Yay! I'm so happy. He's one of my favorite TH-camrs. In fact he's one of the best ones that doesn't make cringy content. Half the stuff he covers is cringy but I loved when he made content. He was legit and for a guy on the spectrum he really has a way with words. He can make people laugh in ways some TH-camrs (including me) only dream to. I'm glad he's not giving up :). I hope he saw my comment
Was he ever planning on leaving or was this just a publicity stunt? I’m asking because I had never seen his channel before his “ending phantom strider” video and it seems like that video was the most popular one on his channel in a LONG time.
You know I do get the honest feeling that Josh generally didn't expect his fans to instantly pitch in and give him the capital needed to continue going on that he got. Like I think he forgot that his popularity through his videos was earned through a reason and maybe dwindling interest from some of the later content and youtube's issues aren't going to detract when a creator who can still make their content asks for help and they have a large enough net to get that support. I am glad between stuff like supporting another season of Death Battle or getting LS Mark to make another episode of his cartoon and now Josh allowing to continue his career with videos people have been wanting him to make that we are showing the positivity of this platform even if youtube makes it really hard to do that.
I can't find the video and I'm really sad about him quitting. I wish I could hug him tight but I can't. I'm so sorry PhantomStrider. I hope everything goes well with your family and income
His videos give me a comfortable break from my life unlike anything else. Truly inspiring sincere passion for the mundane that is oh so needed to stay strong
I know but I can’t pay Him on his Patreon because it will cost me & my mom A fortune and I don’t want to waste that her money And when I was watching the video I said to him You can’t go and I was like now on never going to tell him For my idea for him for his next video of the top 10 & 5 But luckily I still got Trevor Davis Since all I want for strider is the talk about PAW Patrol again And I tried to tell him i’m his comments on his videos A long time ago But now he’s getting like MatPat
I honestly think maybe more content creators like strider should experiment with using paypal, cash up, and sell for fans to give donations. Because some of the consequences that I subscribe to do experiment using this. Heck, there are some shorts content creators that I watched that are completely supported by their fans via cash app and paypal. Where people can donate as little as a dollar. Though apparently a lot of content creators don't like to do that because they feel it's unethical to take our money without giving us something in return. Even though the whole point we want to give the money is so we can continue to get the free content. Because technically speaking is not 100% truly free. The money has to come from somewhere. They can't do it free forever on a regular basis. Play at least got paid in our views via ad revenue but that's not the case anymore. So if the best case scenario is direct donations, they might as well experiment with stuff like cash app and PayPal. Still better than paying for TH-cam premium in my opinion. Fort Payne for a TH-cam membershipor patreon where they take a cut. Especially TH-cam because they take a bigger cut than patreon. Via cash and paypal, they'll keep 100% of the donations. Every. Last. Penny. I personally don't always donate myself either to my favorite content creators because even though I sometimes have a dollar lying around, I don't have it lying around as digital credits in cash app. I'm trying to get used to even using it at all. But even then just literally throwing them a dollar here and there if I had it in digital credits, I would be more than down for that.
No, his situation is nothing like that. Matpat's not fully retired. People keep getting this twisted and I think he's fully retired. He's retired as the *host* . Those are still his channels. He still has password access to them and still owns them. Well for the most part. He still does some of the work behind the scenes. Just less time he is working as the host meetings more time for himself and his family. *He did not fully retire.* He's still technically making content and doing other projects, just not always related to the theorist channels. You still contributing to those channels but behind the scenes. And he still making money off of it. He's technically still working. He reaped what he saw. And now he gets to enjoy the benefits. And the channels can still run with only a little bit of his management because he has a team that he trusts that can take care of it. And he makes sure to take care of them. And even if he doesn't come back as the host anytime soon, as long as he's still working behind the scenes, and getting paid doing this, he is working. He still has a job. You still has a job making content. *He did not officially retire.*
Lol, the problem isn't TH-cam shorts bro. But the way TH-cam manages the platform in general. A lot of these issues have been issues before TH-cam shorts was ever a feature, it's just been getting worse ever since then. Well even before TH-cam shorts It's been getting worse. Contact readers that make sure the content like shorter commentaries, animators, skate creators, and short news channels have benefited from TH-cam shorts. And when I say Short news I don't trust me in a 1-minute short. I mean the new second fit into a short video from between 1 to 5 minutes. Which I know at this point people consider anything above 1 minute of "full video", but if somebody's making videos 5 minutes or below, such as this one that you made, as far as I'm concerned that short content. And if this is your regular content around this time limit, then in my eyes you're basically a short content creator even though you don't use the shorts feature. Just buy the technicality of what I personally would consider short content. TH-cam has been going downhill ever since they started chasing the Netflix model and wanted people to make longer videos for longer watch time. Then they try to compete by pushing people to make more videos in quantity rather than quality by decreasing their views and the algorithm if they don't have a regular upload schedule. Whether it be like weekly or bi-weekly or even every day. Apparently other viewers out there have issues of their comments being deleted, likes being deleted, and sometimes being unsubscribed from a Channel or just not getting notified of all the videos even if they ring the bell and check the specific box. And I remember back in 2019 when people were being gasoline and called conspiracy theorist for saying that TH-cam had a blacklist. Then eventually it was revealed they actually had a tag blacklist. And the creators that suffered from it the most were LGBT and minority creators. And they're supposed to attempt to go after right extremist content creators, they blacklisted tags like lgbt, gay, black, negro, african-american, and any other term that could be related to American minorities. Which it probably won't take you more than 2 seconds to realize just how horribly wrong that could go. And the part that was fucking funny as hell was this was revealed on fucking pride month. While they were trying hard as hell to promote on their Twitter page that they help and support LGBT and black creators. 🤦🤣 Yeah a few years later and somehow the TH-cam community has completely forgot about that as a collective. Now it's not deal with any issues with tags or people trying to gain the system, they completely disabled the tag feature. And by disabled I don't mean you can't put tags on a video anymore. Just the algorithms not even going to register those tags. that get confused and have never used TH-cam studio before, I don't mean the hashtags. I mean regular tags that are never seen by viewers because they can only be seen by the Creator. It's a special little text box just dedicated to tags or search terms. But again it doesn't matter anymore because it's been completely disabled or disconnected from the algorithm. It literally doesn't read it. Even if you type in the search bar a term or phrase that is exactly what is in the tags. That video if it has any might not even show up in your search results at all. And if you've ever wondered why search results have gone to complete shit, this is partially the reason why. Besides the fact that TH-cam wants to recommend nothing but garbage. They can do every ass backwards decision in the book that fucks creators over and fucks up the website ass backwards and upside down, and they can get away with it because they basically own a monopoly on video content with the exception of tiktok being their only true competitor. And no before another commenter mentions bitchute, rumble, and odysee, they're just alternatives. But they're not real competitors because they don't have anything to compete with you too. Where is Tiktok is actually going to the run for its money. Why do you think they're trying to copy them with each of shorts? TH-cam has a monopoly on long-form content so guess what, the viewers are not going anywhere. The content creators are not going anywhere. Nobody can do shit to make them much because there's no other competitor other than tiktok. And tiktok for the most part doesn't really care too much about long-form content. Though they are experimenting with it and now allow up to 1 hour video speed uploaded to the platform. Yeah you read that correctly. I physically made these tests myself. You can only record up to 10 minutes maximum through the app, but you can upload a maximum of 1-hour directly to the app. I guess this is their attempt to experiment with long-form content & directly compete with youtube, not that I think they're going to get anywhere. I don't know why they bother. Their user base is attention span is so fried that they can't even watch a video up to 3 minutes maximum. And on top of that TH-cam is also trying to compete with Twitter using community post. I mean why do you think they implemented that feature? And now apparently they want to make a new feature that's similar to discord. So once again, you don't go off the platform. But chances are it'll work like shit, and they'll have no problem with it working like shit as long as they figure out how to get you to not go back to discord. Oh, and they're going to implement an AI feature for short content creators. Because you know, we just need more AI content garbage on the platform. Old due to the choices of TH-cam themselves and nothing to do with TH-cam shorts directly. Not to mention we can't really blame that directly for AI content because they're making full videos as well. TH-cam has completely gone to shit! 😃 *HAZA* 🫠
Note: had to rewrite my comment because autocorrect fucked it all the way up. Deep into the inner colon with no lube. Probably still did with this one. I don't know because I'm too lazy to rewrite it again or double check.
Because of how complex his videos are, he has a crew of editors to lighten the work load on his behalf and get them out quickly. I'm part of his editing team and there is a lot of work needed. But its a great job :)
Discord Server: discord.gg/6ef8BHwUj7
Heyo! I'm one of Striders editors, and I'm happy to say that he won't be going anywhere :)
Great so now he’s gonna stress himself out making videos and cause damage to his mental health
Yay! I'm so happy. He's one of my favorite TH-camrs. In fact he's one of the best ones that doesn't make cringy content. Half the stuff he covers is cringy but I loved when he made content. He was legit and for a guy on the spectrum he really has a way with words. He can make people laugh in ways some TH-camrs (including me) only dream to. I'm glad he's not giving up :). I hope he saw my comment
@@Jimimar360 the patron goal he has set has been met
Was he ever planning on leaving or was this just a publicity stunt? I’m asking because I had never seen his channel before his “ending phantom strider” video and it seems like that video was the most popular one on his channel in a LONG time.
@@Jimimar360 HATER!
Guys he's not quitting anymore! Enough ppl joined his patreon so he took down that vid and he's coming back
He’s not leaving anymore! Yay!
Wait really!? He is my favorite TH-camr I’m so happy he isn’t quitting now
Any proof?
@@aguywhojustexists The video where he made the announcement is gone.
@@aguywhojustexists he made a video on patreon stating this bro went from $200 a month - nearly $5k overnight
@@Trainlover1995 I reuploded that announcement video because PhantomStrider can try to hide it, but I'm not letting it stay hidden.
Man, it really shows you that TH-cam is just not as great of a platform as it used to be
And that’s what’s making people move over to the A l t e r n a t i v e s .
YEA mrbeast is a bad person making diarrhea, koofy is evil, and more
For the longest time phantom strider has been the perfect TH-cam channel to fall asleep to
Apparently, PhantomStrider is back on TH-cam now. Although I reuploaded his ending TH-cam video because he can't evidence from me.
The few times where a content creators fanbase actually come together to bring them back, so wholesome to see
He's back, don't worry.
You know I do get the honest feeling that Josh generally didn't expect his fans to instantly pitch in and give him the capital needed to continue going on that he got. Like I think he forgot that his popularity through his videos was earned through a reason and maybe dwindling interest from some of the later content and youtube's issues aren't going to detract when a creator who can still make their content asks for help and they have a large enough net to get that support. I am glad between stuff like supporting another season of Death Battle or getting LS Mark to make another episode of his cartoon and now Josh allowing to continue his career with videos people have been wanting him to make that we are showing the positivity of this platform even if youtube makes it really hard to do that.
I can't find the video and I'm really sad about him quitting. I wish I could hug him tight but I can't. I'm so sorry PhantomStrider. I hope everything goes well with your family and income
It’s gone because he’s not leaving anymore
He's not quitting
I reuploaded the PhantomStrider leaving video.
It's unlisted now
Don't worry guys he's not leaving us just yet
I didn't watch the video in time, so thank you for talking about this. I'm going to assume it worked out, since the video's taken down already.
Just subscribed to you at 99 subs, you deserve to have 100s of thousands but it’s the best I can do, good luck to you man! Great stuff :]
His videos give me a comfortable break from my life unlike anything else. Truly inspiring sincere passion for the mundane that is oh so needed to stay strong
At this point every one is leaving
This just shows us that YT has changed a lot and that’s what’s making several people move over to the a l t e r n a t i v e s .
Where is his quitting video?
Yo I want to give a personal thanks on strider’s behalf for those who helped out with his Patreon so he can stay on TH-cam.
Not anymore (he's not quitting anymore!) the patreon raised enough! Yay! (It's now at 3500$) (I know because he made a video on patreon confirming it)
I’m so happy he isn’t quitting now he is my favorite TH-camr and now he is gonna be able to keep making videos
Aged like milk
is it just me or did his negative videos creep me out I love his positive videos but idk the negative ones are just off to me
same feeling
@@Timothy-YT cool did not know thought it was only me
I know but I can’t pay
Him on his Patreon because it will cost me & my mom
A fortune and I don’t want to waste that her money
And when I was watching the video I said to him
You can’t go and I was like now on never going to tell him
For my idea for him for his next video of the top 10 & 5
But luckily I still got Trevor Davis
Since all I want for strider is the talk about PAW Patrol again
And I tried to tell him i’m his comments on his videos A long time ago
But now he’s getting like MatPat
I honestly think maybe more content creators like strider should experiment with using paypal, cash up, and sell for fans to give donations. Because some of the consequences that I subscribe to do experiment using this.
Heck, there are some shorts content creators that I watched that are completely supported by their fans via cash app and paypal. Where people can donate as little as a dollar.
Though apparently a lot of content creators don't like to do that because they feel it's unethical to take our money without giving us something in return. Even though the whole point we want to give the money is so we can continue to get the free content.
Because technically speaking is not 100% truly free. The money has to come from somewhere. They can't do it free forever on a regular basis. Play at least got paid in our views via ad revenue but that's not the case anymore. So if the best case scenario is direct donations, they might as well experiment with stuff like cash app and PayPal.
Still better than paying for TH-cam premium in my opinion. Fort Payne for a TH-cam membershipor patreon where they take a cut. Especially TH-cam because they take a bigger cut than patreon. Via cash and paypal, they'll keep 100% of the donations. Every. Last. Penny.
I personally don't always donate myself either to my favorite content creators because even though I sometimes have a dollar lying around, I don't have it lying around as digital credits in cash app. I'm trying to get used to even using it at all. But even then just literally throwing them a dollar here and there if I had it in digital credits, I would be more than down for that.
No, his situation is nothing like that. Matpat's not fully retired. People keep getting this twisted and I think he's fully retired. He's retired as the *host* .
Those are still his channels. He still has password access to them and still owns them. Well for the most part. He still does some of the work behind the scenes. Just less time he is working as the host meetings more time for himself and his family.
*He did not fully retire.*
He's still technically making content and doing other projects, just not always related to the theorist channels. You still contributing to those channels but behind the scenes. And he still making money off of it. He's technically still working.
He reaped what he saw. And now he gets to enjoy the benefits. And the channels can still run with only a little bit of his management because he has a team that he trusts that can take care of it. And he makes sure to take care of them.
And even if he doesn't come back as the host anytime soon, as long as he's still working behind the scenes, and getting paid doing this, he is working. He still has a job. You still has a job making content.
*He did not officially retire.*
my attetion span is 1 hour and also 2 mabye
Lol, the problem isn't TH-cam shorts bro. But the way TH-cam manages the platform in general. A lot of these issues have been issues before TH-cam shorts was ever a feature, it's just been getting worse ever since then. Well even before TH-cam shorts It's been getting worse.
Contact readers that make sure the content like shorter commentaries, animators, skate creators, and short news channels have benefited from TH-cam shorts. And when I say Short news I don't trust me in a 1-minute short. I mean the new second fit into a short video from between 1 to 5 minutes. Which I know at this point people consider anything above 1 minute of "full video", but if somebody's making videos 5 minutes or below, such as this one that you made, as far as I'm concerned that short content. And if this is your regular content around this time limit, then in my eyes you're basically a short content creator even though you don't use the shorts feature. Just buy the technicality of what I personally would consider short content.
TH-cam has been going downhill ever since they started chasing the Netflix model and wanted people to make longer videos for longer watch time. Then they try to compete by pushing people to make more videos in quantity rather than quality by decreasing their views and the algorithm if they don't have a regular upload schedule. Whether it be like weekly or bi-weekly or even every day.
Apparently other viewers out there have issues of their comments being deleted, likes being deleted, and sometimes being unsubscribed from a Channel or just not getting notified of all the videos even if they ring the bell and check the specific box.
And I remember back in 2019 when people were being gasoline and called conspiracy theorist for saying that TH-cam had a blacklist. Then eventually it was revealed they actually had a tag blacklist. And the creators that suffered from it the most were LGBT and minority creators.
And they're supposed to attempt to go after right extremist content creators, they blacklisted tags like lgbt, gay, black, negro, african-american, and any other term that could be related to American minorities. Which it probably won't take you more than 2 seconds to realize just how horribly wrong that could go.
And the part that was fucking funny as hell was this was revealed on fucking pride month. While they were trying hard as hell to promote on their Twitter page that they help and support LGBT and black creators. 🤦🤣
Yeah a few years later and somehow the TH-cam community has completely forgot about that as a collective. Now it's not deal with any issues with tags or people trying to gain the system, they completely disabled the tag feature. And by disabled I don't mean you can't put tags on a video anymore. Just the algorithms not even going to register those tags.
that get confused and have never used TH-cam studio before, I don't mean the hashtags. I mean regular tags that are never seen by viewers because they can only be seen by the Creator. It's a special little text box just dedicated to tags or search terms. But again it doesn't matter anymore because it's been completely disabled or disconnected from the algorithm. It literally doesn't read it. Even if you type in the search bar a term or phrase that is exactly what is in the tags. That video if it has any might not even show up in your search results at all.
And if you've ever wondered why search results have gone to complete shit, this is partially the reason why. Besides the fact that TH-cam wants to recommend nothing but garbage.
They can do every ass backwards decision in the book that fucks creators over and fucks up the website ass backwards and upside down, and they can get away with it because they basically own a monopoly on video content with the exception of tiktok being their only true competitor.
And no before another commenter mentions bitchute, rumble, and odysee, they're just alternatives. But they're not real competitors because they don't have anything to compete with you too. Where is Tiktok is actually going to the run for its money. Why do you think they're trying to copy them with each of shorts? TH-cam has a monopoly on long-form content so guess what, the viewers are not going anywhere. The content creators are not going anywhere. Nobody can do shit to make them much because there's no other competitor other than tiktok.
And tiktok for the most part doesn't really care too much about long-form content. Though they are experimenting with it and now allow up to 1 hour video speed uploaded to the platform. Yeah you read that correctly. I physically made these tests myself. You can only record up to 10 minutes maximum through the app, but you can upload a maximum of 1-hour directly to the app.
I guess this is their attempt to experiment with long-form content & directly compete with youtube, not that I think they're going to get anywhere. I don't know why they bother. Their user base is attention span is so fried that they can't even watch a video up to 3 minutes maximum.
And on top of that TH-cam is also trying to compete with Twitter using community post. I mean why do you think they implemented that feature? And now apparently they want to make a new feature that's similar to discord. So once again, you don't go off the platform. But chances are it'll work like shit, and they'll have no problem with it working like shit as long as they figure out how to get you to not go back to discord.
Oh, and they're going to implement an AI feature for short content creators. Because you know, we just need more AI content garbage on the platform.
Old due to the choices of TH-cam themselves and nothing to do with TH-cam shorts directly. Not to mention we can't really blame that directly for AI content because they're making full videos as well.
TH-cam has completely gone to shit! 😃 *HAZA* 🫠
Note: had to rewrite my comment because autocorrect fucked it all the way up. Deep into the inner colon with no lube. Probably still did with this one. I don't know because I'm too lazy to rewrite it again or double check.
@HK47_115 I agree with you. TH-cam trying to compete with a short form content platform like tiktok is nowhere near beneficial to the platform.
Google was meant to be a father but instead turned out to be a puppeteer.
well phantom strider wants someone to edit his videos or something like that.
I don't really know what happens.
Because of how complex his videos are, he has a crew of editors to lighten the work load on his behalf and get them out quickly. I'm part of his editing team and there is a lot of work needed. But its a great job :)
That’s sad
sad but you dont quit youtube, its not a job or a addiction
bro lankybox makes slop and he makes millions and you make good content and you making nothing the algorithm is rigged
don't worry he well in a 2 weeks...
th-cam.com/video/4N6MyVTMryI/w-d-xo.html i KNEW HE WILL RISE FROM HIS GRAVE.
Dude he just deleted the vid
Aaaa noooooo my childhood me when I hear Patreon mmmmmmm LETS GOOOOOOOO
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