He's dying! Did it actually go live? No. I mean, am I? I don't know. Let me know. I'm refreshing the page right now. I haven't seen anything. Hopefully. It's like it's still offline. We haven't gotten a comment telling us it is online. Try refreshing again. Whoa, there I am. Full screen and everything. Oh, yep. Now it's good. Nice. You can see my beard and all my glory. Alright, what? Skipping the ad right now? Alright, so there's that. Skipping? Dad, you look like that. I look like what? You look like any of my bearded friends. Oh, okay. I look like all your bearded friends. Sweet! Like every one of them combined. Alright, so there's that. Oh, I don't even know. Because he's just seeing you without a beard. I don't think OBS is using the right mic. Come on. I can hear you fine. Yeah, but it still sounds like Bud's. Yeah, Bud's. Alright, let's see if I sound better now. Maybe. Let me know. I didn't notice a huge sound difference quite honestly. Well, I mean, it's gotta take a second. No, not me talking to you, but me in the stream. I have to like take out my headphones for a whole lot of weight. So difficult. Alright. I didn't notice a huge sound difference quite honestly. Well, I mean, it's gotta take a second.  Hey guys, people are showing up. Alright, give me a second to fix my audio. You're working on it. Alright, let's see if this is better. Maybe. Maybe I should stop streaming and start back up real quick. Listening to a back right now. Hold up. Okay, we'll see if this is better. Alright, let's see if this is better. Okay, so real quick guys, is it this microphone? Or is it this microphone? Is it one or two?  It should sound pretty good. It should. I'm waiting for it. Or did it just freeze. I don't know. Maybe I should stop streaming and start back up real quick. Listening to a back right now. Hold up. Okay. Everyone's like, Oh my God, it's Tuesday. Like, what happened? Alright, let's see if this... Or did it just freeze? This microphone. Oh, I think you're good now. Cool. We're good to go. Alright guys, so this is the freedom live stream video critiques that we do on every Monday. And it's currently Monday in some part of the world, maybe, I don't know. We time travel. So it's Tuesday. That's why I have a beard. I went back in time. And we're doing it on Tuesday now. Today. Normally we'll do it on Monday. So anyways, if you're new here, we're here to critique your channels. You submit your channels down in the comments. You can't do links, but you could do titles to videos for us to watch. And then we'll review it on here. And Steven and I will check it out. If you weren't here with us last week, Steven joined us. He is one of my local friends here that's helping me out with my channel and stuff like that. I'll let you introduce yourself while I moderate the comments. Absolutely. Well, thank you for that awesome introduction. My name is Steven. And, well, I love YouTube. I like everything about it. And watching YouTube for quite a long time.  So if your channel is geekier and nerdy, I'm not going to lie. I'm going to be totally biased to pick it. Yeah. No, last time there was like Pokemon channel that kept popping up and I just couldn't help myself. I had to do it. So that's pretty much all you need to know about me. Cool. And then secondly, can you hear both of us about equally? Cool. And if you find a channel, we can start that up. Well, I'm not seeing any channel submissions. The AFL nerd. So thank you. I appreciate that. I see Ovo seems like we're going to get along just fine. Um, yeah, submit your channel. Also, I'm not going to wear this beard anymore because it's really hot. They're surprisingly warm. Surprisingly warm. A couple people are just declaring freedom. I'm just joking. I'm not going to do that. I'm going to actually wear a hat. Okay. Let me know when you're back and ready to go. We're good to go now. Let's be for realsies and stuff. All right. We're good to go now. Yeah. Let's do it. Well, you want to pick the first channel? Sure. Cool. So guys, remember, we actually need titles to your videos to. The first one's going to be an exception just so we can get things started. Um, I'm going to link you Steven real quick. I can see around my beard. Move beard. Okay. There we go. This is first channel. The FIFA MC. So guys, remember when we ask what channel we want to review or what video we want to review. Stay the video title so we can check it out. Can't just say like pick me or me or hi or bill. You know, you actually need to say the title do your videos so we know what to check out. So for this first one, like I said is an exception. It is the FIFA MC and I'm going to put him in the description so you guys can check that out with us. And then Steven, I'll let you pick a video on this channel. How about that while I do this? Alrighty then. Hey, wake up. Let's see here. Well, uh, one thing I noticed is that there is a lot of videos he posts often. I appreciate that. I do minecraft PVP montage. The first one. Oh, the first one. We're getting real up in here. Looking at the thumbnail and I saw funny description. So you guys can check that out. Right. And then watch it now. Well, the first thing I noticed is that there was a pretty cool intro. I like the intro. All right, let's see that. Okay. Yes. We've discouraged Dubstep the glitchy intro on this live stream. You are fired indefinitely. It is a different form of intro. I can't say it's one I would personally use. But it's better than not having an intro. All right. Well, here's my personal opinion and a lot of other personal opinions revolving around those glitchy Dubstep intros. They are templates. It's not custom made. More times than not. And they just download it, put in their text, render it out and put the Dubstep music that it comes with. A lot of times Dubstep is, the Dubstep is even copyrighted. And it's just very generic. It doesn't say anything about each channel. The intro should introduce the viewer to the channel and should show the viewer what they're about to watch. So, unless it's a Dubstep channel, it doesn't really, it's not relevant. That's my personal opinion with that. So, besides... I can agree with what you're saying. I mean, I'm actually continuing to watch the video and the music has remained constant. So, it actually does work with the background music. I do agree with you that it sounds very template-y. And it doesn't seem custom whatsoever. But for someone who's just starting out, sometimes it can be hard to get a really nice custom intro. Definitely work toward it. It's something you're gonna want. But I'm not sure. It's better than not having an intro, in my opinion. But it also depends. If your channel featured a weird Celine Dion song after the Dubstep intro, that wouldn't work very well. But I think it works with the overall feel of the video. So, I mean, we've all been there. We've all done it. It's just a matter of trying to differentiate yourself from the rest and be original. That is a fair point. So, Mike, are you watching the video right now? Yeah. You play Minecraft a lot more than I do. So, I'm gonna let you take it. How about we rephrase that? I play Minecraft. I don't think you play, do you? I've played a couple of times. I've never played seriously. I've checked out the world and whatnot. I have the app on my phone. So, you're definitely good. You're better than I am at PvP, stuff like that. The texture pack is interesting. It actually looks kind of cool. I really like the bow. It looks like something from Legend of Zelda. There's not a whole lot to critique here because it's just music with you playing. So, right now, you're just showcasing skill. As you continue to grow and do more, you're gonna have to find a way to, again, differentiate yourself from the rest and find a way to make you stand out from the rest. So, if you're showcasing skill, you really need to showcase that skill and find a way to make that stand out between everyone else that plays PvP Minecraft. So, there's some people that stand out because they're funny commentary. There's some people that stand out because they're informative.  So, with this, you need to find what you are going towards and tailor your channel around that. So, if it is, like I said, just showcasing how good you are, you need to start finding a way to show that more so.  Do something to highlight that a little bit more so. Mostly about spending extra time on the video editing aspects of things and really planning out what you want to showcase in the video so that you get that footage. That's really just about spending a lot more time making the video a lot more in-depth rather than just putting a bunch of clips together of cool little plays. Yeah, you're on the right track and the quality doesn't look bad. The quality looks good. The audio levels are fine if you're just doing a gameplay with music in the background. And it's, I mean, it's not, it doesn't drag. You definitely sped up everything so it's, you know, doesn't really lag for a while and it just gets through, it gets to the point. So, you're on the right track. I think you just need to sit down to focus what direction you want to take your channel and go from there. Absolutely. I liked how short the video was. A lot of people drag it out, but like a 20-minute video which not everyone's going to watch the whole way through. Last thing I want to say is that on this outro slate, Mike, I'm not sure if you watched all the way. It's the last 10 seconds. I think outro slates are really important. Mike likes to say it's how you redirect viewers to more of your videos and your channel. Like you have to give them a something to do at the end of your video. Otherwise they're just going to go somewhere else. So I think that you need to work on what you include in the outro slate. However, I love the random fact. I know. It's actually pretty cool. I thought that was a brilliant idea. We're talking about differentiating yourself. It's something unique. I haven't seen that really before. I never would have knew that that fact exists. That gives something for people to talk about in the comments. I really like the random fact idea. It's brilliant. Definitely work a little bit more on how you actually position it and design it because this outro slate is all over the place with a rainbow text black box. I hope you enjoyed the vid coming off the screen. If you clean that up, still involve the random fact thing, that's awesome. But I would definitely clean up the outro. Yeah, I think that's a nice unique idea right there, the random fact. Like I said, you're on the right path there.  Yeah, other than that, good job. You post often that you are on the right track as well. Alright, do you want to pick one this time? Alrighty then. Right off the bats. Kepler, I see that you just said that feedback we much appreciated. He's going to bed soon and I've seen him in the very beginning. Alright, let's do this. A link. What video? I got it already. Okay. He was saying a video NASCAR video, GTA Online NASCAR video. Looking for the NASCAR video. I think it's this one uploaded a week ago. A5 Online NASCAR. Okay, cool. Do it. Then I have this beautiful ad. It's making me hungry. No, this is not making me hungry. Oh, okay. Zack got the Wendy's one. His plug just crawled into a dude's mouth. Whoa. Wow. Well, we have another glitchy dubstep intro. This isn't as glitchy though, so I can respect that. Yeah, I actually kind of... That one seemed a little bit more in-depth and custom. Not sure. I have not checked out dubstep intro before, so I really don't know. That was second. This is over at Google, and you'll see everyone that... You've ever seen. Probably. So, first off, I like this background music. That's something I would personally use in my videos. However, it's a little bit too loud because it overpowers your voice. With gameplay commentary, your voice, if you... That's what you're going for is commentary. You need to let it dominate the rest and be at 100% in the game of music. So that way you can really stand over top and really stand out because you are not making this video as different. So people can't hear it super clearly. It's going to be a little bit distracting. You have to focus more to hear it. Yeah, I'm actually having a hard time hearing all the commentary. Sounds like you guys are having a great time, but I wish that I could focus in on that a little bit more, especially when you are with other people and you're talking and streaming with other people in that call. Music even quieter because everyone has a different voice. Everyone has some volumes of their voice, but also it's a lot more entertaining usually when there are a bunch of people because you guys go back and forth. You have to tell a joke so there's going to be laughter. So let that dominate the video because that's really what's going to pull people in. Now granted, I don't have it cranked up because of the live stream, so I'm sure I could probably hear it a little bit better if I wasn't distracted by live stream and Stephen talking and stuff, but it's still... I should be able to hear it at this level and still be able to not have to determine that voice what's music like. Likewise. You guys are talking consistently through it. There's a lot of times, especially on something as simple as this where it's just going around in circles like you would in NASCAR, if this was me doing it, there'd be a lot of dry moments. There wouldn't be constant action throughout it all, but you guys, I can hear you have talked throughout the whole entire thing. There hasn't been a silent spot yet. So, assuming we can hear everything super crisp, then you guys would have an awesome video. It sounds like you're having fun.  So, unless you just have a really morbid sense of humor. There's still an audience for that somewhere, I'm sure. So, I skipped to the end of the video and I actually thought the last 15 seconds was interesting. I wasn't expecting it, so I appreciate it. What is this? I'm kind of reading here. Winner, next-gen players. I'm honestly not too familiar with this game, but I don't know if this is part of the game or whatnot. I kind of just liked it at the end of the video. Guy with a raccoon head helmet-dressing. That was interesting. And your outro slate, although it does seem like it may be a template, but I don't really like that template. So, I don't know yet. Yeah, I really like it actually. I would rather have a simple thing that you made on your own than a really in-depth, complicated template that looks like a template, you know? I honestly cannot say if it is a template or not. I haven't even researched that to be honest with you. I feel like I've seen similar effects before, but not that exact one. And in my mind, this is actually a pretty relatively simple and straightforward outro with just the cool effect that grabs your attention quick. One thing I noticed, because I hovered over the button and the subscribe is not linked. You should annotate that or get that to actually redirect you so that if they want to click subscribe, they want to subscribe to your channel, they can subscribe directly off this outro slate. And I think that, because I was like, hey, I want to know if this is actually a button here, but it is not. I like the outro slate overall, though. I would almost make it a couple seconds longer, too. Yeah. So that people have more time to kind of process between 5 and 10 seconds, usually. But 10 seconds is even good, because it carries right through the video. You still got music playing. And it gives people time to actually hit the subscribe button. Yeah. Thoughts on the outro? And then, why is it here? Oh, quick. Second to go. Thank you so much again. So, there's not really a sign on it. You can't find a good one, though. No, there's not.  So after you're done, you tell them, you know, bye or ask them a question. So guys, let me know what you think of the video. Let me know if you enjoyed it or if you want to see more of NASCAR racing and GTA or what you'd like to see next week.  So it's not all about the comments. It's also kind of goodbye. It also makes the viewer feel included. But at the same time, it builds up your interaction and it kind of all around helps the community and your stats and your rank and everything there. So try and include your viewer more. I know it's hard when you're playing with a group of friends, but maybe in the intro and outro, that could be a big help.  The other thing I was going to state on that one, it's very simple to say thanks for watching at the end of the video. But you may, it depends on the video, I think. But sometimes I feel like it's better to say like, hey, make sure to subscribe if you like the video. Use that space to have a different sentence. Because thanks for watching. It's polite. You're saying thank you for watching, but it's not doing anything.  And I think that there should be. It may seem like you want to say thank you, not just make sure to subscribe, but there's a reason people do that. You can find a way to balance that. Like, hey, being polite, thanks for watching. And then maybe right after that, have a make sure to subscribe if you want more videos. Yeah, if you don't ask, you normally won't receive. So, good life lesson right there. You could put up a text that says what you want, but if it's you personally asking and the people are there connecting with you, it typically helps. Like for instance, when I first started up the business, we started up our YouTube channel. And we dove into an apartment together, me and my friends. Like we're going to start doing YouTube full-time and we're going to do whatever it takes to make the money with, you know, online content as far as YouTube goes. And our outro slate said, thanks for watching our video. If you enjoyed it, click like. If you really enjoyed it, click subscribe. And if you really, really enjoyed it, share it with a friend and help us pay for rent. And it actually caught on. It was funny and it was true. We needed help paying for rent. And it really helped and we did it for months that way. And it was a lot of fun, but without asking for it, you know, you're not going to receive it. It's okay to be a little forward with that. So ask for what you want and you'll typically at least have somewhat of a more better result with it. All right. So this one caught my eye. Kiwi films. Do you like animals? Have you ever wanted to see them talk? Then check out my channel called Talking Pictures. It's not gaming. Already though. All right, send me the link. I didn't catch that one. Kiwi, I love Kiwis first of all, so. Well, I have a talking dog. So. Or it does talk. More or less. Here is the video. And I just remembered, I haven't been putting the links in the video. So give me one second to fill that out. Kiwi films. There's that. All right. Sorry, I spilled. With an A instead of an E. There we go. Now it's in there. If you refresh the page, it's there. Also, final thoughts on Kepler. We kind of skipped over that with my spiel. I think you're doing good. I think you have nice energy. It's just the audio thing is the main thing you need to figure out there. Other than that, I think you have a solid channel there.  But if you keep that up and keep doing that video but really balance out the audio, like yeah, you guys talked the whole way through. It seemed like it was entertaining, so. Good. I started watching the talking pictures. It's interesting so far. Um. A picture is put on a wall and what comes next is totally unexpected. I like that part. I mean, that's the first thing I saw before. You've been watching the video. Well, who's Ken and why am I here? Ken is our overlord. You have been chosen by him just like the rest of us. Where do you come from? Last thing I knew, I was at a thrift shop. Well, Ken is very well known. I was not expecting this at all. Oh, I was not expecting that. Yeah. Yeah. But some of us have actually speculated through what Ken said that if he plays that him enough I'm intrigued at the very least like I don't want to fast forward this. You missed something. Who's that up there? Oh, him? He's very special. He's the only one here that was not chosen by Ken, but actually made by Ken. Because of this, Ken puts him at the top of the podium. That's why I'm still watching, I'm pretty sure, Ken is crisp, like I can hear the voices just fine. The background music is on point. I do think it's a cabinet too loud. We don't speak. Like we mentioned before, the voice should dominate over everything else. Oh, he's another one of the service. But I can still make it out. So that's a good thing. Hi, Dave. What up? Dave? Dave? What about it? It's like a very heartfelt ending here. Somebody help me! Oh my! Many tears have been shed. I don't think I can make it, man. Come on, Dave, you gotta try. No, Jude, it's all worth it. I'm gonna wait for you to finish, Mike, before I start talking. This is actually... I have 10 seconds left. Poor Dave. I was like, wait, what? What? I want to be honest. When I first started watching that video, I didn't think I was going to enjoy it. I didn't know if I was going to enjoy it or not. And I definitely enjoyed it. That was hilarious. Yeah. So, it's unique. I've never seen anything like that before. It deserves more than 10 views. It deserves a lot more than 10 views. What I would recommend is if you could start out the video with 5 seconds of what you should expect. Just a really funny joke in the first 5 seconds or something with these talking pictures. So that way, when it doesn't take a minute to set up to this really funny joke, it's funny at the get-go and then you know that there's another funny joke coming up. So, if you could do something like that where you just set up the video so that way someone knew that doesn't know what's to come, they can know that they're going to enjoy it from the get-go. Because at the beginning I was like, what is this? I didn't know if I should be intrigued because I didn't know what I was about to see. I had no idea if it was like an educational video. Was this meant for like 5-year-olds or 5-year-olds? I had no idea. I was waiting for the picture to come to life and start like hallucinating. I was wondering if it was a little bit of a crazy drug trip. I had no idea what was going to happen. But I think an intro slate as well might be good because if you're going to... I see on your channel here I'm looking at it. We're inactive for quite a while. Looks like you're just trying to come back. You just put this video up in the last 24 hours. I would definitely recommend continuing these types of videos if you're passionate about them because they're awesome and once people... these are the types of videos that people will share because it's funny. They want their friends to see it. They'd be like, hey, I just saw this funny video. Like, hey, watch it. But get an intro because imagine you only have 7 seconds to hook the person that's watching your video. And if you don't hook them in 7 seconds they might skip the rest of the video or if they just skip to the end of the video it's not going to be funny. So I would focus more on those intros whether it's an actual intro slate or the actual 5 seconds of the video either one or both. But get a strong intro down in... because if they finish the video it's funny. They got to finish it first. And then with the outro, how cool would it be to even have the animals talking? Like, thanks for watching our video. Thanks Dave. Poor Dave's dander. And have the animals talking back and forth about telling people what to like so they could find you and stuff like that. That could be a fun thing. But the video itself I think was good. You could have just done a little bit more to make it like a bigger sensation I think by doing those little things that we mentioned. Rather than that, the video is great. And you have good like filmmaking even though you're just using pictures there's more than just a blank wall with a picture. There's some like foreground there's some background there's more to see and you zoom in on like to create emphasis you zoom in on it and just doing a stagnant shot the whole time. So from like a filmmaking perspective you did really good on everything really. That's something I struggle with too. So I mean some people have a natural eye for it, some people don't but if you want to make a video you kind of have to. So it's awesome that you have that natural eye for it. Or you've developed a skill either one but yeah you definitely did a good job. I mean even though it was just pictures I was watching the whole thing. I wasn't like tuning out just listening to the audio like I wasn't actively watching because you had good cuts kind of where to direct attention. So overall I'm excited to see you do more videos. Yeah definitely. I hope that you decide to continue. I see again that this is the first video in four months that I decide to continue because these are awesome. Yeah. Cool. Like you had a good time making it. Yeah that was neat. Final thoughts or I think we're good? Good job. Yeah. That was a solid video. Yeah not much to say on that one other than what we talked about with like the intros and just kind of incorporates the comedy throughout instead of just like one huge slope to this awesome climax but already then. Punch lines in the beginning and be really cool. But yeah if you want to pick a second one or wait yeah that's your turn.  Alrighty then. This person here I just scrolled through the comments right now and Trinic stream gamer gamer every two seconds will be rewarded for his spam. Normally you're not but cool so like you. Alrighty then he also specified a video just one thing that's put out for me. Sky Wars Episode 17. Okay. 17. Right here. Triple kill. I'll send you a link. Got it. I have the channel. One more time what was it? Sky Wars Episode 17? Yup.  Triple Dipples. Dipples. I don't know what a Dipple is. You don't want to know. Alright so I'm adding that to this description now. It's gonna take a second. Open this description. Trinic stream gamer is that right? Yes. I don't know if you know the correct answer to that. I'm looking at his name right now. Not how you say it though. Oh how do you actually pronounce it? Is it Trini extreme? That sounds right. Just kind of flow with it. Alright. Sorry for no game audio. Recorder messed up and enjoy the background music. What is going on YouTube? It caught me this. I think it's a very true comment. If there is like an audio malfunction or if a video doesn't end up the way exactly you want or if you miss a day on a schedule it's normally better not to acknowledge it and just like if this game was supposed to have audio instead just make it a background music game. Rather than stating in the beginning. Or let's say you know the game doesn't have audio and you feel it hurts the overall video. You have two options. You can not upload it and do it again because it looks like you played for six minutes so this is chopped down a bunch. But regardless it doesn't take a long time to re-record or if you had some gold moments that you don't want to lose and you feel like you're hurt because your recorder didn't do game audio what if you went in and added funny sound effects like a creeper explodes boom boom you know like little funny sound effects throughout the whole thing and that way it would give it some comedic value and it would make fun of the computer malfunction and you don't have to acknowledge it you just play off of the weaknesses and make them strings instead. So today is the day of dubstep intros Oh that's a thing we're trying to eliminate them slowly but today is the day of dubstep intros I have not seen so many dubstep intros like in a row all of a sudden normally it's 9 out of 10 channel or critique yeah that's so interesting last week I don't think we have one we didn't do a lot of gamers last week though it's true okay well this dubstep one definitely seems sort of like the first one we did which is like very obviously a template um I would work on that also why is the intro a minute through the video um I don't understand that I mean sometimes it's okay to have a clip of the video before the intro it's sort of like the intro of the intro but um oh okay we're good it's over um so I mean if you're gonna do a clip before the intro make it like a 10 second clip don't use a minute of footage and normally like make it a good clip if it's just like a minute of actual gameplay footage you're gonna have in the actual episode then put the intro first there's gotta be a specific reason why you put something before the intro because the intro's meant to be the intro yeah again the intro introduces the viewer to what they're gonna see so if it's a comedy thing put a funny moment in there and then have your intro that says who you are and then they're ready for what they're about to see they know what to expect last week there was a really really cool one it was a grand theft auto video and it was like the title was the saints come marching in or whatever for the actual video and the first 15 seconds of the video was a clip of him singing the saints come marching in and the gameplay and it went into the intro as one step forward instead of introduce your channel introduce the video and that does take more time but it really really really shows when you take that extra effort absolutely so again this is a Minecraft gameplay video I can't say too much about it because I've watched more Minecraft videos and I have played the actual game one thing I'm noticing is that there are a lot of dry moments and as any gamer doesn't matter what gameplay you're doing it's very difficult to continuously talk throughout the video it may seem easy to people who don't do it but it can be difficult because it's like you're just sitting there playing the game and to you 5 seconds of silence is only 5 seconds of silence but it comes off a lot more than that in the actual video so if you are going to make a longer video then try and keep up the commentating now there are other options in that too sometimes you can always cut it and have like the first 3 minutes is commentating and then all of a sudden it's like just a minute of gameplay with heavier background music and then comes back in the comment so you can go back and forth with that if you need to or cut the video yeah a lot of times especially in games I find with Minecraft a lot of other open world games if people are going to show you an objective or a specific thing in the game they tend to use all of the gameplay and you don't yeah you don't need to do that necessarily um sometimes it's good depending on what type of game you are but everyone has certain strengths and certain weaknesses as commentators and if you're not a person who's super entertaining and like loves to talk all the time and makes funny jokes while you play then maybe you might want to invest in shorter videos or different moments of background music or just cut the video to the actual points of what you want to show which can be hard because sometimes you need a 10-20 minute game there is no way to cut that down but find ways to fill that because you got to ask yourself would I watch this like if I was someone who liked Minecraft would I watch this or would I go watch someone else's Minecraft video that's really true that's something that took me a while personally it took me a long time to actually enjoy my videos and I thought you know it's just because it was me that I didn't like it but now when I watch my stuff I actually enjoy it and I'm not saying the world does but I do and since I enjoy it it makes it so much easier to create and I have fun editing it now because I enjoy watching it and uh in the past I didn't want to have anything to do with it so I wouldn't spend a lot of time editing I wouldn't spend you know I didn't laugh at the jokes that I created I wouldn't do anything like that so now I actually enjoy watching my content I feel like that shows and translate some video so not saying you don't enjoy it but um that's some that's a really good example and also I think that's just like for any channel in any genre and also just in life happy people like happy people um if you don't love what you're doing you can't expect other people to make the videos that you like if you like what you're doing then other people will naturally like it too because you just give off a different energy your entire voice sounds different your videos are different um like you have to ask yourself what makes me happy and then if you make that video if you make your video according to that that will show and it shows with almost anyone in whatever genre you're doing so I think that's a very important question no matter if you're a Minecraft channel or what now I'm actually listening to the commentary and there's definitely some funny moments in there so he's going for like a comedic aspect to the gameplay and it shows however there's some issues there when you like add the music it's a little bit overpowering in some things and I think as we said earlier if you enjoy your videos you're going to want to hear more of it stuff like that and one of the issues I've seen in my personal videos when I first started I had my voice turned down really low because I wasn't that comfortable with my videos and I had music overpowering it because that's where I was comfortable at I didn't want me to be overpowering it but as time went on I started watching professional commentators and gameplay people their voice is always booming over the rest and that's because people are there to watch them they're not there to watch the game they're there to watch what the person brings the table so if they can't hear you like just 100% of the audio then there's an issue there music should be there to pace it not take over the video absolutely and also I saw the dubstep outro I am changing my stance on dubstep intros and outros after watching three channels because your videos have to be unique if they're like everyone else's then why are people watching them something about it doesn't have to be the best equipment doesn't have to be the best anything it just has to be different and unique and I did not perhaps recognize how common these sorts of intros and outros are if you find one that's different then sure I think you can go ahead and use it if you really like it but the thing is if I watch this intro and I've seen three other intros like it then it defeats the entire purpose now another option which I used to do is learn the software and then you take the template where someone did the hard work for you and then you change it to be your own you add different sound effects you add the text to make it look different you animate it a little bit differently and add some stuff to it so it's based off a template but you're the only one on youtube with it because you made it so you may have not done on the heavy lifting but if you don't know how to make your own outros and intros that might be an option there too do little tweaking and be completely original but I mean last thing I want to say on that is I'm not against dubstep I like dubstep it's great it's just about having something that's yours not everyone else's that is the key for mostly one of the primary aspects of a good outro and intro so in conclusion I think you are a funny person I think you have good commentary however I want to hear it more and I want it to be louder and then it'd be nice if you either talked more or chopped it down so we hear just more of you frequently throughout the video because I know it's tough to talk forever like Steve and I we're gonna be talking for an hour straight here and afterwards I'm gonna have to go get a cough drop and cry a little bit because my throat's sore so it's tough but if you can chop out those dry parts and make it so it just is always you talking we hear the funny jokes you're making and the different funny things that you're saying then it will be all the more enjoyable for us and it will be that much more likely to share it and one last thing you have no tags I'll just check that, I didn't check it I don't know if you installed TubeBuddy yet but if you have TubeBuddy it actually shows you their tags and that's something we always check when people don't have a lot of views and a lot of times the reason is because they don't have relevant tags or they have no tags at all so when you don't have tags that's what you search to find the video so if you're searching there's not a single word in the world you could search to find nothing you know it's just an infinite abyss so tag it up like tag the max amount of tags there's no like downside to having tags on your video worst case scenario you get one more view that's still another view people will not find your no one is going to without knowing you but no one is going to search Trini Xtreme Gamer if they don't actually know who you are first and so they're going to find you based on videos and if they type in let's see learning to snipe well how many other videos are titled learning to snipe do you think there are so what if they type in a specific thing that you happen to have in your tags or whatever it comes up and so many more search results are much much much more likely to actually find it and watch it so tags are how people find your videos it's not video titles video titles are like they don't even count technically they help tags are essential that's one thing I when I started YouTube can instantly tell which videos had tags and which videos did not oh yeah and you can also do default tags so it just automatically lists all the things that are relevant to your channel and then you add some different ones that are relevant to the video afterwards so if you go to the YouTube default tab you can fill out everything so you don't have to do it each and every time so I know it can be tedious but there's a lot of tools that will help you yeah other than that though I see you post all the time you're posting every day it looks like so good job on that that's tough too help with the channel so I am finding one I am melody while we're waiting here do do do do do do I can't actually sing don't ask me to sing I didn't ask you you volunteered so now you're required someone let's just pretend that someone asked me to here's a different one oh you found something alright let's do it thank you and I was not partial to the comment at all comment at all oh is this the one can you check out my channel oh my see someone knows psychology over here yes yes I will thank you this is how I feel good about myself I do live streams for compliments that's the only reason I'm here no Mike's actually a super sad person so alright um so this video is where to get free background music so this is a good thing because a lot of times we hear people with copyrighted music or don't know where to get music so this will be educational for the people watching and different from all the Minecraft videos we watched so far first thing I notice though you just had to think where to get free background music and then had a very standard dubstep template this is definitely one of those things where it's like like I'm more willing to trust someone who has their own intro than someone who has a template intro so that's just the first thing I noticed about this video um you're talking about youtube tips uh like be careful about saying I'm gonna give you a youtube tip if you don't actually know that's like how a viewer is gonna approach it they're gonna wonder in their mind from the title of this video whether you know what you're talking about so as you guys know I'm always using different types of background music in my videos so you definitely utilize the bottom thirds down here where you have the icon coming in and show a different video similar where it's another tip that's a good way to get extra views you can actually tell that you've been doing stuff like this consistently so you have 4,000 subscribers almost 5,000 now um you are doing everything that we've been talking about in the previous gaming channels being short, concise to the point you're talking the entire time your audio is good definitely above the background music that you kind of have in and out the gameplay is like on point as much as you walking for a minute um consistent I did notice a weird little audio change there your voice went louder all of a sudden um I try to avoid shifts like that try to keep your voice the same level unless you're being loud if the audio just shifts all of a sudden it's kind of weird I always do some leveling I don't get post afterwards and do an effect called normalize and it kind of evens it out throughout unless you did it in 2 different recording sessions um I like the top third where you have your icon like your watermark it's simple but it kind of matches the Call of Duty specs like other stuff in all the corners so I actually didn't even notice it was there until you said that I was like oh that's brilliant and it looks good there normally like on a typical video I would think that would probably be a little bit distracting but it really fits with this in particular yeah that was really cool I didn't even like watermarks are meant to be like that they're supposed to kind of just blend in but make it yours that was good you know sometimes you can do that by changing the opacity and making it smaller stuff like that but this you actually like blatantly put it there and you just made it like blend in with the Call of Duty hub that's cool one thing I liked about this video is the video is about where to get free background music I'm just going to go ahead and assume that you are a gaming channel like you do a lot of gaming videos because there's gameplay um but I think that I liked it because the first minute to minute and a half was you talking about the music and it was very on point was on subject but you didn't spend any more time I think it was around a minute somewhere and then all of a sudden after that you went and gave examples of where to get free background music and you're like hey how about this song maybe this one or try this one over here and give examples of it for a minute and then you finalize the video you actually showed music too and I'm assuming that that would be from one of the sites that you mentioned you have everything in your description here as well which I like too the only thing you didn't have an outro I was expecting you to have an outro why I felt like the video kind of just faded into nothing there for a second especially with a video like this it's done I mean it's shorter it's concise it's to the point it does what it wants you to do but there's no redirect at the end of it I need to go back and just listen really quick did you say subscribe and I'll see you guys around in about has been here for this video hopefully you guys enjoyed it and if you did remember to leave a like and a comment down below there's a call to action there there is a call to action in the visual aspects of things so what I would say because it looks like you have both gaming stuff and tips so where he was talking about the outro slate there it'd be cool to have an actual outro slate and redirect to other similar videos because this is going to have a lot better chance of getting found in the YouTube search algorithm competition and call of duty and people are going to be searching free YouTube music or free background music on YouTube stuff like that and this is going to be one of them that will come up and then they're going to want to see other tips that are YouTube related and if you have an outro slate right here that says here are all my YouTube tips you can click that and then start getting views and all your other stuff and then the same goes for call of duty like your call of duty gaming videos you can see other similar videos to that because that's one thing about having a variety channel it's tough to please everyone if someone subscribes for one thing and then you give them something else so you try to make it as easy for them as possible yeah in that outro slate you can also like on the left side you can have two call of duty videos pop up or even just one and on the right side you have your YouTube tips pop up so it's just a great way to redirect just clean and simple I wouldn't recommend like because you have a variety and stuff like that like keep the outro simple straightforward don't like put too much graphics in there because like that video was good people will probably watch it all the way through so people are going to want to do something after the video and just give them straight up alright here you can subscribe for this you can go here you can do this and a story that helps the turn over rate quite a lot cool but overall yeah I like your channel you're posting every day your think there's variety but I like variety channel yeah I think that I'm going to just go out on a limb and say if I watch any of any of your other videos they would be advice they'd be like good they would and if they're longer they're still going to be entertaining like you seem like you have a good idea of how to make a video with gameplay and what not but um I think we have that cough drop already I know right but I think we have time for two more we're at 55 minutes and I normally do an hour so I think we could do two more two more um randomly I just saw this someone asked, forgot to ask as a matter of fact it's a floating schedule because we can just answer that right now yes it does matter people want to know when they're getting videos yeah some of the more successful channels they not only have on this day of the week but at this certain time like you know like at eight eastern standard time every single Tuesday or you know something like that so people know like imagine tv series and stuff that come out every Friday at 10 p.m people sit at the couch and they wait for that episode to come out and they'll you know split through the channels and wait until it comes on and then once it gets on they'll sit down and watch it same goes for YouTube people refresh and wait for that video to come out once you know they know it's going to come out especially especially I watch anime my whole life especially in the anime world because episodes are 20 minutes long and they come out once a week and you know exactly when each episode is coming out so I know exactly when I can I cannot watch a video so that's definitely important even if it's every other week it doesn't have to be as often necessarily it just needs to be a schedule even on like a smaller channel like mine I normally don't post a video past like 5 p.m and if it's later than that people start messaging me they're like hey is there not going to be a video today is everything okay what's going on I was like oh sorry forgot to hate save but uh alright so I'm going to pick a channel here um I've seen this person come up kind of throughout the whole thing and normally I feel like I wouldn't just because they seem like a brand new channel but I'm just going to go out on a limb and we're going to review them they have four videos four or five you did not specify a specific video for us to watch but you have been leaving a paragraph of information each time and you ask for any feedback that we can give you now we're going to go ahead and watch your first video they uploaded two hours ago there's four videos doing this for a week it looks like so brand new channel oh I sent you a link yeah I don't know how I was like hoping you would pronounce his name because I have no idea how to swikin swikin fx I was like who are you talking about oh alright I got it pulled up we're good swikin I'm probably butchering that but I have no idea how else to say it let me add that to the description real quick this is the positive and downside with having a unique name like that you will have zero issue in the search results you will find you and only you will know how to spell your name so apparently we are pronouncing it correctly that's a plus yes I normally go by Zarkon so I understand that I cannot call my channel Zarkon I have a weird name too um well I said okay so let's just watch topic Tuesday episode one originality using other people's ideas well I'm going to say the same exact thing that I said for the other channel um if your video is originality slash using other people's ideas and then the first seven seconds is a standard template it does look like you actually made it text if you I honestly couldn't tell I haven't seen nearly enough it doesn't look like a template but it looks like you tried to make it like one of the templates don't be afraid to be unique especially if you're talking about originality alright let's now I do like the intro though because we talked about how you know uploading on a schedule is good I think straight up says in the first 10 seconds that this can be uploaded every Tuesday cover topics that you guys submit so in the comment section below tell me what you'd like to see in the next topic Tuesday in today's episode I'm going to be talking about originality as well as using other people's ideas nowadays it's like it's really impossible to come up with the original I wonder if it's scripted it kind of feels a little bit like it or like he's giving a speech about this at some point I mean I talk all the time so sometimes people think it's scripted it's more just like I've given a speech about or talked a lot about it before you're talking the whole way through and you're on point you're giving solid good information the whole way through so far at least and I'm only a minute through but it would be nice if it was a little bit less scripted like give a little bit more emotion kind of inflection in your voice because you're not people are watching the video yes but you have to keep them you have to keep them there I've seen this all the time where people play Call of Duty and then they just record it and then later they do like an audio recording after and it's essentially like a log on Call of Duty I've always wondered if they talked about their topic while actually playing that's interesting because you're going to get distracted you know if you're going to it's going to be more real because that's going to be real topics you're probably going to get lost while getting carried away so it'll be more funny and then that's original I haven't seen that at least it might have happened I'm sure it has somewhere more times than not it's more like a vlog they record it and they just talk later so I could you know look away I can have this tab open and still get the concept your gameplay is not furthering my experience in my opinion although everyone does it but I can still just listen to it as a podcast and get the same experience I'm going to go ahead and agree with all of that the other thing is I actually think it would be a really beneficial idea I mean your topic is serious like it's you know it's a very informational topic it's not meant to be comical however I've like I'm a motivational speaker it's what I've done for the last year of my life so when you talk about serious topics in front of people the best thing to do is get them in a lighthearted casual mood don't want to approach them and be like so today class we're going to talk about everyone has had that teacher everyone has had that professor we never listen it doesn't work so I think actually playing a game where it's like you're laughing and like you know like dang it and you're having reactions to what's happening and being very real present in the moment because like obviously you love playing so it's a part of what you do so if you can maintain that authenticity and still give the information that will go over 10 times as well people are actually going to listen I need to kill this guy just keep on talking but it keeps people's interest everyone is a little ADHD and if you approach them like that it's like every 10 seconds of the video there's got to be a reason why they stay so if it's like that's going to you know take a little pause and bam they're going to be interested they're going to watch it and then already then like they're going to continue watching and if you're just like you just it's almost like you're playing being funny and then just casually dropping the knowledge the issue is I've seen a lot of bigger YouTubers that play Call of Duty do this style where they record audio later and talk about a topic like so Tuesday at school this happened and they just sit there and have like a 10 minute spiel about what happened at school and they weren't actually playing and recording at the same time and that's like the thing to do I personally don't understand it but there are a lot of successful YouTubers that do it it's like a gamer's weight of log personally if I couldn't if I could tell that the audio was recorded separately I wouldn't watch it because to me it means it's like inauthentic like the video and audio are separate they're separate ideas they shouldn't even be together I'm not a huge Call of Duty fan so that could be it I mean like I could we're we're in the minority right now the vast majority likes this style so but I can't what I can't tell you is this like I'm a huge anime fan and there are very few videos with anime voice overs where someone's talking about a concept or whatnot over an anime video and I wish I could find them like I think that that would be amazing but only if done right like if you're using a violent bloody anime scene and you're talking about butterflies and princesses it might not be a good idea like you want your video to sort of link up and I think the only way to do that is to do it in the moment so that those natural reactions like hold on back let me just shoot this like all of that type of thing happens while you're speaking and then it's in the moment it remains real but you know now obviously that's there's other ways to do it because there are successful youtubers that have done it this style I just think and I guess Stephen increased too that would be cool I mean cool really something original and bring a different style of gameplay vlogging and like you're literally would be creating your own style yeah which is seen as done but I've seen this style done a lot that's just a random idea but you as far as knowledge goes you know you you have a lot of beneficial topics here you're talking about a lot of unique things that people would want to listen to and could benefit from you have call to actions you're asking people you know like what topics we should talk about next Tuesday even the gameplay recording is high quality it's tuning your audio is not bad it could be crisp up a little bit I think another way is to think of something you really like it was a little bit it sounded kind of like not a high quality professional might I mean I can hear you sometimes you have some not professional mics that sound like I'm talking through a blender you know it's not one of those it's like so it's definitely watchable one reason also that I ended up choosing your channel even though you're brand new I saw I went to your about page really quick and I saw that you post videos three to five times a week and your about page is very straight forward you tell us exactly what you're going to do I like how dedicated you seem oh wow he's 14 yeah that's one thing I noticed like you're young and you're obviously very passionate about YouTube and you're just starting on YouTube is scary like anyone who has a channel understands that when you start on YouTube it's not only like a commitment it's also like something you're going to have to spend a lot of time on and if you're not passionate about what you're doing you're not probably going to get very far so I have seen other channels that start up and are like I'm going to post five times a week and then like a month later they're like what happened better to stick with something you know you can achieve overselling yourself and not being able to keep up with it so make sure you keep up with your schedule I didn't watch all your videos but as I was kind of looking at them I seems to me like you are very passionate about this and you really want to do it and you definitely can't like for the fact that you just started this week and those are some of your first videos if that's what you're producing right now I can't wait to see what you produce six months down the road don't get discouraged though the earlier process of YouTube is the hardest part it's like harder to get a thousand subscribers than it is to get like the next thousand and then the next five thousand and it's like the first part's the hardest it's like building a snowman but if you had your own individual style that was still acceptable by the people who like the other styles you might actually grow quicker because people might actually catch on to that you're the only one doing it you're the only one they might watch for it but it is a double-edged sword because at the same time they might not come to you for the same reason generally speaking I think it's good to do your own thing and be different but I think yeah my last comments for you is keep going keep going don't get discouraged in the next month break through Mike, any last comments? I think that's everything covered yeah not a bad channel at all it's just some little things you could do to make it more original and crisp up some things and different stuff like that I just thought right before we exit I just saw him ask what do you think of the thumbnails um the thumbnails could use some work I think that the you know you're more recent the two more recent ones you have the right idea you know you're showing us like Christmas tag topic Tuesday episode one you have the right idea like you know cool little background your face and some text right there that we can read but instead of saying Christmas tag I don't know what that means like maybe try and come up with some text or maybe like take your face out of it or just like make it smaller so you could add a little bit more text but the whole point of the thumbnail is to get people to watch the video and like topic Tuesday episode one what is topic Tuesday what is episode one um rather say topic Tuesday originality instead of episode one or like something about the actual video my friend Tim made a really good explanation on thumbnails and you don't want to insult someone's intelligence I guess is how you put it you don't want to repeat everything that's in the title in your thumbnail so you know you're basically taking something and just repeating it to them again so you have to have something in your thumbnail that stands out that's different from your title um if you're repeating everything that your title has you know it's not I don't know the way he put it was it was kind of insulting because you're like repeating yourself over and over again to the person so like you know on the topic episode one you could put like being original on youtube or original on youtube question mark or you know got to play with the graphics and the design because there is a way to get more text on there now I don't think they're bad um but I think the text could be you could choose better words like what Steven was saying because it's almost like instead of when you approach it instead of thinking alright I have to pick a thumbnail now what describes my video don't ask that question instead ask the question what will draw people to my video because that will help you a little bit more because like Christmas tag yes it obviously describes your video it's in the title the thumbnail catches their eye then they read the title the video um I think you're on the right track with thumbnails obviously you know you've thought about it and this is in your first week so um I think you're definitely on the right track the only thing is I've noticed if you're gonna if you only have a couple videos where it's you sitting in a chair in your room then it might be okay to have a thumbnail if you're sitting in a chair in a room as any sort of vlogger um but if you are like a vlogging channel and you have 10 videos like that choose a different thumbnail don't let it be you sitting in a chair with no text or anything like that unless it's kind of a unique video because that doesn't work see like the gaming setup room tour could be like the same close up type of face but then like a picture of your computer in the background could even have different faces for different series if it looks like what you're gonna do yeah I think you're on the right idea there but um anyways we have time for one more real quick I've already picked the channel and the channel is ass crust crust wow don't be so rude we're supposed to give positive criticism positive criticism Mike it was an original game we haven't seen this yet so I figured we'd give it a shot it's gmod roleplay episode 1 already then it's a original concept and he said we could watch the first couple minutes and last couple okay so anyways guys if this was if you were not picked this time around don't feel bad we will be back next week I normally say next Monday but stuff happened this Monday and I wasn't able to but we try and do it at least once a week so hopefully next Monday we'll be right back on schedule and good to go so onward with ass crust onward with ass crust um I'm watching it now let's go let's talk to these people okay I'm already interested with the camera oh I also think I like how there are some subtitles not everything is captioned there's only captions when the audio is a little bit distorted I like how you have a reporter like running around with a microphone chasing the guys that are shooting down people do you consider yourself a thug okay so one big thing that will hinder your growth in the future is the echo so when you were talking as the reporter or your friend was as the reporter you have the in-game voice for him as well so when you hear him on team speaker skype and you hear him again in game and if he's going to be talking throughout you want to actually hear him and not the both versions yeah I'm noticing that right now as well it's very noticeable but the voice doesn't sound bad until it gets to the echo your voice itself sounds fine um it's the friend that's having that issue it seems like it's like when you um adjust the settings for whatever you're recording with you have to make sure that the like you're recording straight out of your microphone like that's one voice and it's like a separate audio because if you're recording everything at the same time and like um another thing is like so if your music if the game music and the game volume is coming out of your speakers then your mic will naturally pick some of it up um so try and like I have to have everything come out of my headphones right now so that when I talk in my mic like if I'm playing something through my headphones you're not going to hear it in the mic um so you have to make sure to position your settings correctly on that one it kind of seems like this is maybe a public servers that's why you have to have both in-game voices and Skype but if that was the case you know you could have not talked to your friend on Skype and only talked to him in-game will you kill me yo watch out watch out oh watch out watch out yeah and I don't know if this particular game has that option but you can normally mute individual players so you can mute yourself and your friends so there's no echo there you know well normally if it's on their enemy team and they're just rude mm-hmm or if they're on your team it is rude this is a cool concept though I think it's kind of a I mean it's original um so I think the echo is one big thing I do like how you are managing to talk pretty consistently throughout the thing like things are happening um again for me the audio does sound good minus the echo um I'm going to skip ahead to the error now for gaming channels I normally advocate like playing with friends and having them on the stream because it's so much easier to come up with funny content when it's not just you oh yeah you use the same music do you get to the rest in peace white boys where there's a clip towards the end here you'll see it in a second sure it's like 15-15 or something like that I think that was the same music as um what was his name Dave the elephant hahaha rest in peace Dave from earlier so yeah I think the concept is really cool one other thing I'm noticing now is we're at the outro slate and it says watch my latest video it's just a white screen so it looks like you forgot to put it in or just got too lazy to do that I've been in that case like picking comments but um buster's latest video is really white don't think it is it's me and my first experience of snow in heaven yeah I think that you did something original you know like 4 out of the 6-7 people we watched tonight all did Minecraft gameplay PvP you know this is something different for one it's a different game it's a different style to the game you have a different concept you're trying something new I haven't seen before and you are on the right path I think you could do a lot with this concept you're doing like role-playing in game with different types of characters you just need to finesse your overall quality with echo and stuff like that so you don't have that repetitive issue yeah also so it's just your comment here apparently you didn't think of putting anything in the outro don't make the outro like that like don't just do things because you think you should because you see other people doing it for everything and then I want to your comments here there's one guy was like this video would have been 100% without I'm going to excuse the harsh language he used but essentially the echo I think that if you fix that if you fix the echo up and like clean up the audio and you continue doing stuff like this I think it'd be awesome everyone likes original content it's just that a lot of times original content isn't made right so they don't want to watch it but if original content is made right then it will catch on at some point you just got to be able to push through also I noticed that you are you mentioned here that you want to try and make videos more often now they don't post very often you got to be willing to push through the initial part where you're not getting as many as you want not getting the engagement that also comes if you thoroughly enjoy what you do it doesn't matter if you get views or not and also like a video you can't just post something unexpected to go viral even if it is amazing you don't have a base for that to go off of now once you get a base you can start producing viral hits and you can start to learn the recipe for making a viral video but in the early stages that's really difficult the whole thing is just keep going yeah I like the fact that you're working with original ideas here I don't watch all your videos here but also last thing I'll say is don't be afraid I am passionate about this, you can't have a longer video if it's amazing don't be afraid to make it shorter don't be afraid to kind of cut it down make it something a little bit more accessible simply because unless it needs to be over 10 minutes long normally it shouldn't it is dependent upon the video but because a lot of your views again are going to be coming from people who are not already subscribed to your channel and you have to like if you're searching something are you going to watch a 10 minute video, a 20 minute video or a 1 minute video if it's of the same general concept most people are going to choose the shortest video how our brains work so you know time helps you post more often split it up into three episodes something like that but don't be afraid to, you don't need to post a 20 minute video so comments for that one I think that was pretty well covered alright thank you guys for watching thank you for hanging out with us on this Monday video critiques on Tuesday again if you aren't featured this week we'll be doing it next week as well we try and do it every single week unless something disastrous happens like my computer blows up like it did yesterday and I have to spend all day working on it trying to fix it but hopefully next week we'll have that issue so anyways guys that's it thank you to Steven for hanging out with us and helping paste this along and give my voice a break from talking for an hour straight by myself and of course if you want to see us in the description as well as the cards in the top anyways guys that's it, we'll see you next week see ya!


Coming up on DTNS, Mozilla targets you with Instagram ads that describe you. Sony reaches break even on the PS5. And how can Facebook and others check facts if the facts aren't even known? This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, May 27th, 2021 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane from Austin, Texas. I'm Justin Robert. Yeah, I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. We were just talking about recency and availability biases. And their effects on your perception of the internet, among lots of other things on good day internet. If you want that wider conversation, become a member at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Twitter said that it planned to push for changes in India's IT laws, saying that it had, quote, concerns with regards to the use of intimidation tactics by the police in response to enforcement of our global terms of service. The company received a notice of non-compliance with the laws for failure to remove posts related to the government's COVID-19 response, which could result in fines of jail time for Twitter's India-based executives. India police also recently served a notice to Twitter protesting labeling of senior BJP officials' tweets as manipulated media. Marvell announced the first NVME solid state drive controllers to support PCIE 5.0, PCIE 5.0. That's the important part there. The Bravera SC5 family currently sampling to select customers. They come in eight or 16 channels offering up to sequential read throughput of 14 gigabytes per second and random read performance of 1.8 MI ops. Acer announced a line of new products, including a rather beefy 17.3 inch predator Helios 500 with options for a 360, 360 Hertz refresh rate, starting at $2,500. There's also the 16 inch Predator Triton 500 SE with similar options, starting at $1,750 and the Predator Orion 3000 and Nitron 50 gaming desktops. So many cool names. All of these come with the latest from Intel and Nvidia. And Acer also announced the Cestus 335 gaming mouse, three new Predator gaming monitors and a Predator Connect D5 USB-C dongle that adds a 5G connection to any computer. Privacy and digital rights organizations Pi and Yab, Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights and Homo Digitalis have filed legal complaints in France, Austria, Greece, Italy and the UK against facial recognition company Clearview AI. Complaints say Clearview AI documents and collects data, much of it facial images from public websites in a way that violates European privacy laws. Privacy groups say regulators have three months to respond. Nvidia and Nvidia announced revenue was up 84% on the year. Gaming revenue grew 106% to 2.76 billion dollars. Data center revenue increased 79% to 2.05 billion dollars. And OEM and other revenue that includes cryptocurrency mining processors increased 137% on the year to 155 million. Nvidia also released a teaser video on its Twitter account for a G4 event at 10 p.m. Pacific time May 31st. Nvidia is rumored to be launching its new GeForce RTX 3080Ti graphics card that same day. The RTX 3080Ti will reportedly include 12 gigabytes of GDDR6X memory, a wider 384-bit bus and more memory bandwidth. I just realized that 10 p.m. Pacific means that this will be at midnight June 1st for Justin. Yes. Well, and 1 a.m. East Coast. It's is that weird as it's obviously not targeted at the US audience. It's a European audience. All right. Let's talk of some gaming news, Justin. Oh, Tom, there's lots of gaming news out there today. Bloomberg sources say that Nintendo will begin assembly of a newly updated Switch console as early as July with a release scheduled for September or October. Only a few people at Nintendo HQ in Kyoto know what it will be called. But Bloomberg sources have indicated it will have an OLED display and faster Nvidia GPU capable of 4K output when docked. We may get an announcement about it before E3, which begins on June 12th. Meanwhile, Sony told an investor group that it will start making money off sales of PlayStation 5's in June as the cost of its parts continue to fall. Sony also told investors that uncharted for a thief's end will come to PC soon and Sony intends to bring more of its popular franchises to mobile games as well. Finally, another interesting tidbit in the investor report is that PS5 owners without a Blu-ray drive spend more time on games than those with one. While PS5 owners with Blu-ray spend 17% more on actual game titles, they spend 62% less on add-ons. So the Nintendo stuff is is worth marking. We've been seeing these leaks come out mostly from from Bloomberg for a while. So it's not super shocking whether they'll be able to get the parts together to make these in large amounts, large enough amounts. They believe they can. They, you know, they aren't the top of the line. Display chips are still a little rare on the ground. Bluetooth chips are having some supply problems. Those would be the only ones that I could see causing a problem for the switch. But yeah, that's the idea that Uncharted is coming to the PC. Certainly has turned a lot of heads out there. And and Sony rightfully saying, you know what? We want to bring more people into the tent. I think there's a lot of people who are out there saying, yeah, it's about time. Yeah, specifically since that that's always going to be the the premier way to play the newest version of this game that you might have fallen in love with on another platform. I think it does make sense. I thought the idea that PS5 owners who have Blu-ray drives perhaps think of the Blu-ray, you know, you buy the game. It's, you know, the Blu-ray is a thing, a physical thing. And you think of it as more self-contained, like, well, I have the thing I don't need an add on, and it's a little bit different mentally than the folks who don't have the Blu-ray drive, who end up spending more on extras. Yeah, I mean, it's bad news for for Blu-ray fans, I suppose, because it indicates that Sony is going to have to prioritize the non-disc players because they make more money off of them. But I think it's because if you spend the extra money to get the PS5 with the disc playing ability, it's because you don't trust downloads as much as you trust a hard copy. And that makes sense to me that you would therefore not be as likely to want to spend money on digital add-ons that aren't part of that hard copy.  I mean, look, it was not long ago that both Sony and Microsoft were really pitching their next-gen hardware around the idea that this is the new media player, that this is the thing, the indispensable thing that we are so much more than just games. You really want us to be your all-in-one, best-in-class media center. And I think that, you know, Blue Ray is certainly a part of that between the idea of people not having the same kind of internet download speed. So maybe downloads go a lot slower. So Blue Rays are a lot more interesting. And then also there is just still a gigantic market out there for physical media as much as it might have phased out of a little bit of the mainstream comparable to 10, 15 years ago. Yeah, but we make more money off the other people. Now, yes, because they now now now and we've seen their their strategy already turn away from that over the last 10 years to say, no, no, no, no, no. Gamers, Capital G, gamer culture, gamers, rise up. We live in a society. It's all going to be streaming games eventually. Anyway, feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com for years. BitTorrent has been used to exchange copyright infringing material. And for years, BitTorrent has also been one of the more efficient ways to get a Linux ISO. And because of both of those things for years, people have joked that they only use BitTorrent for Linux ISOs. On May 24th, Reddit user NateNate60 says Comcast notified him of a DMCA claim, a copyright violation claim against him for downloading the Ubuntu <IP_ADDRESS> Linux ISO. The Comcast notification said that a company called Opset online antipiris claimed that NateNate60 had downloaded its intellectual property, which was named in the complaint as the Ubuntu desktop ISO. A hash value of the file was listed in the complaint. That hash value matches Ubuntu's own BitTorrent tracker. So there's no confusion. There's no, oh, we thought you had Lord of the Rings, but it turns out it was a no, they're like, we own the Linux ISO and you downloaded it. Comcast sent him a warning. Torrent Freak noted that Opset security is a German antipiracy company that does not appear to have any connection with Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu. And Ubuntu just, you know, given out for free anyway. The notice was only a warning, but if NateNate60 were to get more of those kinds of warnings, Comcast could decide to terminate his account. So what are the possibilities of what happened here? It could be a clever fake. Somebody sent this notice to make it look like it was coming from Comcast to fool NateNate60, but it didn't. In which case Comcast should clarify whether this came from them or not. And if it didn't tell NateNate60, you had nothing to worry about. Or what I think is more likely it's a mistake. Someone at Opset security pasted in an incorrect hash into their monitoring software or some other way caught an Ubuntu ISO in its net inadvertently. That happens all the time on YouTube where people, you know, accidentally put their own content in their antipiracy bot and then give themselves notices. These systems are automated. It's not the first time that they have made mistakes. Some companies have even served copyright violation notices to themselves because of mistakes like that. In any case, NateNate60 should dispute it.  Oh, gosh. And I hear you, Nate. I really do. Because you listen to the story, you're like, this is crazy. Yeah, it's either a mistake or something strange where he wasn't fooled. And it's sort of nonsense. And he should say, hey, Comcast, this is nonsense. And Comcast should say, yeah, let's strike it from your record. Just in case, yeah, there's some other infraction down the road.  But we all know what it's like to give Comcast a call and try to explain the most basic of things. So this, I mean, think of the customer service represented on the other side of the line going, wait, what happened? OK, I'm going to need to put you on hold for a year. I don't blame Nate for saying I'm just not going to fight anybody on this because what I really want is for my internet to stay up. Yeah, I think the troubling element here is him saying, I don't even want to engage in this system because I'm afraid that a kangaroo court will ban me from the internet. I think that's that is something that indicates a problem where some of our larger system. Yeah, I I'll be honest, made in 860. I'm not casting aspersions on them, but it's possible that maybe they have used BitTorrent for something else in the past besides the Linux I show. And so maybe they don't feel like calling attention to their account more. So I totally get it. I get one of just run under the radar. Apparently, I don't have confirmation on the seminar. Chatroom said that Opset security said on Twitter that it was a spoofed notice. Again, if that's the case, Comcast should say that. Comcast should come out and go. Yeah, yeah, we know we never sent that notice. OK. Well, you may recall when Signal said that it was planning to run ads on Instagram that use targeting information about users.  Now, Signal said that Facebook suspended its account before it could run these ads. Facebook said Signal never tried to run the ads and there was some other issue and we still haven't really gotten to the bottom of that. However, in the meantime, Mozilla is running ads just like this on Instagram. It's the first money that Mozilla has spent on ads on Instagram or Facebook since 2018, Mozilla's ads are a little less specific. They all feature the star sign like the zodiac sign of the person being targeted, along with a fairly broad identification of one of the things that it knows about this targeted user. But just enough for you to go, hey, how'd they do that? Examples include Virgo, congrats on the engagement or cancer. You're the expert on cute animals. They all end with we get you. We're also targeting you. And the caption of the ad clarifies a little bit more about the ad and offers a link to a page on Mozilla's website that explains how data driven advertising actually works. For instance, the cancer cute animal ad has a caption that reads, your heart is big enough for the entire animal kingdom and your IG feed is here to prove it. Want to know how we know? The ad is targeted at people who have the star sign cancer. Cancer is a June or July birthday, plus interest in animals. That's why you got the ad. Mozilla disclosed it will spend $10,000 to run five versions of this ad. Oh, I hope I get this ad. I have a June birthday. I love animals. I have a cancer like this is great. I'm going to be refreshing my Instagram feed constantly, hoping that I end up with this and then screenshot it as soon as I do. I am glad that someone is doing this campaign that signal didn't end up doing for whatever reason. I'm still confused. One of them is lying. Signal or Facebook, I don't know which one. So I'm glad Mozilla is doing a similar thing. It's it's lighthearted. It's good at raising awareness about ad targeting and how it works. And of course, it certainly is self-serving from Mozilla because that page is going to say Firefox is a great way to protect your privacy. Here are all the tools that they can afford you, which it is. I mean, I agree. Firefox is very good at protecting your privacy. This has been another interesting trend where instead of the features given to you up to and including better advertising, quote unquote, by way of tracking and personal information being hoarded by a lot of these companies, what we've seen is arise at least in the idea of advertising products that we want the opposite of that. Deny yourself a few features to get the ultimate feature, privacy, that this is an existential threat here in Austin, Texas. On the side of the road, they've got billboards for Duck Duck Go highlighting the fact that you indeed can be truly anonymous on this service in a way that you cannot on Google. So the idea that they are doing this is certainly part of a larger trend. My question is, and I would love to have advertising experts who are listening to this right now, whether or not it's effective in pointing out that these targeted ads can indeed be creepy, something that we all kind of know, but could probably be served to be reminded in a more stark relief. Will it also be effective in saying, I now need to try another service? Or is it just something that makes you creeped out about the internet? Right. Or somehow angry at Mozilla for, you know, being so nosy. Yeah, exactly. I mean, that that is actually, I know plenty of folks, if they saw something like this, they'd say, what is this Mozilla? No, that's bad. Mozilla, you know, there are some sort of a crazy watchdark kind of thing. And and I mean, I'm only really half kidding. But I think this is extremely it's the whole thing is very brilliant. You know, it started with signal.  I I wish I kind of knew what happened between signal and Facebook's Facebook claims, oh, you didn't pay your bill. And so your account was paused Facebook claims that they never walked that that that was in the past that the account problem was in the past and they never blocked it. And they never submitted the ads for running. And signal says, yes, we did. Right. Yeah. It's it's I don't know.  But in the meantime, I'm I'm glad that Mozilla has picked up the torch and run with it in hopes that people will all become smarter about how they're targeted online. And yeah, there's probably some folks who say, did not know you could do that. And and they're about to learn a whole new world. Well, I've been searching Mozilla and Firefox on my Instagram and I haven't got to come up yet. So I have to like a few more cute animal photos. Yeah, they should they should tell you what you are.  And that's that's what we know about you. Folks, if you're interested in learning more about the incredible group of people that bring you DTNS, there is more than just the ones you're seeing on your screen right now. Check out our about us page. You can find links to all the companion shows. We just did live with it. Sarah Lane's review of the Roomba little background on all the contributors and co-hosts. That's all at Daily Tech News Show dot com slash about Facebook announced Wednesday that it will derank the accounts of and limit the spread of posts from users who repeatedly share content that has been debunked by its fact checkers. These kinds of users are sometimes referred to as super spreaders. Facebook has not said how many times an account would have to share debunked and voter qualify for restrictions. They say they don't want users gaming the system. Also, Facebook says it will unrestrict an account after a period of time. Doesn't say what that period is. I think we all agree, though, that if someone is posting legitimate scare information that we all agree is untrue and would would cause harm. We'd be fine with that information being restricted. And as we've discussed on the show before, not everybody agrees on the gray area, the middle ground. While the majority of fact checking is solid, there will be examples where something is thought to be false and later found to be true or even more likely thought to be false and then slowly appear that maybe it's not false, but we don't know for sure. Or worse, we never have known the actual facts, but public pressure pushes companies one way or another, which is what is happening with the idea that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a virology lab rather than in the wild. Since February, Facebook has banned posts that assert that SARS-CoV-2 was man-made or manufactured. Starting in February, they said, you can't say that. Now, as of now, Facebook has changed its policy. People no longer have your post removed if you say SARS-CoV-2 was man-made or manufactured. Why? Loads of reasons. One of which, probably the least controversial of which, is a letter published in the journal Science May 13th from 18 biologists, immunologists and other scientists calling for continued investigation into the possibility of a laboratory spillover. Now, you're probably marshaling your arguments right now, one way or another, about why you do or do not believe the virus came from a lab. But that part really doesn't matter for this discussion. The fact is, and always has been, we don't know. We've thought certain scenarios more likely than others. And we've changed that likelihood amount, but we don't know. And we haven't known no matter what you've read. Since early in 2020, most scientists have believed, based on the genetic markers in the virus, that it most likely evolved in nature. Most likely, though, is not the same as certain. A lab spillover has never been ruled out. Right before the WHO's investigatory team left China, when it was under the most pressure from China, not to imply that a lab leak was possible, the WHO said it was quote, very unlikely that the virus could have escaped from such a place. Now, while that is quite an impressive bit of dissembling, even then, in China, the WHO didn't say it had ruled it out. And the team, after it left China, said something a little less dissembling. Dr. Tedros, the head of the WHO said on March 30, that all hypotheses remain on the table. He also said he didn't think the idea of a lab leak had been investigated enough. None of this is saying it did come out of a lab. None of it is saying it didn't come out of a lab. It's a scientific uncertainty. And a social network moderator's nightmare. The answer to what is a fact in this particular case is we don't know. And no, you don't want misinformation that this has been determined one way or another. But if you want to police the quote unquote facts, which is that we don't know. How do you police that? Do you ban statements of certainty?  And that's what this has always broken down to. No matter where we are in the moment, no matter where we are in our personal priors and our beliefs, there are situations. And dare I say it's more than the average person would assume that we simply don't know definitively. And so either Facebook has to decide that we are a place in which we can discuss uncertainty or there will be elements of uncertainty that due to public pressure, we are going to police. And that's when you get into trouble. That's when you start defining truth in a world where we may not know it. And this is a great example of them saying feeling sure that one thing was one way, and then having to make the awkward moment where they say, Well, let's let's take this back in front of the curtain, because maybe it's not, maybe it's not determined. It's it's it's unwinnable. Unwinnable. I have railed against this idea, not because I am I am against the idea of truth or facts or common understanding, but because it's a Kobayashi Maru. The only way to win is not to play. Right, because if you're willingly spreading misinformation, that is different than if you're spreading misinformation that you honestly believe even if it's not true. So those are, you know, that's two different categories that Facebook has to figure out how to deal with differently. Facebook and any, any network, any platform, you know, that has you know, kernels of this sort of thing going on. And then yeah, there's the, well, I was told it was true, but now the tide is turning a bit. And what you know, how now is that post that I made when I thought something was true, but now there's more information defined by a platform. Is there an update that has to be made to my post? You know, does it get a label of some kind? The platform would have to do it. I can't tell users to do things like that. It's an absolute mess. I mean, I actually think there is a, a, a border that you can draw to say, okay, we aren't going to allow these things to be posted without fact checking, because they are very clearly not true. I think there is, there's an argument for that. This, however, is not on the other side of that border to me. This is, you know, you can say like, I'm pretty sure it's this, but you can't say it is. And in those cases, I don't, it becomes a political thing and political pressure and public pressure and popularity thing and a mood thing that you make these decisions. And when that happens, you see this vacillation. You see them say, well, the public pressure in February was that we shouldn't say it, but now the public pressure is shifted because this other person that I, I like all now says the other thing. And that's not the way to have an objective moderation of anything. And that's been the problem since the beginning is these decisions weren't made, you know, technocratically, they were made because of public pressure, because also technocratically, they want every bit of information to be out there, because the more bits of information they have out there by tonnage, the more that they can advertise on. So every element moving in this direction is due to public pressure.  It was the elements of racial bias, it was elements of prejudice that they were trying to stamp out. And this was a conspiracy that led to it. We've continued to have these conversations of the necessary conversations about Asian hate, and these were tied into those. So the reason why you move in that direction is the public pressure that in that moment is relatively inarguable to a certain point of view, unless you have a religious doctrinal commitment to saying, we don't know. And so we're going to allow this conversation. Facebook doesn't have that. And now we're here. Yeah, it's it's who's in charge. Do you want to talk about the South Pole of the moon? Yes, please. Good. I mean, you don't really have a choice, but I thought I'd be nice. General Motors and Lockheed Martin announced a partnership Wednesday to put astronauts on the South Pole of the moon. Yeah. The joint project would develop next gen lunar terrain vehicles or LTVs for NASA's Artemis program with a plan for one female and one male astronaut on the moon South Pole by 2024 GM will develop an autonomous driving system and batteries for the vehicle. And the project is in anticipation of NASA's upcoming request for proposal for a lunar vehicle that can go significantly farther than a few miles. That's what they've done in the past and reach the rugged terrain of that South Pole of the moon. If the project is selected by NASA, it could be part of the first crewed mission. Moon mission since Apollo 17 back in 1972 to the moon to the South Pole of the moon. I think that's why everybody gets excited. It's like, it's not just the moon South Pole. Let me drive it around. That'd be nice. Do some donuts. Yeah. All right, let's check out the mailbag. We got a nice one from Dustin. We had talked about some Microsoft 365 updates. One of those was teams earlier this week and asked folks, if you do a lot of work within teams, do write in and let us know what you're stoked about. Dustin says, I work for a large company, Fortune 50. We have we are heavy users of teams. I'm on eight to nine hours of teams calls per day. We've collapsed many functions into teams, but one of the external data features I could see very handy just as an example would be to allow people to pull in their LinkedIn information into their company org chart, which entirely lives in teams. Frequently, I find myself looking at departments org chart and teams and trying to find somebody to help with a particular issue. So seeing say a proficient in this or they used to do this in their profiles would be immensely helpful. So I don't get bounced around to four to five people just to find somebody with the skills I actually need. That's great. I totally understand that a little more now. Thanks to Dustin. Also, Thor and Mohan were among a few people. I think Alan char also pointed this out. But we'll read Thor's email to represent all of you. Thor in Norway wanted to add to the conversation on the Steam Pal. If it does actually hit the market running Linux, some Windows games may still be played on Steam via Steam's proton. And we didn't mention that yesterday. It's a compatibility layer for Microsoft Windows games to run on Linux based operating systems and several games work quite well for anyone moving over to a Linux OS. I recommend checking out proton db.com. It's a list slash database of how well a given game runs under proton based on user reviews. Apologies for for for not mentioning that in our discussion yesterday. But thanks everybody for being really nice and pointing it out as added information. Really appreciate that. Indeed. If you ever have feedback on anything we talk about feedback at daily tech news show.com is where to send your most burning questions or thoughts or anything at all. Shout out to patrons at our master and grandmaster levels today. They include Dr X 17 Linnell Lane and Tim deputy. We'd also like to send a special thanks to Miss Music Teacher, who's one of our top lifetime supporters for DTNS. Thank you for all the years of support Miss Music Teacher. 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Tomorrow's episode features a great conversation that pursuant to what we were just talking about today with Joe Yuzinski of the University of Miami. He's the author of the book American conspiracy theory, one of our favorites. But not only do we talk about this lab league situation, but also in general, exactly how much social media is affecting misinformation and the belief, fanning the beliefs of conspiracy theories and spoiler alert, it might be less than you think. Well, we are live on this show Monday through Friday at 4 30 p.m. Eastern 2030 UTC. That's no spoiler. You already knew that, but if you want to join us live, find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live. We're back tomorrow with Shannon Morse and Len Peralta. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com.