Warning:
If you only want to make videos for attention and money YOU WILL FAIL. All this info is dependent on passion. You need to be a TRUE CONTENT CREATOR who makes content on something they LOVE. If that's not you, give up, and get a job until you find something you love.
I was recently banned on YouTube after running a successful channel for many years.
The goal of this post is to give valuable info and to find people willing to help with a new channel. (DM me if interested)
I don't want to reveal my identity to prevent google employees who use this forum to find exploits from stalking me.
I made 10+ viral videos without cheating during my time as a creator, watched my metrics religiously, and learned how to do it on command. I was in direct contact with YouTube executives on a regular basis and was even paid to help them develop features. (They don't like criticism so that didn't last long or even work out in the end)
I was making $6,000-$16,000 per month when videos were successful. $3,000-$6,000 without uploading.
HOW TO GO VIRAL:
social media-external views. That's it. Yes, its that easy. (ill get into details later)
Since 2016, any video that performed well (50,000 to +1,000,000 views) by receiving traffic from the homepage 24/7, initially received EXTERNAL views from Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter. ONLY those 3. I uploaded hundreds of videos and this was a constant for years across different niches.
This even applies to other channels. Using VidIQ, I noticed for all the years I made videos that channels only broke out of their regular view threshold when their video had at least 1 share on the main 3 social media platforms. This was a constant with VERY FEW exceptions.
Once again I'll get into details later.
DANGERS OF VIRALITY:
I "Changed my niche" 3 times. Each time, I was able to make at least 3 viral videos (500,000 - +1,000,000 views), even if no other channel in all the years of that niche existing didn't go viral. This causes businesses/people/creators to resent you.
Statically, there's going to be mentally disabled creators/viewers in every niche, (narcists, autistic, sociopathic, traumatized, racist, sexist, etc) these kinds of people tend to get jealous and go VERY FAR out of their way to hurt other channels that out perform theirs. Best way to prevent any sort of aggression from these people is to become their friend and get on their good side
There's a reason why the phrase "weaponized autism" exists online.
There's creators with millions of subs who stalk me to this day and try to find out anything I do online to beat me to making videos, even with me being banned. They'll even go as far as paying other people to talk to you and try and get info from you. It sounds crazy, but money causes people to go crazy, and most big channels never want to do anything themselves.
Because of this, other creators would resent me. This would cause channels to either:
A.) Digitally stalk me and blatantly copy my videos and spam anything I do more than I can
B.) Sabotage my channel with bot attacks (ill go further into this later)
C.) Act like I don't exist
Metrics to Aim for (CTR, Average view duration, etc):
There was another creator named "Paddyvu" who made a post about this after accidentally discovering this which you should look at to get an idea of what I'm talking about, looks like. He included images of his metrics(not smart) Here's a link to his thread:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/i-discovered-how-algorithm-work.1398002/
I've come to the conclusion that CTR and watchime are rank based. For EXAMPLE, A 5% ctr and 5 minute average view duration in "Niche A" can make you go viral while the same metrics will only get you 25,000 views (yes only ) in "Niche B". It seems the magic number for most topics on youtube is a +10% CTR and any average watchime over 3 minutes.
I need to stress how significant the 10% threshold is, you can have the most BANGIN video, but if it has a 9% ctr, vs. having a +10% ctr, that'll be the difference between it getting 25,000-100,000 views max, vs +1,000,000.
Based off what I've experienced, anything over 10% CTR and 3 minutes average view duration will just accelerate how fast your video goes viral(views per hour). The slowest speed it can go viral is over a period of 3 months, it'll just constantly get the same amount of views each day "forever" at 10% ctr(within the first 72 hours).
I also need to mention that the CTR will go down in this timeframe to 2%-5%, which is okay, that's normal. This is because Youtube is recommending the video to everyone, even if they don't care about it. When my videos went viral, I'd get messages from streamers, random users, people I went to school with, family, saying "WHY IS YOUR VIDEO ALWAYS ON MY HOMEPAGE". This is what virality is, over-promotion. If you were to see the metrics of any "famous creator" they'd be terrible, this is because YouTube employees choose to "hyper promote" certain channels on homepages regardless of how good their content actually performs. This is why appealing to the basic human conditions are so crucial(horny, fear, morbid curiosity, the color red, etc) It's the small things that take you far.
(optional but important read) Nothing lasts forever:
So why am I no longer a youtuber? I'm banned. My journey ended with me wanting to end my life. I'm literally typing this right now mainly because I'm bored while recovering from a car crash I caused due to my poor mental state. Being a content creator (even before youtube existed) was one of my dreams for nearly my whole life. I completely lost my mind when my channel died and YouTube banned me because of it. You need to understand that something will end your journey on YouTube and just like dating someone extremely attractive in whatever way gets you goin, it wont last forever.
THE ALGORITHM DOESN'T CHANGE, ITS BEEN THE SAME SINCE THE BEGINNING. People just stop caring about you and that will be your downfall. GIVE THEM A REASON TO CARE
My journey on YouTube started before I even knew it started. I only became successful after making 2 channels. Channel 1 was dogshit, I even would watch my videos on repeat on my main pc until it got to the magic "301 view threshold" thinking I was helping my channel. After no success on that channel, I made a new one where I just focused on having fun and not views, that's where the success started.
I was able to get 1,000 views for the first time here, this expanded even more when I SHARED A VIDEO ON REDDIT. The only reason why I shared one of my videos on reddit was because I PUSHED MYSELF and was PROUD of my creation, so were the redditors who I shared it with. This only compounded when they were critical of it SO I THANKED THEM FOR IT, AND LISTENED. That caused them to respect me, and allow me to continue sharing anything I made on reddit. This caused my videos to get well over 1,000 views from YouTube sources only. At this time I didn't watch my metrics, I just created, shared on reddit, and repeated.
I eventually wanted to make another channel with people from my school, so I started what would be my most successful channel. I didn't upload on it for a year almost because everyone who offered to help, abandoned me before we even made anything.
I started making videos on the same niche as before, and had the same results as before, even while sharing on reddit. After about 4 videos I changed niches because I had the ability to, and just wanted to do other things. Once again, I was passionate, and proud, then shared the end results on reddit. The same results as before happened. But I would hit a view cap of 10,000 and get 1k-2k views on my videos for around 2 years. This caused me to lose confidence in myself and not expand to other topics/styles. I would only find out what caused this many years later(a few months ago).
After 2 years of doing the same topic, the same style, I had "a bad day" and had a lot of "creative energy". I channeled this energy into a cinematic of the niche I made videos in. I'd like to consider this my first "successful video". Nobody in that niche had done what I did in that video before at that time. Without sharing it, the video got the attention of everyone in my family, old classmates, other creators, it was wild... It ended up getting 56,000 views, I started to feel like a true creator for once in my life after this. The video following it in my old style, did horrible, like 2,000 views.
I started to incorporate more cinematics in my videos and the views increased, I LOVED doing it and viewers enjoyed it as well. Maybe 6 months later I did another cinematic on a huge project and it got 75,000 views. The non cinematic videos of the project were getting 10,000-30,000 views. my ego was inflated by this time so I wasn't satisfied with the results of it and my regular videos. So after a lot of "I'm quitting" and "Youtube is bad because of XYZ" videos, I changed my niche. My viewers were pissed at me because of this, and some began to harass me and still do to this day.
In the new niche, the videos did worse than when I first started, I even paid $60 for youtube ads and got 1,000 views instantly. Which I thought was odd, but really was just an indicator that my videos weren't bad.
A few months later I combined my cinematic skills with footage of the new niche in a way nobody had done, this absolutely BROKE the internet. The video was being shared on all social medias and was getting 10k, 20k ,40k, 100k views per day. I did the same thing a few times and kept getting millions of views and it only stopped when other creators started to direct hate towards me. Little did I know that the only reason why this all stopped was because I was being attacked by bots which resulted in a shadow ban.
Anytime my channel got over 60,000 views in a day, other channels/people would send thousands of bots to my channel which youtube would delete a day later. I only discovered this through a new feature google added to youtube a few months ago. All the way back till 2016, ANY PEAK WAS CAUSED BY A BOT ATTACK, NOT A LACK OF INTEREST OR ALGORITHM CHANGE. Around 100,000 fake subscribers were sent to my channel and deleted over the period of me making videos. I don't have access to youtube studio anymore so I can't tell you how to reach the chart that shows bots, but its well hidden. I believe you get there by going to your full channel breakdown, and look for "subscriber source" The chart will show where subs come from. There's 3 sources, "channel" "video" "other", The "other" source is bots... throughout my channel history Id go from getting 20-60 subs a day from all the other sources, to 100-10,000 subs from "other" in a singular day and then Id get -100 to -10,000 the very next day. when combining the graph with impression+views, youll see that my impressions+views would drop by 50%-90%, every time after the bots are removed... Google hides this and they abuse this feature to hand pick channels to get a lot of viewership over others. This means Youtube allows certain channels to viewbot and let ads run on view generated by bots, theyre stealing billions from advertisers this way. There's an entire committee that decides what to do when this traffic is detected. They ignore it for channels they like and shadowban/restrict channels they don't like... Its a clique, not based off skill or how many viewers appreciate you... Channels can even bribe youtube employees into whitelisting them.
rewind to when I started going viral and the views fell off. I got early access to a poplar game due to my initial viral videos, I only had around 20,000 subscribers and was getting the most views out of any channel covering it. I was basically beating channels out that had over 1 million subs without even having a twitter or Ig page. I just posted, seo optimized, and relied on homepage views at this point. This means that I relied on having a +10% CTR.
A week into the pre-release period of the game I just mentioned, I noticed that ALL THE METRICS FOR THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MY CHANNEL DROPPED BY 50% OVERNIGHT. I was on the pc 24/7 at this point, I was sleeping at my desk during this period. Before going to sleep one night, I was checking the CTR and metrics of the pre-release footage and when I woke up the next day EVERYTHING was 50% lower... Everything I posted at this point would only get 25,000-50,000 views. 600 views in the first hour, 2,000 views in the first day, etc, I wanted to die. This made me go manic because I knew that something was wrong but had no idea how to solve it. I was getting 10%-20% ctr on my videos, even when manually calculating the CTR it was still at 10%-20% but YouTube analytics would always just report my CTR as being Half of whatever it ACTUALLY was when you manually calculate it.
Anyone I explained this to didn't care, YouTube support didn't want to help because by this point I had already annoyed them with trying to fix video player issues and got into arguments with engineers, and other channels wouldn't talk to me. Friends, family, didn't care and wanted me to quit youtube anyway so they would just see this as an opportunity to beat me up mentally. People I went to school with would even make fun of me on social media and made pages dedicated to making fun of me.
I made a video about this a year later... Believe it or not, the day after uploading, Youtube left a note on all channels on the CTR feature stating that they "looked into an issue", on this day, for my whole channel, the CTR went back to being over 10% and all my videos got a bunch of views and then went back to being cut in half forever after that one day. So that showed me that google is watching me.... A lot of bad things happened to me irl after this, break up, suicides of loved ones, covid, abuse, drug abuse, robberies, stalkers, I thought about dying and stopped uploading because I wasn't enjoining life.
So eventually my parents suggested I get a lawyer, while getting a lawyer they said I needed to submit tax info that is current year. After catching up on my taxes, I uploaded what would be the most popular video I every uploaded, it got many millions of views and made over $40,000 in ad rev alone. I ditched the idea of getting a lawyer while the video basically paid for my life for honestly the rest of my channels life time. The video got so popular that I could talk to a random person irl and they would know about the video. I stopped uploading for months and then did a few follow ups, they all got over a million views. It only stopped when a gang of channels who didn't like me because I was critical of them a few years back started collabing while copying the viral videos I made. To this day they all take turns spamming videos mimicking my thumbnails, titles, and tags while acting like I don't exist. Their "viewers" would send mean messages and comments on my videos too. This slowly started happening on all the topics I covered and continued until I was banned.
So eventually I started emailing YTPartner support about this, they did nothing. Eventually I got suspicious about the abusive channels using bots. So I would report their channels when they first uploaded and noticed that when I did, hundreds to thousands of views, comments, likes would be deleted from their channels instantly... So that confirms they were botting... After that time, I saw the Paddyvu post and learned about SMM panels. This confirmed my suspicion of the botting....
By this time I was deeply shadow banned, My channel stopped receiving updates to all the features and YtPartner support wouldn't help me with any issue I reported. No matter what.
If I logged out of my account I would magically get all the new features and the UI would even change. This applies to different PC's and even on mobile... So if you piss off youtube enough they'll mentally torture you for fun.
I had 2 partner managers, whenever I made them aware of these issues and they would try to fix them Google Fired them, they're such a corrupt company...
So rewind to about a year ago, I was doxxed and people harassed my apparent staff into kicking me out (I wonder what caused that...) By this time I didn't make enough each month to move anywhere else so I moved in with my father and continued to make less and less each month. Any time I uploaded a video, multiple channels would just upload 10 videos copying my thumbnail, title, tags, both small and big channels with millions of subs did this. It was impossible for me to show up anywhere.
There are a few channels who were a little too blatant with doing this. Their videos are very bad and they do the same thing in every video, which isn't something people will watch. But somehow all their videos get a lot of views(bots). One of them exclusively copied my thumbnails and titles and somehow got a million views on every single video after my channel died. He uses bots to make everything in his videos, the voice, thumbnail, imagery, its all made by ai.
Fast forward about 1 year to midway through this year, I discovered the bots feature in youtube studio that shows when bots are detected and deleted by youtube. I noticed that ANYTIME Bots are sent to my channel they target videos that the channels I just mentioned, intend on copying. This basically lets cheating channels shadow ban videos they cant compete with so their dogshit videos will get promoted instead of mine. This also prevents any new videos I make from getting promoted, It got so bad that ALL my videos had a constant feed of bots being sent to them 24/7 so I never had a chance to be seen. 24 hours a day, bots were being sent to my videos and youtube was deleting them, and hiding my content.
When I discovered this and told youtube this over live chat, they told me to "ask your subs to unsub from your channel and re-sub". I asked "how do I tell them to do that if they dont see anything I post?" they said "idk good luck and we're watching how you respond to this" and ended the conversation...
A day after this, a YouTube executive randomly emailed me asking to have a voice call. When we had the call he (while laughing) tried gaslighting me into giving up on youtube and told me nothing was wrong with my channel. After he did the regular soulless youtube employee song and dance, I told him about the bot issue, and how my channel runs on a version of the site from 2019 while in 2023. That caught him off guard because even he said "I dont know how any of the technical stuff works" he didn't even know what impressions were. But he decides on who gets shadow banned and who doesn't... He said that he needed a week to look into the new info on bots and site version. I gave an example of what features were missing and he said he'd look into it, surprisingly.
after 2 weeks we had another call and he said that what was happening with my channel was "housekeeping" and my channel will never perform well again. So I cussed him out over the phone. This entire experience was torture over years and he was having fun not caring so I really let him have it. So he banned me from talking to partner support after this and im sure he wont be talking to any more creators too.
So I made a video that I know would get views, asked my audience to unsub and re-sub and the next video got 300,000 views. After this I had a massive bot attack and my channel stopped getting views completely again. I had no way to report it so I just started planning on how to die tbh.
I got another life raft from a developer of the most popular game this year letting me cover the game before it comes out like what initially let my channel get over 100,000 subs. When time came to post, the same thing as before happened. All the big channels ripped off my videos, and sent bots. My channel only got 300 impressions on the homepage. So I lost it and got banned because of it.
Youtube is completely rigged. So be nice and never talk to YTPartner support much or youll end up like me. Don't participate in any experimental features, just don't be on their radar.
External views:
One of the channels that faked getting millions of views would help me out a bit. Before the ban, they'd send 5,000-12,000 fake "social media external views" from various panels before using it on their videos. They'd send a bunch and wait for my views to go up before ripping off my channel. This would immediately cause my channel to get thousands of views per hour on the homepage and stopped as soon as the external views stopped. So if youre a cheating cunt or host a panel, focus on faking social media external views thats how you become the next mr. beast.
My theory is that true "good content" is shared by viewers. The site waits until you get views from other sources (facebook, reddit, twitter) before recommending you 24/7 on the homepage. This will start your journey as a youtuber alongside extending it.
This is why youtubers recommend you create YOUR OWN PAGE on other social media sites. This allows you to create a pool of external views for all your videos. When you have a following on another platform, You will be able to show up in the reddit, twitter, facebook feed of your viewers as soon as your video goes live. These are external views, and all that you'll need for the algo to over promote your channel.
Pewdiepie is a good example of someone who pimps this system. He made an entire series off his own subreddit. This caused a bunch of people to post and sub to HIS REDDIT, viewers were rewarded with attention and karma while it doubled as a source of external views. I can guarantee you, whenever pewdiepie posted, people got the video in their reddit feeds and clicked on it. many people, happily too.
Another channel that does this is LinusTechTips, He has a reddit where people can farm karma and if theyre subbed to it, they get recommended his videos while using reddit. Thats where his pool of externals come from. He also has a facebook page and uses twitter aswell. You have to reward your viewers on other platforms for following you. get creative. My channel was dead and nobody respected me by the time I figured this out so I never put energy into it.
If any of you know how to generate external social media views, dm me, I'm not going out like this.
And good luck to those of you genuine content creators, save your money, and stay humble, you never know when your time as a creator will come to an end.
If you only want to make videos for attention and money YOU WILL FAIL. All this info is dependent on passion. You need to be a TRUE CONTENT CREATOR who makes content on something they LOVE. If that's not you, give up, and get a job until you find something you love.
I was recently banned on YouTube after running a successful channel for many years.
The goal of this post is to give valuable info and to find people willing to help with a new channel. (DM me if interested)
I don't want to reveal my identity to prevent google employees who use this forum to find exploits from stalking me.
I made 10+ viral videos without cheating during my time as a creator, watched my metrics religiously, and learned how to do it on command. I was in direct contact with YouTube executives on a regular basis and was even paid to help them develop features. (They don't like criticism so that didn't last long or even work out in the end)
I was making $6,000-$16,000 per month when videos were successful. $3,000-$6,000 without uploading.
HOW TO GO VIRAL:
social media-external views. That's it. Yes, its that easy. (ill get into details later)
Since 2016, any video that performed well (50,000 to +1,000,000 views) by receiving traffic from the homepage 24/7, initially received EXTERNAL views from Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter. ONLY those 3. I uploaded hundreds of videos and this was a constant for years across different niches.
This even applies to other channels. Using VidIQ, I noticed for all the years I made videos that channels only broke out of their regular view threshold when their video had at least 1 share on the main 3 social media platforms. This was a constant with VERY FEW exceptions.
Once again I'll get into details later.
DANGERS OF VIRALITY:
I "Changed my niche" 3 times. Each time, I was able to make at least 3 viral videos (500,000 - +1,000,000 views), even if no other channel in all the years of that niche existing didn't go viral. This causes businesses/people/creators to resent you.
Statically, there's going to be mentally disabled creators/viewers in every niche, (narcists, autistic, sociopathic, traumatized, racist, sexist, etc) these kinds of people tend to get jealous and go VERY FAR out of their way to hurt other channels that out perform theirs. Best way to prevent any sort of aggression from these people is to become their friend and get on their good side
There's a reason why the phrase "weaponized autism" exists online.There's creators with millions of subs who stalk me to this day and try to find out anything I do online to beat me to making videos, even with me being banned. They'll even go as far as paying other people to talk to you and try and get info from you. It sounds crazy, but money causes people to go crazy, and most big channels never want to do anything themselves.
Because of this, other creators would resent me. This would cause channels to either:
A.) Digitally stalk me and blatantly copy my videos and spam anything I do more than I can
B.) Sabotage my channel with bot attacks (ill go further into this later)
C.) Act like I don't exist
Metrics to Aim for (CTR, Average view duration, etc):
There was another creator named "Paddyvu" who made a post about this after accidentally discovering this which you should look at to get an idea of what I'm talking about, looks like. He included images of his metrics(not smart) Here's a link to his thread:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/i-discovered-how-algorithm-work.1398002/
I've come to the conclusion that CTR and watchime are rank based. For EXAMPLE, A 5% ctr and 5 minute average view duration in "Niche A" can make you go viral while the same metrics will only get you 25,000 views (yes only
) in "Niche B". It seems the magic number for most topics on youtube is a +10% CTR and any average watchime over 3 minutes.I need to stress how significant the 10% threshold is, you can have the most BANGIN video, but if it has a 9% ctr, vs. having a +10% ctr, that'll be the difference between it getting 25,000-100,000 views max, vs +1,000,000.
Based off what I've experienced, anything over 10% CTR and 3 minutes average view duration will just accelerate how fast your video goes viral(views per hour). The slowest speed it can go viral is over a period of 3 months, it'll just constantly get the same amount of views each day "forever" at 10% ctr(within the first 72 hours).
I also need to mention that the CTR will go down in this timeframe to 2%-5%, which is okay, that's normal. This is because Youtube is recommending the video to everyone, even if they don't care about it. When my videos went viral, I'd get messages from streamers, random users, people I went to school with, family, saying "WHY IS YOUR VIDEO ALWAYS ON MY HOMEPAGE". This is what virality is, over-promotion. If you were to see the metrics of any "famous creator" they'd be terrible, this is because YouTube employees choose to "hyper promote" certain channels on homepages regardless of how good their content actually performs. This is why appealing to the basic human conditions are so crucial(horny, fear, morbid curiosity, the color red, etc) It's the small things that take you far.
(optional but important read) Nothing lasts forever:
So why am I no longer a youtuber? I'm banned. My journey ended with me wanting to end my life. I'm literally typing this right now mainly because I'm bored while recovering from a car crash I caused due to my poor mental state. Being a content creator (even before youtube existed) was one of my dreams for nearly my whole life. I completely lost my mind when my channel died and YouTube banned me because of it. You need to understand that something will end your journey on YouTube and just like dating someone extremely attractive in whatever way gets you goin, it wont last forever.
THE ALGORITHM DOESN'T CHANGE, ITS BEEN THE SAME SINCE THE BEGINNING. People just stop caring about you and that will be your downfall. GIVE THEM A REASON TO CARE
My journey on YouTube started before I even knew it started. I only became successful after making 2 channels. Channel 1 was dogshit, I even would watch my videos on repeat on my main pc until it got to the magic "301 view threshold" thinking I was helping my channel. After no success on that channel, I made a new one where I just focused on having fun and not views, that's where the success started.
I was able to get 1,000 views for the first time here, this expanded even more when I SHARED A VIDEO ON REDDIT. The only reason why I shared one of my videos on reddit was because I PUSHED MYSELF and was PROUD of my creation, so were the redditors who I shared it with. This only compounded when they were critical of it SO I THANKED THEM FOR IT, AND LISTENED. That caused them to respect me, and allow me to continue sharing anything I made on reddit. This caused my videos to get well over 1,000 views from YouTube sources only. At this time I didn't watch my metrics, I just created, shared on reddit, and repeated.
I eventually wanted to make another channel with people from my school, so I started what would be my most successful channel. I didn't upload on it for a year almost because everyone who offered to help, abandoned me before we even made anything.
I started making videos on the same niche as before, and had the same results as before, even while sharing on reddit. After about 4 videos I changed niches because I had the ability to, and just wanted to do other things. Once again, I was passionate, and proud, then shared the end results on reddit. The same results as before happened. But I would hit a view cap of 10,000 and get 1k-2k views on my videos for around 2 years. This caused me to lose confidence in myself and not expand to other topics/styles. I would only find out what caused this many years later(a few months ago).
After 2 years of doing the same topic, the same style, I had "a bad day" and had a lot of "creative energy". I channeled this energy into a cinematic of the niche I made videos in. I'd like to consider this my first "successful video". Nobody in that niche had done what I did in that video before at that time. Without sharing it, the video got the attention of everyone in my family, old classmates, other creators, it was wild... It ended up getting 56,000 views, I started to feel like a true creator for once in my life after this. The video following it in my old style, did horrible, like 2,000 views.
I started to incorporate more cinematics in my videos and the views increased, I LOVED doing it and viewers enjoyed it as well. Maybe 6 months later I did another cinematic on a huge project and it got 75,000 views. The non cinematic videos of the project were getting 10,000-30,000 views. my ego was inflated by this time so I wasn't satisfied with the results of it and my regular videos. So after a lot of "I'm quitting" and "Youtube is bad because of XYZ" videos, I changed my niche. My viewers were pissed at me because of this, and some began to harass me and still do to this day.
In the new niche, the videos did worse than when I first started, I even paid $60 for youtube ads and got 1,000 views instantly. Which I thought was odd, but really was just an indicator that my videos weren't bad.
A few months later I combined my cinematic skills with footage of the new niche in a way nobody had done, this absolutely BROKE the internet. The video was being shared on all social medias and was getting 10k, 20k ,40k, 100k views per day. I did the same thing a few times and kept getting millions of views and it only stopped when other creators started to direct hate towards me. Little did I know that the only reason why this all stopped was because I was being attacked by bots which resulted in a shadow ban.
Anytime my channel got over 60,000 views in a day, other channels/people would send thousands of bots to my channel which youtube would delete a day later. I only discovered this through a new feature google added to youtube a few months ago. All the way back till 2016, ANY PEAK WAS CAUSED BY A BOT ATTACK, NOT A LACK OF INTEREST OR ALGORITHM CHANGE. Around 100,000 fake subscribers were sent to my channel and deleted over the period of me making videos. I don't have access to youtube studio anymore so I can't tell you how to reach the chart that shows bots, but its well hidden. I believe you get there by going to your full channel breakdown, and look for "subscriber source" The chart will show where subs come from. There's 3 sources, "channel" "video" "other", The "other" source is bots... throughout my channel history Id go from getting 20-60 subs a day from all the other sources, to 100-10,000 subs from "other" in a singular day and then Id get -100 to -10,000 the very next day. when combining the graph with impression+views, youll see that my impressions+views would drop by 50%-90%, every time after the bots are removed... Google hides this and they abuse this feature to hand pick channels to get a lot of viewership over others. This means Youtube allows certain channels to viewbot and let ads run on view generated by bots, theyre stealing billions from advertisers this way. There's an entire committee that decides what to do when this traffic is detected. They ignore it for channels they like and shadowban/restrict channels they don't like... Its a clique, not based off skill or how many viewers appreciate you... Channels can even bribe youtube employees into whitelisting them.
rewind to when I started going viral and the views fell off. I got early access to a poplar game due to my initial viral videos, I only had around 20,000 subscribers and was getting the most views out of any channel covering it. I was basically beating channels out that had over 1 million subs without even having a twitter or Ig page. I just posted, seo optimized, and relied on homepage views at this point. This means that I relied on having a +10% CTR.
A week into the pre-release period of the game I just mentioned, I noticed that ALL THE METRICS FOR THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MY CHANNEL DROPPED BY 50% OVERNIGHT. I was on the pc 24/7 at this point, I was sleeping at my desk during this period. Before going to sleep one night, I was checking the CTR and metrics of the pre-release footage and when I woke up the next day EVERYTHING was 50% lower... Everything I posted at this point would only get 25,000-50,000 views. 600 views in the first hour, 2,000 views in the first day, etc, I wanted to die. This made me go manic because I knew that something was wrong but had no idea how to solve it. I was getting 10%-20% ctr on my videos, even when manually calculating the CTR it was still at 10%-20% but YouTube analytics would always just report my CTR as being Half of whatever it ACTUALLY was when you manually calculate it.
Anyone I explained this to didn't care, YouTube support didn't want to help because by this point I had already annoyed them with trying to fix video player issues and got into arguments with engineers, and other channels wouldn't talk to me. Friends, family, didn't care and wanted me to quit youtube anyway so they would just see this as an opportunity to beat me up mentally. People I went to school with would even make fun of me on social media and made pages dedicated to making fun of me.
I made a video about this a year later... Believe it or not, the day after uploading, Youtube left a note on all channels on the CTR feature stating that they "looked into an issue", on this day, for my whole channel, the CTR went back to being over 10% and all my videos got a bunch of views and then went back to being cut in half forever after that one day. So that showed me that google is watching me.... A lot of bad things happened to me irl after this, break up, suicides of loved ones, covid, abuse, drug abuse, robberies, stalkers, I thought about dying and stopped uploading because I wasn't enjoining life.
So eventually my parents suggested I get a lawyer, while getting a lawyer they said I needed to submit tax info that is current year. After catching up on my taxes, I uploaded what would be the most popular video I every uploaded, it got many millions of views and made over $40,000 in ad rev alone. I ditched the idea of getting a lawyer while the video basically paid for my life for honestly the rest of my channels life time. The video got so popular that I could talk to a random person irl and they would know about the video. I stopped uploading for months and then did a few follow ups, they all got over a million views. It only stopped when a gang of channels who didn't like me because I was critical of them a few years back started collabing while copying the viral videos I made. To this day they all take turns spamming videos mimicking my thumbnails, titles, and tags while acting like I don't exist. Their "viewers" would send mean messages and comments on my videos too. This slowly started happening on all the topics I covered and continued until I was banned.
So eventually I started emailing YTPartner support about this, they did nothing. Eventually I got suspicious about the abusive channels using bots. So I would report their channels when they first uploaded and noticed that when I did, hundreds to thousands of views, comments, likes would be deleted from their channels instantly... So that confirms they were botting... After that time, I saw the Paddyvu post and learned about SMM panels. This confirmed my suspicion of the botting....
By this time I was deeply shadow banned, My channel stopped receiving updates to all the features and YtPartner support wouldn't help me with any issue I reported. No matter what.
If I logged out of my account I would magically get all the new features and the UI would even change. This applies to different PC's and even on mobile... So if you piss off youtube enough they'll mentally torture you for fun.
I had 2 partner managers, whenever I made them aware of these issues and they would try to fix them Google Fired them, they're such a corrupt company...
So rewind to about a year ago, I was doxxed and people harassed my apparent staff into kicking me out (I wonder what caused that...) By this time I didn't make enough each month to move anywhere else so I moved in with my father and continued to make less and less each month. Any time I uploaded a video, multiple channels would just upload 10 videos copying my thumbnail, title, tags, both small and big channels with millions of subs did this. It was impossible for me to show up anywhere.
There are a few channels who were a little too blatant with doing this. Their videos are very bad and they do the same thing in every video, which isn't something people will watch. But somehow all their videos get a lot of views(bots). One of them exclusively copied my thumbnails and titles and somehow got a million views on every single video after my channel died. He uses bots to make everything in his videos, the voice, thumbnail, imagery, its all made by ai.
Fast forward about 1 year to midway through this year, I discovered the bots feature in youtube studio that shows when bots are detected and deleted by youtube. I noticed that ANYTIME Bots are sent to my channel they target videos that the channels I just mentioned, intend on copying. This basically lets cheating channels shadow ban videos they cant compete with so their dogshit videos will get promoted instead of mine. This also prevents any new videos I make from getting promoted, It got so bad that ALL my videos had a constant feed of bots being sent to them 24/7 so I never had a chance to be seen. 24 hours a day, bots were being sent to my videos and youtube was deleting them, and hiding my content.
When I discovered this and told youtube this over live chat, they told me to "ask your subs to unsub from your channel and re-sub". I asked "how do I tell them to do that if they dont see anything I post?" they said "idk good luck and we're watching how you respond to this" and ended the conversation...
A day after this, a YouTube executive randomly emailed me asking to have a voice call. When we had the call he (while laughing) tried gaslighting me into giving up on youtube and told me nothing was wrong with my channel. After he did the regular soulless youtube employee song and dance, I told him about the bot issue, and how my channel runs on a version of the site from 2019 while in 2023. That caught him off guard because even he said "I dont know how any of the technical stuff works" he didn't even know what impressions were. But he decides on who gets shadow banned and who doesn't... He said that he needed a week to look into the new info on bots and site version. I gave an example of what features were missing and he said he'd look into it, surprisingly.
after 2 weeks we had another call and he said that what was happening with my channel was "housekeeping" and my channel will never perform well again. So I cussed him out over the phone. This entire experience was torture over years and he was having fun not caring so I really let him have it. So he banned me from talking to partner support after this
and im sure he wont be talking to any more creators too.So I made a video that I know would get views, asked my audience to unsub and re-sub and the next video got 300,000 views. After this I had a massive bot attack and my channel stopped getting views completely again. I had no way to report it so I just started planning on how to die tbh.
I got another life raft from a developer of the most popular game this year letting me cover the game before it comes out like what initially let my channel get over 100,000 subs. When time came to post, the same thing as before happened. All the big channels ripped off my videos, and sent bots. My channel only got 300 impressions on the homepage. So I lost it and got banned because of it.
Youtube is completely rigged. So be nice and never talk to YTPartner support much or youll end up like me. Don't participate in any experimental features, just don't be on their radar.
External views:
One of the channels that faked getting millions of views would help me out a bit. Before the ban, they'd send 5,000-12,000 fake "social media external views" from various panels before using it on their videos. They'd send a bunch and wait for my views to go up before ripping off my channel. This would immediately cause my channel to get thousands of views per hour on the homepage and stopped as soon as the external views stopped. So if youre a cheating cunt or host a panel, focus on faking social media external views
thats how you become the next mr. beast.My theory is that true "good content" is shared by viewers. The site waits until you get views from other sources (facebook, reddit, twitter) before recommending you 24/7 on the homepage. This will start your journey as a youtuber alongside extending it.
This is why youtubers recommend you create YOUR OWN PAGE on other social media sites. This allows you to create a pool of external views for all your videos. When you have a following on another platform, You will be able to show up in the reddit, twitter, facebook feed of your viewers as soon as your video goes live. These are external views, and all that you'll need for the algo to over promote your channel.
Pewdiepie is a good example of someone who pimps this system. He made an entire series off his own subreddit. This caused a bunch of people to post and sub to HIS REDDIT, viewers were rewarded with attention and karma while it doubled as a source of external views. I can guarantee you, whenever pewdiepie posted, people got the video in their reddit feeds and clicked on it. many people, happily too.
Another channel that does this is LinusTechTips, He has a reddit where people can farm karma and if theyre subbed to it, they get recommended his videos while using reddit. Thats where his pool of externals come from. He also has a facebook page and uses twitter aswell. You have to reward your viewers on other platforms for following you. get creative. My channel was dead and nobody respected me by the time I figured this out so I never put energy into it.
If any of you know how to generate external social media views, dm me, I'm not going out like this.
And good luck to those of you genuine content creators, save your money, and stay humble, you never know when your time as a creator will come to an end.
