• asqapro@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    To add context, here is a broad count of Karl’s video topics over the past year (going back to May 29th):

    Celebrate: 8 (5.83 million views)

    Bash: 13 (18.5 million views)

    Billy (all negative): 12 (8.5 million views)

    He’s definitely leaned more into the Billy drama / exposing cheaters & fakers over the past year. People seem a lot more interested in the “expose” videos, so unfortunately it makes sense for him to make more of those.

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      5 months ago

      He at least addresses and kinda apologises for the large number of Mitchel videos - he has to spend a lot of time and energy doing research to prepare for the trial, so he at least uses that to post a video and other topics suffer.

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        5 months ago

        yeah if i was preparing to take billy mitchell to court thats all i would talk about or make videos about lol

        plus it seems like a lot of his time and energy is going into that and the topic is similar enough to his other videos that he might as well document it.

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      5 months ago

      That context is exactly why Karl’s content is what it is, it’s the same reason so many YouTubers use click bait titles and stupid thumbnails - it gets more hits and more hits is more money.

      If it takes you a week or more of your time to make a single video, of course you’re going to want as big a return from the video as possible. And if the choice is 3x the return for the same effort then it’s a complete no brainer.