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 Overread wrote:
~Anything with a GW title in it is often going to attract more views/clicks. Heck its why some channels do an "anti GW" style video every so often or every time their viewership falters because it will get attention and clicks.

Wouldn't underestimate the power of negativity, to be fair.

 Overread wrote:
Also you might want to change the title of your spaceship models - using the GW name like that will likely get you a letter from GW or a strike on cults or such.

Ha! I wish.

I remember the glory days (what, 2005-2008) when entire online communities would eat themselves into oblivion by ripping apart anyone who dared set foot in GW's territory. Those communities died toxic deaths, and those days promptly ended. We live in a better world now. My models are what they are, along with all other wonderful additions to the wide world of miniatures on basically every STL website in the universe - you need not be concerned. Battlefleet Galaxy anyone? Soulforge?

Might be nice to keep this thread on topic though.

This is very well done, but also could be a very affordable option for the underserved. Need some tweezers for those dice though.

 Adeptekon wrote:
This is very well done, but also could be a very affordable option for the underserved. Need some tweezers for those dice though.

Thanks mate! And I finally bought some silicon-tip tweezers - but when they arrived, they were too big!

So we're pressing on!

New video is up, this time we take to the Black Seas as the Waaagh! Fleet of Warlord Gashbad rolls down the coast towards Gallea. If they can't break through on land, maybe a castle-assault by sea will bring the Galleans to heel.

The BFG videos are probably drawing some viewers from the videogame crowd, which is huge compared to the classical wargamers.

K.B. wrote:

 Adeptekon wrote:
This is very well done, but also could be a very affordable option for the underserved. Need some tweezers for those dice though.

Thanks mate! And I finally bought some silicon-tip tweezers - but when they arrived, they were too big!

So we're pressing on!

New video is up, this time we take to the Black Seas as the Waaagh! Fleet of Warlord Gashbad rolls down the coast towards Gallea. If they can't break through on land, maybe a castle-assault by sea will bring the Galleans to heel.

If I were on youtube, I'd sub.

 Adeptekon wrote:
If I were on youtube, I'd sub.

Thanks man, that means a lot right now. Bearing in mind the humor of it all, the channel is in a weird spot right now. I believe it was Gab Smolders (GGGab at the time) who once did an in-depth break-down of how "likes" influence the YouTube algorithm, with the stipulation being that if your channel falls below a certain "ratio" of "likes" to "dislikes", YouTube will just completely stop recommending your videos to "new" viewers. The specific ratio she identified was 99.6%, below which YouTube will flatline your channel. It takes two days for YouTube to interpret that info after it happens. So this happened to my channel last week, and the difference in the metrics is starkly obvious - 500 views one day, 12 the next, zero reach, on a weekend too. Ouch. The number of "likes" so far is overwhelming, the response generally is overwhelmingly positive, everyone seems to enjoy the content, people only really stop watching when the ads begin (which is normal), premium members watch until the end with no ads, and even though some videos get more "views" than others, pretty much all my videos have a similar general metric attached to each (watch-time per view, views per reach, etc.). So the content itself is healthy and performing well. But the "likes" to "dislikes" ratio is currently at 99.4% for the channel overall, up from 93.6% last week after this video released yesterday. For a small (or new) channel, a single "dislike" will tank the whole channel this way - and I think people who bother to "dislike" stuff know this better than anyone.

In my case, channel-wide, this means literally just 4 dislikes out of many, many hundreds of likes. Yikes!

If everyone who watched these videos also "liked" the videos they genuinely like watching, this would probably be a non-issue, but right now about 10% of viewers interact with the video in any way at all - which is normal, and perfectly fair in any form of media, but not enough in hard numbers to combat the "dislikes" for a small (or new) channel like mine. The effect is that a video like this only ever gets shown to people who've already watched my videos before, unless the "likes" increase.

In my case, this problem is largely addressed by my wonderful patrons' support, but the channel itself is still stuck between a rock and a hard place! Every view matters because I really just want to share a cool project with people, and views are the difference between growth and stagnation that way (and ultimately monetisation, I guess) but the YouTube dragon hungers most for delicious "likes" apparently.

I think people like to imagine this stuff doesn't matter, or is "unknowable", but the reality is pretty clear when watching the metrics on my end. These vids are pretty tricky to make, so it'd be nice if more people had the chance to see them.

I hear youtube can be a tough market to crack. I would get your minis on Etsy too.

 Adeptekon wrote:
I hear youtube can be a tough market to crack. I would get your minis on Etsy too.

Does Etsy allow STLs? Could be a tricky deal. Otherwise I'd be ALL over that.

So for the lolz, and because I'm sick of my Youtube dashboard yelling at me that the algorithm is only recommending this latest video to people in southern Asia watching vids with the specific words, "tiktok" and "momma" and "?" in their title, I've decided to shill my soul and play the freakin' game MSPaints style! The flatline cliff is coming up anyway, so whatever... To be fair, the whole reason I made this series was because I like WFB, and I made it specifically for other people who like WFB, and if those people on Youtube are missing out just because my video title doesn't have "WARHAMMER FANTASY" in it, and if Youtube's not gonna leg me up with it's own algorithms, then I'm stripping off my credibility and breaking bad babeeeee!!!!

Perhaps should be a cautionary tale?

Pretty sure I've seen STLs on Etsy, but you don't want to print them and ship them yourself? I think that's the better way to get your stuff out to a lot more people. Love the music. So I get your dilemma, perhaps... now hear me out. You could switch up the pace a little, or just on some of your videos and tag them as ASMR? That would get you a whole new crowd of visitors. I'm also seeing Warhammer in the ASMR community.

As for what to call it, Small Hammer?

STLs do get sold on Etsy but its not as commonly used. The most common STL sales on Etsy are the scammers.

Most people who sell STLs are on the likes of Cults, My Mini Factory, comicsgamesandthings, CGTrader and minihoarder