Activity on Twitter has really increased and trying to interact with everyone who comments or likes is almost impossible/ Giphy is still displaying my work in the trending section, so I'm still averaging 30 millions views a day. Even my Facebook page is getting more views and Instagram is getting a modest few followers, although they seem to be people who like posting sexy selfies. I still miss the Google+ days, because it was easy to interact with everyone, everything seems so fragmented at the moment
I've asked myself several times "Why am I doing this?". But not so much anymore.
I never ask myself questions like that because I don't like the answers I get
I admire this guy on YouTube. He's about our age. By the looks of things I'd say he's making a couple thousand/month even with all comments disabled.
https://www.youtube.com/c/LandumCgoesthere/videos
Love his accent, he is obviously doing something he lovesa nd must spend hours doing research
@Dave Sutton - Fragmented indeed. If I thought my fractals would get 3 million views a day on any site, I'd put them up there with links to my Redbubble page. I'd be happy with 3000 views a day.
I've followed this person for 10 years who gets 1,000,000 views per month on YouTube and makes his living that way. We don't know each other personally. https://www.youtube.com/user/LonSeidman
@Craig Long - I enjoy music analysis and such. So, I watch Rick Beato's (https://www.youtube.com/c/RickBeato) and Doug Helvering's (https://www.youtube.com/c/rdouglashelvering) channels frequently. Doug's channel is one of a very few "reaction" channels that aren't cringe-worthy.
@David Lazarus A lot of subscribers to Rick's channel.
@Craig Long I'm not really concentrating on Instagram, but I have been getting followers who love posting selfies, and today I got a couple of Radio Amateur followers. The fact that I'm a radio amateur is not widely publicized and not on Instagram, so it's a bit of a mystery.
Nothing is private on the internet for sure. Are you posting on Instagram? I'll check in now and then but I don't want to get into social media much.
@Craig Long Didn't you suggest I should use Instagram? It takes only videos or JPEGs, so it is a bit restrictive for me
@Dave Sutton I suggest a lot of things just to see what happens.
Another suggestion: Do you have a vertical video less than one minute that you can post on YouTube? Put #shorts in the description and I'll see if it shows up in the shorts shelf. I'll post a link to it here and we can take a look. The link is a bit different than the YouTube link. I have not tried doing this myself.