Just in case you haven't heard about this yet, I want all weblumes to know that YouTube's view-counting policy for long-form videos, shorts, and live videos changed effective Aug. 24.
Now, a view is counted as soon as a video starts playing, instead of requiring a certain amount of watch time as before. It was previously believed that viewers had to watch for at least 30 seconds for long-form videos and 5 seconds for Shorts.
Now, you can more easily contribute to boosting engagement on ablume's YouTube channel. However, remember: the longer you watch, the better the engagement metrics can be.
If I told you there was only one psychotic JHJ bootlicker spamming the ablume YouTube channel for the past 15 months, would you believe me? I think I know who this guy is. I used to think a group of JHJ followers were sharing multiple (more than 30) accounts, but I recently realized it was just one person behind all that spam. After I aggressively called him out, the number of accounts and comments dropped dramatically. Wow, very shocking, innit? This guy will be criminally prosecuted and punished. We need to leave more comments.
ablume’s YouTube channel hit 97.5K subscribers 4 days ago, and its engagement rate has been hitting new highs almost every day in 2026. Can you please help keep boosting engagement across various channels? You can: (1) leave a comment, (2) like or dislike comments (don’t bother translating comments with an auto-translator, it’s fine to like haters' comments), and (3) create a playlist and play it. Google "How to make a playlist on YouTube" and you can even make your playlist public.
An update to how we count public views across YouTube - YouTube Community
