LionWaffles
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Hello! It's LionWaffles again with another YouTube essential tip. Today we are going to be talking about Sub4Sub and how you REALLY shouldn't do it. I've got some of my friends doing it (and me at one point), and it's been pretty hard.
1. V:S ratio is WAYYYYY out of whack - This is when you see channels where they have maybe 100K subscribers, however just falling short of 500 views per video. You're like WHAAAAT? They have that many subs and only 500 views?
2. Subbing back - Yes, yes you can turn off email notifications but really, subscribing to that many accounts - how are you going to tweak the settings for all of those users?
3. Unsubscribing - an *** - This kind of leads from the last one. Why not just unsubscribe? Well, they subscribed to you and you subscribed to them. Think of it this way: You pay taxes, but you aren't living in that town.
4. YouTube is a game - Now think of YouTube as a Monopoly. The bank is all of the subscribers. You steal all of the money from the bank. You cheated.
5. Against YouTube terms - Maker Studios had a system that (I think) got taken down due to it violating the YouTube terms, and it was a S4S / V4V / L4L system that you had to be invited to, which was their way of making sure you don't unsubscribe.
6. It just makes you look bad - This one is from my POV. All of my friends have higher subscriber counts (and my enemies heheheheh), and that is because they made the horrible choice of doing Sub4Sub. To me, it makes you look really desperate for attention. Yes, it does boost your rankings, but it should be just as hard as it is for people such as Pewdiepie and Smosh, they all went through the same process you did.
Thank you for reading my first YouTube tip!
- LionWaffles
Sources:
Friends, YouTubers, and myself.
1. V:S ratio is WAYYYYY out of whack - This is when you see channels where they have maybe 100K subscribers, however just falling short of 500 views per video. You're like WHAAAAT? They have that many subs and only 500 views?
2. Subbing back - Yes, yes you can turn off email notifications but really, subscribing to that many accounts - how are you going to tweak the settings for all of those users?
3. Unsubscribing - an *** - This kind of leads from the last one. Why not just unsubscribe? Well, they subscribed to you and you subscribed to them. Think of it this way: You pay taxes, but you aren't living in that town.
4. YouTube is a game - Now think of YouTube as a Monopoly. The bank is all of the subscribers. You steal all of the money from the bank. You cheated.
5. Against YouTube terms - Maker Studios had a system that (I think) got taken down due to it violating the YouTube terms, and it was a S4S / V4V / L4L system that you had to be invited to, which was their way of making sure you don't unsubscribe.
6. It just makes you look bad - This one is from my POV. All of my friends have higher subscriber counts (and my enemies heheheheh), and that is because they made the horrible choice of doing Sub4Sub. To me, it makes you look really desperate for attention. Yes, it does boost your rankings, but it should be just as hard as it is for people such as Pewdiepie and Smosh, they all went through the same process you did.
Thank you for reading my first YouTube tip!
- LionWaffles
Sources:
Friends, YouTubers, and myself.
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