Posts by Michael

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I shoot too straight to be trolling like that haha but honestly if I wanted to step into some serious controversy, all I'd have to do is give my honest opinions on some real topics and believe me, I'd get it!

Flamephonious7 lol

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That's what Eklipse.gg claims it does, but I haven't been able to see any of my clips cause when I try to it wants me to pay for premium. Copilot keeps insisting that there's a way for me to get the clips without paying but I think the dang thing is hallucinating lol

Does the free version not display you an output video at all even watermarked or something?

Has anyone heard about this? I am only just coming across this today. It appears YouTube are removing "AI Slop" channels and even ones with AI generated voice. Is this because theyre not labelling the videos as AI generated and abusing that or do they just not want AI content:

I havent finished watching this but its interesting so far.

What do you make of this?

You record, you put your files on your PC and load the software up. You tell the AI software what you want and have a style/template of your usual editing and colour grading and let it know which mood you want and intended audience and maybe a few other things I have missed. The AI then automatically edits the video placing cuts where needed, removing dead weight from the video that would make the video not perform well and makes adjustments based on its knowledge of video editing and what people consume more of. It tweaks the sound so the audio is just right and adds captions in a style you like where wanted.

I dont believe it exists just yet sadly, but this is what I see them becoming over the next few years. Just imagine how much time will be saved and how productivity will shoot through the roof, you wont need to worry as much about watching what youve created back and picking at parts of it or thinking it could have been edited better.

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I'm trying to find something that will auto caption all my videos and analyze to find where all the exciting bits are and cut out the rest, if I could have an already "almost done" video when I upload it into capcut it would be amazing, unfortunately the game I'm trying to make a series of right now is Fallout New Vegas and the site I wanted to use called Eklipse does not recognize that game. I also can't stream the game as it's crashed every time I've tried. I do consult with copilot about tags, upload times, titles etc... though that's becoming less necessary as I get a feel for what kinds of things it thinks work and what it doesn't.

I think thats the AI editor we all want but doesnt exist yet as far as I know. Wonder if skimmer will know if theres a software like that. Automating these things will help speed the process up so much allowing for more time recording.

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I scheduled my first tiktok today and it performed about as well as expected. Well now that I look at it, it got 3 likes at 260 views, and my other videos of the same quality had between 8 and 10 likes, so the likes do indeed seem a bit lower but I can't imagine that would be because of scheduling it. I really need to schedule with the amount of stuff I'm trying to do right now but I suppose if I notice a trend I may try to upload at the right times manually.

I am wondering if its just the time as I was releasing at 6am, maybe I should just start scheduling for 9 as a test instead. I release 8pm UK on YT at the moment

I have just been thinking this. Say my new channel was to get 20 comments and in the morning after sleeping I reply to them similar to checking morning emails. Wont this harm the channel if the viewers then come back to reply and obviously only watch 20 seconds or so of the video actually replying? What are your thoughts on this? Should we be replying to commenters during the early growth of a video? I know this is thinking deep into stats and how actions can affect growth. Really curious if this actually has an affect.

I am finding this frustrating, it must affect early channel growth to some extent. I am not monetised on my new channel but YT have automatic mid rolls enabled for all videos and I have zero control over them showing. I have commenters saying they got mid rolls during the videos and I am left unable to control these at all. I really cannot wait until I am able to access the controls for them. Until then my viewers are stuck mid video with ads showing which is something I really do not want. It is like a new music channel having song interruptions. Very frustrating for the musician and listener.

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Im having a bit of nostalgia for sure!

Symph, Its not an easy thing to figure out at times. My TikTok is a bit political and full of my views on life and opinions mixed in with puppet skits, my youtube is stagnant and I barely use it now, but have a few gaming vids on there, but its not what my original followers where there for, and then on twitch i have my main account that is officially a dj affiliate channel, which means no VODs, so for my other content like chatting art and games I had to make a second twitch channel. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Basically, all this really reflects my ADHD lol

It’s hard because I wanna do so many different types of things, but not everybody will enjoy everything I do so I’m spreading myself around so to speak which in a way it makes it harder to gain followers and stuff.

This is Symphs similar struggle too being pulled in so many directions at once. Honestly I find sticking to a niche and powering away at it seems to work best. You guys have actual talent to share too but I do get it. It is hard to stick to one thing when you have so much to share, its easy to get overwhelmed too if managing multiple channels etc Off topic but was amazing seeing you and Victor in a photo, should have got them Ai checked haha I was in so happy seeing those

Is your DJ channel doing good sticking to the same thing?

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I wish I could go back to when all the haters started showing up to my channel years ago. At the time it made me get too anxious to post, but had I been able to ride the wave it would have probably been the true point my channel took off. Those people were following me around and giving me engagement on everything and all I had to do was respond something like "Thanks! So glad you stopped by!" And it would make them even more furious and they'd be like "Keep pretending I like your videos all you want but --- --- -- !!!" In a way haters can be your best gift, just find the right way to rile them up while still looking cooler than them to any rational person and you've got an endless farm of engagement lol. TAKE ME BACK YOUTUBE GODS! TAKE ME BACK!

Theres a lot of ragebait content on YT and TikTok which is the perfect example. Many people will deliberately mess up to increase engagement. Like they can write obvious spelling mistakes in the captions and play on it or deliberately say controversial things especially in titles to get clicks. Some people have entire incomes off the backs of posting stuff to wind people up lol haters if you cant love em, monetise em

It is massively worth doing, ideally you would have a YouTube and TikTok for your business and posting related blogs alongside videos would help push viewers towards your services becoming an authority in your niche. So many businesses dont tap into the resources available

Imagine how many channels died because people released 10 videos and gave up when they didnt see the results they hoped for and felt like they deserved, the 11th video could have been their viral one but it just didnt happen.

Imagine this was RyansToyReview/Ryans World for example, the biggest childrens channel ever created on YouTube. They were not an overnight success, I remember seeing their beginnings commenting on other kids channels "check out my kids channel" (including on my own - this is why I know this as factual) to get viewers to theirs. They did blow up massively and quite early but they could have easily given up just before going viral.

This may be you, thinking of giving up, sick of low views and poor engagement. You could be one step away from blowing up just like them. That idea you have, that goal you have in your mind. Stick at it. Dont give up!

It is always the way, youll put weeks into something and release it and see little traction and the random upload you made for a laugh purely at random goes viral or does significantly better than all your other content. It has happened to me MANY times lol it even got to a point where I reduced how much editing I put in and it can get your down over the lack of results.

Honestly though just putting yourself out there increases the chances of something good coming from it where the opposite guarantees nothing at all. I definitely agree it is tough especially if doubting yourself but if you find a way to go for it even when you feel like an imposter or like its not for you to be doing these videos etc you can really surprise yourself. I think a lot of it is negative self talk holding so many of us back. I hold myself back too man, doing is harder than saying but I can say that I have put myself out there a lot and also been rewarded in time.

Remember its the snail and hare or tortoise, a marathon and not a sprint. Sometimes people get picked up and blown up instantly but it can be quite rare.

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That's why I think my plan to just shift to gaming content is a solid one, it's repeatable, it's low effort high output, you can gain a following, and who cares if one video does better or worse than the last one, you're literally just filming them all day you know? Obviously I'll still do music and the end goal is a group of people who WANT to hear it, but that way I can build a following first and then show them my true talent.

I am liking hearing how youre thinking with direction now, I know its hard to decide and stick to just one thing but repeatable easier to make content is going to make life easier for you, possibly perform better and can help build a community from which you can promote your music etc in future more.

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Here’s to new beginnings! 🫶🏻

Just saw you there while eating breakfast and said "No way" out loud so good seeing you here man and thank you very much hope youre doing good!

It feels like the end of an era for me, on my larger channel I have just more or less debranded it and it is now considered to be a catalogue of old videos. I feel so awful as I used a Chrome extension to delete maybe 2k community posts and I have removed the old channel name etc. I really wanted to create a new identity thats fully separated and I have mostly achieved that. All associated accounts I have unbranded them to make them appear generic. I feel this is needed so I can start fresh if that makes sense. Its been quite emotional seeing posts I have 9 years ago and removing those, the posts were a huge part of my journey and growth. I of course didnt have to, I didnt need to do any of it but for a full and better separation I think its the best route for me. A hard decision to make but I believe it is worth it. It was a hard decision but I couldnt sit forever on it. I have just killed my old brand and its such a weird feeling but I hope this is the start of something new and better for me and my followers.

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Yeah I'm abandoning this idea for now. Both copilot and chat gpt insist that consistent quality content, while being active and social on youtube can revive a dead channel, so I'm gonna give it at least a month, probably gaming content all week and then a music video once a week if I can manage it. We'll see how it goes all I can do right now is experiment, but I'm trying to start commenting on videos again. I'd kind of forgotten but when I was first growing my channel I did that A LOT.

Yeah deffo test that out man before making a decision, I wont lie my new channel is proof that starting fresh can do wonders. My old channel had a dead audience, my new one is already outperforming it which is so odd but I do get why when it comes to serving content to the right people versus people who have lost interest etc. Definitely keep the option open though

I see so many mistakes with me own videos man if I was to sit and try to fix each one I would take weeks per video and probably never be fully happy any way. I would rather release in decent time and put stuff out there than make sure everything is perfect and be so critical with the content. Small audio pops, plosives, background sounds, camera movements I aint happy with fully, the way I sound when I say a certain word, the list could go on and on and not worth analysing. What youre doing is already difficult at least to me haha

As part of my small business I release a TikTok promotional video every weekday, today I am going to be really busy working on my new production project so I thought it would be best to schedule some content for today for TikTok for a similar time that I usually release a video at. The videos very similar to the regular ones and tagged similar but I have noticed a BIG difference in views on this scheduled TikTok. The views are fairly normal but I noticed that the likes are extremely low with only 1 like out of 240 views. Usually on similar view count I would be seeing about 8 likes at least. It is very strange to see and I am not sure what would be causing it but I do think it may be related to being scheduled. Anyone else experienced this just seems a bit odd.

So much holds us back with worrying over this and that but you can do it. Grab your camera, your phone, set up a channel and just DO IT. You dont want to skip on an idea because of thinking no one will watch. By not starting something that guarantees no one will watch, give yourself the chance to create something real. Live your dream in your own way. You can do this! I sat on my idea for restarting for FAR too long. I am thankful I went ahead with it.

What is stopping you right now? I dont care if youre on the toilet reading this, tell me what is stopping you from going for it and making that dream come true. You can have your videos seen by the world. You can create this for yourself just like so many others have too.

Please dont hold back, you have a dream and it can be reality