Unpopular opinion: Candy corn is S tier

My Skyrim vid low key keeps getting views daily and retention going up more and more 👀 After Jedi survivor, going to have to continue the series (maybe, might feel like continue the Star Wars games)

I have an episode and a half backlogged for now. Needed some extra recovery this week, so only really got a half episode done on Sunday. Is what it is, I’m getting better just not quite at 100%. Anyways, I’ve been experimenting with AI in my thumbnails, specifically only adding to images I already created to enhance certain things like lighting, putting on game assets easier (saves hours) etc. My opinion on AI has changed to be more positive. It really is just a tool, like anything else is. I’ve seen good AI thumbnails and horrible ones, so the tool itself doesn’t even make you suddenly capable you definitely still have to know what you’re doing. Here’s my last one I made for my Jedi survivor video, if I were to recreate it without the tool (I can maybe not exactly but pretty darn close) I’d have to spend hours and multiple sessions to do so. I also don’t think it’ll take over the market. It is overhyped. A competent thumbnail designer can make this without it. It purely only saves time, which is valuable, but it’s not game changing for most people, only in the right hands. Guess what I’m getting at is you still need to know how to design thumbnails in order to effectively use AI as the tool it is to accomplish a good result.

My right nostril is plugged… I’m recovering from a cold. But we’re still here 🤨

Last post on this for now; Why did Rumble release a boost feature that doesn’t work without fixing their algorithm first? No one should be paying for the results I got. If it’s the audience, then make that clear. I’m tired of being left in the dark about the supposed algorithm and perplexity AI (which was supposed to fix it a year or two ago, remember?) Search is not fixed, the algorithm still sucks. They should not have released a boost feature if that boost feature doesn’t work very well. Rumble needs to fix their algorithm first.

So there you have it, for me Rumble boosts aren’t worth it when YouTube organic traffic is giving me 2740% better results (for retention) Long term that compounds way more. If you’re frustrated in Rumble, you are not crazy at all. I encourage you to prioritize the platforms that work, a platform needs to give compelling reasons to upload to that platform. Simply saying it’s immoral to use YouTube isn’t a convincing argument.

Here are my results (so far) from boosting on Rumble Before boosting: 129 (forgot to record raw views) views, .13 watch hours After: 1,040 views (718 raw) 9.58 watch hours On YouTube, same video hit 1k plus views organically, and over 50% avd. @grok break down this math real quick. Tell me the avd on rumble, and compare that to the YouTube results.