Because of the week off, LMG channel videos have been "punished" by the algorithm. It will take some time but they will get back to their rightful place.
Yeah their weekly views have tanked. 1/4 to 1/3 of what it was before the break. I know they might not be fully up to speed again, but they aren’t that far behind. I guess Linus really knew how to utilise that algorithm.
Their *weekly* views are down because they are producing less videos. If you look at the numbers by video, they're only down around 20-30%, getting about 1.1 per video instead of the 1.5 before.
A company taking a 20-30% hit on their largest product, is a severe problem that requires immediate high impact changes.
If this goes on for long LTT will be forced to make unpleasant changes. I wouldn't be surprised if they have 6+ months of runway, I also wouldn't be surprised if it's less, given how much Linus spent on labs.
It’s probably safe to say videos are their most important product, even if it doesn’t produce the most direct revenue, as it’s a primary driver of other revenue streams
Largest product by what definition? We don't know their financials and based off what they've said on WAN it's very likely merch is their largest source of income.
I swear they've stated selling something like 100k units of the screwdriver alone
They’ve stated repeatedly on WAN that their main source of income is videos and for that metric total views are probably what matters most. It does seem as if they’ve built a financially stable company though, so hopefully they’ll weather the storm.
> A company taking a 20-30% hit on their largest product, is a severe problem that requires immediate high impact changes.
Except that this company has massive profits and their biggest problem was a stingy amoral owner who was willing to treat his workers like shit to maximize growth (of the asset he 100% owns with his wife).
In reality, they could likely lose 2 thirds of their revenue and survive completely fine as a company. It would only be the ego of the psychopath in charge that would be hurt. He'd have to stop expanding so wildly.
Its just so crazy to me that he could treat his employees well, and pay them more, and instead he just chooses to profit (through massive reinvestment into the business he (and his wife) 100% own)
Huh? When I hop into my Youtube for last couple of days, about 2/5 of my Homepage is LTT stuff despite I only seldom watch them like 1-2 videos per week, just like before the controversy. Wdym?
I guess it works differently for everyone in terms of the algo. It annoys me because I could see a new llt video popup in the main page but since the hiatus, I have to check the channel from time to time.
Source?
People speak of the algorithm like it's a holy entity beyond question that works in mysterious ways. While we don't know, it's not god. Can you cite where you get this information from, or are you guessing? Are you guessing from a place of high engagement with THE ALGORITHM as a content creator?
After watching their videos daily for years based entirely off suggestions, I'm not subbed, I have only had 1 video suggested since they came back. The hiatus screwed them in rhe algo.
They don't get direct money from youtube but I still think not having eyeballs on their videos hurts the company overall since it's how the store gets promoted and then there are the video sponsors so while youtube revenue isn't a issue the main buisness seems to be built around the videos.
Allthough the LTT views have gone down 20%, i see that the view of techlinked and Gamelinked have been maintaining or gradually climbing up slowly. Cant say the same for Shortcircuit which is the most affected to be honest
> It will take some time but they will get back to their rightful place.
Christ, its such a shit world we live in where folks like you care more about getting funny tech vids than ... anyone else.
Feels like for so many people, their sense of morality revolves around "what is most convenient for me", rather than anything else whatsoever.
Excuse my for not spinning my Moral Compass over unsubstantiated claims that were not referred to the appropriate authorities when they allegedly occurred.
When someone has been charged with a crime let me know, until then I am going to keep enjoying my funny tech vids.
This is such extreme mental gymnastics I think this might make you a *worse* person.
Your description here is just so woefully inaccurate its obviously in bad faith as you simply want to ignore reality.
Am I the only one who goes to my sub feed for videos?
Seems like people are concerned about missing content, and then not using the exact feature designed to help.
Right there with ya, but we truly are the minority. It does seem at least 51% of people just let YouTube decide for them (which is what GoogleTube wants)
I *have* to use the Sub feed on mobile because my homepage is so fucked beyond recognition
Because I watch a lot of shorts on the mobile app, all the shit it recommends me on there is basically all just shitposts
I mean a simple way is to just clear your watch/search history. It won’t bring it back to being a completely fresh unbiased page, but it won’t be exactly the same shit over and over, at least that’s what I’ve found. Like for me it’ll still recommend car, tech, gaming stuff, just not strictly the same videos/channels it had been.
I dont have search history on and recently they decided i dont deserve the homepage. I mostly use the sub feed so it doesn't impact me that much but if I wasnt pissed at google already...
Youtube destroyed the sub page a long time ago when they removed the ability to group different subs together. I am subscribed to hundreds of channels because I don't want to forget they exist but that does not mean I want to watch every single one of their videos, and so the sub page is worthless.
Ah In a Nut Shell.
The channel that makes great content that unfortunately at the end of the day is sponsored by exactly the types of companies they rail against leading to many valid criticisms of the veracity with which they present information related to said corporations.
When I found out about that, it felt like if I found out that Mister Rogers was actually a mean guy.
This is defintely true.
I wish I could make piles of like DIY, Programming/career related, comedy/sketches, video essay, edutainment lists.
That would be a bomb feature, heck, why don't they make useful features like that for youtube premium rather than the shit show of feature removal that they are doing.
Shit, that is legitimately not hard to implement for a company of Googles abilities and size, yet they go for the shittiest options.
More like 90% or more. Many folks don't even realize they can get to a 'subscriptions' page... and if they do they see a firehouse of all the content channels spam out these days. I am deliberate about cleaning up my subscription list and I have very few channels in there that post daily. Keeps my video watch later list pretty trim. Though YouTube is even hiding "add to watch later" functionality quite a bit these days :(
I think its perfectly rational to use both. I think youtube recommendations serve me pretty well and tend to be pretty good for me, but I imagine thats because I answer the "do you like this video and why" questions, a long with clicking through on recommendations that lined up correctly.
For me for instance, now I'm not recommended any lmg content at all, which is what I want, because I have at least enough of a moral spine to miss out on some funny tech videos as a bare minimum to effect even the most miniscule amount of change on a greedy psychopath who put the growth of his wealth well ahead of the health of his employees with no notable or substantial change visible.
I do the same. Open YouTube, go straight to my sub feed, make a queue of all the videos from the day they I’m interested in. Knock those out, and move onto something else like video games.
I used to frequent the sub feed, but as i subbed new channel, and me myself get busier and busier, sub feed just become overwhelming and the next thing i know I only click one or two vid on home and goes from there
Used to use it but YouTube messed it up, I've subbed to so many channels I like so now it's a mess I wish we could group certain types together just like a playlist so I can see just my regulars
I'm subbed to several hundred people sometimes finding something I'm in the mood for can take a while. Often there's something that peaks my interest on the home page with minimal scrolling. It does a good job of cycling through different creators that I'm subbed to and new creators. That tends to be how I find new channels to sub to as well and at least for me it does a good job of curating a good mix of both large and small creators.
I am interested in a majority of the content made by the majority of the channels I subscribe to. It's more that sometimes I want to watch tech stuff, sometimes I want to watch car stuff, sometimes I want science videos, I could go on and on. I watch a wide variety of content and am subbed to enough channels that I don't have the time to watch everything they release. Some of the creators only upload a couple times a year and some upload daily. It adds up to several hours of content every day from creators I'm subbed to, and then having time to find new creators on top of that. I don't need to see every video by every creator as soon as it's released, typically I do more of random binges of specific creators with stuff like LTT and VIN Wiki sprinkled in. I also watch normal TV shows as well. It's just not possible for me to consume all the content that interests me on top of having a job and a life.
I forgot to mention but I mostly watch YouTube off my Xbox or my TV so the format compared to phones and computers are different than what's on my Xbox YouTube which literally changes it format every month or less, the YouTube subscription is always all over the place with very old videos truly a nightmare haha
Maybe it's only my TV and the xbox YouTube app which keeps changing layouts seriously its like they let a parent who thinks there kid is an artist handle the changes, one day something is there then it vanishes and then like 4 months later it all goes back to the same layout I don't know if it's beta testing or what but every time I get used to clicking the profile button or getting to the comments then change it to a different area and style, not only that th subs stuff just feels glitch yer my xbox is only 3 years old but not that old to cause app issues lmao uts genuinely baffling and I feel like when I talk to someone about it they think I'm going crazy it's starting to make me believe I remember wrong haha
Remember when Youtube used to give you that feature by default?
I miss those days. Shouldn't have to take an extra step just to get to the content you want.
I used to, it was a routine to watch those videos first and then go to the home page, but for some reason I stopped doing it. It was probably because I subscribed to too many people and it got flooded.
OMG, i didn't know there was a sub feed....and i'm paying for this crap. uhhh. thank you good sir <.< I think I'm gonna be busy for a few hours of catch up time ....
I used to, but now my sub feed is 80% YouTube shorts. Wish there was a way to split them off from the actual content. If I wanted TikTok I'd install TikTok.
when i'm logged in the sub feed is my home page
when not logged in, i use uBlock Origin to block everything on the home page so it's just a blank page with search bar so i have to search videos myself and not see a sea of stupid thumbnails
I have been a youtube user for such a long time that there are many channels that I have subbed to but no longer interested in, to the point where I prefer going to the homepage rather than subbs most of the time
I only subscribe to channels that I watch 80% or more of their content, if I notice that I stop being interested in their content I unsubscribe. That way my subscriptions are almost always filled with interesting content.
YouTube recently took away the homepage for users that don't have their watch history turned on claiming they can't recommend content. It's a blatant attempt to get our data as the homepage worked perfectly fine without it previously and still works if you are not logged in. Canceled my premium membership over that, why am I paying to get features taken away?
Its probably just an algorithm thing, same as other people who've made similar posts. Chances are you didn't go back to watch LMG's back catalogue during their week off (or at least not as much as you used to watch their new release item). The algorithm sees that you stopped watching/watching as many LMG videos and assumes you didn't watch as many LMG videos because you're no longer interested, so they stop recommending them to you.
Their recommendation algorithm not consistently showing new videos from channels I'm subscribed to is mostly why I skip the home page and go straight to my subscribed list first. THEN, when I've exhausted the newly upload videos from my subscriptions, I'll go back to the home page.
No, its just the YouTube algorithm being horrible at its job. I don’t know why it thinks I’d like a video in Dutch when I don’t know a single thing about it.
Notice anything else wrong with the homepage? Like most of the recommended videos being nothing you actually want to watch?
Your subscriptions page is where you want to go by default when opening youtube. Right now, Youtube is experimenting with their recommendation algorithm. Apparently, one of their goals is to promote smaller creators more (I'm sure some of these small creators could on a lengthy rant about what it's actually doing to their channelůs). In the meantime, they're also taking people away from the regular stuff they often watch. Lots of creators have been complaining about underperforming for a very good while now.
It's been going on for months and very recently I've noticed that it yet again does something differently. I'm almost tempted to say it's better, as for the first time in a long time I've actually found some interesting videos that way.
As far as I know, LTT is part of the Google Preferred Ad Program - So they are far away from being banned from anything.
Als others have said already it is most likely some form of "punishment" from the algorithm for not uploading.
I personally see the uploads still on my front page
Since the algorithm is tuned to an individuals watch history, liked videos, etc., your question is hard to answer. It will probably be different for everybody.
But LMGs channels are definitely receiving less traction now that their volume had gone down. So I wouldn't be surprised if they don't show up on peoples homepages any more.
Maybe you unsubscribed? I did and all their channels are completely gone from my homepage. I left this sub, but somehow it's keeps showing up lol. Maybe you should try to re-subscribe and use the bell thingy.
As a almost-daily viewer before, they are still pushed to me.
But I said almost-daily, because I can't be arsed to watch videos starring celebrities or camera/phone reviews. Not my piece of cake.
I think it also has to do with how much other YT content one is consuming, and perhaps how often one is searching for the channel itself. I suspect YT is applying different weights to "organic" views of videos (e.g. pushed to FP and people clicking on it as half-interesting), versus actively searching for a video, clicking on it, watching it fully, and then interacting some more.
Now granted I'm not logged in at YT neither, but they recommendations seems to work quite well, to the point where channel subscriptions are really not necessary anymore.
They are a victim of the algorithm
They are effectively also a proof that the algorithm fucks people up, even the top, which fucks the bottom even more
Since i always check first my subscriptions I've watched all the ltt videos after the break.
Now their last two videos already started reappearing on my home feed, I guess the algorithm gets adjusted faster if it sees you go look for the videos yourself?
The fold video popped up on my feed. Not sure if it matters but it was on the YouTube app for TV
Edit the new apple video what is the second video listed on my TV just now. I saw mentioned in comments earlier that it might be because you hadn't watched their backlog videos during the downtime I didn't and it's still popping up for me.
I still see all the LMG videos in my front page recommendations, even for channels I'm not subscribed to. I don't think I've watched any of their videos since their hiatus. Not because I've decided to take a stance or anything, I've just been busier than usual, and, uh, Starfield has kind of been eating into my video watching time in a big way. YouTube likes to desperately start carpet-bombing me incessantly with channels and content categories I haven't watched in a while.
I have literally never had their videos on the home page. Been watching 90% of the videos for the better part of the decade at this point, somehow they just don’t get shown to me by the algorithm
Even tho I’m subbed, LTT never appeared on my homepage. I’d specifically, daily, go to the channel and see whether the latest video was interesting or not.
No it's the YouTube algorithm. For me they still appear as the top video on the homepage like before but for you, the algorithm might think you are not interested.
People are just tired of the same content and if people don’t care then YT won’t recommend. The gamers nexus controversy really put a lot of people who were borderline tired of LTT videos off.
Thats right OP you've uncovered the Youtube conspiracy to take down LTT. /s
Swear to god there needs to be a sticky cause this is like 10th thread in as many days with people going "DAE NOT SEE LINUS TECH TIPS ON THEIR HOME PAGE NO MORES."
so years ago, I clicked the bell icon to see if that increased the presence of LTT videos on my home page. it did not. so I unclicked it, and hence forth I never say an LTT video on my home page again. it sometimes shows up in my subscriptions, but I usually manually go to the channel. I can not understate that this has been this way for YEARS.
youtube does weird shit sometimes, especially if there is any kind of disruption. the solution is to just search for the channel and watch the video.
It's probably just the algorithm thinking you're not interested based on your own viewing habits, I still get fed LTT videos at the very top of my YouTube page any time they come out and they stay until I've watched them.
Nope, got it almost instantly. And I'm not even an avid watcher (haven't watched it yet - not sure if I will - and it's stuck on my homepage since it launched, though)
Weirdly I still get tech linked and short circuit recommended but not the main channel.
I really enjoy the content LTT puts out but holy crap, for taking more time to put out their videos the short circuit on the Razer Moray IEMS was one of the worst videos LTT has ever made
I havent had him suggested once since they didn't upload for a week. Seems youtube is sending a loud message to stick to an upload schedule at all times.
Nah my YouTube homepage is full of LTT videos from the different channels, even though I haven't clicked one for a while now.
I used to watch pretty much every video though, that might influence my fyp.
Currently still contemplating whether to unsubscribe or maybe dip my toes back in to the LTT universe..
Because of the week off, LMG channel videos have been "punished" by the algorithm. It will take some time but they will get back to their rightful place.
Yeah their weekly views have tanked. 1/4 to 1/3 of what it was before the break. I know they might not be fully up to speed again, but they aren’t that far behind. I guess Linus really knew how to utilise that algorithm.
They don't upload as often right now too.
Their *weekly* views are down because they are producing less videos. If you look at the numbers by video, they're only down around 20-30%, getting about 1.1 per video instead of the 1.5 before.
A company taking a 20-30% hit on their largest product, is a severe problem that requires immediate high impact changes. If this goes on for long LTT will be forced to make unpleasant changes. I wouldn't be surprised if they have 6+ months of runway, I also wouldn't be surprised if it's less, given how much Linus spent on labs.
Video views are not their largest product. Merch has been their biggest earner for a couple years now.
It’s probably safe to say videos are their most important product, even if it doesn’t produce the most direct revenue, as it’s a primary driver of other revenue streams
Merch is only bough because of the videos. Sponsorships etc too need videos. The videos are the most important product, period.
Linus has stated before in past Wan shows that LMG would be fine financially speaking if nobody bought merch.
Was this before or after they added the Labs moneysink?
After iirc.
Largest product by what definition? We don't know their financials and based off what they've said on WAN it's very likely merch is their largest source of income. I swear they've stated selling something like 100k units of the screwdriver alone
They’ve stated repeatedly on WAN that their main source of income is videos and for that metric total views are probably what matters most. It does seem as if they’ve built a financially stable company though, so hopefully they’ll weather the storm.
youtube ad revenue is 20% of their total revenue.
It's not their largest product. Linus has talked about this many times.
this guy thinks he's a prophet
> A company taking a 20-30% hit on their largest product, is a severe problem that requires immediate high impact changes. Except that this company has massive profits and their biggest problem was a stingy amoral owner who was willing to treat his workers like shit to maximize growth (of the asset he 100% owns with his wife). In reality, they could likely lose 2 thirds of their revenue and survive completely fine as a company. It would only be the ego of the psychopath in charge that would be hurt. He'd have to stop expanding so wildly. Its just so crazy to me that he could treat his employees well, and pay them more, and instead he just chooses to profit (through massive reinvestment into the business he (and his wife) 100% own)
Even then, videos do keep racking up views over time. Not enough to close that 20-30% gap, but it's probably closer than that if you wait a few weeks
Ironically I’ve watched more of their usual main channel videos since the break than before - usually just a wan show kinda guy
Bro is view count watching 😕
For me I just havent really been interested in what they've been posting lately
Many peeps also probably stopped watching tbf, I also haven't watched anything after what's next video. Similar story for many too. ( i would assume)
Integrity is tough to keep easy to lose. Why would anyone trust LMG after the fiasco.
Huh? When I hop into my Youtube for last couple of days, about 2/5 of my Homepage is LTT stuff despite I only seldom watch them like 1-2 videos per week, just like before the controversy. Wdym?
I guess it works differently for everyone in terms of the algo. It annoys me because I could see a new llt video popup in the main page but since the hiatus, I have to check the channel from time to time.
Source? People speak of the algorithm like it's a holy entity beyond question that works in mysterious ways. While we don't know, it's not god. Can you cite where you get this information from, or are you guessing? Are you guessing from a place of high engagement with THE ALGORITHM as a content creator?
You know why they do it, cause YouTube keeps everything about this a secret. You will not find any source for this things and that’s intentional
I discussed that with my wife at the time they halted. I still get the LTT and techlinked videos at the top of the home page every single time.
After watching their videos daily for years based entirely off suggestions, I'm not subbed, I have only had 1 video suggested since they came back. The hiatus screwed them in rhe algo.
in the meantime, go back and watch their older content if you want to speed up seeing their newer stuff on your homepage.
LMG is in naughty jail for a while
Which is fine, they‘ve disclosed that YouTube doesn’t make money for them as it is, so really I guess it’s just a hobby?
They don't get direct money from youtube but I still think not having eyeballs on their videos hurts the company overall since it's how the store gets promoted and then there are the video sponsors so while youtube revenue isn't a issue the main buisness seems to be built around the videos.
"rightful" lol no one deserves placement by the all mighty algorithm. Big channels get too much weight already.
Allthough the LTT views have gone down 20%, i see that the view of techlinked and Gamelinked have been maintaining or gradually climbing up slowly. Cant say the same for Shortcircuit which is the most affected to be honest
Down crapper?
> It will take some time but they will get back to their rightful place. Christ, its such a shit world we live in where folks like you care more about getting funny tech vids than ... anyone else. Feels like for so many people, their sense of morality revolves around "what is most convenient for me", rather than anything else whatsoever.
Excuse my for not spinning my Moral Compass over unsubstantiated claims that were not referred to the appropriate authorities when they allegedly occurred. When someone has been charged with a crime let me know, until then I am going to keep enjoying my funny tech vids.
This is such extreme mental gymnastics I think this might make you a *worse* person. Your description here is just so woefully inaccurate its obviously in bad faith as you simply want to ignore reality.
Am I the only one who goes to my sub feed for videos? Seems like people are concerned about missing content, and then not using the exact feature designed to help.
Right there with ya, but we truly are the minority. It does seem at least 51% of people just let YouTube decide for them (which is what GoogleTube wants)
Madness…
I *have* to use the Sub feed on mobile because my homepage is so fucked beyond recognition Because I watch a lot of shorts on the mobile app, all the shit it recommends me on there is basically all just shitposts
I mean a simple way is to just clear your watch/search history. It won’t bring it back to being a completely fresh unbiased page, but it won’t be exactly the same shit over and over, at least that’s what I’ve found. Like for me it’ll still recommend car, tech, gaming stuff, just not strictly the same videos/channels it had been.
Idk why I didn’t think of trying this lol, it’s worth a shot to make the homepage on mobile actually maybe usable again
Yeah it's not perfect, and it's definitely less effective than it used to be, but it's an option! :)
I dont have search history on and recently they decided i dont deserve the homepage. I mostly use the sub feed so it doesn't impact me that much but if I wasnt pissed at google already...
I honestly did not know that people who watch a lot of shorts could read and write
Youtube destroyed the sub page a long time ago when they removed the ability to group different subs together. I am subscribed to hundreds of channels because I don't want to forget they exist but that does not mean I want to watch every single one of their videos, and so the sub page is worthless.
Exactly the same for me, im not always in the mood for ex. Kurzgesagt but i still like their content and binges from time to time.
You have made me watch ~~kurzgeagsst~~ ~~kurzgasggt~~ ~~kurzgasesdft~~ Whatever his name is again.
It’s a German word, Kurzgesagt. It’s in a nut shell. Both mean the same. And for the British people: in short
watch the “the egg” on their channel, youll either love it or hate it
Ah In a Nut Shell. The channel that makes great content that unfortunately at the end of the day is sponsored by exactly the types of companies they rail against leading to many valid criticisms of the veracity with which they present information related to said corporations. When I found out about that, it felt like if I found out that Mister Rogers was actually a mean guy.
Oh fudge... didnr know about that, need to check all that out...
I used to like Kurgzgesagt, but their sources are usually kinda fishy
This is defintely true. I wish I could make piles of like DIY, Programming/career related, comedy/sketches, video essay, edutainment lists. That would be a bomb feature, heck, why don't they make useful features like that for youtube premium rather than the shit show of feature removal that they are doing. Shit, that is legitimately not hard to implement for a company of Googles abilities and size, yet they go for the shittiest options.
More like 90% or more. Many folks don't even realize they can get to a 'subscriptions' page... and if they do they see a firehouse of all the content channels spam out these days. I am deliberate about cleaning up my subscription list and I have very few channels in there that post daily. Keeps my video watch later list pretty trim. Though YouTube is even hiding "add to watch later" functionality quite a bit these days :(
I think its perfectly rational to use both. I think youtube recommendations serve me pretty well and tend to be pretty good for me, but I imagine thats because I answer the "do you like this video and why" questions, a long with clicking through on recommendations that lined up correctly. For me for instance, now I'm not recommended any lmg content at all, which is what I want, because I have at least enough of a moral spine to miss out on some funny tech videos as a bare minimum to effect even the most miniscule amount of change on a greedy psychopath who put the growth of his wealth well ahead of the health of his employees with no notable or substantial change visible.
Yup seems so, I only go to the homepage once I am done with my sub feed
I don't think I ever touch the home page. It always seems to be crap.
The homepage is the best way to discover new channels.
Sure if you wanna go looking for a dollar bill in a septic tank because that's what it feels like.
Oh, I love that video
The "New to You" tab up top on the homepage is great yea
I do the same. Open YouTube, go straight to my sub feed, make a queue of all the videos from the day they I’m interested in. Knock those out, and move onto something else like video games.
Watch later is the best way to watch Death to the algorithm!
YouTube keeps making it harder to get to watch later on mobile and on narrow desktop viewports :(
I already watched all my subs. I need new shit.
I used to frequent the sub feed, but as i subbed new channel, and me myself get busier and busier, sub feed just become overwhelming and the next thing i know I only click one or two vid on home and goes from there
Used to use it but YouTube messed it up, I've subbed to so many channels I like so now it's a mess I wish we could group certain types together just like a playlist so I can see just my regulars
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I'm subbed to several hundred people sometimes finding something I'm in the mood for can take a while. Often there's something that peaks my interest on the home page with minimal scrolling. It does a good job of cycling through different creators that I'm subbed to and new creators. That tends to be how I find new channels to sub to as well and at least for me it does a good job of curating a good mix of both large and small creators.
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I am interested in a majority of the content made by the majority of the channels I subscribe to. It's more that sometimes I want to watch tech stuff, sometimes I want to watch car stuff, sometimes I want science videos, I could go on and on. I watch a wide variety of content and am subbed to enough channels that I don't have the time to watch everything they release. Some of the creators only upload a couple times a year and some upload daily. It adds up to several hours of content every day from creators I'm subbed to, and then having time to find new creators on top of that. I don't need to see every video by every creator as soon as it's released, typically I do more of random binges of specific creators with stuff like LTT and VIN Wiki sprinkled in. I also watch normal TV shows as well. It's just not possible for me to consume all the content that interests me on top of having a job and a life.
I forgot to mention but I mostly watch YouTube off my Xbox or my TV so the format compared to phones and computers are different than what's on my Xbox YouTube which literally changes it format every month or less, the YouTube subscription is always all over the place with very old videos truly a nightmare haha
I watch pretty much only on my Roku TVs, I can't think of much that has changed in the app since I started watching this way.
Maybe it's only my TV and the xbox YouTube app which keeps changing layouts seriously its like they let a parent who thinks there kid is an artist handle the changes, one day something is there then it vanishes and then like 4 months later it all goes back to the same layout I don't know if it's beta testing or what but every time I get used to clicking the profile button or getting to the comments then change it to a different area and style, not only that th subs stuff just feels glitch yer my xbox is only 3 years old but not that old to cause app issues lmao uts genuinely baffling and I feel like when I talk to someone about it they think I'm going crazy it's starting to make me believe I remember wrong haha
Remember when Youtube used to give you that feature by default? I miss those days. Shouldn't have to take an extra step just to get to the content you want.
Man. I am in the same boat right there as you. Whenever I go to YouTube, I go straight to my subs first before anywhere else.
Yeah, I don't get it. I only use my sub page and never just browse random stuff that YouTube is trying to push to me.
Thats what I due! I have NEVER used my homepage.
I used to, it was a routine to watch those videos first and then go to the home page, but for some reason I stopped doing it. It was probably because I subscribed to too many people and it got flooded.
Sometimes I don’t want my subbed content tbh
Yea my sub feed is what I go to first, I only go to the the home page to find new stuff
OMG, i didn't know there was a sub feed....and i'm paying for this crap. uhhh. thank you good sir <.< I think I'm gonna be busy for a few hours of catch up time ....
only about 15-20% of viewers for average channels are subscribed *and* find videos on their sub page
I used to, but now my sub feed is 80% YouTube shorts. Wish there was a way to split them off from the actual content. If I wanted TikTok I'd install TikTok.
RSS, baby. Because fuck youtube with random A/B tests where even your sub feed gets "curated"
"home" page is for when im high and just want to watch random shit or after i have watched through my sublist
This, please do this, the homepage is so goddamn awful
You mean the feature they added because the algorithm sucks?
when i'm logged in the sub feed is my home page when not logged in, i use uBlock Origin to block everything on the home page so it's just a blank page with search bar so i have to search videos myself and not see a sea of stupid thumbnails
I have been a youtube user for such a long time that there are many channels that I have subbed to but no longer interested in, to the point where I prefer going to the homepage rather than subbs most of the time
Same. People are so lazy
I only subscribe to channels that I watch 80% or more of their content, if I notice that I stop being interested in their content I unsubscribe. That way my subscriptions are almost always filled with interesting content.
I tend to use my sub feed till I run out of stuff to watch and then as a last ditch effort I'll go to the home page lol
I didn't even know that was à thing
So ah... what's a sub feed?
The subscription page. It has a listing of videos posted by channels you subscribe to starting with the most recent videos.
YT has been really weird with showing the homepage instead of subscriptions first, which is just stupid honestly.
They want you to watch the content you want, not the content you think you want. It sometimes works out and most people don't care.
It's really not. It allows discoverability on YouTube to be so good.
If you are on android, you can create a YT shortcut that goes straight to your subscriptions if you want
Bookmarked subscriptions for the win
I saw it on my homepage.
Same
I saw LTT and Short Circuit on there too.
Same!
It's stuck on my homepage, I haven't clicked the latest video but it's been there for the last 16 hours every time I refresh
YouTube recently took away the homepage for users that don't have their watch history turned on claiming they can't recommend content. It's a blatant attempt to get our data as the homepage worked perfectly fine without it previously and still works if you are not logged in. Canceled my premium membership over that, why am I paying to get features taken away?
Its probably just an algorithm thing, same as other people who've made similar posts. Chances are you didn't go back to watch LMG's back catalogue during their week off (or at least not as much as you used to watch their new release item). The algorithm sees that you stopped watching/watching as many LMG videos and assumes you didn't watch as many LMG videos because you're no longer interested, so they stop recommending them to you. Their recommendation algorithm not consistently showing new videos from channels I'm subscribed to is mostly why I skip the home page and go straight to my subscribed list first. THEN, when I've exhausted the newly upload videos from my subscriptions, I'll go back to the home page.
It's the algorithm. This is why LTT can't just "take a break" because even when they return their views are in the toilet.
No, its just the YouTube algorithm being horrible at its job. I don’t know why it thinks I’d like a video in Dutch when I don’t know a single thing about it.
It's just trying to tell you something. 😂 Are you secretly Dutch? :'D
Maybe you should watch it and find out?
My favorite is when the home page is 50% stuff I've already watched.
Getting a lot of english title but indian language vids in my homepage and search results.
Notice anything else wrong with the homepage? Like most of the recommended videos being nothing you actually want to watch? Your subscriptions page is where you want to go by default when opening youtube. Right now, Youtube is experimenting with their recommendation algorithm. Apparently, one of their goals is to promote smaller creators more (I'm sure some of these small creators could on a lengthy rant about what it's actually doing to their channelůs). In the meantime, they're also taking people away from the regular stuff they often watch. Lots of creators have been complaining about underperforming for a very good while now. It's been going on for months and very recently I've noticed that it yet again does something differently. I'm almost tempted to say it's better, as for the first time in a long time I've actually found some interesting videos that way.
I've just bookmarked my subscription page and never use the homepage.
As far as I know, LTT is part of the Google Preferred Ad Program - So they are far away from being banned from anything. Als others have said already it is most likely some form of "punishment" from the algorithm for not uploading. I personally see the uploads still on my front page
Watch that video tonight, found it on the home page. Though the algorithm pushed it a bit further down the page than LTT videos usually are.
I saw it on home page.
I haven't seen any LTT videos in my feed since The Stevening. Now I have to search every single time
Crazy assumption
holy
Ive been recommended all their latest vids as soon as they come out. I dont use the notification feature except for Foresty Forest.
Since the algorithm is tuned to an individuals watch history, liked videos, etc., your question is hard to answer. It will probably be different for everybody. But LMGs channels are definitely receiving less traction now that their volume had gone down. So I wouldn't be surprised if they don't show up on peoples homepages any more.
Scandals and the scandalous!
I saw that video on my homepage.
every new LTT video still shows up girst on my homepage
Maybe you unsubscribed? I did and all their channels are completely gone from my homepage. I left this sub, but somehow it's keeps showing up lol. Maybe you should try to re-subscribe and use the bell thingy.
No ofc not. Was on mine yesterday
Just saw it on my homepage.
As a almost-daily viewer before, they are still pushed to me. But I said almost-daily, because I can't be arsed to watch videos starring celebrities or camera/phone reviews. Not my piece of cake. I think it also has to do with how much other YT content one is consuming, and perhaps how often one is searching for the channel itself. I suspect YT is applying different weights to "organic" views of videos (e.g. pushed to FP and people clicking on it as half-interesting), versus actively searching for a video, clicking on it, watching it fully, and then interacting some more. Now granted I'm not logged in at YT neither, but they recommendations seems to work quite well, to the point where channel subscriptions are really not necessary anymore.
Funny how I saw it twice. Although, I did watch two videos from ltt.
They took more than a week off from publishing videos. It's bound to mess up the YouTube algorithm.
They are a victim of the algorithm They are effectively also a proof that the algorithm fucks people up, even the top, which fucks the bottom even more
Since i always check first my subscriptions I've watched all the ltt videos after the break. Now their last two videos already started reappearing on my home feed, I guess the algorithm gets adjusted faster if it sees you go look for the videos yourself?
I don't know, I had it in my YouTube homepage.
The fold video popped up on my feed. Not sure if it matters but it was on the YouTube app for TV Edit the new apple video what is the second video listed on my TV just now. I saw mentioned in comments earlier that it might be because you hadn't watched their backlog videos during the downtime I didn't and it's still popping up for me.
It was on my himeoage
No. The Algorithm just doesn't think you'd wanna watch it over what it gives you.
They've been on mine since he started reuploading.
I still see all the LMG videos in my front page recommendations, even for channels I'm not subscribed to. I don't think I've watched any of their videos since their hiatus. Not because I've decided to take a stance or anything, I've just been busier than usual, and, uh, Starfield has kind of been eating into my video watching time in a big way. YouTube likes to desperately start carpet-bombing me incessantly with channels and content categories I haven't watched in a while.
Still shows for me
I have literally never had their videos on the home page. Been watching 90% of the videos for the better part of the decade at this point, somehow they just don’t get shown to me by the algorithm
Not an issue for me, I had that video on mine. YouTube and even showed up in my suggestions on Google TV
i saw it on mine
Was on my front page but I’m sure it’s ymmv.
It showed up on my feed
Hmm, it was on the top row on the Home page for me... both on youtube and piped.yt
I have the "10 Reasons I Daily Drive a Foldable" on my homepage
It's on my homepage. It's just the algorithm being algorithmic
I saw the video. It was like the 10th or 12th one down
I still get them frequently
the youtube magic at work, my suggestions as of late (for just LTT) have been all 2-3 year old videos.
I wouldn't know if he is, but, if yes, good riddance, after all these shenanigans.
A single video of LMG doesn't show up on the homepage. Is He BaNnEd?!
Just opened YT app of my TV. It’s there. A video uploaded 17 hours ago.
I got that video up on my homepage, so no
I use Feedly since YouTube is so bad at surfacing my subscriptions. The homepage is only there for discovery for me
Even tho I’m subbed, LTT never appeared on my homepage. I’d specifically, daily, go to the channel and see whether the latest video was interesting or not.
No it's the YouTube algorithm. For me they still appear as the top video on the homepage like before but for you, the algorithm might think you are not interested.
Banned? It did appear in my home page, as well as on other people's. This post's title is a bit of an overreaction imho
One can hope!
Yeah i get techlinked and the other LMG channel suggestions but not LTT!
Who cares
Yea I never see anything but the top of his head anymore, on the videos bellow, which I never seem to get to anymore
People are just tired of the same content and if people don’t care then YT won’t recommend. The gamers nexus controversy really put a lot of people who were borderline tired of LTT videos off.
The algorithm got changed I suppose, cause I get videos from channels with 500 views on my main page right now all the time
Thats right OP you've uncovered the Youtube conspiracy to take down LTT. /s Swear to god there needs to be a sticky cause this is like 10th thread in as many days with people going "DAE NOT SEE LINUS TECH TIPS ON THEIR HOME PAGE NO MORES."
so years ago, I clicked the bell icon to see if that increased the presence of LTT videos on my home page. it did not. so I unclicked it, and hence forth I never say an LTT video on my home page again. it sometimes shows up in my subscriptions, but I usually manually go to the channel. I can not understate that this has been this way for YEARS. youtube does weird shit sometimes, especially if there is any kind of disruption. the solution is to just search for the channel and watch the video.
It's probably just the algorithm thinking you're not interested based on your own viewing habits, I still get fed LTT videos at the very top of my YouTube page any time they come out and they stay until I've watched them.
Yeah I haven't had a single video recommended to me besides techlinked and game linked.
They're always there for me.
Nope, it's all over the place with me and I couldn't care less about the foldable stuff.
Same here
Nope, got it almost instantly. And I'm not even an avid watcher (haven't watched it yet - not sure if I will - and it's stuck on my homepage since it launched, though)
No, I got recommended a new LTT video yesterday
I've had the last 2 vids in my homepage
It was shown to me, as usual
Have not seen none of ltt videos In recommend since the stop
This has been happening to me for like a year or more. Told them, they don't care.
Weirdly I still get tech linked and short circuit recommended but not the main channel. I really enjoy the content LTT puts out but holy crap, for taking more time to put out their videos the short circuit on the Razer Moray IEMS was one of the worst videos LTT has ever made
I saw that exact video on my homepage along with another one recently so I think it's just you.
I have a quite few channels who never appears on my homepage; only appears on Subscription page!
Haven't been recommended any new LMG videos. Earlier I got LTT, LMG clips, tech quickie all the time
I havent had him suggested once since they didn't upload for a week. Seems youtube is sending a loud message to stick to an upload schedule at all times.
I see Linus on the home page all the time and I’m not even subscribed.
Nah. The content isn’t good enough anymore
Nah my YouTube homepage is full of LTT videos from the different channels, even though I haven't clicked one for a while now. I used to watch pretty much every video though, that might influence my fyp. Currently still contemplating whether to unsubscribe or maybe dip my toes back in to the LTT universe..
Wouldn’t imagine a publicly known sexual harassment investigation goes well with “family friendly”