Subreddits for YouTube posts

Redford1900 said:
I asked permission to post in DIY and this is what they said "Please read our Guidleines. Unless you made the dog yourself, it's not appropriate here."

The snark is funny, but not very courteous to my nicely worded request which had all the appropriate "manner words."
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I just looked at the guidelines for DIY, its pretty obvious from the first few lines that they accept only step-by-step documentation of Do-It-Yourself projects. Reading the guidelines first at Reddit is one of guidelines for ALL subreddits! Reddit members are super rule-sensitive. Unless you were building a doghouse, i can understand why the moderator would consider it a hassle to have to waste his/her time on your query, when you do not respect his community enough to learn about it, before marketing a post to it.
 
I have yet to be able to use Reddit effectively. I feel every single time I post something it gets instantly down voted. I feel like maybe if I contributed more, they would have a more positive reaction, but so far no good.
 
I've done ok-ish on reddit with my One Minute Economics channel.

The name of the game is understanding what the subreddit you're thinking about submitting to is all about.

I explain economics-related stuff through one-minute animations on my channel but not all of my videos are good fit for a certain subreddit. For example, the very first video I submitted to the bitcoin subreddit made it to page #1: it was a video about fractional reserve banking and I knew bitcoin guys would find it very interesting. This is because a lot of them don't exactly like banks and fractional reserve banking has always been a hot topic. I submitted a couple of other videos I thought they'd be interested in but they haven't done as well.

I wouldn't say it's "hit or miss" because I knew right off the bat that my fractional reserve banking video is more likely to do well than the others. I'd say demographic analysis is what makes or breaks you, in other words figuring out which videos are a good fit for one subreddit or another.
 
I've finally cracked the reddit code. ..okay not really, but I have tips, because reddit has turned into my main view source.

1. Never be an expert, they WILL let you know if you are one or if you are not. Just be you, remember you are a guest.
2. You must post in a subreddit that will be impressed. If you can't think of one, don't post. If you have a 'semi-cute cat', don't post in the 'totally cute' cat sub, post in the 'kinda ugly' cat sub instead, and your cat will look pretty good compared to the rest.
3. Look for feedback and give them a reason to interact. 'CHECK OUT MY PANCAKES' is bad.. 'Are My Pancakes Interesting?' is good..
4. Reply to every post, even the critics. If you got a critic, say 'dang man you made me sad' not 'STFU or I will fartkick you'. Remember you asked for interactions, so be happy even if they say, 'mic sux & potato camera', just ask how can you fix it.

Hope that helps. The reddit people have been pretty cool to me, but you gotta be prepared to join the synergy.
 
RobB said:
I've finally cracked the reddit code. ..okay not really, but I have tips, because reddit has turned into my main view source.

1. Never be an expert, they WILL let you know if you are one or if you are not. Just be you, remember you are a guest.
2. You must post in a subreddit that will be impressed. If you can't think of one, don't post. If you have a 'semi-cute cat', don't post in the 'totally cute' cat sub, post in the 'kinda ugly' cat sub instead, and your cat will look pretty good compared to the rest.
3. Look for feedback and give them a reason to interact. 'CHECK OUT MY PANCAKES' is bad.. 'Are My Pancakes Interesting?' is good..
4. Reply to every post, even the critics. If you got a critic, say 'dang man you made me sad' not 'STFU or I will fartkick you'. Remember you asked for interactions, so be happy even if they say, 'mic sux & potato camera', just ask how can you fix it.

Hope that helps. The reddit people have been pretty cool to me, but you gotta be prepared to join the synergy.
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Hmm I might dip my toe into Reddit what section would you put an anime tag video in?
 
Well, Reddit has been very good to me since my last post.

My bitcoin video has done very well over there: it was on page one of the /r/bitcoin subreddit (~180k members), of the /r/btc and /r/cryptocurrency ones (~20k members each) and most importantly on /r/videos which is huge, with about 11 million members.

The total view count of that video is now slightly over 5,500 whereas before doing well on Reddit, it was at barely over 100.

I now have 311 channel subscribers, not huge by any means but the channel is growing.

Still, I wish I had other traffic sources such as Reddit, not a huge fan of putting all of my eggs in the same basket.
 
TheAwkwardFamily said:
Hmm I might dip my toe into Reddit what section would you put an anime tag video in?
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You guys seem like fun kids, maybe look for a family friendly youtube list sub? ..If you jump right into the biggest Anime section, they will expect experts, and cuts of anime itself, and lots of art.

Also worth a note the average reddit user is 24-35. I don't know if that is totally true, but I think it's worth thinking about putting your video that is specific to a sub that caters to younger people, or people that will share with younger people, like parents.
 
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RobB said:
You guys seem like fun kids, maybe look for a family friendly youtube list sub? ..If you jump right into the biggest Anime section, they will expect experts, and cuts of anime itself, and lots of art.

Also worth a note the average reddit user is 24-35. I don't know if that is totally true, but I think it's worth thinking about putting your video that is specific to a sub that caters to younger people, or people that will share with younger people, like parents.
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Thanks I posted in the anime tag and wasn't that bad actually tough wood x but yes I'm going to research more thanks for the tips <3
 
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