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Message: [QUOTE="Sonic Boomer, post: 126659, member: 320928"] This is my channel [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.youtube.com/@GamingPalOllieMK/videos[/URL] First I'd like to give you guys some background on who I am and why I do youtube. I'm a Slavic, Macedonian guy born in 1983 in the Balkans, in the Republic of Macedonia and gaming has been my entire life. There is huge misconception about my part of the world that we didn't have many video games or that we lagged behind when it came to gaming compared to the first world, but this isn't true. In fact, during the 90's we probably had more games than the US did thanks to piracy and lack or region restrictions. My goal with my youtube channel was never to blow up or make money, but to simply share my thoughts and feelings on gaming as well as, hopefully shed some light on gaming history here in the Balkans, specifically Macedonia through my videos and stories. Eventually I would have made specific videos on the subject to summarize all I had said in my other videos. I like to review both modern and retro games tho I focus more on retro games and new games released for old systems or bootleg games that were sold here in the early 90's but aren't well known in the 1st world. I have a lot to show and a ton to tell about gaming, but I want to do it in my own, more relaxed, more slower paced way rather than this up beat, modern way of doing videos which I am too old and too tired to follow and pay attention to. All my favorite Gaming channels, such as Game Sack, Classic Game Room back in the day, Gamester81 back then, 8bit Joystick, Crazy Burger (evercade), Retro Gamer Boy, RetroGamerNation and many many others have make calm, down to earth, slower paced videos too and I love this type of content and that is the content I myself love making. Anything above 500 views is enough for my game reviews on a small channel like mine, I have around 1556 subs at the time of this posting which is great. BUT, when it comes to certain videos such as my latest video series on the best ways to get into Retro Gaming in 2025: [MEDIA=youtube]gOeo5tSo7e8[/MEDIA] I feel given the topic's popularity at least 1-1.5k views would suffice. HOWEVER views aren't the issue. I can not hold people's attention to save my life. I don't want to lose my identity or to lose my style of video making, my pacing or anything, who I am on youtube is who I am in real life. But even tho my videos start with average or above average retention in the first 30 seconds, by the end only 7% are usually left watching, which is fine by me but youtube has a problem with this and kills my videos refusing to give them impressions and no impressions means no views of course. I believe that the chief cause for my problems are my voice and accent, sure some find my voice and accent pleasant, but most native English speakers can't listen to accents like mine for long. So what do you find most irritating about my channel? I'm probably going to quit but I want to hear what you think about it regardless even if I don't implement those suggestions for one reason or another. I'd like to hear how you think my videos could get better viewer retention while staying true to my current atmosphere and feel of the channel. I want to talk about games and topics I care about not what is trending because if I have to make videos on popular things only then there's no point in me having my own channel, I don't do this for money. Even so, it's degrading talking to walls, I want to share my thoughts and feelings on gaming with more people. The reason I believe my voice and accent are the problem: Although I make long form content, i did try my hand at shorts and here's something interesting. this short I made with an AI voice got 14k views instantly DESPITE the quality of the video being abysmal (I've improved my CRT recording a great deal in my latest videos) [MEDIA=youtube]Q7UJ7-qupnY[/MEDIA] the same short WITH additional info on my main channel has 188 views [MEDIA=youtube]ftm_a-J4R8o[/MEDIA] Still I make long form content, my most viewed video is the review for Sam's Journey on C64 and NES where as you can see my CRT recording has been drastically improved and like I do with most of my newer videos I combine CRT and emulation footage. [MEDIA=youtube]NoTWB6Clnzw[/MEDIA] (I cant turn this into a link i dunno why it is what it is) This video ends with 12% retention, which i am happy with but that is abysmal according to most youtube advice I've read I despise youtube communities on reddit and such, it's all motivational drivel like "you got this! You are amaizing! you can do it!" or other such brainwashing nonsense or exceptionally high standards. For example, the video on which games I, as a Balkan kid from the 80's and 90's associate with the holidays didn't do well at all despite it being liked by those who watched it. [MEDIA=youtube]fvt6-39rmA0[/MEDIA] The video wasn't going to get even 600 views, but I paid $10 for youtube to promote it :( which DESTROYED its retention, never doing that again for sure. Speaking of liking my videos, my videos have either 100% like ratio or over 95% like ratio for each one, so those who do watch them seem to enjoy them yet youtube isn't pushing them at all. [/QUOTE]

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