Name: **Youtube上發生了什麼？ (**wtf is going on with Youtube**)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:38:37.000Z
Duration: 8 min 50 s

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祈使句型

Hillary Clinton, I am voting for Hillary Clinton.

還有，希拉蕊·柯林頓，我投票給希拉蕊·柯林頓

It's about fixing this problem with YouTube.

Now you've probably heard already that YouTubers are complaining because their views are dropping...

你可能早就已經聽說一些YouTubers在抱怨，因為他們的點閱率有下滑的趨勢...

Now I know you're thinking "Oh PewDiePie, he already made enough money, now he dares complain about this"

現在你可能在想說「哦屁弟派，他不是早就賺了超多錢，他現在怎麼敢抱怨這個?」

But this is not just about me, it's about smaller, and larger, channels that are being affected,

但這不只是關係到我，因為不管是規模大或小的頻道，同樣都受到影響

And the direction it's heading is very concerning for the future of this platform.

不分你我他，都非常擔憂這個平臺的未來

People won't believe me if I say I really don't care about views and making more money .

如果我說我真的不在乎點閱率多寡和賺更多的錢，人們大概不會願意相信我

I care about reaching my audience and that the videos that I am working on, the people who are subscribed to me can actually see them.

我關心的是吸引觀眾來看我的影片、正在製作的影片，以及我能真正看到那些訂閱我頻道的人

I want to be clear that technically overall views are not being affected,

我想澄清一點，嚴格來說，我的總點閱人數並未因而受到影響，

it's just on the newer uploads since about a month ago.

卻是在我1個月前之後上傳的新影片才開始受到影響

I feel a huge responsibility to make this video because not everyone has a voice on YouTube.

我覺得我負有重責大任來做這部影片，畢竟不是每個人都願意在YouTube上表露他們的心聲

I know people might think, "I don't really care, this does not affect me, YouTubers are already making enough money."

我知道有些人可能會想「這對我又沒差，跟我無關，YouTubers不是錢都賺飽飽了嗎」

But it's still peoples' livelihood at stake.

但它對某些人維持生計，卻會是充滿變數的

I think if this continues, it's gonna kill a lot of channels.

我覺得如果這樣的情況再繼續發生，它會害死很多頻道

And trust me, I am fine. I'll be fine, but there are smaller channels that are just barely getting by.

相信我，我會沒事， 我可以撐過去，但對某些比較小的頻道來說，或許難逃一劫

All of a sudden 40% of their views are getting cut out.

因為一夕之間，他們40％的點閱率中就這樣莫名地被砍掉了

and they can't keep making a living on YouTube which I think is really sad, and really stupid, and a mistake.

他們可能因此無法在YouTube上再繼續生存下去，我覺得這是一件很令人難過的事，真的很愚蠢，也是一個很大的錯誤

It's extremely frustrating not being able to reach your audience when my latest videos are being record low.

當我最新發佈的影片，因為點閱率低，而無法吸引觀眾來看，對我來說是一件非常令人難過的事

And then you ask YouTube, "Hey what is the problem here? Something's clearly changed."

然後你問YouTube「嘿，是出了什麼問題? 因為這明顯被人動過手腳」

And they're basically saying, "No, we didn't change anything, there's been no algorithm change, it's you."

他們基本上會這樣回你「沒有啊，我們沒有動什麼手腳，計算方式也沒有錯，是你自己的問題吧」

and then I'm like, well it's not just me, it's so many YouTubers talking about this.

然後我就心想，呃，又不是只有我這樣，其他YouTubers也有同樣問題啊

JackSepticEye, the nicest person on the platform, he wouldn't be complaining about this just because he wants to complain.

JackSepticEye，他是在這個平臺上最nice的人，因為他很少抱怨事情，但這件事真的是讓他受不了了

He's complaining because it's an actual problem, it's a real thing, YouTube.

他抱怨，因為這問題就擺在眼前，這是事實沒有造假，YouTube

Now the thing is YouTube had a rough year.

重點來了，YouTube也發現自己在這一年狂被批評

YouTubers noticed that complaining about YouTube gets you views.

不少YouTubers注意到，抱怨YouTube會減少你的影片觀看次數

It's a topic that people like to know about, so I think people complain probably more than they should've.

因為這是一個大家會想了解的議題，所以抱怨聲浪也會意想不到的多

and I realize now that there is actual consequence to that,

而我現在也意識到它實際的後果，

because now that there is an actual really important issue,

因為就現在來說，這真的是一個非常重要的議題

YouTube is kinda closing an eye to it thinking, "Well, they're just conspiring against us again, it's just one of those things."

YouTube大概又要開始鴕鳥心態，幻想「這不過又是YouTubers再一次要聯合起來反抗我們，這又沒什麼大不了的」

It's very concerning that they are not taking this seriously.

他們這樣不認真看待事情，真的很令人擔憂

Now there's been so much confusion on what the problem is.

現在你們可能會對這樣的問題充滿許多疑惑

No one seems to know... I think I know what it is, so I am gonna try to explain it.

因為好像沒什麼人了解，但我知道整件事的來龍去脈，所以我要開始來解釋

On YouTube you hear a lot of times about subscribing.

在YouTube的世界，你應該很常聽到「訂閱」這兩個字

"Please subscribe to my channel, PewDiePie has 50 million."

「請訂閱我的頻道，屁弟派有5000多萬訂閱人數喔」

But YouTube has really been moving away from a subscription type based viewing experience for a long time.

但YouTube對基於訂閱類型，所推薦其他相關影片的收看體驗，早就已經遠離了好長一段時間

They want you to watch other videos as well.

因為他們也希望你觀看其他影片

So basically what they replace it with... is... let me show you.

所以基本上，他們會用... 來取代，我來弄給你們看

If you subscribe to someone and you watch their content, their videos will show up as recommended,

如果你訂閱某人，然後他們看他們的內容，他們的影片就會出現在「推薦影片區」

or, in the suggested thing... suggestion majigger,

或出現在「即將播放區」，但其實有時候根本毫無關聯

I'm gonna use the word creator, I don't know what the f*** to call it, f***ing YouTubers.

我現在都改講creator這個字，我現在已經不想再講你他媽的什麼YouTubers

Most people on the platform get half of their views from these two things.

大多數人在這個平臺上，從這兩個地方獲取到一半的影片觀看次數

This doesn't matter if you're a small channel, or a big channel, okay?

這跟你頻道是不是很多人訂閱完全無關，好嗎?

So, just to show an example on some statistics.

好吧，現在就秀一些統計數據上面的例子

Here you see that I get 30% of my views from suggested videos.

你看到這邊，我有30%的影片觀看次數都來自推薦影片

That is not counting Browse Featured, which is home page, which is 53%.

這不算在瀏覽功能的53%裡面，也就是在頻道首頁當中瀏覽，

Let's just ignore that for now, let's just focus on suggested.

我們先忽略那個東西，就先注意推薦影片這個點就好

Because I know this is a lot to take in, okay?

因為我知道那要花滿多時間來理解的

Now, suggested views, I get 30% of my views from.

現在呢，我從推薦影片的地方，獲得30%的影片觀看次數

這也正好是我注意到觀看次數有被砍掉的地方

I noticed my views are dropping roughly that amount.

因為我注意到，我影片的觀看次數開始有所下滑

現在，如果你看我舊一點的影片

oh look, I got 60% of my views from suggested videos.

哦，你看，我就從推薦影片獲取約60%的觀看次數

These were videos that were uploaded in October.

Now something 100% happened in November, alright?

現在呢，在11月的時候，有一件非常詭異的事情就這樣發生了

Because all of a sudden we've got suggested videos... 0.7%.

因為突然間，從推薦影片獲取的觀看次數比例只剩下0.7%

Now this is a video that I didn't make, it was an animator, Jae, who worked on this for like a month,

你現在看到的這部影片不是我做的，是一位叫Jae的動畫家，他花了1個月的時間把它完成

and since this did so poorly compared to the other one.

所以就在注意到這部影片的觀看次數，和另外一部相比少的可憐的時候

So, seeing this, I'm like, what the f*** is going on.

看到這裡，我不禁心裡大罵「你他媽現在到底是想怎樣?」

This is so clear that it is a problem, but YouTube is saying,

這很明顯就是一個問題，但YouTube卻這樣回覆我們

"But Felix, it's not a problem because look, your suggest views are still 30%,

「可是Felix，我們確認過後沒問題啊，因為你看，你這部影片的推薦影片來源比例還是30%啊

even if you close in on the last 14 days, look.

就算你再把時間拉到最近14天來看，你看

Suggested videos, 32%, they went up! You should be thanking us!"

推薦影片來源比例變32%了，還上升了呢，你應該要感謝我們才對吧!」

So from now on, I am just going to put theories out there. Just, let that be clear.

所以從現在開始，我也無從再跟他們爭辯什麼了，了解嗎，我們先講好

可是重點來了，它所謂的推薦，卻是舊的影片

If you click on one of my newer videos, it is essentially suggesting ancient f***ing videos.

如果你點擊我任一部新影片，基本上，它竟然就推薦我他媽的不知多久以前的影片

but you can't completely cut out the new ones putting them at 0.2%.

但你也不能把我新影片的外部流量觀看次數比例砍到剩0.2%

Now what I think has happened is that these old videos have already qualified to be as suggested videos,

我覺得這樣的情況會發生，是因為這些舊影片已被認定為是值得推薦的影片

but now, you need to qualify to show up as suggested videos,

但現在，如果要說須具備什麼資格，才能讓你的影片變成推薦影片

and what will qualify is essentially videos with really high click through rate.

最重要的一點特質，就是你的影片必須要有很高的點閱次數

Like videos that people really want to click on really fast,

好比說那些大家很想趕快點進去看的影片

and if you upload on a daily schedule, you're not gonna get that.

但如果你每天固定上傳影片的話，這樣的事情就不會發生在你身上

Maybe if you upload weekly, you're not gonna get affected by this at all.

如果你改成每個禮拜才上傳影片，或許你就比較不會被影響到

所以那些觀看次數到底跑哪裡去了?

Maybe if you haven't made it this far in the video, but you probably think,

或許你目前還沒遇到這樣的問題，但你可能心裡面會想

"Well, if PewDiePie is getting less views, that's good, I don't like that guy's content anyway. F*** that guy."

「如果屁弟派影片觀看人數變少了，那不是很好? 我超討厭那傢伙做的影片內容，最好去死一死吧」

Alright, I get it, you don't like PewDiePie,

好吧，那至少我了解到，你不喜歡屁弟派

It's really nice that you have to point that out everytime.

要是你每次都很積極地提出這一點，我也覺得這是非常好的

You're just talking about PewDiePie every single article... you don't like PewDiePie.

你也可以在你的每一篇po文裡談論到你討厭屁弟派

我沒差，我無所謂，好嗎? (想哭QQ)

What I notice showing up instead, which you probably notice as well,

但我發現到取而代之的那些影片，說不定你自己也有查覺到

這部影片有超過6100萬的觀看次數

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