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RicPendragon
I'm a sprite animator, so I might not be everyone's cup of tea.
I love to create, and just wanna make stuff I enjoy and hope others like it too.

Ric Pendragon @RicPendragon

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Youtube is Changing.

Posted by RicPendragon - 1 day ago


So, I've been thinking about my animations for a while now, and seeing the changing environment on Youtube, how the algorithm is crippling growth, the requirement to chase trends, the suppression of reach if you don't upload [X] Minutes at least once a day, the messy focus on Shorts etc, and it's really starting to feel like a full return to Newgrounds is a wise move to make.


First on the docket, is releasing my Youtube animations (mostly Mortal Kombat Kock-ups) over here and seeing how it holds up. Sprite animation is always going to be divisive over here, and I know that, but it's my passion and I will fight for it.


I wish there was a way to do a little vote or something to gauge interest in my return.

Then again, I've been pretty terrible here, so starting from scratch might be my penance.


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My current approach is to release on NG first, then Youtube later. NG's preview system helps from a technical standpoint by being able to preview projects before publishing them. By all means, please publish more sprite animations to here! The more sprite animations, the better.

Yeah, I get ya, there's been many a times I've released a video and wanted to change one or two elements 🤣 and had to wait until I do a compilation or an edit for a Shorts reupload

YouTube has zero interest in growth or providing a healthy environment. They care about the (roughly) 10 YouTubers who generate the most Ad-space... I mean "views". Whenever one of them quits/dies/falls out of favor they are just replaced by whoever fills that "content" slot.

If growth happens over there it's 'despite' their system; not 'because of it'.

There are videos on YT which explain this in way more depth, if you're interested, but most smaller YouTubers will impart that knowledge on the side. ;)

Exactly, and it's only getting worse and worse, even tho my subs kept going up, my views staggered down. Even with over 10 million views on one video, I could never reliably get my engagement to grow.

I won't stop uploading there, but I don't think it's going to be the best place to have for my videos to reach new eyes, which is why I've been re-edting stuff into Vertical formats and spreading out to Instagram and TikTok too.
It's been 10 years since RubberRoss/Ninja made the video "Does Independent Animation Have a Future on YouTube?" and it's depressing to see everything he said is as true today as it was in 2014.