User blog comment:The Blue Mapper/WTF is happening to the community?/@comment-25802715-20170411180447/@comment-25802715-20170411201548

But then again, a counter-example to what you stated is that those who aren't really engaged in these "YouTube Mapping Communities", are still able to pump 4 to 5 times more views in a few days. Though this is speculation as I do not see where those views are coming from, I really doubt it makes a difference.

In the past, I've promoted on Skype but that was the early days. I joined the google plus community for one purpose and that is to promote the videos but they don't really do much either. The difference actually doesn't amaze me.

I'm not talking about engagement. My engagement (based on audience retention) in my opinion ain't that bad and the comments and theories are great. I've done experiments with getting the audience not only engaged but also interaction (i.e in Asia, I had sections where people can choose the next listed campaigns and .etc)

The concerns I am expressing is that I do not think my videos is reaching out to many newcomers as opposed to others who tends to get way more newcomers. Maybe it's the thumbnail or meta-data within the YouTube Algorithm being bad but I really doubt it has anything to do with promoting on the community. Which then brings back the discussion of this blog.

Not realistic? Taking a look at the comments on Scandi's Movie video, that seems to match with my statement about the term "realistic" and "stupid."

Perhaps it is true. Because I've seen some top favorite mappers or "best mappers" or even rating mappers or mapper wars. I'm usually not in them. I mean fine, I have disconnected myself from it. But it got even more suspicious when I was rated not based on my actual mainstream quality videos (meaning they haven't seen my countryball series like AFOA, AFOW, and even AFOE season 4), and rather be rated on my crappier videos. Simply because they haven't seen those. So in short, I really came to the conclusion that my videos are not just promoted well by YouTube Algorithm and it is what it is.