Superheroes IRL (in real life) are the new get rich-quick scheme on Youtube ?

[FamilyToyReview]

Dude, chill out!

Reading your posts it seems you have exposed an illegal traffic of kid slaves or something

Here comes the answers you want.

1) You actually answered already your own question. They are not getting much views on the Superheroes videos (till now) because YT algo knows that their channel was about something else, similar niche but different content. If they keep doing Superheroes IRL videos for a while, they'll eventually find their breakthrough and I guarantee you the big views will start flowing again.

How do I know this? I have a nursery rhyme channel and I decided to diversify the content starting doing toy stories stop motion videos, and I noticed that despite using similar keywords to my nursery rhyme videos, the views I received were a tiny fraction of what the nursery rhyme videos received. I decided to scrap the plan and open an entirely new channel, much safer approach in my opinion.

Not to mention you can promote the video on the new channel using the annotations from your established channel, which is exactly what happened with the SuperHeroPictures Channel (they drove humoungous traffic from HeroesIRL channel).

2) Just answered above

3) Can't watch the video, but ToyMonster is completely legit, it is made by the same Canadian guys behind adollstory channel and if you ask me they are some of the best quality channel in this niche (of course if you watch their videos with adult eyes it seems utter sh*t, but so are Teletubbies and more in general stuff aimed to children if you can't put yourself from a child perspective)[DOUBLEPOST=1460391126,1460390948][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh, I also forgot to add that we are in 2016 and not 2010 anymore, it's impossible to pull off bot stunts in the range of HUNDRED OF MILLIONS views without YT noticing and shutting down the channel for good.[DOUBLEPOST=1460392116][/DOUBLEPOST]Ok I was able to watch the video by Zachzy, I actually stopped at half of it as the guy is clearly clueless when it comes to kids niche in YT (no disrespect intended). He goes on ranting on the comment/like ratio being shady, when in reality it's exacty like that on any video aimed to young children and you can check by yourself going on any big and legit kids channel (and it has been mentioned already on this forum, too)

No wonder he had put the video as unlisted, there was ground for legal actions there as he was claiming ToyMonster is gaming Youtube with no concrete proof supporting his theory.

Hi there. Is your channel like hoopla kids? Our son watched some of that early last year when we had him watching nursery rhymes. I like the more traditional nursery rhyme songs and try to steer him away from the channels with the commercially driven tunes that really arent the nursery rhymes i grew up with. Unless its a really catchy song

Im not a fan of the spiderman stuff. It was just ok when the one guy spidey was doing it and still it was kind of weird. And toy monster is kind of acceptable. but man that would be pretty annoying to see a bunch of youtubers muckin about in spiderman suits. I would like less of that. At least do different superheroes please!

 

[AussieJoshie]

Unfortunately you have to. We did unintentional experiment with our 4-5 years old son. He was usually starting with something decent but unsupervised he would end up within an hour or less in some cr@p like this. Thumbnail clickbait tagged with some mega-popular superheroes and voila - you are the "king" of YouTube. The content of the video is irrelevant as far as it has some remote connection with the main subject.
Toddlers and small kids rule supreme YouTube. Control them -and you'll control YouTube.

I agree to an extent with your comment - because the same thing happens with our little Joshie. He sees a thumbnail that catches his eye, and click click click away he goes within the web of suggested videos that come up after that. So having a video on the homepage, trend page, as a suggested video etc is such a massive thing - it's ridiculous how quickly view counts can grow.

But what is happening here is a coordinated effort to game the system imho. It seems that a handful of people have created dozens and dozens of channels, use the same footage, tags, and descriptions, and bot comments to appear as if the content/theme of the videos is popular - they manage to get onto the homepage, trend page, as a suggested video and off they go.

The issue for me is not what happens once they are on homepage, trend page, as a suggested video (I applaud people for managing to get to that level), - but rather how did they get there in the 1st place. Is it legitimate? is it within the rules? If yes, well so be it and good luck to them on being smart enough to figure out how to outplay everyone else. If not, then...??
Time will tell I guess.

 

[chottom]

I agree to an extent with your comment - because the same thing happens with our little Joshie. He sees a thumbnail that catches his eye, and click click click away he goes within the web of suggested videos that come up after that. So having a video on the homepage, trend page, as a suggested video etc is such a massive thing - it's ridiculous how quickly view counts can grow.

But what is happening here is a coordinated effort to game the system imho. It seems that a handful of people have created dozens and dozens of channels, use the same footage, tags, and descriptions, and bot comments to appear as if the content/theme of the videos is popular - they manage to get onto the homepage, trend page, as a suggested video and off they go.

The issue for me is not what happens once they are on homepage, trend page, as a suggested video (I applaud people for managing to get to that level), - but rather how did they get there in the 1st place. Is it legitimate? is it within the rules? If yes, well so be it and good luck to them on being smarting enough to figure out how to outplay everyone else. If not, then...??
Time will tell I guess.

I am afraid this is perfectly within the rules. For us as adults we know that it is a shameless exploit of the system and abuse (a kind of) of young brains but within YT it is perfectly legal. This is may be and one of the reasons why YT will never reach the quality of mainstream media (or at least Disney quality - which is often not so exceptionally high). But we can not and we should not expect anything more of relatively simple computer algorithm trying to create and maintain media outlet. The only way around (I think) is to keep good quality of your videos and to use with discretion the algorithmic exploits - Good Mythical Morning are good example for this.

 

[AussieJoshie]

I am afraid this is perfectly within the rules. For us as adults we know that it is a shameless exploit of the system and abuse (a kind of) of young brains but within YT it is perfectly legal. This is may be and one of the reasons why YT will never reach the quality of mainstream media (or at least Disney quality - which is often not so exceptionally high). But we can not and we should not expect anything more of relatively simple computer algorithm trying to create and maintain media outlet. The only way around (I think) is to keep good quality of your videos and to use with discretion the algorithmic exploits - Good Mythical Morning are good example for this.

Kinda sad in that case. Really doesn't seem right. But I guess there will always be those looking to take advantage.
We are new YouTubers so not too familiar with all that goes on to be honest.
We figure if we upload our family having fun and other people watch and enjoy - then that's great. Some videos are ok, others not so great, but they're honest and positive - we don't see too many ways of getting into trouble doing that.