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.

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It takes no rocket scientist to see my videos have copyrighted content. However I make sure I tell people who the artist etc is and had started to include a website link later on. I think that was sufficient to YouTube standards a year ago when I had a partnership believe it or not (I was genuinely shocked); a channel with 100% copyrighted material became a partner? The only other channel I know of that has done that is FailBlog and it is a miracle that they can post so many illegal videos and post ads!

Anyway, slowly Youtube has been enforcing their anti-copyright measures. My Chad Reed: First Race with Suzuki video actually got rejected but I reuploaded it with a voice clip of Chad which bypassed their system (this method doesn’t work now). From there on I knew I wouldn’t be lasting too long since the big music corporations target Youtube (ignoring most other large video sharing sites which host the same content) to take money from, advertise and control.

Most of my videos, well at least half by now are only allowed to be shown in certain countries. This was probably the worst thing that could have happened. My viewership dropped by half. Literally in 2 weeks it was half of what it was and I couldn’t really do anything about that. Everytime I upload a new video it doesn’t get the attention it used to get either.

Just in the  last week, for the first time ever one of my videos got deleted. It was the Travis Pastrana at X Games Best Trick (2005) which had over 200k views. The claim was made by ESPN which owns the X Games but I don’t understand why they delete videos with high amounts of views but leave the 40-100 other versions there. I also have about 5-10 other X Games videos which have less views but no doubt will be deleted.

According to YouTube “repeat offenders will have their accounts terminated.” It’s a pretty harsh policy but I guess they want to keep out of trouble seeing as Google apparently makes no money from it (makes you wonder why they bother). So from what I can gather from that is, my channel, KICKERMAN360 won’t be around for much longer. I probably won’t make many more videos or re-upload any that get deleted or aren’t shown in some countries. It just isn’t worth my time or bandwidth seeing as I am on a limited bandwidth broadband plan to do so.

Also, editing videos isn’t as fun as it used to be. I used to always learn something new in each video. You can probably tell after watching some in order of release. Now days it is just plain boring to me. I’m not saying I am an expert; because I’m not, but the hours of time to make a video is something I’d rather spend doing something else.

Maybe if I had more incentive to make videos I’d get back into it but as of now even though people are still subscribing which is awesome, I reached over 3000 the other week, I’m either too busy or not interested in making any more videos. Perhaps later I’ll get back into it.

On a more positive note, hopefully I can upload all my videos to this website. I have been meaning to do that for ages, just never really been focused. So for all you fans, maybe you guys can take over!

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