if you run a video game-focused youtube channel, I would love to see what it’s trying to inspire you to post (for a possible article) - ThreadSky

I have a VOD channel for my streams (mostly model kit building but also some video games) and it's just work salad-ing titles of my vods back at me

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rondomane.bsky.social•36 days ago

its like bizarro youtube

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getgoodgirl.bsky.social•36 days ago

I don’t make video game focused videos but I do consume them and please god no no more fucking lists.

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wildweasel486.bsky.social•36 days ago

I don't really have a regular format for my channel but most of my videos are game-oriented anyway. I kind of understand why some of these are suggested but it doesn't make it any less weird. (Also, laughing at it being unable to generate a thumbnail for the X-Men.)

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bradfordsweater.bsky.social•36 days ago

@janochoa.bsky.social I'm super curious what this would look like for GB

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jimmypotatotv.bsky.social•35 days ago

I think my inspiration is still stuck in the past

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owen.burger.moe•36 days ago

Hi Nathan, I'm a vtuber who uses my Youtube channel primarily as a repository for Twitch stream vods, here's some of the absolute garbage nonsense I've been recommended. Goes without saying I'm adamantly opposed to generative AI.

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randomstranger.bsky.social•36 days ago

Here's what I got a month or so ago. No way am I clicking on that again.

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mrmxy.bsky.social•36 days ago

I got "remake other people's existing videos" in my Nintendo-only channel and a passive-aggressive insult in my random stuff channel https://bsky.app/profile/mrmxy.bsky.social/post/3lcwujt7ibk2r

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mattbowyer.bsky.social•36 days ago

I have a tiny little channel that exclusively does Let's Plays (https://www.youtube.com/@starttofinishgames5415), not that you'd know that from my "inspirations."

No idea what the hell that is about The Cube. There is no cube in the game!

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mtg-wadas.bsky.social•35 days ago

If anything, this feels like a great "Want to see predictable ideas that you probably should avoid?"

Although some might hint earlier on at trends and content to check, or about how predictable or channel is being.

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trientia.bsky.social•35 days ago

Honestly a video contrasting Serious Sam 4 and Persona 4 Dancing All Night is a funnier idea than I could ever muster.

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calamitynolan.bsky.social•36 days ago

Here's mine! I mostly post my twitch stream vods and speed/challenge runs

curious what it means by "plushes commentary"

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summerlithi.bsky.social•35 days ago

Set up a couple Squish-mellows with headsets, and do picture-in-picture as though they were playing your VOD footage. It is what the people want.

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leluk.bsky.social•35 days ago

Princess Peach cosplay tutorial 💕

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calamitynolan.bsky.social•35 days ago

ha I'd try it out, but I do not have that expertise

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tafaar.bsky.social•35 days ago

a weird amalgamation of my most popular videos with no regard for if these combinations make any sense at all

my personal favorite is the suggestion that i make a video about high-level gameplay of a Madagascar platform fighter, which does not exist but that would be fire LOL

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brandon.insertcredit.com•36 days ago

@esper.bsky.social what does it want us to do?

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esper.bsky.social•36 days ago

nothing good or interesting!!

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doomquasar.bsky.social•36 days ago

The Year In Review: A Look Back is sending me

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brandon.insertcredit.com•36 days ago

Well dang, how are we gonna get ideas now??

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koennraad.bsky.social•36 days ago

"Dragon Dating: A Love Story"

You talk about monsterfucking in ONE EPISODE.

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wordsmaybe.bsky.social•36 days ago

It suggests I stop doing video game stuff and go back to anime, which I have not done consistently in years. The videos these are based on were popular, but I've also had video game stuff do similarly as well in the time since.

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agentstrange.bsky.social•36 days ago

Vincenzo Sauce, aka @vinny.vinesauce.com, made a video going over this
https://youtu.be/Wlh84RthWbY?si=1dzaDlak7rrNNaq_

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pastelwitch.bsky.social•36 days ago

When artists are asking everyone to avoid AI, this is one of those uses.

Creatives can do better *without* destroying the planet and adding to unsustainable practices that are burning away resources and trying to shut out the very creative these features are being advertised to.

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firewordsparkler.bsky.social•36 days ago

very curious what those "low interest" markers mean

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theunderscoregoog.bsky.social•36 days ago

I play a lot of Mini Motorways for YouTube, which is pretty much the only thing unique about mine:

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savedatateam.bsky.social•36 days ago

They're mostly nonsensical, or videos we've already done. I will give it a special shout out, since it took us currently playing Slay the Princess, and said "maybe do beauty and the beast, but they're both princesses?"

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spikain.bsky.social•36 days ago

Sadly, as a citizen of the European Union, I am cursed to remain uninspired

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kingklonoa.bsky.social•36 days ago

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cabatchi.dev•36 days ago

1. I have a Battlebit edit I made
2. I have a video of my friend winning a round of Street Fighter 6 in 2 combos
3. I edited a video of a cat (Crunchycatluna) with Tony Hawk music
4. I put "X Gon Give It To Ya" over an intro in Overwatch back in 2016
5. I have a video of my friends and I playing CS

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atariarchive.org•36 days ago

Atari 2600 games, famous for their memorable soundtracks and for having a company history you can run through in 5 minutes

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snomangaming.bsky.social•36 days ago

This one was especially funny because it just regurgitates videos I've already done, so "Using All the Buffalo" in relation to reusing game assets in different ways, got turned into "What Makes a Buffalo Game Good" https://bsky.app/profile/snomangaming.bsky.social/post/3lchaxslwas22

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mtg-wadas.bsky.social•35 days ago

It may not be doing what it promises well, but it's failing funnily enough at it that I'm enjoying it.

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wanderbot.bsky.social•36 days ago

This is what I got a few weeks ago.

It's all absolute nonsense that seems to be based entirely on the titles of recently uploaded videos with above-average metrics.

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alecbobko.bsky.social•36 days ago

We recently uploaded our GOTY podcast, so I think that skewed the results a bit.

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bywilliamjmeyer.com•36 days ago

I refuse to look b/c I’m angry enough at them suggesting I require a.i. to respond to a video comment **in my own voice**

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jacobgeller.com•36 days ago

wow, low interest? You don't say!!

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metallicaisrad.bsky.social•36 days ago

Actually first idea is kinda good hate to say it

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jacobgeller.com•36 days ago

yeah its a podcast called Something Rotten

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ckunzelman.bsky.social•36 days ago

the ranged touch network completely shatters reality around itself

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bramslambreakfast.bsky.social•36 days ago

Distressing Homestuck

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hotcyder.bsky.social•36 days ago

Thumbnails look spot on tho

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pharmakokinetic.bsky.social•36 days ago

If I saw a Jacob Geller video titled How Viideo o Vormes Teach Us Aboul TDE I'd assume you were being held hostage somewhere tbh

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forbescoleman.com•35 days ago

That’s all YouTube has been for a decade. “Top 10 videos that are all exactly the same”

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pikapies.bsky.social•36 days ago

I’ve shut my work PC down for the night (and probably can’t share the results either way) but I am *very* interested to see what it suggests for our publisher channel.

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alexgorlando.bsky.social•36 days ago

YouTube really wants Qud to be Dwarf Fortress!

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floriannechekuv.bsky.social•36 days ago

I was (hmm...I'm but just posted podcasts, and more...ambitious projects for the future), that count?

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vikintor.bsky.social•36 days ago

I don't know if it counts. But as a game developer, the Inspiration tab for my channel only shows the most obvious things I could do, which doesn't help at all LoL. But the most absurd recommendation was to promote my work by aggressively comparing it to other developers.🤨

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mrhox.storymoders.com•36 days ago

It doesn't seem as if my channel is successful enough yet for YouTube to give me inspiration. 🙁

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lushenzener.bsky.social•36 days ago

...it is EXCEEDINGLY terrible at this.

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cbake.bsky.social•36 days ago

I'm jealous of all the others whose associated art is at least mildly associated with the suggested topics.

The most on-brand-for-my-channel (http://Superhero.VG) suggestion has no art at all.

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cbake.bsky.social•36 days ago

Oh, you can get even more thumbnail options generated for you that also don't speak to the topic suggested.

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cbake.bsky.social•36 days ago

And now it's generating for the Spider-Man voices topic. No idea what's happening in that third image. Pretending he's on the phone to tell MJ he forgot his left glove?

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cbake.bsky.social•36 days ago

The suggested titles are equally awful.

"SHOCKING History"? I mean, I guess it's at least mildly interesting that Yuri Lowenthal voiced Spidey in Marvel Pinball and the mobile version of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 before Insomniac's game. But not shocking.

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monstersabound.bsky.social•36 days ago

How about GROIN GRABBINGLY TRANSCENDENT History of Spideman Voice Acting?

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cbake.bsky.social•36 days ago

It's not clickbait if it's undeniably true.

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cbake.bsky.social•36 days ago

Wow, now I really want to make a video about just how off the mark the actual "facts" in these outlines are. That sure was some "iconic" voice acting in the Genesis/SNES days, for example.

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nathangrayson.bsky.social•36 days ago

for a moment I thought he beheaded himself

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cbake.bsky.social•36 days ago

I like that. I'm going with that.

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jparish.bsky.social•36 days ago

Apparently YT wants my videos to just rehash MetalJesusRocks topics from a decade ago (nah), but it also wants me include more overt support for trans rights in my thumbnail imagery (I'm game)

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yellerdog.com•36 days ago

"The hogs want slop!" -YT

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bradfordsweater.bsky.social•36 days ago

FDROGTTTEN NENS GEMS

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purkeynator.bsky.social•35 days ago

Hidden gems on the NES? Nah, how about the SG-1000 gems like Q-bert, Hang on II, or Gulkave!

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frydro.city•36 days ago

I'm just here for the NENS GEMS man

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randomstranger.bsky.social•36 days ago

Evolution of 8-bit RPGs is one of the topics on my long "That might be interesting" list. But I'd do it from the perspective of a chart of RPG development and relations that Famitsu printed around 1990.

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brandon.insertcredit.com•36 days ago

Lol in fairness I did forget about NENS gems

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jparish.bsky.social•36 days ago

Be nice, it's not generative AI's fault that it's a load of trash being crammed down our throats against our will by the worst humans on earth

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mayteramarble.bsky.social•36 days ago

The Nintendo Entertainment Nintendo System! Do you say it “Nenns” or “en e en ess”?

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hownottodraw.bsky.social•36 days ago

you mean you FORBGITT

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thethirstymage.com•36 days ago

Feel like YouTube is telling me to stay in my lane based on the recommendations.

The thumbnail AI appears to be sticking to the same colour scheme for everyone, so it'll be quite obvious if anyone actually uses these.

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timm.cool•36 days ago

yeah, just keep making update videos forever

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fultonbot.bsky.social•36 days ago

The Trans Rights stuff could be useful these days

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sabbathdaniel.bsky.social•36 days ago

Hey, not only MetalJesus, but GameSack too!

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dadaph.no•36 days ago

Few people know this, but it was the NENS in AI regions.

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robcap.bsky.social•36 days ago

So here's mine - the background for mine was tilted towards games on 8-bit home computers (and the C64), so the specific lean in that direction.

I do have to laugh at how it couldn't generate a thumbnail for one of them!

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hmsnofun.bsky.social•36 days ago

alas, my channel's not game-focused, but i do think it's funny that this thing is basically telling me to make videos i already made 4 to 7 years ago, but better because they were my ideas and not a computer pretending it didn't just copy my homework

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hmsnofun.bsky.social•36 days ago

the two it gave me for my stream archive channel lmao

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hmsnofun.bsky.social•36 days ago

it's literally just telling me to make videos i already made before. somehow i think this tool is only designed (to the extent that it IS designed) for youtubers who upload daily and have a large pool of data to pull from. but like, it IS only pulling from my best-performing videos

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awfullycrispy.bsky.social•36 days ago

I like that based on the thumbnail it seems to think there are only two mcelroy brothers

They must have finally killed and ate Travis 😔 big dog woof woof

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plusgreg.bsky.social•35 days ago

I think those silhouettes are Travis and Griffin. Justin has entered his bliss delight era and transmogrified INTO a microphone.

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awfullycrispy.bsky.social•35 days ago

I don't think his wife is gonna appreciate that

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hybridhavoc.com•36 days ago

I wouldn't say I run a channel exactly, but I used to stream PUBG and would host my edited VODS on YouTube. This is what it gave me.

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thejenna.bsky.social•36 days ago

Good and normal stuff over here

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plusgreg.bsky.social•35 days ago

You WILL use an orange and blue thumbnail and the text WILL drive men to gibbering madness:

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thejenna.bsky.social•35 days ago

I cannot look at that without thinking, what artist did they rip this style off from?

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plusgreg.bsky.social•35 days ago

Mostly Alienware/Razer, I'd wager. ;)

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swooshxbear.bsky.social•36 days ago

I review retro games and am (eventually) covering all the Resident Evil games so this tracks. I also do SNES reviews and have done 2 Genesis videos. Funny how the SNES vs Genesis video idea is such a novel concept that it couldn't even make a thumbnail lmao

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calebgamman.com•36 days ago

🔥

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knotbug.bsky.social•35 days ago

The Best Games of 2023 (So Far) is making me laugh way more than it should

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jtsknight92.bsky.social•36 days ago

We are somehow lords of the entire RPG genre over on Nintendo World Report. Also the AI thumbnails are a nightmare

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wanderbot.bsky.social•36 days ago

I love the Vimtembo Slortch at the bottom. Looks like it would destroy your hands just for trying to hold it.

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librascopeyt.bsky.social•35 days ago

I have two ENORMOUS bones to pick with these (aside from them being generic "No shit." ideas.

Firstly, half of them are literally just videos I've already done basically. And secondly, it's interesting that it wants me to do FF/KH challenges, but the algorithm made my Rebirth challenge bomb.