ARE YOU KIDDING ME YOUTUBE !!!

The CoC was just the thing edge of the wedge, just testing the waters to see what will be accepted.

And even if it doesn't go anywhere this time governments will continue to try again. It's how the American
Government has gotten away with mandating kill switches into all new road vehicle
(2026 forward if I remember correctly). There is another bill that is suppose to repeal it (H.R. 1137) but 
I don't know if it passed or not. Given all the other crap that has gone on I wouldn't be surprised if it
got lost in the noise. 
 

and further more

Also looking into TAILS a linux distro. It also uses TOR.  I am not surprised about VPN's it seemed
like a convenient way to funnel people into specific systems. Kind of like saving everything into
cloud servers except all in real time.  

tommylight wrote:

The "content creator" profession has cr@pped out, as with everything humans do, millions of dumb f@ks yapping about stuff they have no clue.
Pity, as there are some magnificent creators on youtube, some have no clue ....
 

Hey, I'm one of them, I've been posting YT content for 15 years with no structure, no script and no idea. Despite these failings, a month ago, I looked at what I had been doing and I had 980 followers but only 500 hours watch time/365 days. You can monetise YT if you have 1000 followers and 4000 hours/365 days so I am on a mission to get to 4000 watch hours.

One thing I found was that I had content on a couple of channels because I started before Google linked YT to your Google account and uploading from a phone inherited my Google user if I wasn't careful. So I used yt_dlp to download some content from the wrong channel and moved it to where it could actually be part of my real channel! Then I found all these clips hiding on my video camera for a few years.

I use a tool called vidIQ and I asked it to give me a AI script for my latest video. It really was an amazing script but missed the real detail you can only get with hands on experience. By the time I added that, after producing 7 minutes of it, , I found I have enough content for two videos. 

VidIQ is an amazing tool and I've had it busy fine-tuning titles, creating thumbnails and back filling all the Tags and SEO stuff under my watchful eye.

It would be easy to bang out content from AI scripts en masse, but digging up the additional resources and filming extra stuff that's needed all takes time.... I reckon at least a 40 hour week per video.

Anyway, my 365 day watch hours have increased by 100 in just a fortnight just by adding some structure.... andhelp from AI.

Tommy, 
If your channels are all about machining, I would try to merge them together like I did. Or just focus on your best one.
I think most who do live streaming on youtube present a session and respond to the live chat comments at the end. They might also have a seperate subscription service for the live stream like Robert. www.youtube.com/@RobertGouveiaEsq
I follow this guy to watch what's happening in the US courts etc. He can be quite funny and makes reading boring court documents fun!
Another way might be use Patreon and Google Meet. A lot of paid channels are on Rumble but I don't go there.

3 channels to motivate you I found recently
NAZ, new guy not sure if he is monetised yet www.youtube.com/@newcreatorclub
Alexa. She is amazing and pulling $145k a year after just a few months www.youtube.com/@AlexaSaarenoja
And of course Rob from VidIQ  www.youtube.com/@vidIQ Man he is slick!

Sign up to VIDIQ but don't pay. eventually they will make a good offer. Mine is 40% off forever so $11 a month. As well as the tools on their web site, they insert themselves into the YT studio and list alternative topics etc. Very cool and helpful stuff.
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  I have multiple YT channels as well but only post on my main one . I admittedly suck at video making. The only
one making money off my stuff is YouTube themselves. Honestly I will most likely be shutting down my other
channels just because I was using them to compartmentalize things. With what YT and most of the world is trying
to do, I may just decide to go dark. (aside from a few sites)