"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership
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he's a shill.
Has been for a very long time. I quit watching his video after I saw him post a thing that was going on and on about the superiority of the product in his left hand over the right, and how much faster it was and blah blah blah.
Both products were bandwidth limited by the PCI bus and there was no advantage to the expensive one he was hawking. -
Because people wont stay 14 to 16 year olds for long
Personally I was only 14-16 for like 5 years at most
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I dont know if anyone has noticed but...
Can we no longer watch youtube without being logged in? Every embedded video i see doesnt work. Every time i try to click on a video it tells me to sign in.
If i have an ad block running it basically blocks the website.I really think its the auto plays and the untracked accounts.
Youtube would rather be able to track every user and make more profit per person than go big tent all audiences.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Can't confirm this. YouTube runs like always von my setup (and wihout an account).
edit: except the Trending page of course.
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He generates far too much content without any depth, and it's all infotainment.
And that's what people watch. This didn't change.
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Trademark entries are a good indicator there is something nearer than further away.
Fingers crossed. I've been waiting a long time to get back into VR and replace my OG Vive.
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A lot of Youtube channels are reporting declining viewership lately.
EX1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpVnx4_yqTo
EX2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0tmhEtVJEFun times. Looks like a lot of channels are seeing a decline not just Linus. Hes just the latest to talk about it.
Then I saw this article as well and thought I would share.
Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?
Some other analysis: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/youtube-views-are-down-dont-panic
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I dont know if anyone has noticed but...
Can we no longer watch youtube without being logged in? Every embedded video i see doesnt work. Every time i try to click on a video it tells me to sign in.
If i have an ad block running it basically blocks the website.I really think its the auto plays and the untracked accounts.
Youtube would rather be able to track every user and make more profit per person than go big tent all audiences.
It's hit or miss for me with my VPN, but between using an Invidious instance, Freetube, DDG video search, and cycling VPN locations, I'm never, ever logged in to YT.
And yes, Google/YT wants to track everything. Third party doctrine means that governments will pay them for this data rather than run their own surveillance systems. Anything that you've watched that can be used against you will be if it suits someone else.
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I dont know if anyone has noticed but...
Can we no longer watch youtube without being logged in? Every embedded video i see doesnt work. Every time i try to click on a video it tells me to sign in.
If i have an ad block running it basically blocks the website.I really think its the auto plays and the untracked accounts.
Youtube would rather be able to track every user and make more profit per person than go big tent all audiences.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I haven't been logged in for years, and I can still watch it. If they're blocking, it's an A/B test and not everywhere. I watch on Firefox w/ uBO (four different machines), NewPipe, and Grayjay.
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It's a big waste of energy to stream in 4K, so if I were you I'd simply not watch the video.
Nah, I still enjoy the content, and it wouldn't make a grain of difference as far as global wasted energy goes.
If you really are concerned about wasted energy though, you shouldn't be on your computer/phone browsing lemmy.
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What is it you don't like about Veritasium lately?
I'm not the other person but my reason is I feel they're faux-intellectual videos that mostly serve to confuse people and muddy issues. A bit of an embarrassment to science, cloaking their tomfoolery in faux-surprise and scripted wonder.
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A lot of Youtube channels are reporting declining viewership lately.
EX1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpVnx4_yqTo
EX2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0tmhEtVJEFun times. Looks like a lot of channels are seeing a decline not just Linus. Hes just the latest to talk about it.
Then I saw this article as well and thought I would share.
Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?
Because of short videos?
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I just find his voice very irritating. I know not everyone feels that way.
I know you.
You are a asmr type of guy, aren't you? -
A lot of Youtube channels are reporting declining viewership lately.
EX1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpVnx4_yqTo
EX2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0tmhEtVJEFun times. Looks like a lot of channels are seeing a decline not just Linus. Hes just the latest to talk about it.
Then I saw this article as well and thought I would share.
Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Google is now expecting users to watch ads that are sometimes a full 25% of the viewing time, or slowing access and requiring logins when adblock is being used. And even if you wade through all that, watching Youtube tech and info videos has become a lot like looking at online recipes. The majority of what you find is fluff and filler for only small amounts of useful content.
I used to go to Youtube daily for research and entertainment but now I avoid the site completely whenever possible. It seems we've finally reached an enshittification tipping point.
It's about time.
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So did I, until it turned out the Gamers Nexus video was an unsubstantiated hit piece. For example it came out that the Billet Lab GPU cooler that they supposedly stole instead of turning back, was never supposed to be returned and Billet Labs confirmed the agreement was that it would not be returned.
JFC the lore goes too deep
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I wonder what they’re going to prioritize now
Nazi salutes and brotein supplements
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I know you.
You are a asmr type of guy, aren't you?Had to look up what asmr was. No, I don’t think that’s me. I don’t think I’d dislike it, but I don’t seek out that sort of content.
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A lot of Youtube channels are reporting declining viewership lately.
EX1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpVnx4_yqTo
EX2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0tmhEtVJEFun times. Looks like a lot of channels are seeing a decline not just Linus. Hes just the latest to talk about it.
Then I saw this article as well and thought I would share.
Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?
I haven’t watched YouTube much since they broke the search. And that’s far from the only thing they broke, it’s just what stopped making the site very worthwhile to me. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s significantly cut down or stopped using it.
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Honestly
The PFAS and Monsanto videos were quite good in my opinion.Maybe I should give the channel another chance. There was a noticeable shift in quality on the channel, but maybe they course corrected since then.
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What is it you don't like about Veritasium lately?
It was a while ago that I noticed the decline in quality, they may have course corrected since then. But there was a point in time where videos had a very sudden and noticable drop in quality. I forget which video it was, but I wasn't the only one that noticed it.
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Because people wont stay 14 to 16 year olds for long
But then new 14 to 16 year olds are made
