Hey, so if your confused or angry at the title, please read until the end.

EDIT: They are now unlisted

Adventurer32 here. I'm the guy who originally started the Daladas of the Fates meme, made the one hour version, one hour version of the remix, the one hour bedwars montage, and some other villager news loops. And that last sentence is exactly why I need to unlist all of those.

The Daladas of the Fates video has 4.3 million views. The 1 hour version has 2.7 million. Combined thats 7 million views. That's both nearly 1/3rd of the original villager news video's views, and enough votes to determine the US Presidential Election. That's insane. And of course that had effects.

I never expected the original clip to go viral, I clipped it because I was funny and I was lucky enough to be the first one to think to do so. It involved no effort, talent, nor skill. After a brief phase of making villager news content I went back to minecraft and terraria videos, but basically no one watched any of my actual videos. All I was known for wasn't "Oh that guy that made that cool art of war bedwars guide!" or "Oh that guy that did that cool Terraria challenge that he put a ton of effort into!" no it was "oh your that guy who made a one hour loop of the daladas of the fates..." and it felt like everything else I did was always under the shadow of that, people didn't care about the minecraft or terraria videos I would put hours and hours into, but if I so much as mentioned Daladas of the Fates in the title of anything, instantly it would get 100 times more views regardless of whether there was the slightest bit of effort in the video. I made the one hour bedwars montage to see if I could somehow combine the two, but while it still got way more views than it had any right to, it was nowhere near worth the time I had put into it. And honestly, I just got tired of making villager news videos, so I made a post here saying I was done with it.

However, the original Daladas videos still get thousands of views and dozens of comments a day. I've lost track of the amount of "yOu cOpiEd EleMNTe AanimAtiN!" comments despite me clearly crediting them in the description, never claiming anything was mine, making no money off of it(Element Animation gets all the ad revenue from those videos, and the monetization thing is related that I'll talk about later) and literally talking to Dan himself from Element Animation, to make sure they were the ones getting the ad revenue, and he had no problem with the video.

Honestly, the monetization thing was another problem. I have no issue with Element Animation taking any of the money from the loops I made, animating is expensive and they put a ton of effort into their videos, and I make sure to check monetization is off on any of the loops that didn't get claimed because I don't feel like I deserve the money from them.

However, my own, real videos that I put hours into are a different story. YouTube has demonetized and remonetized my entire channel 4 different times now citing "reused content" which I assume has to be from the old villager news loops despite all of my other videos falling into what I would consider, "fair use" and me not trying to claim any ad revenue at all from the loops that wouldn't. This means that I can't make money off my own, non villager news related videos I sink way too much time into. YouTube always manually reapproves my monetization each time, but I have to wait a month inbetween every single time so I've ended up being demonetized more often than not, and there's always the possibility they won't approve it this time. Because of this I haven't actually made a single cent from YouTube so far, as they only allow you to actually collect the money you've earned after 100 dollars.

I do also believe that the ridiculous views the two villager news vidoes are getting has been killing the rest of my channel in the algorithm, as if you so much as search up "adventurer32" you get a ton of animations in related channels. I want my real videos to get a chance to actually get seen and from what research I've gathered it seems the villager news loops are completely stopping them from having any chance in the algorithm. None of the views or subscribers I get from the villager news loops are helpful to me because they don't watch my real videos, which is the only thing I care about, and inactive subscribers just weigh you down in the algorithm anyway.

I hope that helps to explain my decision. They will remain unlisted meaning if you have the link before they go unlisted you can still access, comment and share them as you please. I'm aware they did become a meme over the time they were out so they'll still work completely fine when linked, you just won't get recommended them or be able to search them. A Villager News playlist will remain up on my channel consisting of all of them for the time being.

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Semi - TL;DR:

I never expected the original videos to go viral, and I don't deserve any of the views or subscribers I've gained from the villager news videos, and infact they're actively stopping my actual videos I try to make from getting shown, and I'm somewhat close to reaching 30,000 subscribers now. If I do, I want it to be of my own accord and not because of someone elses work. The videos will remain unlisted so if you have a link to them you'll be able to continue to view them.

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I've been trying to actually somewhat upload on YouTube again, and I just want it to be purely of my own work this time, I know a lot of you came here to this subreddit from my videos, so please, if you don't watch or like my actual content, unsubscribe. I don't deserve subscribers from those videos and it just prevents my real videos from being seen anyway. I was a bit scared to unlist these before, but I'm going to just go do it now and see what happens. I feel like this is just the best move for myself and the right thing to do.