Hey, you guys might like this. I advise everyone to watch it, no matter the title I put it as.
Antvenom, Youtube PSA.

I can understand why you might consider Youtube's large audience important, but let's be honest here: how many of the masses on Youtube actually wind up on our brickfilms through chance? Getting views for original content on Youtube is (in my entirely unqualified opinion) usually about networking, publishing films constantly, or just winning the frontpage lottery. Aside from Kill Bill and Batman, most of your films have less than 1000 hits (I'm not saying this to be an ass; there's a similar trend on my films and the films of many other sometimes-brickfilmers). It's undeniable that we get better results when we tag films with popular existing materials. While I don't doubt there is a market for OC on Youtube, it appears to be incredibly difficult to corner. Unless you have the time to make multiple films a month, the vast majority of Youtube seems content to pass you over. They may have a large population, but that doesn't mean we get a sizable portion of their attention. I can't say I understand sticking with the site on the promise of high view counts when you've been a member for so long and still haven't received them.  From what I've seen of Vimeo, the feedback at least tends to be more intelligent.

By no means am I advocating leaving Youtube or deriding people who have found success on the site, but it seems illogical to pigeon-hole yourself there unless you are getting some sort of direct benefit. At the very least you might as well join Vimeo and upload your films to both. I can't see you getting fewer views, at least.

They've been doing that for a while now (at least for me) and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

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"Why in the world did you do a weird language if you know English?" - tenny1028

I mostly blame my lack of hits on the simple facts that a) I'm simply not a good animator (well, I'm not mind blowing. I can get my point across, but I'm no Mindgame - my videos do not astonish people so much that they share it with everyone they know), b) I don't make animations often enough (due to a combination of real-life events, other projects, and procrastination), and c) I've occasionally made videos with trademarked elements that have received a tiny bit of popularity, but whenever I do it I feel like I've sold out. I've never made a film about an existing idea thinking "This will rake in the hits!", I do it because I have an idea for a parody and want to share it.

My point was that YouTube was the only place I could be kind of sort of noticed. Yes, its less that 20 views per day (I haven't checked my stats in months, mostly because they will probably depress me), but its the best I'm going to get with my content. And I'm unhappy that its turning into a social networking site when it should be (and used to be) a place for amateurs to create content where there is a wide audience.

Of course, there are many reasons why the site has evolved. There's all the copyright crap - which I only partially understand (I get that publishing a full movie/TV Show/music video/album online is making companies lose money, which is fair enough. I don't get how using a snippet of a song in a silly animation is making companies lose money). And there is just the fact that people who aren't content creators are publishing on YouTube. Nothing wrong with this, it just makes me feel like I'm posting my animations on Facebook rather than a place for feedback and sharing (I wouldn't be surprised if YouTube looked at Facebook and thought "Well, they're doing well! Lets copy them!").

YouTube is dumbing the viewers down to their most basic critical intelligence: you either like or you do not like. There is no neutrality, before you could rate it 3 or 2 stars if you wanted, but now you either love or hate, and if you hate they you're going to clash with people who love and vice-versa. Its shredding the minds of the masses - turning them into Gollum: "We LOVES this video of a cat! We HATES this pop-song!"

Yes, some of the changes to YouTube are natural. Companies became aware that people were ripping off their content and thought "Well, we're still earning loads of money, but I suppose we'd better do something about this", which I suppose it fair enough. Then the ads came along, which again is fair enough. But then YouTube grew this fear that if they didn't change the design or remove/add a feature daily then their website might fall off the face of the earth.

I don't really know where I'm going with this. Basically, Brickfilming is a great hobby - but it relies on a good place to publish your content. And YouTube isn't a good place any-more. I'm off to research other places, but I'll probably end up back on YouTube because all the other video-sites are ghost-towns...

So if we all migrated to Vimeo, we would have a better website, and also a more intelligent group of fans! people!
Yeah, not gonna happen.

Don't say that, your brickfilms are among the most creative I've seen, and I know that I've kinda forced people to watch Mr. Socially Impaired...

There is also that "Man, I wish I could have done that. It must have taken forever" feeling that people get. For example, NXT's video of Houdini compared to the original (which is almost the same). NXT's is pretty much a masterpiece, and it is even more amazing because it is made of Lego, and obviously on a low budget. The original, while a pretty cool music video, but it's not as impressive because it was made by these ultra-rich rock stars.
There is also that thing, where people just go onto youtube and attach Lego as a prefix to some thing they are a fan of. Kind of like when someone first becomes a brony they go and search "pony bohemian rhapsody" or "pony Star Wars." So yeah it is totally a novelty thing.

It's amazing that someone so repelling can attract so many followers.
xD
Congratulations to you! You have quickly becoming one of the most popular brickfilmers. You shall probably surpass my sub count in a month or two.

Wow, congrats Spider! And you did this in how long, like under a year!?
Here's to 1000 more!

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I have no idea why people watch gaming videos in the first place. I only watch a walkthrough video from time to time and that's only because I can't pass some mission on Arkham City or other game I play. Gaming videos are quite pointless, they require little to no effort yet they receive quite a lot of attention. Ridiculous.