So, we have no idea what's going to happen... just keep creating, stay up to date on new trends, try new approaches to content creation and DON'T GIVE UP! Would that sum up the news? Am I forgetting something? (By the way, the music was a little bit distracting for me 😅)
ive only joined ig a few months ago, n i must say i love all the random reels. was never interested in following friends' daily life, which is why i never opened an acct on fb or ig
Having recommendations in the feed on Instagram is annoying! What’s the point in following people/pages when there are other irrelevant posts in the feed all the time? Deleted Facebook and Snapchat a while back, probably gonna delete Instagram soon too.
I deleted all my social media accounts besides RUclips on the 1st of January. I realize how much I don’t miss it at ALL. Now I talk to actual people in my life.
all my IRL friends do is post stories on Instagram. I post stories too because there's no reason to make an actual Instagram post anymore. I'm thinking about getting rid of it myself because I don't actually talk to anyone on that app. Even though they're IRL friends, we all been separated and moved on with our lives and the only way we keep up with each other is through these apps. IMO why? it's dumb and I don't care. I don't need to see what date you went on, and I don't need to see what you're eating.
Fr, that shits annoying. I miss the part where people create content instead of reposting and profiting off other creators. Takes the hard work out, yk?
RUclips is saturated in that I find so many quality videos I'm genuinely interested in watching, but I physically don't have time to watch them all. So things get overlooked that shouldn't.
Social media doubled down on short form videos overnight and completely ignored everyone else. I am a photographer, and I immediately became irrelevant because I didn't want to turn my photography into videos. But, that goes for every single person who didn't want to post 3 videos every day. Now, John & Jane Simpleton who just wanted to interact with their friends and a few favorite creators, they're no longer seeing their friends' posts because now their feed is full of video creators and ads. The everyday, average human beings, are the ones who hold the power to social media. Forcing EVERYONE to participate in short form videos was never going to be a sustainable practice.
I barely post anything nowadays. Instagram was my app of choice and as a person stepping into photography and editing there's really nothing other than Reddit which I love.
Spot on. Haven't used my personal instagram for over two years. Stopped seeing my friend's posts, they stopped seeing mine. I'm not interested in posting crappy reels to whatever music is trending so didn't bother using it any more!
I feel you. I was a part of artists community in Instagram, and we all got tensed the moment Instagram has announced that they were going to add Reels.
There’s nothing on social media for actual artists. It’s just “content” and content creators will adapt because it’s not about the art it’s about the shine so they’ll do anything to stay in the light.
The problem with content creation started when people saw that you could "make a lot of money" by recording some videos. The vast majority today don't do it because they like it, but just to make money. It's no wonder that there is so much meaningless content and content bothering people on the street...
I’m a content creator that does it for a hobby. RUclips used to be this but over time people used RUclips as a job. I don’t create videos anymore I do livestreams so that I can try and connect with other gamers.
The problem is that every fool these days thinks they deserve to get paid because they made a bit of effort. That is how we ALL lose. A society of halfwit salesmen will collapse on itself in spectacular fashion.
I deleted my Instagram and facebook account 2 years ago, and while I opened an instagram account, I don't post there. I strongly believe RUclips is the only platform that makes sense for any business. The audience here is very loyal compared to any other platform
@@invictaland1983 important point yes. I do funny fashion reviews with depth on the designers history and sometimes not at all but it's fun if anybody wants to watch I will make more episodes
I remember a time when the internet was an equalising place where you could talk to a millionaire and a homeless man and not even know it, with social media it's just constantly people bragging about their lives and poor people being envious. The old internet isn't even really gone, it's just that most people don't go to these forums and platforms.
lets be honest, You can do everything right on instagram and it doesnt matter because instagram has taken away the ability for the people to make their own decisions about what they want to see. you can have the greatest content on instagram and have factors outside of your control decimate your reach. nothing you did wrong its just simply the algorithm has chosen that its not gonna show content like yours. thats pretty much what it comes down to. a new app needs to be created that is everything instagram used to be before the algorithms. i like the fanbase app personally
Thats not how the instagram algo works. you just made that up. It tests all new content to a seed audience, and it get pushed based on how it performed! If the audience doesnt like it, it wont get pushed. Its similar with YT.
@@JMRabil675 that’s lie. Instagram employees literally have a heat up and cool down button. This is documented. Employees have the power to make their friends go viral they also have the power to cool down aka shadow ban people/pages they don’t like. This is a documented fact. It’s also a documented fact that black creators are negatively affected by the algorithms because they are programmed in such a way that minimizes their reach and engagements. Congress literally grilled tik tok about this in a hearing. So you can’t tell me nothing about how I’m wrong about this. You can do literally everything right and have the best content in the world and Instagram whether through janky algorithms, prejudice employees or many currently unknown factors will destroy the reach of your account. The fact that Instagram is an ad revenue based platform makes Instagram a direct competitor to us as creators. It hurts Instagram’s bottom line if you as a creator have a million followers and all your posts get sent to 1 million accounts. That means a company would be better off paying you to reach a million followers rather than paying Instagram for ads. So what Instagram does is kills everyone’s reach so that it is more beneficial for companies to Instagram instead of a creator who has a million followers but they only reach 50,000 out of the million. I can debunk what you are saying from so many different angles. The Instagram algorithm is a joke. It’s a total fraud and they are literally stealing from the user base.
Quick side note: They had to create a „paid social media“ option in Europe, because they were in conflict with regulations regarding data illegally being used for advertising. If you still want to use the free version (literally everyone), you have to confirm that your data will be used for these ads 😅 It‘s just a trick to work around regulations in Europe. Confirm or pay 💰
Don’t know about you guys, but as a simple end user, I started feeling burnout about a year ago. In the last 6 months I’ve reduced my RUclips usage by 95% or so. There’s rarely anything I want to watch as it’s all the same.
Use the search bar instead because if you just choose from what youtube suggests the algorithm will just keep showing you the same shit over and over then it will randomly try to insert pointless explorer page type video or even the news when you never watch any content like that.
These was a time when social media actually was fun and connected with people then it turned to everyone hating each other competing trying to show off people going insane making online content
hello, then what do you feel would replace social media as the most famous way for people to consume media content? Just like social media kind of took over TVs, few people watch TVs nowadays
Somebody slip the meme "Interrupting the content I like every 10s with your ad makes me hate your product" under the door of all marketing departments across the globe.
It's funny how all these social media platforms tried to be tiktok and now tiktok is trying to be youtube. Why can't they all just be their own thing? I miss Instagram being photos, youtube about long form content and tiktok when it was short form and not constant ads. Also, I really needed to hear that whole thing about how you grew slowly over time and built an audience while watching others in your niche grow quickly. That's how I feel like I am now. I am not growing as quickly as other people, but I am steadily growing a consistent audience who is very active on my discord and watches all of my videos and live content. Sometimes I just look at numbers and forget that it's not just about that.
I've been telling my fellow photographers for years: likes and followers don't validate the quality of your work. There's people who have tens of thousands of followers, who are mediocre photographers. There's spectacular photographers who have only a couple of hundred followers. As long as you do what you like and create what you like to create, the right audience for you will find you. Others, much like you described, just put out the content they think people will like to see. Then when it doesn't catch on, they cry about it. When in fact, they should just be honest with themselves and ask if it really is their best work or not.
@@TJ-ct9rr that’s really all subjective, though. On a technical level, those that know what they’re doing will usually go further. But it’s also a matter of understanding how IG works. I always like to say it’s like a game, where you just need to figure out the best strategy for you. Plenty of people just want to share and they don’t really care about followers and likes at all. And if you don’t, it’s definitely a lot harder to gain any following other than friends and family 😅
agreed, before cared too much regard photography. now I do not care. before was abstract anamorphic photographer. I still do not make photos but focus struggling make videos as hobby. I still do not care of results but makes me happy because it was a passion.
I'm in this specter as well- I agree, I have more clients from my small account, that haven't even "liked" a portrait. amazing how this works. the rest is mass psychosis
I agree with you about the likes and followers. I don't have many of either as an artist but the small amount that I do have, I'm happy. 😊I'm doing what I enjoy, they are there and I can speak with them. Building a community.😌
Social media content is slowly but surely shifting back to more authentic and intimate content. Everything is just way too edited and fast paced. Trust me when I say this authenticity will win
Wow this reminds me of something I recently read from Martin Scorsese - “But the technology’s changed so rapidly and exhaustedly, that in a sense the only thing you can really hold on to is the individual voice. The individual voice, I must say, can express itself on TikTok or can express itself on a four-hour film or a two-hour miniseries.”
When I read the title, I thought, "finally some good news!" But then you talked about this thing as if it was a bad thing... I've been wishing for the downfall of influencers. I just hope it happens in my lifetime.
When I got online in 1996 I just filled out my profiles with my creative arts. I never spoke about anything that I was doing either. I just read articles. Watched videos, and made comments along the way. I shared my work with the share buttons too. I left things alone, because everything was going fine. It still is, and I still do the same like I did in 1996. I'm not in any hurry.
All the best stuff is just people messing around. I always think of the ninja turtles. The idea is so stupid and the creators were just goofing off. It started as a joke but the property is worth billions now. Same with DragonBall, Akira never took it seriously naming characters after vegetables and making the story up as he went (chapter to chapter) and that became absolutely massive. Things needs to feel organic to resonate with people.
Exactly the same thing when we go to search for something a thought or idea suddenly hits us and we go to find videos or information about it, i've been functioning on the internet like this since 2018 now after some really big let downs my loyalty only became to myself not helping people constantly make views. I'm subscribed to a small handful of channels but honestly i only regularly watch 3 of them one of them is tasting history with max miller because it's good stuff and interesting i learn something new every time. The rest of the time search for whatever's on my mind each day, sadly i have to remove a lot of them from my watch history after because it doesn't mean i want to regularly watch it and most videos are attached to clickbait but they certainly get multiple views because of how many times i have to edit my comments until they actually get posted and that's probably why they do it so i do enough. On average i only watch a few videos per day now mostly i listen to music and i don't care about shorts at all and i stay away from animal videos because the more you watch the more it takes over your recommendations which is the same problem with other social media sites. It sometimes tries to get me to watch them but i then click not to recommend the channels or say i don't like it lol as soon as i see it telling me to not recommend a few channels it backs away lol at least i can do that on here but on others i had no choice what showed up on the feed.
I have a gut feeling this is a compounded issue: at 8:14 you can see that 50% of creators are engaging in photography, creative writing, (and from my experience, music and dance as well) and these are areas that historically we never figured out how to efficiently make into a market that is beneficial for both the industry and the individual artists at the same time. We're fixing this plane mid-air.
Very interesting times for creators who are in it for the long game and actually have a brand strategy and plan how they want to help other people and tap into creative ways to show it. Selfish or unauthentic content is not going to cut it, it is short-lived and you will be forgotten.
As a small creator I think this is good, short form makes people think its easy, you dont need find an audience. Those creators will soon disappear and the market will be less saturated
I just started posting to RUclips after wanting to since 2018... just posting to mainly show family/friends. Not trying to make it a job, just wanted to show off my adventures. And hopefully at some point get to start testing gear sent to me for free 😂 camping gear is expensive...
I’m basically making the decision to start over and treat all my platforms as I am starting from fresh. I will say the hardest thing for social media is seeing those low views when you are a one man show, and do all the hard work yourself. Low views just incentivize everyone to post less. Or even encourage the average consumers to be on social media less. Which exacerbates the problem more.
I hate super short form content. I think it's brain rot. Some of it can be informative which is nice but for 90% it's awful. I never wanted short form to come to Instagram and it did, when that happened I knew it was headed to youtube. Now that it's on RUclips, if they start putting ads on short form content I'll be done with it forever I think. I think a lot of people don't mind a meaningful plug, or a 5 second ad before a video. But not 2, 5 second ads back to back before the video even starts, then another unskippable ad at the 1 minute mark, then a few more drizzled throughout and before you know it you've seen at least 6 ads in a 5 minute video. It gets extremely irritating because of the placement and the fact that they're just getting absurdly greedy at this point and I know they aren't paying youtubers enough for it either.
I always appreciate your videos, thanks for telling it like it is. I don't think anyone is prepared for what A.I will be able to do - I hope you spend time thinking about it - because one day you'll wake up and it will be ready to simulate worlds for you
First time watching your channel and I really loved this video! I was starting to feel that the creator space is becoming too saturated with people who are just in for the money and supposed following fame. Can’t wait to watch more from you!
honestly, good. Social media has ruined society with how many younger people spend all day inside and consuming it rather than going out and meeting people. Its why I know 20 something later millennials/older zoomers who can barely have functional relationships
I am in a downward spiral on RUclips too. But I am in it for the long game bringing educational and medical communication content. It is not easy but still hopeful 🤞🏼
This video was…inspiring? I’ve been creating content that I put a LOT of effort into for years and I’ve recently seen a lot of videos about how people are sick of short form and done with the mundane promotions and ads. I’ve seen videos about how it’s taken bigger creators 8 years of posting to actually start to gain traction. Oh, the instant graduation curse. This inspired me to get back to it and continue to create and do my own authentic thing. I’m going to keep going. It’s for other people, really - not for me, at the end of the day. I create for others, because I have a lot to share. I’m so glad that the community is catching up on this. Thank you, 10x over for this video.
Finally. But RUclips needs to do the same. The forced negative reviews, the fake cancelations are ruining careers and lives. It's enough now. Yes I am all for accountability. Not so much for drama channels coming up with a hit piece based on one sentence from 1999, and ruining a person's reputation by making illogical assumptions.
Don't even call them drama channels anymore, there are more like gossip men channels. especially in 2024 ill I see are videos like "insert name" career is over or the rise and fall of "insert name"
It’s inflation, plane and simple. The “creator economy” was a result of COVID money printing and now that all that stimulus is gone, rent/student loan payment moratoriums are over and prices have jumped upwards of 50% on things like insurance in the last 5 years everyone’s risk tolerance is very low. Companies have less money to spend on ads (if they’re even in business anymore) and crafting a content strategy is impossible when you’re hungry with no food. No one has time for this garbage anymore, and we don’t want to watch people in opulent studios wax philosophically when it takes multiple jobs just to keep the same lifestyle we had less than a decade ago.
Truth. And things are going to get worse for some. I’m seeing so many layoffs in my area- thousands of jobs, 10 to 15% of employees, one retail online company completely shut. Friends are telling me they have been told there are no raises coming in 2024- so they will effectively be working just as hard for less because of inflation.
I don't know why can't they just have small pop-up banners at the bottom of the screen on short format video, for ads. Companies pay a lot to have their banners hang in football stadiums. why can't they just do the same for short format content??
RUclips changed its algorithm. Even large channels have a large decline in views compared to how many subscribers they have. My 10k videos currently have a ridiculous 500 views each. They clearly want to discourage people from living and focusing on real life and regular work. And this is happening not only on RUclips. Such a commandment.
I never liked the term creator, I think it's a misunderstanding people have that you need to change for your audience. This makes no sense because your audience is built on your content in the first place. People look at making videos as a business instead of doing things that are meaningful to them, and if you're only serving algorithm you're not changing or improving the world or educating anybody on anything. Is this the same old same old. And that's how we got here. There was a time when people shared videos of things that they did themselves or that they were interested in, now it's all video essays on other youtubers. The people are tired of it. My engagement has steadily grown over the years because I don't just make videos to serve the algorithm. It becomes an echo chamber of people talking about what other people talked about people talking about and that's why RUclips is so full of garbage now. If you do what you love and share it with the world, people will come to see. But the idea of making a living or getting rich completely misses the mark of why we make videos in the first place
I agree that if platform users are paying for an ad-free experience, then marketing companies will likely being paying for content creators/influencers to put their product before audiences.
It's really weird to me youtube tried so hard to be tick tock with their "shorts" and now tick tock is trying so hard to become RUclips. It reminds me of when Britney Spears first came out and invested so much energy in trying to be Janet Jackson, and then when Janet Jackson revamped her career she was trying to be Britney Spears.
Janet ain’t never tried to be Britney Spears. If you can prove she has please share it. Like Kat Williams said, “I’ll wait.” I know it doesn’t exist. Your perception isn’t the reality.
1:13 One big problem with the paid model is, what constitutes an ad? Is something an "influencer" (whatever the hell that means anymore) is trying to peddle on IG engaged in advertising? I sure as hell won't pay for access any social media platform--most of them are cesspools--and if the intent is to replace ad-supported platforms with paid models, I suspect a lot of people will say, "I'm out"
Great example... I pay for RUclips Premium to not have to sit through RUclips placed Ads. But many of the channels I watch are sponsored by someone so they have to talk about whatever their sponsor is peddling....
Doubling down on my email list and getting people in my Skool group here in 2024. Sick of meta and the state of social media. Just focusing on helping people and strengthening my brand on a more intimate level.
@@iammrbelcher I’ve been in it since 2020. I found myself making click bait posts on IG that grew my following but I wasn’t actually connecting with people for better brand recognition. Think it’s all about getting back to our roots (at least for myself being a service based business).
Just get an adblocker. I use one, don't pay for premium, and I get no ads at all. They've warned me a few time whenever I'd open youtube on my computer, or whenever I watch a video. But I haven't gotten anything since ages ago.
I miss 1995 wild west internet so much. Yahoo chat had official fight rooms. I remember going in them and just lurking hearing people over voice chat go at each others throats verbally. It was a place where people could vent and it was SO entertaining. Now people are too sensitive to even have minor disagreements online without the ban hammer coming down on you on reddit or something. Internet isn't as fun to use anymore and all social media has done has fostered witch hunts against people that make mistakes.
Social media deserves to fall apart. It should never have existed in the first place. Social media was a data collection mechanism for AI. We got duped into using it and supporting it through ads. It's a mechanism that completely devalues human beings. Like, we might not be at the point where AI can do everything, but it might get to the point where nothing you do, no endeavor you undertake will matter. It's essentially the end of human achievement.
I personally put any sponsor who interrupts my content consumption on a "Don't Buy" list and will go to a competitors instead. I am that petty and hate ads.
The purpose of RUclips channels were certainly about sharing experiences with people with like experiences or areas of interest. It was never to be a place of storytelling until Casey made it a thing.
You are my number one resource for social media strategies/growth! I love your content and your vibes, thanks so much for sharing valuable insights with all of us ❤
One of the problems is that being a content creator became a job instead of a passion project people did on the side. Most people are hard up on money, they're not going to be able to pay Patreons for these creators that want to make a living off of their content.
Crashes are great for weeding out folks who are for the short fame and attention. In the long run, platfrom will start seeing the influx of good engaging Content with good retention in the long run. It's always quality over quantity. Here for the long game but yeah, probably my "number" isn't going to be big. Love making stuffs on my specific niche , might explore other stuffs as well.
I think we're all in agreement as creators that visibility is important. The hours, blood sweat and tears spent doing something with love has value. I only have 1,280 followers and communicate with 10-15 who value what I do. The most mediocre content accounts I have seen have followers in the thousands, which I fail to recognize. Nobody knows for sure.
I agree. I have 13k but IG is not pushing my content. I think they want creators to pay. That’s all I can think of at this point. I stopped posting for 3 months bc a lot was going on & well now my content is shown to 200-700 people no matter how many shares & likes I get. 🤷🏻♀️
Thats why you dont know instagram is a pay to win platform. If you dont pay you dont get reach and all your hard work is for nothing. You did the biggest beginner mistake there is. I dont even post if i dont pay because its a waste of time.
I started my IG mid-Dec 23, and 6 weeks in, 2 videos went viral 400k & 700K, completely organically, pushing me up from 400 followers to 20K+ followers and since then I suddenly have a 'partnership monetization policy' flag, even though I did nothing wrong and my reach has plummeted...they are not showing my reels to any new people, basically just followers and not even most of them...contacted support via my personal Meta verified and they told me it could be from crossposting on FB, which doesnt make any sense...same business, same creator, my IP...at this point seriously considering giving up on IG and making YT my main focus
Meta reported $36.46 billion in revenue for Q1 2024 TikTok's ad revenues are set to hit $17.2 billion in 2024, a 30.7% increase. They currently pay out 3% to creators, and 10% to music rights. These platforms will adapt to ad free payment models and will pass that payment onto high performing creators. For your example of a person reporting a bad return on an influencer campaign is irrelevant to the actual performance. Where they have a good paying audience they can have insane ROI versus any other ad form, but overall it is slightly worse than ad words, social media ads perform close to that for many niches. People still pay for TV and print ads.
videos like this are funny because the internet (including everybodies LANs) is just as unknown as the ocean, space and our own human bodies and pretty much everything in life. Your "social is collasping" can represent literally only two apps out of the internet thats filled with millions of other "social media" apps. There is no such thing as "social media collaspe" because if one app did go offline.....you best believe another will take its place. The internet (your internet experience) is only has small or big as you make it via your curiosity. Videos like this dont not get the people thinking. They only groom the people into furthur thinking only google/apple/microsoft and a small portion of other apps run our lives (which is never true). like people please explore the internet more. THERE IS A WHOLE LOT OF COOL, BETTER, INTERESTING, REFRESHING and etc.....apps/websites out their that will out beat any "big tech giant" apps anyday
Short form content, compared with long form content the only goal is popularity and money. Long form brings more detailed overviews of a topic to the creativity and effort of the creator whereas short form is just quick information for the lazy.
we need a credit system where you only get say 300 creadits a month and every time you watch a video you spend a creadit to see it. Each credit could be worth an actual amount of money like $0.10 and it goes directly to the creator when it is spent
YT is becoming more and more garbage these days with “creators” doing anything but: they copy and paste chat gpt/google derived content that you can find yourselves in a minute. Then, they are too lazy to even read it themselves and just use a fake ai voice. Then other “creators” down the line just rip off THAT (already derivative) content, etc. It’s becoming a human centipede of filler and dumb laziness🤦🏻♀️
The problem is that people try to make money directly from social media - that’s wrong. Social media should be only used to get recognition, status, influence power, trust, etc. And then with this status, you can make money, but being influencer just to make money is so not-worth-it.
That was one of the reasons I quit being an IG „influencer“. There was nothing I had achieved or done other than take pics of myself walking across a street 😂
Its dead internet and AI theres only so many users and people can grind out content impossibly fast. fully optimized content cause even a smart guy like you cant keep up with the algo as quickly as an AI. Its junk content but it takes away from people doing original stuff.
TikTok's becoming RUclips, Instagram's becoming TikTok, RUclips is... ? 👇
the goat
Over competition
RUclips is meh
So, we have no idea what's going to happen... just keep creating, stay up to date on new trends, try new approaches to content creation and DON'T GIVE UP! Would that sum up the news? Am I forgetting something? (By the way, the music was a little bit distracting for me 😅)
evolution ....
I miss the old Instagram days when you would have a feed where you could see your friends pictures. No stories, no reels.
ive only joined ig a few months ago, n i must say i love all the random reels. was never interested in following friends' daily life, which is why i never opened an acct on fb or ig
And in chronological order too 😢
The good old days
i miss when that app didn't exist lol
Having recommendations in the feed on Instagram is annoying! What’s the point in following people/pages when there are other irrelevant posts in the feed all the time? Deleted Facebook and Snapchat a while back, probably gonna delete Instagram soon too.
RUclips is social media!
I deleted all my social media accounts besides RUclips on the 1st of January.
I realize how much I don’t miss it at ALL. Now I talk to actual people in my life.
I use to share decor inspo. I don’t really use it for personal reasons. I can imagine how nice it is without social media!
Deleted all of them 7 years ago , it’s a different kind of world now
all my IRL friends do is post stories on Instagram. I post stories too because there's no reason to make an actual Instagram post anymore.
I'm thinking about getting rid of it myself because I don't actually talk to anyone on that app. Even though they're IRL friends, we all been separated and moved on with our lives and the only way we keep up with each other is through these apps. IMO why? it's dumb and I don't care. I don't need to see what date you went on, and I don't need to see what you're eating.
Great 👍
Sad news is almost all social media look the same now! Because of shortform content. It will rot your brain.
The problem is that people copy other people until every video in your feed is the same content.
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Yeah I had a few times larger Artists stole my ideas and it's super discouraging but I just keep on going...
If you sub different gamer channels, they are all playing a bd talking about the same game, and promoting VPN and lawnmower 3.0
Fr, that shits annoying. I miss the part where people create content instead of reposting and profiting off other creators. Takes the hard work out, yk?
There even is a social media accent now becaue they copy how other creators talk
I miss the days when social media was all about creativity and genuine connections, not just endless ads and cash grabs.
So... never. Got it.
yes me too
Same! Human ego I tell you.
I left Facebook because I was tired of seeing Biden or Trump every other post. Don’t miss it
Those creators failed because people weren't showing up, and some had to adapt. It's kinda the users fault.
Big corporate money ruins everything... it ruined music, movies, football and it finally killed the internet. it poisons the creative process.
plandemical orchestra players, they only want to sell the product, quantity over quality and they certainly not care about you.
Shouts out to capitalism
And worst of it all, video games were ruinned by it
If I had a penny for every marxist comment like yours...
@@JSSMVCJR2.1 you people are so predictable.
We shouldn’t strive to be a content creator. We should strive to be artists.
Thank you
Lol artist. Is this a joke
@@Jame6999 no, but you are.🙃
@@Jame6999 art isn't a joke, it's an Expression of the creative mind
To than see shitty ai scrape trough all our work 😅
RUclips is saturated in that I find so many quality videos I'm genuinely interested in watching, but I physically don't have time to watch them all. So things get overlooked that shouldn't.
v good point
Yeah, my “watch later” has like 300 videos on it at last count
I was gonna say
@@ringsystemmusiclol I have all these free movies on my watch later list 😂😂
only 50 are S tier, they a lot of good quality video, but it skim down the non excellent video that's all
Can't wait for the internet/social media to go back to the late 2000s/early 2010s.
it will , but i think the price will be digital id's
I wish I wish,
I wish it will stay this time if it hopefully happens.
It Will never be exactly the same but hopefully this does bring us black to those days
Social media doubled down on short form videos overnight and completely ignored everyone else. I am a photographer, and I immediately became irrelevant because I didn't want to turn my photography into videos. But, that goes for every single person who didn't want to post 3 videos every day. Now, John & Jane Simpleton who just wanted to interact with their friends and a few favorite creators, they're no longer seeing their friends' posts because now their feed is full of video creators and ads.
The everyday, average human beings, are the ones who hold the power to social media. Forcing EVERYONE to participate in short form videos was never going to be a sustainable practice.
I barely post anything nowadays. Instagram was my app of choice and as a person stepping into photography and editing there's really nothing other than Reddit which I love.
Spot on. Haven't used my personal instagram for over two years. Stopped seeing my friend's posts, they stopped seeing mine. I'm not interested in posting crappy reels to whatever music is trending so didn't bother using it any more!
I feel you. I was a part of artists community in Instagram, and we all got tensed the moment Instagram has announced that they were going to add Reels.
@@krafuae Once the explore page's algorithm was destroyed and Hashtags didn't matter Instagram died. The engagement was killed overnight.
There’s nothing on social media for actual artists. It’s just “content” and content creators will adapt because it’s not about the art it’s about the shine so they’ll do anything to stay in the light.
The dream of being a RUclipsr/Content Creator died when EVERYONE wanted to be one. This on top of the barrier to entry becoming non-existent..
I think this is a human thing- everyone wants to do the fun stuff!!! Like everyone wanted to be a rockstar or date a pop star!!
Just sounds like yiure making excuses. No one said making a successful channel was easy. Its always been difficult
@@JMRabil675 It has nothing to do with excuses and everything to do with oversaturation and loss of novelty. When both are married, value is lost.
@@squirrellover69.As a blogger, I've noticed that with fast AI-generated content, MANY niches are fast becoming oversaturated./
@@JMRabil675 is that why you quit making videos?
your perspective is refreshing. If only RUclips could see they are already the blueprint they wouldn't try to compete with TikTok
The problem with content creation started when people saw that you could "make a lot of money" by recording some videos. The vast majority today don't do it because they like it, but just to make money. It's no wonder that there is so much meaningless content and content bothering people on the street...
I’m a content creator that does it for a hobby. RUclips used to be this but over time people used RUclips as a job. I don’t create videos anymore I do livestreams so that I can try and connect with other gamers.
The problem is that every fool these days thinks they deserve to get paid because they made a bit of effort.
That is how we ALL lose.
A society of halfwit salesmen will collapse on itself in spectacular fashion.
Bring back the OG youtube and my attention span to watch some random guy yap for 30 minutes and be happy with it
I deleted my Instagram and facebook account 2 years ago, and while I opened an instagram account, I don't post there. I strongly believe RUclips is the only platform that makes sense for any business. The audience here is very loyal compared to any other platform
fr fr, same here deleted my Facebook account just last week.
That's true. I need a community on RUclips
it's what i like best abt yt, interacting with creators and commentators
Agreed! You don't find nearly the depth of feedback on any other platforms. That's why I'm focusing my efforts here now.
@@invictaland1983 important point yes. I do funny fashion reviews with depth on the designers history and sometimes not at all but it's fun if anybody wants to watch I will make more episodes
end of social media sounds good
It's not going anywhere 😂
dope vid. as a musician i dont even care anymore what happens, let it all crash and burn and ill start over again lol ima get it regardless
I like it.i feel the same.aint gonna change what I’m already doing
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Sometimes I miss when social media and the internet in general was like the Wild West
Facebook was fun back in 2012 I would say. After 2015 it went downhill.
I miss the mid 90s internet. THAT was wild west! Today it's a mess!
Sometimes I miss when there was no social media or internet at all.
I was around for mid 90’s internet.THAT shit was a mess.
I remember a time when the internet was an equalising place where you could talk to a millionaire and a homeless man and not even know it, with social media it's just constantly people bragging about their lives and poor people being envious. The old internet isn't even really gone, it's just that most people don't go to these forums and platforms.
lets be honest, You can do everything right on instagram and it doesnt matter because instagram has taken away the ability for the people to make their own decisions about what they want to see. you can have the greatest content on instagram and have factors outside of your control decimate your reach. nothing you did wrong its just simply the algorithm has chosen that its not gonna show content like yours. thats pretty much what it comes down to. a new app needs to be created that is everything instagram used to be before the algorithms. i like the fanbase app personally
i agree
i agree as well
Thats not how the instagram algo works. you just made that up. It tests all new content to a seed audience, and it get pushed based on how it performed! If the audience doesnt like it, it wont get pushed. Its similar with YT.
@@JMRabil675 that’s lie. Instagram employees literally have a heat up and cool down button. This is documented. Employees have the power to make their friends go viral they also have the power to cool down aka shadow ban people/pages they don’t like. This is a documented fact. It’s also a documented fact that black creators are negatively affected by the algorithms because they are programmed in such a way that minimizes their reach and engagements. Congress literally grilled tik tok about this in a hearing. So you can’t tell me nothing about how I’m wrong about this. You can do literally everything right and have the best content in the world and Instagram whether through janky algorithms, prejudice employees or many currently unknown factors will destroy the reach of your account. The fact that Instagram is an ad revenue based platform makes Instagram a direct competitor to us as creators. It hurts Instagram’s bottom line if you as a creator have a million followers and all your posts get sent to 1 million accounts. That means a company would be better off paying you to reach a million followers rather than paying Instagram for ads. So what Instagram does is kills everyone’s reach so that it is more beneficial for companies to Instagram instead of a creator who has a million followers but they only reach 50,000 out of the million. I can debunk what you are saying from so many different angles. The Instagram algorithm is a joke. It’s a total fraud and they are literally stealing from the user base.
Quick side note: They had to create a „paid social media“ option in Europe, because they were in conflict with regulations regarding data illegally being used for advertising. If you still want to use the free version (literally everyone), you have to confirm that your data will be used for these ads 😅 It‘s just a trick to work around regulations in Europe. Confirm or pay 💰
Don’t know about you guys, but as a simple end user, I started feeling burnout about a year ago. In the last 6 months I’ve reduced my RUclips usage by 95% or so. There’s rarely anything I want to watch as it’s all the same.
That's the algorithm. It's overly focusing content to be all the same as whatever it was you watched recently
Use the search bar instead because if you just choose from what youtube suggests the algorithm will just keep showing you the same shit over and over then it will randomly try to insert pointless explorer page type video or even the news when you never watch any content like that.
Bro before there were ads, RUclips was a post for fun website and did amazingly well
That's when I started viewing RUclips and posting.
fun fact, before that youtube was actually a dating site 😂
@@heyDominik I didn't know that! I only discovered it as a site with lots of interesting content from people, who were just sharing everything.
Lol bro you deserve to go viral@@chargermopar
That's true 😢 youtube was better and fun from 2010-2021 but now is not 😢😢
These was a time when social media actually was fun and connected with people then it turned to everyone hating each other competing trying to show off people going insane making online content
yeah
We aren't evolved enough to use social media yet.
I feel like in the next 15 years social media would just become another lost media that you would only visit if your really that bored
Amazing take.
I kinda would love to see that happen, but I'm not as confident, I think social media will just lose a lot of relevance.
hello, then what do you feel would replace social media as the most famous way for people to consume media content? Just like social media kind of took over TVs, few people watch TVs nowadays
It's entirely possible.
brainchip@@TheCoolJohnny
Somebody slip the meme "Interrupting the content I like every 10s with your ad makes me hate your product" under the door of all marketing departments across the globe.
It's funny how all these social media platforms tried to be tiktok and now tiktok is trying to be youtube. Why can't they all just be their own thing? I miss Instagram being photos, youtube about long form content and tiktok when it was short form and not constant ads. Also, I really needed to hear that whole thing about how you grew slowly over time and built an audience while watching others in your niche grow quickly. That's how I feel like I am now. I am not growing as quickly as other people, but I am steadily growing a consistent audience who is very active on my discord and watches all of my videos and live content. Sometimes I just look at numbers and forget that it's not just about that.
Because that is how this society of halfwit salesmen educates people.
There’s tons of people doing what you’re doing.its an oversaturated field.
I've been telling my fellow photographers for years: likes and followers don't validate the quality of your work.
There's people who have tens of thousands of followers, who are mediocre photographers. There's spectacular photographers who have only a couple of hundred followers.
As long as you do what you like and create what you like to create, the right audience for you will find you.
Others, much like you described, just put out the content they think people will like to see. Then when it doesn't catch on, they cry about it. When in fact, they should just be honest with themselves and ask if it really is their best work or not.
@@TJ-ct9rr that’s really all subjective, though. On a technical level, those that know what they’re doing will usually go further.
But it’s also a matter of understanding how IG works. I always like to say it’s like a game, where you just need to figure out the best strategy for you.
Plenty of people just want to share and they don’t really care about followers and likes at all. And if you don’t, it’s definitely a lot harder to gain any following other than friends and family 😅
agreed, before cared too much regard photography. now I do not care. before was abstract anamorphic photographer. I still do not make photos but focus struggling make videos as hobby. I still do not care of results but makes me happy because it was a passion.
apologies I realized my depression is affecting my explanations
I'm in this specter
as well- I agree, I have more clients from my small account, that haven't even "liked" a portrait. amazing how this works. the rest is mass psychosis
I agree with you about the likes and followers. I don't have many of either as an artist but the small amount that I do have, I'm happy. 😊I'm doing what I enjoy, they are there and I can speak with them. Building a community.😌
Nothing good ever comes from TikTok. Long form content is coming back around! Especially in makeup tutorials
I have a similar feeling that raw, longer form content will have a comeback
Sure hope so it never went away for me ..
TikTok has less censorship and a more balanced algorithm. But other than that i agree
I think the longer it takes for you to “ make it “ the longer you can hang in when things aren’t going the best. Idk if that makes sense
I get you, you value things higher that you have to work harder for
It’s crazy blaming the people and not the actually unhinged algorithm of these apps
Social media content is slowly but surely shifting back to more authentic and intimate content. Everything is just way too edited and fast paced.
Trust me when I say this authenticity will win
I 100% agree
Wow this reminds me of something I recently read from Martin Scorsese - “But the technology’s changed so rapidly and exhaustedly, that in a sense the only thing you can really hold on to is the individual voice. The individual voice, I must say, can express itself on TikTok or can express itself on a four-hour film or a two-hour miniseries.”
yes🙏
Agree!
More authentic content is the way to go!
Anyone feel he’s trying to scare people so he can sell the course he mentioned? Could be true but it feels a little disingenuous?
You don’t need to buy my course, just trying to spread awareness so you can set yourself up for the long term 👌
When I read the title, I thought, "finally some good news!" But then you talked about this thing as if it was a bad thing... I've been wishing for the downfall of influencers. I just hope it happens in my lifetime.
When I got online in 1996 I just filled out my profiles with my creative arts. I never spoke about anything that I was doing either. I just read articles. Watched videos, and made comments along the way. I shared my work with the share buttons too. I left things alone, because everything was going fine. It still is, and I still do the same like I did in 1996. I'm not in any hurry.
i was at my best point when i was doing the opposite of what people say to do, i reached my worst point when i started hearing what people said to do
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The best content is not the one you are trying to create, but when real inspiration hits you and you grab a shaking camera and film.
All the best stuff is just people messing around. I always think of the ninja turtles. The idea is so stupid and the creators were just goofing off. It started as a joke but the property is worth billions now. Same with DragonBall, Akira never took it seriously naming characters after vegetables and making the story up as he went (chapter to chapter) and that became absolutely massive. Things needs to feel organic to resonate with people.
Beautiful
Exactly the same thing when we go to search for something a thought or idea suddenly hits us and we go to find videos or information about it, i've been functioning on the internet like this since 2018 now after some really big let downs my loyalty only became to myself not helping people constantly make views.
I'm subscribed to a small handful of channels but honestly i only regularly watch 3 of them one of them is tasting history with max miller because it's good stuff and interesting i learn something new every time. The rest of the time search for whatever's on my mind each day, sadly i have to remove a lot of them from my watch history after because it doesn't mean i want to regularly watch it and most videos are attached to clickbait but they certainly get multiple views because of how many times i have to edit my comments until they actually get posted and that's probably why they do it so i do enough.
On average i only watch a few videos per day now mostly i listen to music and i don't care about shorts at all and i stay away from animal videos because the more you watch the more it takes over your recommendations which is the same problem with other social media sites. It sometimes tries to get me to watch them but i then click not to recommend the channels or say i don't like it lol as soon as i see it telling me to not recommend a few channels it backs away lol at least i can do that on here but on others i had no choice what showed up on the feed.
I stopped at 13:38 because you weren’t saying much of anything. Videos like these that have no value are part of social media’s problem.
I have a gut feeling this is a compounded issue: at 8:14 you can see that 50% of creators are engaging in photography, creative writing, (and from my experience, music and dance as well) and these are areas that historically we never figured out how to efficiently make into a market that is beneficial for both the industry and the individual artists at the same time. We're fixing this plane mid-air.
Very interesting times for creators who are in it for the long game and actually have a brand strategy and plan how they want to help other people and tap into creative ways to show it.
Selfish or unauthentic content is not going to cut it, it is short-lived and you will be forgotten.
this is how I'm looking at it!
TBH, commercial content creation is a joke to begin with, and it's broad acceptance is what got us here.
I think the entire world agrees by now that we were all happier without social media.
I remember YT in 2007, it was easier to get views back then than now. and when I joined FB in 2009 I got more likes and comments than I do now.
Same. Unfortunately, every social media platform been neutered by corporations. Sucking out the fun and joy of it. It was great while it lasted
As a small creator I think this is good, short form makes people think its easy, you dont need find an audience. Those creators will soon disappear and the market will be less saturated
you’re smart. the glass is always half full never half empty. 🤝🏽
This!
I just started posting to RUclips after wanting to since 2018... just posting to mainly show family/friends. Not trying to make it a job, just wanted to show off my adventures. And hopefully at some point get to start testing gear sent to me for free 😂 camping gear is expensive...
that’s so cool, it’s like a digital diary
I miss the days where people cared about how good your work is vs how many people you (don’t) know!
Sorry but this was bad take after bad take.
I’m basically making the decision to start over and treat all my platforms as I am starting from fresh. I will say the hardest thing for social media is seeing those low views when you are a one man show, and do all the hard work yourself. Low views just incentivize everyone to post less. Or even encourage the average consumers to be on social media less. Which exacerbates the problem more.
Yes! It’s hard to see those low numbers but stay hopeful that won’t be for long 😉
Nothing wrong with that. Starting fresh
IG went from a solid picture sharing app to a tik tok wanna be in a couple years.
I hate super short form content. I think it's brain rot. Some of it can be informative which is nice but for 90% it's awful. I never wanted short form to come to Instagram and it did, when that happened I knew it was headed to youtube. Now that it's on RUclips, if they start putting ads on short form content I'll be done with it forever I think. I think a lot of people don't mind a meaningful plug, or a 5 second ad before a video. But not 2, 5 second ads back to back before the video even starts, then another unskippable ad at the 1 minute mark, then a few more drizzled throughout and before you know it you've seen at least 6 ads in a 5 minute video. It gets extremely irritating because of the placement and the fact that they're just getting absurdly greedy at this point and I know they aren't paying youtubers enough for it either.
I always appreciate your videos, thanks for telling it like it is. I don't think anyone is prepared for what A.I will be able to do - I hope you spend time thinking about it - because one day you'll wake up and it will be ready to simulate worlds for you
First time watching your channel and I really loved this video! I was starting to feel that the creator space is becoming too saturated with people who are just in for the money and supposed following fame. Can’t wait to watch more from you!
I appreciate your honest opinion and sharing your journey as a content creator. It really inspires me to continue as a content creator.
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honestly, good. Social media has ruined society with how many younger people spend all day inside and consuming it rather than going out and meeting people. Its why I know 20 something later millennials/older zoomers who can barely have functional relationships
I can’t wait for Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok to go away. It’s been so detrimental to society
Tiktok has more free speech. RUclips and the other platforms censor everything
i miss 2015, wish i could go back :(
I am in a downward spiral on RUclips too. But I am in it for the long game bringing educational and medical communication content. It is not easy but still hopeful 🤞🏼
i feel the Hustle my friend and i definitely agree you need to really like creating because it takes time to make content creating sustainable.
If you don’t love it, you’ll eventually leave it.
This video was…inspiring? I’ve been creating content that I put a LOT of effort into for years and I’ve recently seen a lot of videos about how people are sick of short form and done with the mundane promotions and ads. I’ve seen videos about how it’s taken bigger creators 8 years of posting to actually start to gain traction. Oh, the instant graduation curse. This inspired me to get back to it and continue to create and do my own authentic thing. I’m going to keep going. It’s for other people, really - not for me, at the end of the day. I create for others, because I have a lot to share. I’m so glad that the community is catching up on this. Thank you, 10x over for this video.
The end of social media started with algorithms and censorship.
Algorithms aren't new, lol. People are just now understanding how social media works and how the algorithm works.
I’ve totally noticed a change with RUclips, it seems to be taking a few more risks again like OG RUclips. I’m enjoying it.
Finally. But RUclips needs to do the same. The forced negative reviews, the fake cancelations are ruining careers and lives. It's enough now. Yes I am all for accountability. Not so much for drama channels coming up with a hit piece based on one sentence from 1999, and ruining a person's reputation by making illogical assumptions.
Don't even call them drama channels anymore, there are more like gossip men channels. especially in 2024 ill I see are videos like "insert name" career is over or the rise and fall of "insert name"
yeah its gonna be do hard selling merch and getting thousands of dollars in twitch donations
It’s inflation, plane and simple. The “creator economy” was a result of COVID money printing and now that all that stimulus is gone, rent/student loan payment moratoriums are over and prices have jumped upwards of 50% on things like insurance in the last 5 years everyone’s risk tolerance is very low. Companies have less money to spend on ads (if they’re even in business anymore) and crafting a content strategy is impossible when you’re hungry with no food. No one has time for this garbage anymore, and we don’t want to watch people in opulent studios wax philosophically when it takes multiple jobs just to keep the same lifestyle we had less than a decade ago.
Truth. And things are going to get worse for some. I’m seeing so many layoffs in my area- thousands of jobs, 10 to 15% of employees, one retail online company completely shut.
Friends are telling me they have been told there are no raises coming in 2024- so they will effectively be working just as hard for less because of inflation.
I saw this coming from over a decade away, I've been warning people about social media since 2012
I don't know why can't they just have small pop-up banners at the bottom of the screen on short format video, for ads. Companies pay a lot to have their banners hang in football stadiums. why can't they just do the same for short format content??
Don't be a hypocryte. You're one of them.
RUclips changed its algorithm. Even large channels have a large decline in views compared to how many subscribers they have. My 10k videos currently have a ridiculous 500 views each. They clearly want to discourage people from living and focusing on real life and regular work. And this is happening not only on RUclips. Such a commandment.
Noticed this as well. RUclips CEO said Susan said they’re focusing on shorts and creators under 100k.
I never liked the term creator, I think it's a misunderstanding people have that you need to change for your audience. This makes no sense because your audience is built on your content in the first place.
People look at making videos as a business instead of doing things that are meaningful to them, and if you're only serving algorithm you're not changing or improving the world or educating anybody on anything. Is this the same old same old. And that's how we got here.
There was a time when people shared videos of things that they did themselves or that they were interested in, now it's all video essays on other youtubers. The people are tired of it.
My engagement has steadily grown over the years because I don't just make videos to serve the algorithm.
It becomes an echo chamber of people talking about what other people talked about people talking about and that's why RUclips is so full of garbage now.
If you do what you love and share it with the world, people will come to see. But the idea of making a living or getting rich completely misses the mark of why we make videos in the first place
I agree that if platform users are paying for an ad-free experience, then marketing companies will likely being paying for content creators/influencers to put their product before audiences.
It's really weird to me youtube tried so hard to be tick tock with their "shorts" and now tick tock is trying so hard to become RUclips. It reminds me of when Britney Spears first came out and invested so much energy in trying to be Janet Jackson, and then when Janet Jackson revamped her career she was trying to be Britney Spears.
😂 true
Janet ain’t never tried to be Britney Spears. If you can prove she has please share it. Like Kat Williams said, “I’ll wait.” I know it doesn’t exist. Your perception isn’t the reality.
1:13 One big problem with the paid model is, what constitutes an ad? Is something an "influencer" (whatever the hell that means anymore) is trying to peddle on IG engaged in advertising? I sure as hell won't pay for access any social media platform--most of them are cesspools--and if the intent is to replace ad-supported platforms with paid models, I suspect a lot of people will say, "I'm out"
Great example... I pay for RUclips Premium to not have to sit through RUclips placed Ads. But many of the channels I watch are sponsored by someone so they have to talk about whatever their sponsor is peddling....
social media has nothing to do with being social
Doubling down on my email list and getting people in my Skool group here in 2024. Sick of meta and the state of social media. Just focusing on helping people and strengthening my brand on a more intimate level.
I love this; I'm doing the very same! I've been an entrepreneur for 16 years now, and I'm telling you, things have gotten pretty bad.
@@iammrbelcher I’ve been in it since 2020. I found myself making click bait posts on IG that grew my following but I wasn’t actually connecting with people for better brand recognition. Think it’s all about getting back to our roots (at least for myself being a service based business).
Skool is 🗑️
@@monbeauparfum1452 works fine for me. What do you use?
Same!!
One of the main reasons why I pay for RUclips Premium is to get rid of the ads.
Just get an adblocker. I use one, don't pay for premium, and I get no ads at all. They've warned me a few time whenever I'd open youtube on my computer, or whenever I watch a video. But I haven't gotten anything since ages ago.
I miss 1995 wild west internet so much. Yahoo chat had official fight rooms. I remember going in them and just lurking hearing people over voice chat go at each others throats verbally. It was a place where people could vent and it was SO entertaining. Now people are too sensitive to even have minor disagreements online without the ban hammer coming down on you on reddit or something. Internet isn't as fun to use anymore and all social media has done has fostered witch hunts against people that make mistakes.
Social media deserves to fall apart. It should never have existed in the first place. Social media was a data collection mechanism for AI. We got duped into using it and supporting it through ads. It's a mechanism that completely devalues human beings. Like, we might not be at the point where AI can do everything, but it might get to the point where nothing you do, no endeavor you undertake will matter. It's essentially the end of human achievement.
Why do we need so many cooking Chanel’s ?
I personally put any sponsor who interrupts my content consumption on a "Don't Buy" list and will go to a competitors instead. I am that petty and hate ads.
I think more people need to be petty in this way so that corpos get the memo that we don’t want products shoved in our faces 24/7
remember Vines?! wasn't that just tiktok?
The purpose of RUclips channels were certainly about sharing experiences with people with like experiences or areas of interest. It was never to be a place of storytelling until Casey made it a thing.
I gave myself a 3 year head start by deleting all my socials
You are my number one resource for social media strategies/growth! I love your content and your vibes, thanks so much for sharing valuable insights with all of us ❤
One of the problems is that being a content creator became a job instead of a passion project people did on the side. Most people are hard up on money, they're not going to be able to pay Patreons for these creators that want to make a living off of their content.
6:25 that's great for humanity because "short term content" is virtual fentanyl.
Crashes are great for weeding out folks who are for the short fame and attention. In the long run, platfrom will start seeing the influx of good engaging Content with good retention in the long run. It's always quality over quantity.
Here for the long game but yeah, probably my "number" isn't going to be big. Love making stuffs on my specific niche , might explore other stuffs as well.
I think we're all in agreement as creators that visibility is important. The hours, blood sweat and tears spent doing something with love has value. I only have 1,280 followers and communicate with 10-15 who value what I do. The most mediocre content accounts I have seen have followers in the thousands, which I fail to recognize. Nobody knows for sure.
I agree. I have 13k but IG is not pushing my content. I think they want creators to pay. That’s all I can think of at this point. I stopped posting for 3 months bc a lot was going on & well now my content is shown to 200-700 people no matter how many shares & likes I get. 🤷🏻♀️
Thats why you dont know instagram is a pay to win platform. If you dont pay you dont get reach and all your hard work is for nothing. You did the biggest beginner mistake there is. I dont even post if i dont pay because its a waste of time.
Thanks @@castielvargastv7931
I started my IG mid-Dec 23, and 6 weeks in, 2 videos went viral 400k & 700K, completely organically, pushing me up from 400 followers to 20K+ followers and since then I suddenly have a 'partnership monetization policy' flag, even though I did nothing wrong and my reach has plummeted...they are not showing my reels to any new people, basically just followers and not even most of them...contacted support via my personal Meta verified and they told me it could be from crossposting
on FB, which doesnt make any sense...same business, same creator, my IP...at this point seriously considering giving up on IG and making YT my main focus
Meta reported $36.46 billion in revenue for Q1 2024
TikTok's ad revenues are set to hit $17.2 billion in 2024, a 30.7% increase. They currently pay out 3% to creators, and 10% to music rights.
These platforms will adapt to ad free payment models and will pass that payment onto high performing creators.
For your example of a person reporting a bad return on an influencer campaign is irrelevant to the actual performance.
Where they have a good paying audience they can have insane ROI versus any other ad form, but overall it is slightly worse than ad words, social media ads perform close to that for many niches.
People still pay for TV and print ads.
I’ve been on the verge of wanting to quit but you kinda resurged my will to continue.
Bro no one's watching 30 minute tiktoks. That's not the platform people go to for long form content.
Dominik, you had me at “you’re NOT supposed to shake a Polaroid picture” 😂🙌🏽
I've left all social media except for RUclips years ago. I don't care to follow other peoples lives. I'm focusing on living my life.
very refreshing point of view! Loved the perspective you shared with us, I believe it can be applied beyond social media strategies :)) thanks!
Thank you!✌️
videos like this are funny because the internet (including everybodies LANs) is just as unknown as the ocean, space and our own human bodies and pretty much everything in life.
Your "social is collasping" can represent literally only two apps out of the internet thats filled with millions of other "social media" apps. There is no such thing as "social media collaspe" because if one app did go offline.....you best believe another will take its place. The internet (your internet experience) is only has small or big as you make it via your curiosity.
Videos like this dont not get the people thinking. They only groom the people into furthur thinking only google/apple/microsoft and a small portion of other apps run our lives (which is never true).
like people please explore the internet more. THERE IS A WHOLE LOT OF COOL, BETTER, INTERESTING, REFRESHING and etc.....apps/websites out their that will out beat any "big tech giant" apps anyday
yea right who are u kidding todays kids are glued to their phones.
Short form content, compared with long form content the only goal is popularity and money. Long form brings more detailed overviews of a topic to the creativity and effort of the creator whereas short form is just quick information for the lazy.
we need a credit system where you only get say 300 creadits a month and every time you watch a video you spend a creadit to see it. Each credit could be worth an actual amount of money like $0.10 and it goes directly to the creator when it is spent
Ooh that’s an idea. Even an app that could let me choose 100 videos or a certain amount of hours and that’s that.
YT is becoming more and more garbage these days with “creators” doing anything but: they copy and paste chat gpt/google derived content that you can find yourselves in a minute. Then, they are too lazy to even read it themselves and just use a fake ai voice. Then other “creators” down the line just rip off THAT (already derivative) content, etc. It’s becoming a human centipede of filler and dumb laziness🤦🏻♀️
The problem is that people try to make money directly from social media - that’s wrong.
Social media should be only used to get recognition, status, influence power, trust, etc.
And then with this status, you can make money, but being influencer just to make money is so not-worth-it.
That was one of the reasons I quit being an IG „influencer“. There was nothing I had achieved or done other than take pics of myself walking across a street 😂
Its dead internet and AI theres only so many users and people can grind out content impossibly fast. fully optimized content cause even a smart guy like you cant keep up with the algo as quickly as an AI. Its junk content but it takes away from people doing original stuff.
RUclips premium is the only place I bother with. I never had Instagram or tiktok I cant freakin stand them.
Maybe that’s why it’s been the same thing everyday, and I feel lost a lot