Aug
21
2009
One thing I dislike about YouTube is how people with good content don’t make the top ranks while others with relatively poor content do. A typical case of this is the channel Fred. I have watched about 2 full videos, but attempted to watch others with unsuccessful results and was thinking to myself, “who would watch this and why has a million people subscribed to this?”
Don’t get me wrong, the kid is a genius for coming up with the story and making a consistant series but I don’t see how this is funny or where the incentive is to subscribe. For this reason it frustrated me that Fred was number one until just a day or two ago. NigaHiga, who produces funny content, regained the number one spot again. I think he had it before at one point, I can’t remember.
The margin is only 3000 subscribers (Hey! That’s how many I had!) so it could still reverse. It would be interesting to see how many YouTube accounts there are and what percentage are subscribed to these channels. I have actually subscribed to NigaHiga on my personal account because of the reasons stated before. It’s also nice to see large corporations, specifically record labels not dominating the Most Subscribed list because they don’t produce content which belongs on YouTube.
To the contrary, look at the most viewed rankings and majority of the channels are record labels or music associated acts. It’s disappointing to try and see who has got (and most likely deserved) the views of top channels and to see good content when it is spammed by music videos. All music videos do is give a reason for the music in to be played on TV, go to Last.FM or Pandora for that stuff.
My channel is RhysIsKindaCool if you want to subscribe, no videos yet though, it’s mainly for subscriptions, I am unsure if I will post my videos again on YouTube or not. Time will tell.