Linus Sebastian, the founder of the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel, has spoken out about its recent decline in viewership, describing it as a "very dramatic shift.

A lot of Youtube channels are reporting declining viewership lately.

EX1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpVnx4_yqTo
EX2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0tmhEtVJE

Fun times. Looks like a lot of channels are seeing a decline not just Linus. Hes just the latest to talk about it.

Then I saw this article as well and thought I would share.

Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?

  • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    13 hours ago

    And God forbid you enable captions on the video or something - it’ll disable itself every time an ad plays.

    • Xatolos@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      How do I turn that feature on?

      I keep turning off captions off, and every few days they are automatically turned back on.

      • 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.comEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        you can force a lot of options still when you upload a video OR provide a link. Plenty do that. For example in the tags add yt:cc=on will force on captions when you play a video