The Hard Truth About YouTube

[Michael]

Are people selfish, or do they just not have enough time?

I see it as being both at times and at times one or the other. A lot of people think they should just spam their content out there with the idea that people will lap it up and watch it without even considering that others might show more interest if they show interest in others too. The term sharing IMO goes both ways, you give and you take. Those who take dont get as much as those who give and take in the end.

Taking something without ever giving anything back is considered selfish in my opinion. Each to their own though lol

Let me put a question forward, would any of you watch my fictional Minecraft channel regularly if every month I visited here and posted:

"Check out this Minecraft video (insert link)"

I think if I come on every few days, took part in various threads, watched other peoples videos, left them comments and actually networked with them then I would be 100% more successful. Thats the thing here, people need to network, get to know each other, help each other, work together if they want to be well known as someone decent enough to give others their time of day.

I can understand those who are just too busy to bother though but they could make some time for others surely. I think things like this mostly applies to here and sites where its a give and take sort of thing. Facebook and Twitter sure you can promote to your hearts content without caring of others but at least lend a like to a fellow YouTuber now and then if you have one on your lists.

So apparently I'm selfish for not sharing every video I watch on my twitter and facebook?
Thanks for that
I really needed more negativity today. </3

That doesnt make sense to me, why would anyone be selfish for not promoting or sharing their stuff That isnt selfish at all.

 

[enzerutomoshibi]

So commenting on people's videos and liking and subscribing isn't enough anymore?
The occasional shout out on your own videos isn't any good either?
So you absolutely have to share on social networking to not be a selfish person?

 

[Michael]

So commenting on people's videos and liking and subscribing isn't enough anymore?
The occasional shout out on your own videos isn't any good either?
So you absolutely have to share on social networking to not be a selfish person?

By sharing I mean watching others content and getting involved with others rather than just posting stuff to gain attention without giving a crap about others.

Commenting and liking is enough, its those who choose not to who arent working with one another to become something who people could deem selfish Everyone has their own reasons though.

 

[CrayonWTF]

So commenting on people's videos and liking and subscribing isn't enough anymore?
The occasional shout out on your own videos isn't any good either?
So you absolutely have to share on social networking to not be a selfish person?

i was stating that all people do these days are post videos ansd leave...some people might consider that being selfish and just hoping that they get views.....didnt say that liking and subbing isnt enough anymore...just stating that sharing on social medias helps even more.......and no where did i say that you were selfish either

 

[enzerutomoshibi]

By sharing I mean watching others content and getting involved with others rather than just posting stuff to gain attention without giving a crap about others.

Commenting and liking is enough, its those who choose not to who arent working with one another to become something who people could deem selfish Everyone has their own reasons though.

As long as this thread isn't directed at me for not sharing on social networking, that's good.
My friends were not happy with my youtube spam so I had to stop.

 

[CrayonWTF]

As long as this thread isn't directed at me for not sharing on social networking, that's good.
My friends were not happy with my youtube spam so I had to stop.

well as i see it theres a difference between spam and helping each other....dont spam people on skype randomly saking to like and comment onna video....help them and they might help you in return

 

[enzerutomoshibi]

well as i see it theres a difference between spam and helping each other....dont spam people on skype randomly saking to like and comment onna video....help them and they might help you in return

By spam, I meant all the videos I liked were posted to twitter and facebook.

 

[Michael]

By spam, I meant all the videos I liked were posted to twitter and facebook.

That aint spam, thats called a feed If people are subscribed to whatever youre posting then its their option to unsubscribe or whatever its called on them.

 

[CrayonWTF]

By spam, I meant all the videos I liked were posted to twitter and facebook.

you can disable when it post a status saying that you liked a video...i disabled it on my facebook because i watch a ton of videos and comment on a bunch and it ended up spamming my facebook saying that i liked a video and stuff

 

[urbanlamb]

By sharing I mean watching others content and getting involved with others rather than just posting stuff to gain attention without giving a crap about others.

Commenting and liking is enough, its those who choose not to who arent working with one another to become something who people could deem selfish Everyone has their own reasons though.

i am afraid that liking and sharing and commenting is not enough hehe. Very few people reciprocate. I used to comment and share and like everyones stuff. Unfortunately that did not mean they reciprocated. I learned my lesson. I comment and share and like with a few people who I jive with. I do tend to skip over gaming videos though because well (yeah no comment there). What I do however is try to find people who I jive with now. I was at one point doing everything sub 4 sub all of it here. I found it really was a fruitless effort because they would visit the promo section only so I got smart. If I see someone only post in the promo section and post there first and not even say hello I dont click. There are a few exceptions to that but if the first place they go is to the promo section i tend to just ignore the person but then I am here for community first. The next thing is that there are some people who I can't like what they are doing it goes against well my innards at times. I feel fake liking something that I hate. I do it sometimes but not often. But I get to know a lot of people here code for example I think he is such a neat person so I can't not support him. He has a purpose and a cause behind him even though I dont agree with him at times. He is everything that I think young people should be lol. Vanessa as well so even if i can't stand vlogs.. (actually i like hers hehe) I would support her and I would support Code. One day I might do a nice video on some of the channels I really like. I have been working it over in my mind but at the moment I have a problem that wont go away. So any of my down time which normally is spent um making video is spent chasing a thief around on youtube. I never thought I would have to resort to the content id system but I have had to pick up the phone today and make an expensive phone call lol. Anyhow *tries not to rant*. Youtube is helping they are just slow as molasses so one day maybe I can get back to not chasing people around youtube. and make that video that is in my mind that i just mentioned.