Angelpod

We are occasionally asked why we have comments and likes disabled on our YouTube channel. The short answer is that we're not there for engagement -- we do appreciate your views and your likes, but we make music and videos because we enjoy it, and we don't really want to be subtly driven by the dictates of the mighty algorithm.

But there is a second reason, and it happened today.

This morning, almost every video on the channel received one additional thumbs-down, most of them without the view counts going up. Some scumbag just carpet-bombed us without watching the content.

Considering that a lot of our videos just had one "like" (if any), this annihilated our like ratio.
My guess is that some NPC saw some AI graphics in one of our videos, and decided to "stick up for the little guy" by attacking a little guy. Well, I hope they enjoyed a nice celebratory wank at their own heroism after that outburst.

On the plus side, as far as "engagement" metrics are concerned, a dislike contributes as much as a like, so this troll-douche just cranked up our engagement and pushed us higher in the all-powerful algorithm.

I guess... thanks, idiot?

1 year ago (edited) | [YT] | 2