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.

'Just as a side note, I even created my own discord server just for my fanbase. '

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. I'm basically comparing 8k views average in about a day in comparison to 20k-50k in about a day.

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 that I'm not engaged to be known. 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 and after all, it is their opinion. 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. But then that opens up more questions such as: how come my shitty videos don't get promote much either? (actually the answer would be because I'm not uploading them, but I'm not going to list all the questions that were opened because it doesn't have a purpose). Either way, as I said before, just have to keep going and pray that the algorithm will work in your favor.

Best part is that people get more love for copying and pasting backgrounds when I have to suffer drawing them cause copyright but that is whole different story that I prefer not to get into but I figured it's worth mentioning in case someone tries to use copying and pasting hats, equipments, backgrounds from the internet (excluding flags) to add into their argument.