those views are a lot lower
rawb
Monday, August 11, 2025
yes
Overall views are down (but consistant)
and that's with a back catalogue too
I imagine backlog is less of a factor since their entire catelogoue is 6-12 hour long stream archives
So most views are people who did not catch the entire stream live, but would otherwise watch it
idk, I feel like they're kinda built for passive views
long videos on pop-culture things
yeah, but that is diminishing returns after the pop-culture thing is no longer in the cultural talking points
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 I know I watch a fair amount of YouTube n shit, but like, do people actually get home after work and decide to chip away at a 6 hour vod every day?
driving/sleeping playlists, unirronically
I don't get the sleeping ones at all
I watched them at 1.5x speed while gaming
usually
but I've met SOOOOO many people who just have a playlist of random male YouTubers who they like the voice of
talking about innane bullshit while they sleep
thats insane but I know that is common
I was remarking to Pika in vc, I want YouTube to show creators the stat for how many views of their video are from non-focused windows
Polu's dad watching watchmojo actively for 12 hours straight
breaking the trend
I just lay in bed an hour before I want to go to bed so I can think about things
because its a good time to just lay and think
I don't fault people for needing noise or w/e, but it is strange to me the desire for slop YouTube essays to be that noise
yeah I can't get this link to work in firefox or chromium, in Japan or over VPN
https://mindcracksmp.com/wordsearch/
I wonder if it's js related, or if your JP locale or something causes it to load weird or smt
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 but yeah, he killed Urealms momentum 3 times I'd say 1) Seasonal break model he established after S1 2) Move from Twitch to his own website embed for S2 4) Not picking S4 back up after his mental breakdown
I'd say the seasonal break wasn't so much a thing as much as it was the jump (dive head first) into the pool of production quality format over the fun format. I get have a break to write up some campaigns. But he went full on into having to have it all staged out hard post season 2. They did need some spacing, but I think doing breaks in the winter to do so was a miss. Mostly because people stuck indoors around the holidays or rolling early into the year will have more time off to enjoy the shows.
for the breaks, I get why some sort of break was needed, but 9 months to reload was kinda silly and a lot of the rationales like you said, we're probably counterproductive in the long run anyway
Rob was also getting worse during this time of being able to convert his time/work into output (I forget how I normally word this)
8 hours of Rob "working" on something would output 1 hour of actual work
so he'd kill himself during the offseason churning away at scripts and software overhauls, and have relatively little to show for it, given 9 months of time
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and imo the issue with cannon was not even that it mattered, I just think it was the driving issue of why he felt the need to overly script some stuff, and get all flippant about which campaigns were "real" or not
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Rob swung back and forth a lot on whether Urealms should stand on its own as a game, or just be a way to facilitate the show
and I think universally, everyone wanted the former
I think if he accepted that eventually there may be an unsalvageable campaign in design. Stuck with what season 2 had and maybe nerfed the health stuff a bit to keep it high stakes and balanced around shield utility he could have found a good inbetween for the show to be functional and it be a fun game
Whichever route he picked, it would have been successful, he squandered the chance to be massive, but even as a lot of people were kinda checked out by S3, there was a big enough audience and continued interest
the fact anyone is still talking about it 5+ years after it ended is proof enough of that lol
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The show didn't need higher production value or bigger budgets
Rob was obsessed with this idea the show needed professional VAs (and actual women) which is where Spiff came from
super big spends on animation, custom music, all the set dressings, etc.
when the core of the show was people wanted a fun TTRPG and a bunch of funny player banter
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Rob was right in S1, and his original Unforgotten Realms cartoon
the ratio is 90-10
and by S3 it was way closer to 50-50
agreed
And if the show grew, I'm not against the production value growing
but Rob forced it at the expense of everything else
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So, I love Nick's art
but I think the art girls did a really good job once they found a style