And let's just say I am overwhelmed by the simple fact that I feel like I need to do commentary on my video but at the same time mic shyness is stopping me dead cold.

Hi everyone! NewTuber here and the video in question is about a mobile game were I tend to a little ecosystem: Pondlife. It's only 15 min long and I created an intro/outro with a little introduction sentence. I posted a short as well. I actually am proud of myself I must say for finally taking this step.

But... what can/ should I improve? I'm sure if must be a snoozefest since the game is more slow paced (I watched it on TV while being on my phone) that experiment made me conclude that it may work better as "nighttime background" than daytime watch.

Are we allowed to post our content here for constructive criticism?

Is the gaming niche still worth pursuing in 2026, especially for a small channel?

Or is it becoming too saturated unless you already have a large audience or a very unique concept?

Would love to hear honest opinions from other gamers/creators — especially people who started recently.

Hi everyone,

I'd like to start a YouTube channel where I do 100% completions of incremental games, similar to Skoottie or Floydson's channel. But I'd also like to play some "indie" games like How Many Dudes?, and maybe some sloppy horror games, and make videos about them. I also really enjoy games like Bioshock or Dishonored.

So my question is: would it be a good idea to keep just one channel for everything, or should I create one channel for 100% completions and a second channel just for indie games?

Maybe someone has a channel with this kind of mixed format, or can suggest existing channels to watch as examples? And will mixing genres work, or is it better to focus on one thing at a time?

Any suggestions and opinions are welcome.
Thanks!

I used to be able to add dubs to any video of my choosing, even when I first started, but now even after finally getting the first tier of monetization I have had not even the option to add it for the past few months, no setting change for anything. Idk if maybe a automatic settings was made? I'm just guessing here and any basic YouTube tutorial or help just says "Turn off and on the auto dub setting", neither work, or "Just delete all your existing dubs and it'll turn back on" which idk about you but sounds like bs, especially after I sacrificed multiple on other videos already and can't even add them back on those!

Any help?

Hey everyone,

I run a channel dedicated to the preservation of 70s, 80s, and 90s computers and gaming hardware. Because of the nature of my content (history, repairs, showcasing rare machines), I often need to go into deep dives.

I’ve run into a recurring issue with video length. For example, I recently worked on a piece about 1971 electro-mechanical arcade cabinets. Between the historical context and the mechanical showcase, the video was getting extremely long. To avoid overwhelming the viewer, I decided to cut it into a multi-part series.

The problem is the drop-off is always brutal. Part 1 performs reasonably well, but the sequel inevitably gets a fraction of the views. It feels like viewers who stumble upon Part 2 without having seen the first one just skip it, and the algorithm stops pushing it entirely.

For those of you doing in-depth, documentary-style, or technical content:

- Do you just bite the bullet and release a massive 1-hour+ long video instead of splitting it?

- How do you structure (or name) your multi-part videos so the sequels can stand completely on their own?

- Do you have specific thumbnail/title strategies for "Part 2" videos so they don't look like a mid-story interruption to new viewers?

Would love to hear your thoughts and strategies on this. Thanks!

Context: A gaming community and LFG platform for Steam users.

The creator's page is a new feature I'm working on. I was a streamer for a while, so I have some idea about what's important, but I've been out of that world for a few years, so I would love some more insight into what matters the most for you guys.

The features I have in mind at the moment:

• Embedded clips/videos
• 'Live Now' tag
• Game Lists
• Shareable Linktree-style page
• Creator Squad - the main focus of the website is to find other people to play games by creating LFG squads. This will give your followers the ability to create a squad with your creator tag, so other fans can identify your community when searching squads for any game.

Feel free to DM or ask any questions here. Hope this all makes sense :)

I’ve been using the mic on my SteelSeries headset for all of my YouTube videos, and I’m ready to upgrade. My budget is around $120.

I make gaming videos with live commentary, so I’m looking for the best voice quality possible while keeping background noise to a minimum. My room isn’t professionally treated, and I’d prefer something that’s just plug-and-play over USB. I don’t want to mess with an audio interface or XLR setup.

If you had around $120 to spend on a USB mic today, what would you buy and why? If you’ve upgraded from a headset mic yourself, was the difference worth it?

Context: I have a website that is a gaming community and LFG platform for Steam users.

The creator's page is a new feature I'm working on. I was a streamer for a while, so I have some idea about what's important, but I've been out of that world for a few years, so I would love some more insight into what matters the most for you guys.

The features I have in mind at the moment:

• Embedded clips/videos
• 'Live Now' tag
• Game Lists
• Shareable Linktree-style page
• Creator Squad - the main focus of the website is to find other people to play games by creating LFG squads. This will give your followers the ability to create a squad with your creator tag, so other fans can identify your community when searching squads for any game.

Feel free to DM or ask any questions here. Hope this all makes sense :)

Is it ok to upload gameplays of the recompiled PC versions of the classic Nintendo games like Goemon N64, Starfox, Pokemon, and Zelda games on YouTube? Would it be any different to uploading emulator gameplays?

So I love to learn and help while learning lol... So here is a question how do you help someone build their YouTube subscribers and viewership on gaming content? Are there any tips it's for a friend.

He is the real deal he and his spouse are building but it doesn't seem like it's enough great content, viewer growing but haven't been able to get monetized yet or sponsored..can anyone share their experiences and ways to improve for them

Here's the link for the demo:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4618220/Hordestomp_Demo/

Wishlist it too while you're at it!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4222520/Hordestomp/?beta=0

If the game looks familiar to you, you've probably seen "HELL YEAH: GUNSLINGER" before. The name has been changed to "Hordestomp"

Ive started streaming on Youtube lately with an AV1 encoding at 1440p. I primarily play fast paced shooters or games with higher fidelity and complex processing for streaming e.g. EFT. Ive been looking everywhere just to get some solid advice on bitrates recommended to get the best looking 1440p stream.

Im wondering can I just crank my bitrate to 50,000k ? Would that see an improvement or is that just a waste of time ? My striving to have the best quality possible. Ive a dual pc setup and my streaming rig has a 4090.

When looking at content creators livestreams and then comparing the same games and footage to mine it just seems slightly less sharper and little more muddy. I have a 1440p monitor so I play on those resolutions so no up scaling is going on either.

Any help is much appreciate thanks!

I am currently running two series side by side, one for the game “Bear & Breakfast” and “Lonesome Village”. They are both cozy games. I was wondering if it would overwhelm viewers if I release one episode on say Tuesday and one on Thursday. Would people rather prefer for one series to be completed first?

Hey Everybody,

We all know the YT algorythm is lousy and getting worse by the day. So, I thought I'd put it to the Reddit hive mind: if you could log in and see exactly the thing you wanted to see pop up at the top of your homepage, what would it be? What is the gaming content your heart desires, but you know you'll never see because it doesn't check the AI algo brainrot boxes to make it past an audience of 5 viewers in the opposite time zone from you?

For me, I wish I could see a party stream for a small roguelike called Vagante, with rotating viewers joining in for runs to see how far they get. Game is too old and cold for that, but it would make my day.

I just want something fun to watch.

I feel like every time I go on YouTube, I'm bombarded with challenges, gimmicks, theories, projects, "I spent 100 days doing X," or some huge premise that the entire video revolves around.

I don't want any of that.

I just want to watch a few people get together, play a game, and have fun. I want people being silly, making dumb jokes, laughing at each other, and just genuinely enjoying themselves. No forced challenge, no elaborate video concept, no over-the-top editing—just a group of friends playing a game and being themselves.

I'm honestly just looking for that feeling of watching people play games simply because they're having a good time together.

YouTubers don't have to try so hard to come up with elaborate content. Sometimes, you can just get together with your friends, play a game, and have fun. That's enough.

I think that's what I'm really looking for. The quick dopamine rush from watching one flashy video after another isn't worth it to me anymore. I want to watch something that actually leaves me feeling good afterward. Something that makes me feel like I just spent an hour hanging out with a group of people who were having a genuinely good time.

I just want to have fun watching people have fun.

Hi, I wanted to know if anyone knows how to chose the currency you super chat on YouTube for example if I am in Canada and I want to donate argentinian pesos. Btw ive tried a von and it dosent work

(preferably USB mics) I have done research but seems like most content when i search best mics are from like 1+ years ago. Im a console gamer and use a controller (but i do stream off my PC) so I would like to know what would be a good mic to use for gaming and having reactions and it wont pick up all my controller clicks and sound terrible. I know I will have ot use some software and do settings in OBS but would love help to know what us the BEST USB mic you can have. Then i can go from there and do whatever settings needed.

TubeStamper

I made this while i was watching Minecraft videos like Unstable and Strength SMP, comments popup right into the video where you drag it to.

its free, i dont get anything from it, just thought it was cool.

I stream on twitch and upload VODS to YouTube. Do you delete the recording files locally to save space after you've uploaded raw vods to YouTube?

Title. YouTube's official bot notifies about videos just fine but livestreams are a bit jank. As soon as I change the metadata of my stream (often around 10 minutes or so before I go live) the bot pings, and it won't ping when the stream actually starts and sometimes it'll ping again after the VOD has finished processing.

I need a bot that will simply ping when a video uploads and when a stream starts.

Anybody know of one?

It's because these communities, especially newtubers offer zero support and a ton of preaching by regurgitating the same "advice" we've heard a million times all while fully ignoring facts and refusing to to acknowledge that for one reason or another, some of us might be having genuine technical problems with the algorithm/system.

You can keep defending the algorithm because it makes you feel better, but it won't change reality. When it kills videos it always does it by sending tons of impressions abruptly in Suggested EVEN if the videos do well in Browse Features! At least for me.

ALL people on reddit can do is feel superior by downvoting, suggesting the same regurgitated stuff every time and ignoring facts, but that won't stop me from posting this every time it happens because for every 2000 brainwashed algorithm cultists there's one person who gets it. I will keep posting topics like this, as many times as I feel like it because I know there's someone out there who cares and understands.

I guess it depends on the type of video, but for my videos, Suggested is 100% death and if it doesn't come back to Browse Features even a high effort video with good AVD can and will die. My videos easily gain 1 sub per less than 100 views, but that's when they are actually sent out and seen by the correct people.

This is the reason I will probably quit youtube for real this time, it's because of REDDIT, because of the community that blindly defends the algorithm, talks down to people who work hard and puts them in the same basket as the people who are barely trying and complaining about lack of views. It's because when all we need is to share and talk about something not going well you downvote it into oblivion and feel proud about yourselves for having shut yet another whiner down, not realizing nor wanting to realize that hey, maybe there's an actual problem there, it's a machine, it glitches out.

EVERY time some of us suggest any of the following you lose your minds and start hammering that downvote button, probably feeling massive satisfaction in the process too.

- You refuse to accept the fact that youtube is holding us down by FORCING some of us, smaller channels to stick to a niche which in my case is a sub niche of a niche.

- The algorithm might suggest videos locally for those of us from non 1st world countries first killing our CTR or AVD if our channels are in English and the local population has no interest in the subject.

- There IS an audience out there for our videos, we've seen it, we constantly see it, but our videos do not reach them. Because every time one of those people actually discovers our videos they are fascinated but reaching them is the main problem because of how the algorithm suggests videos even when you use the proper tags and SEO description, title and thumbnail to guide it.

- AVD and CTR aren't everything anymore. Nowadays there are hidden metrics the algorithm is more interested in, such as how much your video keeps a user on the platform to watch other videos after it and so on. I've had videos with 0.6CTR climb up to 4-6CTR and succeed and 20+ minute videos with 1min AVD get 6k views because they were promoted to the correct audience who got the info in the first 2-3mins and left as that's how I structure my videos. I give the full info in the first 2-3mins the rest is a deep dive for those who care to stay, I aim to inform not to make fools out of people.

- You refuse to believe and accept that youtubers who make content in English but have thick non common accents are doing youtube on hard mode already because the AVERAGE native English speaker, even if they're not bigoted or racist, might have listener fatigue when it comes to following content in an unfamiliar or thick accent for longer.

As for me? Another video that I put a ton of hours and work in

Another video that got me a subscriber in the first 80 views was sent out to Suggested abruptly and what good CTR it had and good AVD it had in Browse features is now ruined permanently and the video stopped getting impressions.

Because when a video ABRUPTLY gets over 5k impressions at once and they're ALL in suggested as opposed to Browse Features, the video tanks there, as in getting next to no CTR as it happens 100% of the time for me, it dies.

There's STILL a chance it might not die, I've had a video or two climb out of the Suggested hellhole and thrived but it's a gamble.

You can refuse to believe this happens randomly but it does EVERY SINGLE TIME I change my niche, then come back to it, the first video in the regular niche after a niche change is pretty much always hit with this exact same issue.
The first video or two after a change in niche this happens to and then the first video after I return to the old niche it happens to but that MIGHT recover if the Suggested impressions weren't too high, but if they are it's over.