The Maddness

Meanwhile, Snapchat vs. Instagram.

This intense rivalry between Facebook and YouTube has skewed a lot of things for online content creators looking to promote and/or create on the platforms. For example…

Views on Facebook are different than views on YouTube. 

YouTube – 69 views

Facebook – 235 views

The pictures are of the same video I posted to both YouTube and Facebook. On YouTube, the video got 69 views while on Facebook, it received a little over 230 views. That is a significant enough increase to make any creator pack up their YouTube channel and move exclusively to Facebook.

But wait!  Those Facebook views aren’t real. On YouTube, a view is counted when someone actually clicks on the video and watches it for at least one second. If it’s an accidental click, it still counts as a view. For Facebook, since their videos autoplay on timelines, those views only count how many times that video appeared on a Facebook timeline. The person doesn’t even have to turn the sound on, be an active member of my community, or pay more than 3 seconds to the video before scrolling up. In fact, on Facebook, you can pay to ensure more people have your video on their timeline through ads and hence give your video more “views” despite the fact maybe only one of those hundred views was a legitimate, “I wanna watch this video” view.

At least YouTube gives you a feature to show how much of the video your viewers watch.

Don’t do clickbait, kids.

You can’t promote YouTube videos on Facebook.

I mean you can…but it’s pretty fruitless unless your Facebook followers have you on “See First” notifications. This is an infamous result of the YouTube/Facebook feud. Pretty much Facebook has their algorithm rigged so that anything with that precious YouTube link will get seen as little as possible or not at all. I’ve personally seen “not at all” more often than not. Meanwhile, because Facebook loves their videos so much, a Facebook video post will get seen more than a regular text post.

So easy recap for you: Facebook video post > Facebook photo post > Facebook Text Post > Literally anything else > Facebook post with YouTube link.

The only way I’ve been able to get around this little trick is to put my YouTube link in the comments of my post and have a call to action at the end of my post to have my audience click the link in the comments. This trick literally only works because Facebook can’t set up an algorithm for comments…yet.

Also YouTube doesn’t have an auto-publish feature for Facebook, which is annoying but at least my followers there see my videos most of the time.

But at least they can agree on captions. 

The great thing though is that despite their great and never-ending rivalry, YouTube and Facebook’s algorithms both help out a creator that puts captions on their videos. In fact on YouTube, creators will see a 3% increase in views for videos with captions. For Facebook, people will actually see your video and you won’t have to pay a dime.

I just really dislike Facebook’s requirement to pay for people to see your content.

Even though both sites do it for self-serving purposes, I like to think they’re doing it to become more accessible to the hard of hearing and I am very much in favor of this algorithm promotion. I’m also in favor of anything that lets my Facebook audience actually see what I post to Facebook.

I spent 40 hours working on my senior project and Facebook only let 9 people see it. >:(

Check out my YouTube channel and my Facebook page to compare the two yourself. Am I doing one wrong over the other? Let me know on my Twitter because both YouTube and Facebook are terrible at quick-communication. 

YouTube has a new algorithm. May the odds be ever in your favor. *cue the chaos*

So YouTube decided to change up its algorithm again. The last big algorithm change came in 2011 when YouTube shifted the emphasis from views to minutes watched, which as Ross O’Donovan of the YouTube channel RubberNinja pointed out, screwed over short form content creators on the platform. They fucked me and all my animator friends in 2011 and big surprise they’ve come to fuck the rest of you.…

Now I love PewDiePie. I greatly respect him as a creator, even if I’m not a fan of his gaming videos, and my first real exposure to him was through the first season of ‘Scare PewDiePie’. I personally found it to be a fun experience and it made me laugh harder than most TV shows.  However, I am not the fan of the idea of a second season of ‘Scare PewDiePie’.

The main reason for my disinterest is based solely on the most entertaining factor of the first season which was how spontaneous the scares were. They had the actress playing his obsessed assistant freaking him out, he didn’t even know when the first episode was being filmed, and he had no idea what to expect with any of the challenges.

My fear with the second season is that we’ll lose that entertaining edge that made the first season so glorious in the first place. He’ll know what to expect and unless YouTube can get creative, it’ll just be a repeat of the first season which had lost its magic by “Level 10”.

First vs. Last episode of ‘Scare PewDiePie’ Season 1

For me, a better second season of ‘Scare PewDiePie’ would be to not scare PewDiePie. He could still be involved in the creative process and act like a front to the whole thing (who says he’s not already?), but instead they could ‘Scare Markiplier’ or ‘Scare Jackscepticeye’. Both are popular let’s players on YouTube with a committed massive fan base. There wouldn’t be a problem with finding viewers for it at the very least and from a creative standpoint, it would be great to see someone new in the seat PewDiePie is hoarding.

Markiplier in the second episode of ‘Scare PewDiePie’ season one.

However, maybe this second season of ‘Scare PewDiePie’ will improve what the first season seriously lacked on and up that general 1.5 star review. There could be improved sets, a less obvious fake person implanted to freak PewDiePie out, and they could recruit more people to help out. One of the easiest and biggest ways they could improve the series is to involve his community in one way or another. While I understand the need to appeal for a larger audience, a large part of YouTube Red’s exclusive shows’ failures is that they’re taking something (or someone) with a massive community and ripping the community out. Sure in ‘Scare PewDiePie’, he does the bro-fist and his classic intro, but there’s no mention of Edgar, Maya, Slippy, Marzia, or even any involvement with fans aside from some staged events to start an episode.

Overall, I’ll probably still watch the second season because I found the first one so amusing, even if the ending was terrible and some of the stages reeked of a cheap haunted house rather. But I’m just saying there are many improvements to be made if they want the second season to be successful at all. Either way, I guess it’s just more money in PewDiePie’s pocket.

Want more of my thoughts on PewDiePie? Well no look further. Also add me on PewDiePie’s Tuber Simulator! I’m TheMaddness22 on it and I NEED THE FRIENDS. I’m seriously so addicted to that app you have no idea. I almost spent ACTUAL money on it. It’s crazy.

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In the hours following the induction of the new “Community” tab on chosen creators’ channels, a new bug has swept across YouTube that has supposedly wiped the analytics for the past 28 days and demonetized the entire YouTube channel for many creators. While it doesn’t seem to be a problem for most YouTubers, there is currently no evident pattern on who or why some creators are hit by this bug. It…

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Recently I was watching television as I prepared an outline for some revisions for my novel. Even though I was only half paying attention for most of the time, this atrocity came onto the screen and demanded my full attention. That’s right, kids. In a not-so-subtle effort to compete with Coke’s personalized named bottles, Pepsi got…

My latest thoughts on Tobuscus and his dead career.

TW: Rape If the sudden jump in my blog’s daily view count say anything, I’m assuming everyone here knows about the rape allegation against Toby Turner. If you don’t, here is the original tumblr post to read and Drama Alert’s video to watch/listen to. Now I only know about this allegation through these two sources. A viewer on my ‘Thoughts on Tobuscus’ video from a year ago alerted me to the…

Same, lil dude.

So to satisfy my curiosity, rather than doing some proper research from external sources, I decided to dive right in by getting the app myself and finding out about it from there. How’s that for investigative journalism? Eat your heart out, Pulitzer.

The first thing I got after the initial app download was a series of three questions and a loading screen. What is it loading? I have no idea. This is very exciting. What could this mii-sterious social mii-dea app hold behind these loading screens advising me to connect to the Nintendo network and reserve my battery life?

Ah. A Mii Creator. Excellent.

This seems like a great first step post-loading screen. Nintendo loves their Miis so their social mii-dia account should be focused on Miis. While there was a period in my life where I thoroughly enjoyed making Miis for fun, I’m feeling lazy right now so let’s test this ‘Use camera or photo’ option. If it’s anything like the Nintendo 3DS, we’re in for a real treat.

After deciding my hairstyle and hair color (which is sort of cheating tbh), I was attacked with a barrage of selfies. Instructions were unclear and I have no idea how to turn off the selfie machine gun so I just kind of let it take 10 pictures of me to form 10 Mii heads. I would probably take more but I was frightened and a friend called me out because I did this act in a public setting. Getting called out for taking a selfie in public is always embarrassing, even if it is to create your perfect Mii.

You know what? I’m actually sort of impressed with this automatic Mii creator. At the very minimum, it’s a good base to create your own Mii. Personally I chose the most similar head (#9) and adjusted it accordingly to make it somewhat resemble me. I thought everything was said and done after designing the character, but holy wow. This social mii-dia app is intense. I had to choose the voice and the personality for my Mii and it was very detailed. Like down to the pitch and depth for the voice. It took me a little bit to get her to sound natural, but once I did the personality portion was easy enough and MaddMii was ready to enter the world of Miitomo with an easy-going, optimistic attitude.

She’s just like me!

Finally, after all of this, I figured out what the app was about.

Thank you for the detailed explanation, Nintendo.

Basically from what I can gather, a large portion of the app is dependent on friends. Thankfully, Miitomo helps you with this. You can automatically import all of your Twitter and Facebook friends into the app to discover who’s using it. Since it’s still new, not too many of my friends are on board. However, YouTuber Chadtronic was there to add me back almost right away so I could start messing around with the app.

Thanks Chad.

Honestly…it’s kind of fun. It’s kind of like “Tomodachi Life” but with your actual friends and their actual input on their Mii’s choices and lifestyles. I wasn’t expecting to spend the entire 40% of my battery life, but that’s just what I ended up doing as I answered questions and viewed my friends’ answers. I can see on others’ experiences with the app that you can take pictures with your Mii friends, but I have no idea how to do that yet.

But I can do this!

Overall, this social mii-dia app is a surprise bundle of joy. It’s simple, it’s cute, and it’s free. While I don’t see it gaining any more prominence other than a cute little niche for Nintendo fans to interact with, I do see it becoming moderately successful as more users sign on for it. If you enjoy answering questions about yourself and finding out more about your friends, then this is an adorable app right up your alley. It’s tons better than the Miiverse with interactivity and the fact that it is accessible from your phone is a beautiful bonus.

Now off to charge my phone so I can keep spending all of my time on my new favorite social mii-dia site.

My phone died for this.

Be sure to add me as a friend by following me on Twitter. I’ll accept all friend requests, frankly because I need more moo-lah to buy more cute outfits. You want MaddMii to have more cute outfits, right? Also check out my other reviews for other social media sites.

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