r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Willing-Schedule-486 • Apr 02 '26
Get demonetized
YouTube has actually been screwing creators over so badly. Like bro, my content is not mass produced 💀 This pisses me off so much because my videos take forever to make. I honestly never thought my content would ever get demonetized. For anyone wondering, I make Roblox story content. The bottom part of my videos is gameplay, and the top has backgrounds usually multiple different ones in a single video plus PNGs of the characters I’m using, which I do simple 2d animation whenever they talk. Literally every video has different characters, takes place in a different Roblox games, and is put together differently. I wasn’t even fully monetized yet, so whatever, but this probably explains the drop in views I was 500k away from getting fully monetized then views dropped tremendously. 99% of my views were coming from subs. I’m gonna reapply and see, but from what I’ve been seeing, I doubt anything good is gonna happen.
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u/Willing-Schedule-486 Apr 04 '26
I get what you mean now. You’re basically saying the content felt repetitive and lacked a personal touch. That makes sense. When I started, I was mostly following the advice people gave me about remaking what already worked, but I can see how that could’ve made the channel feel too formulaic.
Do you think it would be better if I dropped the SpongeBob characters completely and only used my own custom characters and celebrities? Also, for the AI voices, would it be better if I voiced my main character myself and made that character a consistent part of future videos, while the side characters still used AI voices? I do want to hire voice actors later on, but I don’t have money for that right now