I've got a new short that has attracted some spammers -- touting an app or something. Nothing obscene. I know sometimes content creators deliberately "hate post," featuring subjects that get people to comment, which is apparently all some platforms cares about: engagement is "good," even if everyone who comments hates you. Although that may be more true of Tiktok than YT. I almost never look at Tktk. So my question is: should I bother to delete the comments? In that little "great job!" response you always get in YT Studio, YT was all excited about my getting more comments than usual. lol! Either way, I'll block them so they can't post again.

Hey all. I wanted to announce a small win: I have an art channel, so I do a lot of shorts, which have mostly been in the 500 view range since I started the channel in... October, I think it was. (Well, after that inevitable start of a handful of shorts gaining only a handful of views.) A few weeks ago, one of them popped up to 750, so my next goal was 1000 views. Thursday afternoon's short has blown thru that goal: Well over 13,000 views now, and continuing to rise, although slowing a bit from yesterday. not millions the way the big channels get, but a nice surpassed goal for l'il ol' me. I know shorts are considered by some to be a sort of "lesser" form of viewing compared to long-form; and likely it's true that most shorts subscribers won't be interested in the long-form that eventually leads to enough watch hours for monetization. But just this one short has gained me nearly 20 subscribers in one day, which is a good percentage jump over the low 60s I had before that. A nice boost towards my next goal of surpassing 100 subs. A few tips for those doing demo shorts of any sort, whether art or otherwise: -- I've found my shorts (and long-form, for that matter) always get more views if my hands are in view in the thumbnail. This particular one, I think -- and it was just dumb luck -- has a moment of suspense because in that 3 to 5 second preview sample that plays in the feed, I'm seen picking up a card that I have just smooshed into thick paint on a gel plate, but the sample cuts off before I turn the card all the way over to show the result. So I'm going to try to aim for that little tantalizing semi-reveal from now on, although I don't think I'll always be able to manufacture it. I don't spend ALL my time smashing things face down onto a gel plate. lol! Anyway, cheers, everybody. Thanks to Alexa for this lovely community!

After building a few skills with shorts, I'm proud to say I FINALLY got up my first long video -- about 38 minutes long, edited down from a 90 minute art session. (Thank you, dear Rona for stopping by!) I see some members post shorts from longer vids with a link back to the original. Figured I'd do that with this first long vid, but just curious: for those who have done this, do you see it driving much traffic to your longer videos? Since my views are still SUPER modest, I don't see it changing things much yet, but for those with more subscribers, is it effective?

Hi everyone, I am new here and super excited to join this community and to grow my Youtube Channel. Help me navigate to know my way around here please!!!

Hit 100 subscribers on my channel! 😃