X appears to be juicing MrBeast's views as Elon Musk tries to woo the YouTuber to the platform
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Musk's platform is pushing MrBeast's first video upload in users' feeds as an unlabeled ad.

X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad::undefined

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      Yes. In fact, it got me a lot of attention. I got into a bunch of newspapers, interviewed on NPR, etc. Then my audience started drifting away and on to the next thing… and then YouTube decided to monetize. My account was monetized for a while. I made a grand total of $100 before it was demonetized again.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          10 months ago

          My big hit was “The Skeletor Show.” It’s still on YouTube. But I did many other things on the account before deciding I didn’t feel like making comedy videos anymore a few years ago. Occasionally people post asking me to please come back, but I don’t know that I ever will.

          I will say that it did get me some jobs when I needed work, which was the original goal of the show anyway.

    • runjun@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      10 months ago

      There’s still plenty of people doing that. But their uploads will be inconsistent when they upload and quality. The views will also be low so YouTube’s algorithm won’t recommend it unless they pay to advertise.

      • Guest_User@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        My YouTube recommendation page is full of channels with sub 100 subscribers. Because I actually watch them since I find those videos engaging for different reasons. If you actually watch small YouTube channels YouTube is more than happy to serve those channels to you.

        • runjun@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          I do get sub 1000 view recommendations from YouTube but I don’t know if I would assume those creators haven’t paid any money. You can pay to push your videos to a small, very targeted, audience for fairly cheap.

          • Guest_User@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            That’s a fair point, however with a good bit of the videos recommend to me I highly doubt they are paying for exposure. Many don’t have the absolute basic skills when it comes to cinematography. Personally I enjoy watching random non professionals show their interests. But I don’t think they are paying to show their videos to people like me.