Maybe it’s time for SDF to get a YouTube channel
- Thread starter AssassinsMace
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Surely not me ... to make a good video it takes time, time and once again time I do not have ... and even more, for what?
And in the end in my opinion, it would be completely lost in the multitude of other click-bait videos.
I simply don't have the time for it
I think the better direction would be to give more support to members who already have established channels (like Eurasia Naval News). It takes a specific interest and dedication to make a channel work (also an amount of monetary reward for the creator)
More feedback and comments on the videos are good. Perhaps a specific discussion thread for them? Maybe even have some members review the manuscript before the video is made? In return they get a slightly higher quality for their videos.
More feedback and comments on the videos are good. Perhaps a specific discussion thread for them? Maybe even have some members review the manuscript before the video is made? In return they get a slightly higher quality for their videos.
I've always wanted to mention this @5unrise but you need to like 1.5x your voiceovers after recording them lol. The pace of speaking is way too slow, slower than probably anyone else on Youtube, probably excruciating for a lot of people who don't want to manually speed up & they just click away. Just my two cents.
I always put 5unrise videos on 1.25X play speed.
Wouldn't it be nice if this forum had a monthly summery of the most important news? Something like what USA president gets daily, daily brief. Only moderators should be able to write in that thread, and forum members should be able to just view it. I say this because I am interested in pla developments, but don't really have time to go through all threads. Moreover, let's face it, majority of info on the forum is lame chatter.
Of course it would be nice to have information spoonfed to you by other people doing all the hard work. Are you going to pay them?
I'll certainly gladly use any video script written by an informed member. Saves me doing the effort of doing the research and producing the content at least in part (it would be like someone doing work for you for free).
There's pros and cons of posting on Youtube. The main advantage is being able to get your message across to a large audience. There is little use to keeping that knowledge to oneself and only using it to influence a small circle of individuals, no matter how important these people may be. If you keep to niche publications, your impact on the public discourse would be severely limited, no matter how knowledgeable you may be.
The cons are also pretty siginificant. Content creators probably know less about the PLA than the average dedicated PLA watchers, because they have spend all their time creating videos rather than doing research, particularly in related areas (e.g. how airplanes work in general). Your incentives will likely change - the amount of view traffic would influence your decisions on which topics to cover and how much scrutiny to apply to information. Some channels seem willing to disregard accuracy for more views (like with the recent H-20 fake). Then there's of course the massive task of learning how Youtube works, building an audience, improve viewer click rate and retention, working the algorithmn, and avoiding copyright problems etc.
There's pros and cons of posting on Youtube. The main advantage is being able to get your message across to a large audience. There is little use to keeping that knowledge to oneself and only using it to influence a small circle of individuals, no matter how important these people may be. If you keep to niche publications, your impact on the public discourse would be severely limited, no matter how knowledgeable you may be.
The cons are also pretty siginificant. Content creators probably know less about the PLA than the average dedicated PLA watchers, because they have spend all their time creating videos rather than doing research, particularly in related areas (e.g. how airplanes work in general). Your incentives will likely change - the amount of view traffic would influence your decisions on which topics to cover and how much scrutiny to apply to information. Some channels seem willing to disregard accuracy for more views (like with the recent H-20 fake). Then there's of course the massive task of learning how Youtube works, building an audience, improve viewer click rate and retention, working the algorithmn, and avoiding copyright problems etc.
AssassinsMace
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Frankly a lot of these arguments against would be more filtered and in a controlled environment in a YouTube-like format than say SDF itself where all have to do is register and post. It ain’t going to be like it’s a radio talk show where anyone can call in with whatever wacko thing they want to say. You always see Westerners commenting on Chinese military events. How about commenting on Western military events and giving them a cold dose of reality instead of the fantasy they give? How about technological developments that can be applied militarily? China is doing a lot of that. You think the two 6th Gen fighters has the West talking? The same is going on with Unitree’s B2W.