davidwyby
Desert Beaver
I think I need some suspenders. And Tatts.
How'd it go today?
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treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
I don’t get it either Cory. I guess there is some way to make money with YouTube. Just gotta guess what will be popular enough to get views and followers. I can’t think of anything I do that would be interesting enough to think others would want to watch. Also I’m not very photogenic
Mick!
TreeHouser
Mostly women or poofs I reckon.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
He’s a showboat…but my son has mentioned him a couple times so last night I went through and watched a few vids. He’s not as dumb as he looks to us. He knows better than to go down the middle, it’s just for show. Had some comments on forest management, etc. Not sure what his game is…showboat to get younger followers and then try to talk sense to them? Or just make $? I decay 😆
pete mctree
Treehouser
Nothing to do with your saw -try a shorter bar on such hard timber. It will make sharpening easier and quicker too.
I would be using stem-chisel for such crappy timber
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
Yeah, I went back and dug thru my videos from 3 years ago when I was first cutting this dense stuff. .404 semi chisel or square with durable angles if it’s just dense and not dirty. Somewhere around 28” on the big saws, 24”
On 80cc. I have a 30” I can run .404 on and some stihl semi chisel. I have a loop of their 3/8” that impressed me, but the .404 yesterday was rough and slow, gotta tune it up I guess. First step - progressive raker guide. I have a 20” .404 hard nose and some semi and a 24” loops of 404, but need a bar for it. 🤔
David, Rich, and Mick, hey I can see him getting lets say 10k- 20k followers by trying hard but 1.7m is a helluva lot of followers. Very curious.
On a related note, when I encounter a new, interesting page, I try to guess how many followers they have. Sometime I'm way off but most of the time I'm reasonably close. Anyone else do that?
On a related note, when I encounter a new, interesting page, I try to guess how many followers they have. Sometime I'm way off but most of the time I'm reasonably close. Anyone else do that?
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
There is a science to social media popularity, and the young mind…I think it’s a new and different world. I got a taste when my video went viral.
You get network effect. Get enough followers, they start posting clips/excerpts, which gets new followers, and it leads to more posts, and...
I fired up a different browser to watch that video. I block everything Meta in my normal browser, Dude's handsome. I imagine that's worth a few follows, and if he does something interesting, that'll get more.
I don't do Meta, twitter, or youtube. I'm not in a position to judge followers or estimate reach.
I fired up a different browser to watch that video. I block everything Meta in my normal browser, Dude's handsome. I imagine that's worth a few follows, and if he does something interesting, that'll get more.
I don't do Meta, twitter, or youtube. I'm not in a position to judge followers or estimate reach.
David, how viral was viral?
Edit: ha he's got me talking about him
John, agreed but why would clips get shared, he seems super boring. Yes, he has good looks (no diddy) but still, I'm surprised. He's not skilled, he's not previously famous. Just hard to figure. Again, if he had very few followers it would make sense.
Edit: ha he's got me talking about him
Dunno. What's his "thing"? Logger, homesteader, country life, so on... ? Maybe it just isn't interesting to you. Video bores me in general. I'll watch the occasional clip, but I'm not into watching one after another. Demands too much attention, and a lot of time it's just fluff to pad the runtimes. I can read, look at pictures, and listen to music at the same time. If you're watching video, that's all you can do if you give it appropriate attention.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
36m views, a short posted on a Sunday that attracted comments from know it all’s which drove it up in the algorithm. I guess. Felling a little tree onto a trailer. Oh, also picked up 60k followers. If I would get monetized, get cuter and trendier and figure out the algorithms, maybe I’d make some $. A ‘tuber (novice lumberjack) told me my viral video would have been worth several thousand. I haven’t looked at the analytics enough, I always just looked at numbers of views, but the ‘tuber I pulled out of the sandmud the other day said view time is worth more $. Suck them in with a catchy title and intro, and get them to watch a 30 min vid. Guilty of treeson, buckin’… I do feel I should spend more time on my videos, but because the point for me is to discuss and generate discussion and thought. I like the videos that feel like you’re just hanging out and BSing with the guy like east coast lumberjack or afleetcommand…but I have a hard time carving out 30mins to sit and watch.
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davidwyby
Desert Beaver
You have to try to put yourself in the average young city dwelling IG viewer’s shoes. We function and place value on knowledge, skill, intelligence…they notice whatever is eye catching.
Ok that starts to make sense to me, good call.
36m views is insane!!!!! Did you make any money from it?
And 60k followers is beefy!!
Maybe this whole question circles back to why Treason has far more views and followers than Reg.
Volume? I don't really watch either, but I don't think Reg has a ton of quantity, does he? Treason makes a lot of videos, so when people check in, there's always something new to see.
I like Reg's style, minimal editing or music, just straight raw work
but, Jake spends more time editing than actually working, and it pays off for his channel, catchy thumbnails, sound track, and editing to keep up with the lack of attention span from the modern viewer, and as lkskllr said, high volume of content
I was helping a kid from another forum with getting into saws and tree work, and I'd be lying if I said his attention span was better than the average 8 seconds, makes it extremely hard to train anyone when they forget what is even happening before they start a saw, unfortunately this is how the average teenager is nowadays
I can only imagine how hard a lot of training is for people of my generation, my EHAP class was a 6 hour zoom meeting with 5 minute breaks on the hour, that's 450 times the average gen Z's attention span, then a 5 minute break for their boba tea or whatever, pretty much the same for my lift operator training, hunter safety course, etc
I think Gen Z is doomed
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Go watch the WranglerStar and observe plenty of WTF with many views
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Or Murphy for fugs sake
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
No, have not gone thru the hassle of getting monetized
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. Mention it to many times and he might appear
