PositivelyBrainwashed
I Love YTtalk
I'm always around here praising how amazing Reddit can be. It can be intimidating at first, and I've had my rough moments in it, but it can easily become your best friend. Here's 5 Lessons to cut the learning curve for anyone daring to use it.
Lesson #1: Reddit can be unpredictable at times. You can be King in a subreddit one day and a nobody another day. I created a video with the expectation that it would do well in /rsocialskills and r/socialengineering as I got great results there in the past. It saddened me that it didn't do as well.
Lesson #2: Sometimes your video has to survive the wave of downvotes. I can swear that there's people with multiple accounts on Reddit that will just mass downvote your videos. In the r/everymanshouldknow subrredit for example, my video stayed at 0 getting mass downvoted for a good 4 hours, averaging a rating of 50%. Then it sky rocketed upwards now with a 90% upvote. This makes no sense unless someone just finally ran out of accounts. So if your video is good enough, it can overcome even the dark side of Reddit.
Lesson #3: Good Titles are soooo important. r/lifehacks was not even in my mind while making my video, as it's simply a book summary and nothing like the other contents in that subreddit. But I cleverly titled my post "Communication Life Hacks" and boom it was a big hit, and now Reddit is driving my channel with over 11,000+ views according to my realtime analytics. Not bad as it takes less than 20 seconds to post in each Subreddit! Also, I'm confident I would have gotten better results in the Social subreddits if I titled it, "How to Talk to Anyone to improve your Social Skills" rather than simply using the default title I chose for Youtube .
Lesson #4: Reply back to every single comment. Majority of my comments are nice, informative, or neutral. But I reply to every single one of them, including the negative ones. Posts with a lot of comments tend to do really well, and you replying increases that number.
Lesson #5: Keep a list of Subreddits for your niche, and write down how many subscribers is in it, and any unique notes or rules about it. If I didn't have r/lifehacks in my list, I probably would have never thought of posting there. Also if you find a new subreddit that you wished you posted your past videos on there, then why not do so now? There's nothing wrong promoting past videos.
At the moment my video has received 276 likes and only 12 dislikes. If Reddit was truly toxic I should be getting more dislikes. I have another video that was controversial in the past, and looking back I can now admit there was a lot room for improvement and it got 96 likes but 51 dislikes. So overall, I think Reddit is like a magnifying glass. If your content is truly worthy, it will be loved, shared and it can be a very rewarding experience. I could literally spend 100 hours promoting on other social media platforms, but spending 1-2 hours planning my strategy on Reddit produces much better results. Hope you guys got something out of this post
EDIT: My luck ran out on r/Lifehacks and they took my post down due to my submission ratio of personal content being more than 10%
So I guess there's a lesson #6: Get in a habit of promoting other people's contents. If I do the math, it's still worth my time doing this.
Lesson #1: Reddit can be unpredictable at times. You can be King in a subreddit one day and a nobody another day. I created a video with the expectation that it would do well in /rsocialskills and r/socialengineering as I got great results there in the past. It saddened me that it didn't do as well.
Lesson #2: Sometimes your video has to survive the wave of downvotes. I can swear that there's people with multiple accounts on Reddit that will just mass downvote your videos. In the r/everymanshouldknow subrredit for example, my video stayed at 0 getting mass downvoted for a good 4 hours, averaging a rating of 50%. Then it sky rocketed upwards now with a 90% upvote. This makes no sense unless someone just finally ran out of accounts. So if your video is good enough, it can overcome even the dark side of Reddit.
Lesson #3: Good Titles are soooo important. r/lifehacks was not even in my mind while making my video, as it's simply a book summary and nothing like the other contents in that subreddit. But I cleverly titled my post "Communication Life Hacks" and boom it was a big hit, and now Reddit is driving my channel with over 11,000+ views according to my realtime analytics. Not bad as it takes less than 20 seconds to post in each Subreddit! Also, I'm confident I would have gotten better results in the Social subreddits if I titled it, "How to Talk to Anyone to improve your Social Skills" rather than simply using the default title I chose for Youtube .
Lesson #4: Reply back to every single comment. Majority of my comments are nice, informative, or neutral. But I reply to every single one of them, including the negative ones. Posts with a lot of comments tend to do really well, and you replying increases that number.
Lesson #5: Keep a list of Subreddits for your niche, and write down how many subscribers is in it, and any unique notes or rules about it. If I didn't have r/lifehacks in my list, I probably would have never thought of posting there. Also if you find a new subreddit that you wished you posted your past videos on there, then why not do so now? There's nothing wrong promoting past videos.
At the moment my video has received 276 likes and only 12 dislikes. If Reddit was truly toxic I should be getting more dislikes. I have another video that was controversial in the past, and looking back I can now admit there was a lot room for improvement and it got 96 likes but 51 dislikes. So overall, I think Reddit is like a magnifying glass. If your content is truly worthy, it will be loved, shared and it can be a very rewarding experience. I could literally spend 100 hours promoting on other social media platforms, but spending 1-2 hours planning my strategy on Reddit produces much better results. Hope you guys got something out of this post
EDIT: My luck ran out on r/Lifehacks and they took my post down due to my submission ratio of personal content being more than 10%
So I guess there's a lesson #6: Get in a habit of promoting other people's contents. If I do the math, it's still worth my time doing this.
Last edited:
