nowhat
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"Pretty Good Gaming" is/was a YouTube channel that may seem like a dime in a dozen - concentrated on gaming news, gossip and reviews/impressions (they seldom if ever seemed to get review codes, so those were consistently after the official release). Still, I liked them (gotta adore that lovely Welsh accent), subscribed to them, gave them 1€/month in Patreon even just out of support. Well, no more at least for the time being. Gareth, the founder of the channel, gives a rather frank and heartfelt description of what happened:
Sometimes it goes like this, sorry for him/them. What I can't understand is the fact that I've consistently watched most of their content (including the podcast - didn't really watch it, but it was "background music" on Sundays). And yet his video was posted two days ago, and it never popped up in my Youtube feed until now, by some freak accident I guess (I was watching completely unrelated content). Yes, there was a significant gap in new content for the channel, due to reasons explained in the video above. Yet, if the YouTube algorithm had any real kind of real intelligence, it surely would have shown that video to me right after it was released, I did follow the channel very closely after all.
So, YouTube sucks for smaller content creators and favors spamming videos instead of more thought-out content, news at 11. Just that, if there's a smaller channel out there that you like and would like to continue existing, subscribe and go out your way to click on those videos. Hell, you don't have to watch them even, have them play in the background (Google doesn't know you don't really watch them - at least yet...). The big publications and popular streamers don't need your support, it's the smaller ones that do.
Edit: oh yeah, just to be clear - when I'm referring to "them" I mean the channel had quite a bit of staff at one point, and lately two people up until this. Not a pronoun thing (although if that floats your boat, go on ahead).
Sometimes it goes like this, sorry for him/them. What I can't understand is the fact that I've consistently watched most of their content (including the podcast - didn't really watch it, but it was "background music" on Sundays). And yet his video was posted two days ago, and it never popped up in my Youtube feed until now, by some freak accident I guess (I was watching completely unrelated content). Yes, there was a significant gap in new content for the channel, due to reasons explained in the video above. Yet, if the YouTube algorithm had any real kind of real intelligence, it surely would have shown that video to me right after it was released, I did follow the channel very closely after all.
So, YouTube sucks for smaller content creators and favors spamming videos instead of more thought-out content, news at 11. Just that, if there's a smaller channel out there that you like and would like to continue existing, subscribe and go out your way to click on those videos. Hell, you don't have to watch them even, have them play in the background (Google doesn't know you don't really watch them - at least yet...). The big publications and popular streamers don't need your support, it's the smaller ones that do.
Edit: oh yeah, just to be clear - when I'm referring to "them" I mean the channel had quite a bit of staff at one point, and lately two people up until this. Not a pronoun thing (although if that floats your boat, go on ahead).
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