be consistent, never give up and learn all you can about making content. Quality, subject of the video and engagement are the things that gets you promoted.
Anyone else finds this oddly inspiring? With fingers twitching to try better that has nothing to do with RUclips or whatever?
You got a knack for storytelling, no wonder you have built a tight community around your work over the years.
So it probably is skill issue after all :)
P.S. self-inflicted prophecy at the end is beautiful!
8:26 "...maybe this video will get a million views...", damn right it did! And, keep up the good work bud!
So glad you decided to make this! You have inspired me to start making content again, but actually put more effort and time into it. Not just taking a couple minutes to edit something and call it a day, like actually try and make it perfect. Keep doing what you’re doing! Hope you achieve your goal of getting millions of views!
I love seeing your passion for RUclips! Though it may or may not have been luck at first, you were the one who curated it to success! I know you have a bright future ahead of you man, keep it up! 🤙
This video's blown up pretty well already but I think it's gonna get REALLY popular really soon, I mean it's only been out 2 days! This is super high quality man, keep up the grind! Edit: pretty sure this had 87k or something and now it has 91k. A few minutes later. Dang yeah this is blowing up!
412k now, god damn
This is a very great video, seeing you not giving up after the bad period on your original channel to then rebirth from the ashes like a phoneix is inspiring in many way, keep up the good work.