I can't always watch Tess' videos so I am quite selective. This one I watched all the way through and I really liked her points of view, how video titles should have a strong point of view, and the thumbnail style she sees working best right now. I changed my thumbnail that I was going to upload (was still creating it) for the style she talked about so we will see how it goes 😝 and I liked her 'less is more' theory on a whole bunch of stuff. Let me know if you watch any of it and what your thoughts are.

Just saw this when I was uploading my video tonight so thought I would give it a whirl! My video is scheduled for tomorrow and I have no idea how it is going to look....... Have you seen this or tried it?

The downside of the big numbers is dealing with nonsense from fools with nothing better to do. I've set strict moderation rules and have been working on a list of words to block with the help of VIDIQ. The AI coach just told me: "If a comments is personal or abusive, hide the user from the channel. It's not censorship, it's gardening. You are weeding the garden so the healthy plants (your community) can thrive. That perked me up a bit. Back to weeding the garden 😀

Open AI’s Chat GPT are going to start running ads in free Chat GPT because they’re losing millions. Their business plan from a couple years ago relied on them being the dominant player with more people using their paid subscription model. They thought that they would have such a first mover advantage that they would forever be Coke and everyone else would be fighting it out to be Pepsi🤪 But Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude have now caught up and I think are even better in some ways. One of the best comments I saw on X responding to Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI): “Anthropic: makes funny ad about ad-driven Al. Sam: writes 400-word defensive essay calling them authoritarian, deceptive, and elitist The ad hit a nerve. Wonder why.” Do you pay for ChatGPT or any other AI?

@Lucy Caldicott was generous enough to spend some time with @Marv Duffy and I to talk us through her journey recently where she went from 66 subscribers to now 10,000! Lucy's channel is UCE1-AwL_CUdQCZ3aaXyh--w and the viral video is below. I think it has grown a few thousand views since yesterday actually 😂 I highly recommend watching this if you want to find out about the viral video, how she navigates what videos to make next and some tools she uses. Thanks again for not gate-keeping anything, Lucy. You deserve this beautiful success - it is just the beginning for you and so motivating for us to see 🥰