I saw a Twitter meme and decided to make a Yuri video! ^_^ In this episode I look at a few key tropes of Yuri and how the genre is evolving.

S02 E02 Yuri: How it Began – How It’s Going

Here’s the value-add for today’s post: Why You Should Click “Like” on Every Video You Watch and Actually Like

If you’ve watched any videos on Youtube, you’ll see folks exorting you to click “like” and subscribe. There’s a reason why. Youtube-oniisan judges all videos pretty harshly. If a video goes up and doesn’t get likes along with its views, YT-oniisan thinks the video is a loser. It won’t tell it’s cool friends about it, and even if you tell folks, it won’t share the news.

I’ll give Youtube props, all creators get links to their explanation of the algorithm, so it’s not like this info is buried. The bottom line is, if you watch a video, but don’t also “like” it, YT considers that a “meh.” If you react and comment, YT considers that a thumbs up and your video gets on that queue of suggested videos on the right on a watcher’s list. If you watch tons of videos on a topic, the other videos by the people you have already liked are bumped up onto your suggestions. If folks click on your videos from their suggested video list, they get more like that. (It is true that if you click often enough you’ll start to see angry shouty men and weird kiddy cartoon snuff, but if you carefully cultivate your actual clicks and block that shit it will continue to give you the Sailor Moon theme Moonlight Desetsu on koto.

When you click like on a video – and, even better, add a comment – Youtube-oniisan grudgingly admits that, for a kid, you’re not bad. That’s why YT doesn’t care if the “comments” are high quality or not. It’s your bro, a grunt of acknowledgment is as good as a well-thought out response.

Youtube validates that video in the algorithm, more people see it. And here’s the point  – to make money on Youtube folks need a minimum number of subscribers and watch hours, so people who do YT for money need those new eyeballs. I had asked for subscribers last year to enable auto-subtitling. Once I got it, I don’t care so much how many subscribers I have. (Of course, if I ever do have 6 figures worth of subscribers, that’ll be a whole new story.) Right now Yuri Studio has about 1/8th the number of watch hours it needs to be monetized so that’s also not super high priority, but one day, maybe, who knows.

All of this is to explain to you just why, when I ask you to please “Like” a video on Youtube, it’s because that really makes a difference! Subscribe to the channel if you want notifications of new videos, obviously and support us on Patreon, because our Patrons make these videos possible!

Thank you for your watches and your likes, and your questions and comments! I’ve got the next video topic all lined up so I’ll see you next time on Yuri Studio!