Shadiversity's Channel IS DYING ... AGAIN!?!?
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I personally don't trust something that bleeds subs every month and doesn't die.
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It’s nice to see that clicking do not recommend video every time shad shows up on my recommended hasn’t just made my TH-cam experience better, but the worlds TH-cam experience better
Nice. Been doing the same
Really, we're doing a public service.
I subscribed to him, and made sure I never click the recommendations and click them away
did the same lol
but but but the algorithm is suppressing his videos and that's why his views are down
"Shad,this is the 10th time you're showing your channel's death to the class"
If you haven't seen Georg Rockall's video parodying Shad, I highly recommend it. th-cam.com/video/vMhduK1kInI/w-d-xo.html
@@gummybear2927 Thank you, that video nailed it.
Yeah, his content is just stale, he made that weird rape book, he stared crying about “woke” shit, and he go obsessed with defending AI art.
People just don’t like the guy
That's a lot of reasons why I stopped subscribing to / watching him. Shoulda just stuck to historical weapons and trivia.
he's also got the special combination of DK arrogance/ignorance
What weird rape book?
I just thought he was a right wing tool who stopped making interesting content.
Jesus Christ, I forgot about the rape book, and his incessant defense of the rape book.
Right it's not a surprise that if ppl don't like him they don't want him to succeed, I don't like Shad anymore so I don't give him the watch time.
As a fellow man on the internet... WOW this is embarrassing for Shad. Grievance isn't actually a superpower- it can't help you here, Shad. There's a fickleness to the algorithm, but it's still true that putting out good content yields good results.
Crazy to see you comment on WS Tyler Sad Shad video. Stay wholesome Brent!
YO PEOPLE COME HERE, ITS THE FAMOUS GOOBER!!!
Wow, Brent. Love that you’re here too
i like gaslighting youtubers by telling them i dont get their videos recommended even though i turned on notifications
What despicable, deplorable thing to say. Thanks for the Idea
High impressions leads to high views, high views leads to Weak men, weak men leads to low impressions which leads to low views.
this is why kino dogme videos made on a phone with zero editing or production value will always win
Could it be that Shad's Forged in Fire video got more impression than his short film because he doesn't make short films and the former is a video covering a popular show that's currently airing and has like 50 different spinoffs? Bro is so far in the tunnel he doesn't realize it. I don't know if it's more infuriating or sad
"I don't know if it''s more infuriating or shad." Fixed it for you.
Are my videos not that interesting anymore?
No, it must be the algorithm's fault.
-Shad, maybe too many times
Edit: minor grammatical correction
There's some kind of entertaining irony in none of Shadiversity's videos being recommended to me in the past 6 months or so... but this video is.
And that is despite me not following this channel, and I do follow quite a lot of those history TH-camrs
I don't recall if tyler mentioned it or not but perhaps the reason the forged in fire video did so well is because the title is a very popular television show
@@HerrDoktorWeberMD that is the common theme in all of Shad’s videos that do well. His reactions to or exploration of pop culture topics. Of course his videos on lightsabers are going to pull more views and be bumped higher on the recommendations than a 5 minute original short.
The historical content people figured out he was full of crap; the literary community tore apart his juvenile self-insert rape-fantasy writing; the art community mocked him for his mediocre Rob Liefeld knockoffs and AI-worship; and the rage-bait market isn't what it used to be. He's failing on all cylinders.
He doesn't get it. if I need to watch HEMA videos I'm going to watch Scholagladiatoria, Sellsword Arts, London Longsword Academy, or virtually everyone else who knows what they are doing with their art. I'm not wasting time for him. Skallagrim does better fantasy vs real swordfights analysis too.
Skallagrim can get a lil cringy but yeah
@@TheinternetArchaeologistBut at least he's aware about it.
Skall might be cringe, but he's our kind of cringe. Beyond that cringe is a very sincere man who wishes the best for the people of the world. When I came out as trans, I commented that on his channel (so long ago it was a different acount of mine!) and he was one of the first people to express happiness for me for coming out.
He might be cringe, but he's ours. One of us.
@@neruneri Couldn't have said it better. Skallagrim is everything Shad is not.
@@TheinternetArchaeologistCringe is dead, long live sincerity
the " it couldn't possibly be me that's the problem" attitude that Shad has drives me insane.
"MY shit doesnt stink! It must be theirs!"
"If I changed my content from stuff people liked to stuff people don't like, they should all unsubscribe."
"Wait, why did everyone unsubscribe? Who told them to do that? Must be TH-cam."
He's got a passion for not doing what he was actually decent at.
Is he like trying to say that TH-cam has a personal grudge against him and is purposefully trying to take his channel down? Because that’s what’s implied in his video lmao
No he's claiming that its the liberal agenda
He doesn’t know for sure if it’s targeted, but it certainly feels like it because he can’t read his metrics.
Animation died before the adpocalypse, with the rise of gaming videos. It was because, at that time, the algorithm started to shift towards watch time, so shorter videos got utterly destroyed.
Yeah, I also don't think he's considering the number of people who see his face in a video and instinctively click "do not recommend videos from this channel."
@@HeroOfTheHolySword I don’t know why he thinks the faces he pulls in those thumbnails convey “This is a guy who knows his stuff”.
Guilty as charged.
Shadiversity is like the Ellen Degeneres of Sword TH-cam. He tricked us into loving him, then he turned into a bad person.
Lol Shad Degeneres! Ellen Deversity
@@omardiaz6255 Ellenveristy
It was a long time ago now but I did enjoy watching his castle and sword stuff. I stopped watching that content in general but still thought I liked Shad. While following politics I saw a video covering his extremely stupid political/culture perspective (not to mention his book which I was actually considering reading when first advertised) and now I'm not interested in his content at all. I no longer see him as a goofy SCA nerd instead see him as a ignorant bigot.
All this to say I'm sure this is the case with a large portion of his audience.
@user-jy2sj4ed4i yeah I'm with you on that. He opened my interests to so many things.
Yeah, he's clearly in denial about this. I have no doubt some of those who are interested in castles and stuff (that really was the only thing he was good at, sure I've seen a few of his sword videos but he's clearly no expert on that subject) also enjoy his politics, but I would be surprised if his politics haven't lost him a large chunk of his audience, no matter how much he insists that isn't the case.
That moment, when Shad says "one of the best videos" and there's that closeup on Tyler is just gold
"i'm close to giving up" = "donate now so i don't give up"
Only thing he's good at is being pompous and egotistical.
And he doesn't seem to connect the dots that his actions have consequences, and the brand he's built for himself is in general very negative.
This _"consequences"_ thing is appearently pretty confusing for reactionaries in general.
Shad: "For my brand I will always wear my armor"
Me: "I'm a fan, but can you also complain less? Could be good for the brand."
Shad: "Unsub from me."
When most people see one video heavily outperforming their other uploads, they think "why did this video do so well, and how can I replicate that?"
When Shad sees this, he thinks "why is the liberal media suppressing my other videos?." Actually delusional.
He says: "TH-cam could make ALL of my videos go viral, so now this is proof that any video that DOESN'T go viral is THEM!" Even fans can't tolerate this.
Just Social Blade his channel. He deleted 90 million views worth of videos, for a slight bump. Then wonders why overall views are down. That one stupid move, and his awful attitude, is flatlining his channel. He went from 5-7 million views a month to 1.5 million views. It is obvious why his channel isn't making the money it once was. It's literally there in graph form.
If you try to manipulate your numbers, you've already reached terminal phase. Don't give people content they are there for, fuck around with the numbers! What could go wrong!!
Its weird, it feels like he made this video withought considering the idea that some of his videos might be better/more interesting than others, that he might have an audience who wants to see the hits but aren't superfans enough to watch all the misses. Why is it so hard for him to comprehend that forged in fire has more mass appeal than his short film thing
He also seems to equate "time and effort put into making the video" as the same as "overall quality of the video".
The fighting video was surelly the one he put most effort in months, maybe the whole year. You can see how much tought he put in it and how everything was probably trained and coreographed by a long time.
... Still a worse fight coreograph than something someone like Sellsword can make by just playing around, and still bad in movie making overall.
I’m baffled by how out of touch he is. He literally said his sword fight was the best thing he ever made. The dude is out to lunch if he thinks a homemade video of TH-camrs fake sword fighting isn’t the most niche of niche TH-cam videos. That’s the kind of thing I made for my high school theater class. And I was never deluded enough to think anybody wanted to see it.
@@albertonishiyama1980 didn't he proudly claim it was planned and filmed in 2 hours?
@@bl4cksp1d3r He says it was "made" in two hours, so it's kinda vague if it's 2hours of filming or 2hours with everything.
Among "fans" there's a faction of oldschool fans of the Castle-times that joke about how often he is going to complain about Katanas or getting into E-drama. His CATCH PHRASE is about a little known word for part of a castle. And he refuses to return to Castles.
The best part is his most loyal soldier, Metatron told him he was wrong about the algorithm killing his channel
Stuff like that convinces me shad is either delulu or he is trying to manipulate his audience into thinking he’s getting persecuted and thinks no one will notice
@LegiamasC-OnTwitta he is always going for the persecution angle. Loves to go on about how people don't like him for his "conservative values" and "strong faith"
@@gregthepeglegpregdregthere's a German channel about barbequing. He also does hunting and has videos were he butchers game before putting it on the barbeque. Not to long ago he did a shad like rage video about how "the woke vegans at TH-cam are trying to more his channel". While showing all his videos doing ok, but the butchering ones aren't ad friendly. 😂
But the most disturbing fact: after some other channel calls him out, explains that butchering animals isn't very family friendly, vegans actually prefer those videos (as it shows where meat comes from and possibly converts more to non meat diet) and meat producing companies do everything they can not to connect their product to killing and blood... He actually responded by "you got a point there"😮
As someone into hema shit and dnd can confirm shad is not the go to
Why would anyone listen to shad when you have matt easton.
Who you know. Wins Hema competitions and teaches people.
Whereas shad is just sat in his back garden going "i reckon"
2:00 Political ads also have the issue that they are legally mandated to be the cheapest price for ads in their period. So if you're gonna talk about culture war crap like Shad, and you get a cut of ad revenue, the take-home is going to be smaller. TV affiliates always plan for this in big election years, politicians stacked the deck to not pay market rate.
The big problem is he's tries to speak as a authority on some subjects that he doesn't know enough to know he don't know.
I was fine with Shad having another political channel back in the day. I had just watched him for his sword and castle content.
Where he lost my view was when he started picking petty fights with seemingly all the other sword content creators. His toxic behavior then began to permeate all over and made him less appealing by the day.
Yeah, it feels like you could get past the politics if he didn't keep dragging things back in. You point out HE changed the channel's content? Well he says YOU need to Unsub because we're hurting his numbers by not watching stuff we don't like. here's a Brand improving idea: be nice. Content creators AND fans.
i remember when shad would talk about actually interesting shit yeeeaaars ago. Like the battlements on castle walls, reviewing castles in video games. And he seemed pretty knowledgeable about them. As well as inventing a practical back scabbard for long swords. And that shit seemed to always pop off. Idk wtf happened but his ego seemed to spike and he started to take everything more personally. Old shad seemed to be just an older dude on the internet who loved fantasy and medieval castles. He either needs to go back to that, or just stop complaining and maybe he wont look like such a loser
I used to watch him for similar reasons, but like even then a lot of his content doesn't age that well, you go back to it and realise hes not the most informed person on thse topics
Yup, if he'd realize and come clean about not being the most knowledgeable or professional on these topics and that he's just doing this as a hobby and as an interest of his he'd be way better off. Like his response to Sellswprd Arts was so embarrassing, but if he'd have just made like a 3 minute laid-back video of him explaining he knows he's not the best and his videos on things aren't practical but rather that it's just fun to speculate, that would've come off way better.
Ultimately, I don't think there's a way back. He has dug himself too big of a hole and frankly I don't think he has the mental capacity to realize what he's doing wrong
Well people started to realise that he was not as knowledgeable as he thinks he is, He would get some stuff very wrong but since to him he is the only Arbiter of truth what he says is always correct, so people who noticed left , so he pivoted his content, Rince and repeat and now I do not think he will pivot again, its pretty hard to come back from him and also why would he , he has inserted himself into a crowd who will support and defend anyone as long as they align with there views. All he has to do is blindly agree with that crowd, blindly attack people and the money will come rolling in.
@@synthiandrakon I was not about the knowledge but about interest back then. But you can just tell his new video's have less passion(that does happen over time), But mostly they are poorly made and edited, the quality has gone down.
@@synthiandrakonright. There was just less reason to question him back then
My favorite part of Tyler watching shadiversity for me is that my interest in his downfall won't contribute as a hatewatch bump in his analytics. You truly taking the fall for us, Tyler. And making a little bit of a buck on the side!
Gee, I wonder why yt is pushing "Popular Sword show namedrop" more than "Two fat guys do HEMA(badly)". I mean, I truly can't figure out why one might have more of a mass appeal while "the best video he ever made" would only appeal to his core audience.
He deleted a load of videos, which makes TH-cam try to hype your channel for a little. But all those old videos got views, and maybe some new subs. Also, when your channel doesn't bounce back due to some outside factor. Like you have pissed off your own fans by being a smug bigot, say.
Then you're set to go into free fall, as TH-cam views you as a waste of effort. Then you're out of all those views on old videos, you aren't being pushed, and the only way is downhill. Whining at your existing, or new subs, is only going to speed up the downfall.
Most of the fans are not progressive lefty types. Having based opinions is not the problem, its not shutting the fuck up about it and making it a personality. Its like watching asmongold.
In the future his entire content will consist of:
1. My channel is dying (constantly!!!)
2. That other content creator is stupid!
3. I'm a genius, you just don't get it!
4. Look at this baity thumbnail for a pointless video!
"Katanas...can they really cut through rock? Or overhyped BS"
So what is killing Shad's channel is capitalism. I thought he liked capitalism?
Strange that.
Also alienating half his casual audience by dabbling with the anti-woke grifting.
In Shad's case, I don't think he is grifting as much as he genuinely believes half of the BS he spills out. Remember: He's a Mormon.
Also his very unethical and open support for AI "Art" didn't help him either.
@@mekingtiger9095 He's an *AUSTRALIAN* mormon, when will he make his pilgrimage to the holy land of Missouri?
Somehow, it is entirely possible for me to ALWAYS get the videos of my favorite channels on my home page when they drop, even if I have dozens upon dozens of subscriptions. People like Shad need to stop deluding themselves.
Used to love watching Shad, among other similar but way better channels, like Skallagrim. As soon as he started getting political, I was a little rubbed the wrong way. I still watch those other channels, but now, my only experience watching Shad is watching videos like this. This arc is better than that in anything he could write lmao
I can get around the politics, but its the constant drama and picking fights, and then instead of being educational it'll be the umpteenth video trashing Katanas as if they just got the right to vote.
I just wanna say youtube has recommanded me all those videos that he said youtube didn't recommand and i didn't wanted to clicked on them because i just don't want to watch him anymore... The guy is super weird...
I have no doubt he's losing views, but both of these seem like "I'm dyin ovah ere, go spend money on my subscription services"
It really does look like he's manipulating numbers to pitch his other things
For every aspect of Shad's content there is a superior competitor. HEMA? Shad doesn't actually do it so literally every HEMA Guy on youtube is more insightful. Fantasy weapon analysis? Skallagrim, Marcus Vance do it ten times better. Rage bait? My god, that market is so saturated it's a wonder he thought he could actually sustain himself there this late in the game. There is no reason to watch him unless you're THAT invested in shad personally.
Marcus Vance is a great watch almost every time. And he does firearms, too.
He USED to be the King of Castle content. So we, the fans, requested that in his hour of need he should return to his roots since we don't care to watch the new stuff, the drama, etc. He told us to unsub.
Dude really made hours of content complaining about how he's doing everything right and is getting unfairly throttled by the algorithm and then followed it up by saying "but I'm not entitled to views."
It's really not that complex either, it's fine if he wants to make higher production quality stuff or pivot to other topics, but so many people in the social media space seem to get confused about what it is that people actually want from social media content. Upgrade your lighting, get a better camera, hire an outside editor, sure, but NOBODY is coming to TH-cam because they're seeking out high production quality, in most cases the lo-fi vibe is what makes it fun. There is absolutely no reason why a channel like Shadiversity should even have employees to pay, especially since at this point it's obvious that most TH-camrs should NOT massively scale up their operation just because the algorithm has given them a boost.
Working on a platform that is unpredictable can be frustrating, but it's not like there are NO clues about how the algorithm works, and Shad clearly knew he was taking his content in a different direction, so he should have planned for it beforehand rather than pivoting when he was at his maximum expenditure and then panicking when the predictable outcome of a pivot happened to him. And for fuck's sake, you're not going to win pity from anybody because you only managed to spend a few years of your life somehow earning a living off of swinging fake swords in your back yard instead of making it into a full-fledged, lifetime-sustaining business. Regardless of his idiotic politics, the non-viability of this as a full-time job that can take you into retirement age is actually pretty foreseeable, so his frustration now is borderline delusional.
What I don't understand is how sometimes I can go through an entire 1 hour video with only a single ad or two. Other videos I get an add every 5 min. Why?
Because the TH-camr chose to insert those ads.
Unless things have changed recently, they have complete control over it as far as I know? They can drop in as many ad breaks as they want, whenever they want. That's why ads sometimes pop up in between chapters, when the video naturally pauses...or, when the TH-camr makes a joke about ads interrupting content. You can tell that they went through the trouble of dropping the ad break on a specific timestamp.
But that takes a lot of effort so most channels just drop them in randomly. Although they will usually try to pace them in different ways, there are a couple patterns I've noticed. (Like, some channels will have them at regular intervals the whole time, while others choose to have more minutes between ads as the runtime goes on.)
It's definitely not automatic because the videos consistently have the same ads at the same spots. Then there are channels like Pop Culture Detective & Jimquisition purposefully highlight their choice to put zero ads in their videos, thanks to people donating money to them directly. I've watched their videos many times over the years and there are never any ads.
If I'm wrong, then I will stand corrected!
Shad: My main channel is dying!
Also Shad: So, I made a new thing instead of trying to save my main channel...buy it because I want to build a castle!
“Friend of the show” killed me
22:00 "Why is YT not pushing those videos" He asks, comparing his custom stuff to a reaction to a popular tv show, with the show in Thumbnail and title. I WONDER WHY.
Unfortunately, there is no way to know. Shame, this will stay as an enigma.
It's so fucking ironic that Shadiversity mentions animation channels, when his usage of AI literally spits on those type of channels.
@@garrusv. isn't draw with jazza his brother?
He is, however Jazza has been using AI for his art process, so Jazza is as bad as Shad, unfortunately. @@youarenotmadenough655
@youarenotmadenough655 yea it's absurd.
It's so sadge Brie Larson and She-Hulk double-clotheslined him to irrelevancy. Couldn't have happened to a lousier guy
Maybe Shad should stop giving his church 10% of his income then maybe he could pay his bills. Being a Mormon is contributing to his downfall both morally and financially.
As someone whose family has tithed for as long as I can remember, that’s not interfering with his bills. As to the rest, I don’t know. I heard of Shad because of the AI art thing, and some review of his book. That was honestly enough for me to make sure I never got recommended his channel again😅.
Those pauldrons are fighting for their lives
I was not ready for Your parking brake is engaged and your tires are flat
Hearing “Castle Super Beast” in the middle of the in-depth breakdown of TH-cam analytics hit me like a sleeper agent numbers station.
I mean, he could actually gonout and PAY someone who's job it is to analyze this stuff and work on his strategy and stuff. But this would actually mean him listening to people telling him he's wrong on a lot of stuff (in regards to content specifically and stuff). And Something tells me, he isn't really the findest of that.
I disagree with ragebait dying, since Trump won and movies like Snow White coming up, they will still have popular enough things to rage about
Idk about you, but, as a fellow man on the internet, there's nothing else I'd rather watch on someone's channel than a video complaining about how their channel doesn't have enough views.
My eye kept wandering at the constant wobbling of the throne Shad is sitting on; definittely one of his best videos yet.
Honestly though, how many times has Shad changed his channel to get better metrics? Twice? Three times? He stopped doing his art stuff, so he started doing pop culture reviews, then castle stuff, then sword stuff, then culture war crap... And he's surprised his subscribers are ignoring his channel? He can't just stick to one thing and is a reactionary that makes slop about whatever is the current thing. No wonder his channel is dying.
him being so proud of his film (lower production quality than 90% of tiktoks) will never not be funny
Its actually interesting to me, i originally liked his content cause he went through medieval weaponry which I have a huge special interest in but then the ai stuff came in so i dropped him i didnt even know that he was still posting lmao
Shad can't understand that he pushed his audience away
Yup, it's never these types' own failure but always somebody else's - it's so tiring.
He definitely pushed me away. I'm just one person of course, but this definitely applies to me.
its not even that his older videos are just better then his recent stuff.
@@sorryifoldcomment8596 Same here. Gradually lost respect for him. Then lost all remaining respect at once when he started to s*** Crowder's c***.
@@129das We requested he go back to that, pointing out his content shift meant old fans won't watch the new stuff. He told us to unsub to help his numbers. Just give the people what they want?
the algorithm didn't hide shads videos
i told youtube i don't want his stuff anymore
its that easy shad
The algo showed me a Shad video, so I told Shad his old content was better, and if any new content would be like his old stuff. He told us not watching his new garbage hurt his numbers so we should unsub. So we did, and he became surprised.
Has he considered the fact that he shares the first half of his name with a prolific PDFile and that that might affect his metrics?
maybe it has something to do with Forged in Fire being in the video. like... i feel like involving a media outside yourself would expand who its recommended too?
You said this in the video but I just can't believe it never once crossed his mind that maybe the problem is his content not being what newer people are interested in... he's just blaming everyone but himself
Odd that I find a video analyzing Shads video more entertaining than his actual videos
His arrogance is astounding. He honestly believes he is entitled to lots of views despite how awful the quality and content of his videos are. He is completely incapable of any introspection.
Of all the guys on the internet, Westside Tyler is truly one of them
How has he been online so long and still not able to comprehend his metrics? The man needs someone to sit him down and show him how they work.
Really the biggest thing hurting Shads channel is that his content has just become stale. Sure it doesn't bother me too much as I have anxiety and take a form of comfort in watching the same things over and over. But in gaining and maintaining new viewers to support the channel that is just not a going to cut it
If they weren't regularly being sent swords and such to review Shadiversity would probably be dead by now. Which the focus on testing content is likely one of the wider thing also attributing to his channels current troubles. These types of videos attracted a new audience same as his current delve into react content such as the "Sword Fails" and "Forged in Fire" stuff. And this new audience isn't likely to pay much attention to his older content or his current videos where he geeks out about the castles he visited as these aren't what attracted them to view his channel. And longtime viewers may enjoy his rare return to his older form content, but they are less likely to check out his other current videos due to the stagnation
His delving into and support of AI isn't likely affecting things as the uproar around that has completely died down, but his other channel Knights Watch where he is openly opinionated and it's association with other highly political channels has definitely negatively affected the algorithm for his main channel
Sure putting out content more quickly which is his current plan might give a slight algorithmic boost, but again that stagnation will hurt maintaining that obtained interst
The smartest move for Shad right now would be to pull back from content creation as his main job and focus on it as a hobby like the early days. This way he could plan out and research precisely what content to make and not tax his health like he is now
been waiting for your coverage
Shad:
My channel is dying.
This guy keeps saying his channel dies every single month, that I don't even know if that's true or he's just trying to play the victim card to get views.
I can forsee the next video of Shad of "Thank you for not giving up on me!"
Its the constant bs just shifting blame instead of realizing that his basically shotgun approach doesnt work. TH-cam likes consistency and shad is anything but.
Doesnt help that he has a really bad rep so people tend to just click off.
To be fair, TH-cam wanting consistency is stupid. I'd love to see channels with a broad range of ability to be able to show off the variety of what they can do. It just needs to be quality content..
NGL I intentionally click on Shad's vids and leave immediately to help the algorithm not recommend the guy lol
"Higher clickthrough rate" sorry shad, that was me, i come back every now and then just to see youre follower count dwindle
30:01 Mr. Krabs
42:45 - get him to be "interviewed" by DSP on his new politics podcast.
I love how with the "viewer impressions" chart you can clearly see "since published" on the top bar, and "custom" on the lower bar, which means he actively changed the time of that chart in order to make his point, which means he is either really stupid and didn't realise what that data means somehow, or he's just straight up lying
Someone was trying to say that shad needs to focus more on drama cause that gives the channel a lot of views, and I feel like he probably would lean into that typeof viewership
Shad fans are just not very bright people. It explains why they continue to watch him despite him not being an authority on the things he talks about, it explains why they think he's funny, it's why they buy in to the "woke culture is an attack!" bullshit, it's why Shad takes over an hour to explain concepts that should take 5-10 minutes, it's why they get upset and angry that biology is more complicated than what they learned in Primary school. They won't be upset about the nuance because they won't understand it; just as they don't understand Shads explanation. They just nod along.
Are you saying that only channels you watch are very intelligent high culture? What you say makes very little sense; ultimately all youtubers are entertainers even if they themselves think otherwise. And there is many different reasons people have to watch entertainers perform.
No that's not what I am saying dumbass, and it isn't difficult to work out what I am saying.
@tabull8180 They did not say anything about the channels they watch, friend. TH-camrs are entertainers, but some are teaching information from a place of knowledge and not dragging politics into it. They just said that they believe shad's fans are very bright.
@@seifer447 And does not "fans" in this context mean everyone who watches shadiversity regularly? Thats a huge group of people with huge varitey of reasons, calling all of them "not bright" and worse is quite toxic to whole conversation. Note, I would pretty much have same opinion regardless of whose fans we are talking about unless it was some proven criminal.
If you and him mean something smaller as "fans", that definition should be included in the comment.
@tabull8180 It could be seen as toxic, but you'll notice I didn't say anything about his fans and you didn't raise that point in your first response. You made an arguement against the other commenter about their viewing habits. It seems to me that you were attacking the other commenter on a basis they did not speak about. I was merely pointing that out.
Part of it is also that he is known for being unhinged. He has had beef with basically everyone to the point where you can easily find videos of people responding to how unhinged he is. In the hema community for example a dude that is currently popping off is a channel going by sellsword arts. He made one short about media literacy in the hema community and how watching someone actually walk the talk is a great indicator of how much to trust and listen to them and shad took that as an attack. Congrats you have now made yourself a fool in the eyes of the audiences pulling in the most eye balls. Why would they go check you out and watch your back catalog if they see you as a fool? If whenever they show your sword video next to that of other hema creators for example and everyone immidiately wants to cringe cause they remember when you had a tantrum at that creator or a different one you likely watch in that sphere. TH-cam is not about building singular good videos but about building a cohesive brand and he did that and then burned it to the ground with the worst possible PR
coward should have accepted Jack Saint's duel.
I definitely miss the times when the only thing Shad was obsessing over where machiculations.
47:28 he's on subscripstar which is just hilarious because after patreons latest bout of being weird about nsfw content a whole load if artists moved to subscribstar and started doing the most extreme nsfw art you've seen.
Lol I know I'm late but I thought you took a break, but it turned out youtube just wasn't putting you on my feed. Glad to see you didn't quit.😂
He's a historian that doesn't know history, a writer that can't write, a sword expert that doesn't know swords, a film-maker that can't make films, and an artist that can't make art. Is anybody really surprised that he's also a youtuber that doesn't know how youtube works?
10:42 Does he not realise while showing the "proof" of his audience retention, that his impression click-through rate is at 4.3% in his examples? That is kinda abysmal.
He strikes me as a good guy but a bit rough around the edges. But yeah ragebait is played out it’s been a decade. Time to move on.
Also, I fucking hate when TH-camrs bring up how bad their channel is doing. I’m a customer. I don’t give a fuck about you only getting 20k views instead of 200k. Either adapt or get a real job like everyone else. We don’t owe you our time.
Shad lacks the skillset to get a real job XD hes just an Australian Bert Kreischer. Hed be useless in combat, hed be useless in the workplace
27:22 hes also assuming that there is the same audience for all of those videos if there are only 30,000 people that want to watch your video giving more impressions wont change anything your just gonna find the same 30k people. Like all 3 of those videos have completely different content that will appeal to different people am I not understanding something here?
I stay subbed to shad just so I can ignore it when the new vid recommend comes up in the feed.
You are still supporting his channel by subscribing.
Oh no!
Anyway...
Thank goodness! You mean
@remrad4315 it's a meme u dip
@painovoimaton I know its a meme. I just thought mine was funnier
@@remrad4315 It's okay
@@painovoimaton Lol we're back in 2014 now
The funny thing is this Shad video was actually recommended to me on my home page... I just didn't want to watch it.
yeah his video about TH-cam killing his channel appeared on my home page. I clicked on the three dots, then clicked on Don't recommended this channel.
Then I realized "huh, this might be why his channel is dying"
"The algorithm is hiding my content because it's evil! It's not my fault at all!"
How many times have we seen people advocating neocon talking points end up complaining about being victims of neocon practice?
The system's only flawed when it shafts them, if it's beneficial it's fine.
He took a happy accident as the new normal, neglected to consider the alternatives, and failed to manage sustainability.
It's actually a cliché at this point.
Why do capitalists always act like bitches when they have to play by the rules?
Every right libertarian thinks theyre gonna be the captain of industry. Someone has still got to scrub the toilets.
Why is Tylers favorite prehistoric hunting implement the atlatl?
It adds leverage!
The EFAP guys do an okay job and breaking down plot points, but mostly just entertaining to listen to. The funny thing is, whenever Shad is on there show, it obvious how much he doesn't know and gets proven wrong frequently
If this actually happens, I’m personally going to laugh so hard at Shad blaming the algorithm for killing his channel and not his own wackadoo hot takes. 😂
I actually used to watch Shadiversity from time to time when I thought he was just doing stuff about historical accuracy and weapon use and armour and all that kind of thing. When he started jumping on the culture war grift, that's when I checked out. What he doesn't seem to understand is that is the reason his views are tanking, he wanted to be part of the culture war grift, but here's the thing. He's not a grifter, in the sense that he genuinely believes in his politics. The reason the culture war grifters are so successful is because they don't believe in what they say, they only care about making money and know what to say to get the conspiracy theorists onto their channel, they can be as inconsistent as they like as long as they use hundreds of buzzwords and keep up with the rhetoric they will continue to get the views. He just doesn't understand the game, that's his problem. He doesn't understand that people watch him for stuff about swords and armour and castles, not about what he thinks about playing as a Black woman in a videogame.
Shadiveristy was interesting for aspiring writers that wanted to get more of the hang of how a "preindustrial" society worked and how much was made by Hollywood, like taverns, torches in closed spaces, people throwing their poop out of the window and whatnot. Pivoting to "anime weapons", which lose all of their cool factor on a written medium and realistic art style, was a bad idea. And also coming out as an anti-woke that unironically makes a thumbnail where he yells at Peach from the Supermario Movie
I'll be real, the last few times I've seen his videos linked in a group, people didn't click on it because they thought he was related to Shadman the artist.
Also, 4.4% CTR is really low. I made a new YT channel in September that recently broke just broke 1000 subs, with my latest video getting 150k views and in general my CTR is 6-9%. The thing I learned is that that 1). YT will try to push your videos to your core audience first 48 hours, then 2). it will generally try to push your videos outside of your immediate sphere afterwards.
If number 1 dies with a CTR that's 1-1.5% below 5%, number two only lasts for about 24 hours in which case its pretty much dead in the water. If it does well, it can last for two weeks.
All this means he is not making content that his own core audience wants.
My suggestion to him is 1). try unticking the notify subscriber box when publishing, which is something creators do when posting something outside of their core content so that it does not spoil their algorithm. 2). try not posting for 28 days so their channel's algo completely resets so he can try to build up a new audience (risky). 3). chasing a trend too hard is often not optimal as larger channels have a larger bite on the impressions leaving you in the dust.
The comment about being poor man's Mauler is completely on point. Crazy idea: he should just host HEMA tournaments since he has a castle.
"People are interested but not recomended" as dead subscriber I can't be even botheted to open Shads page and hit unsubscribe but YT occasionaly throw him into my recomendation or shorts
I'm someone that can go back and watch him review an old castle and wish he'd just talk about castles. But he won't. He won't be THE Castle Guy, he wants to be King of the Western Sword Guys.
How does he become King of the Western Sword Guys?
Complain about Anime Weapons
Complain About Katana
Complain about Nunchucks in 1v1 combat (see also complaining about fireworks not being as good as guns, thus fireworks are stupid)
Complain about Katanas
Complain that people complained.
Complain about TH-cam
Complain about people not loving AI.
Complain that people who do share his opinions are tired of his complaining because they don't share his opinions
Complaining FANS OF HIS CONTENT should UNSUB because HE changed the channel's content
Remember, this is the Castle Guy.
Every complaint people have about him is legit....but the constant complaining without any introspection makes even his fans ask why they bother waiting for one more castle review.
We've outgrown his ability to grow, in as many ways I can mean that as possible.
i just can't get over how *fake* his armour looks. some metallic paint or gloss coat scuffed up by sanding it would do wonders.
The Free Market works, unless my videos are not making money.