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Mike Shea

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
18096 total appearances

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The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

Hey, honey, we're going to cash out the kids tuition fund and I'm going to put it on the video equipment to do the tick tocks. Right. And you're like, this is great. I made it. And then your fourth video is like back to the original numbers and your fifth video is even lower and your sixth video. And you're like, oh, my God, what did I do wrong? Right. Nothing. You didn't do anything. They did it.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

They have algorithms that automatically inflate videos early on in a new creator's space because they want to get data. And the data that they get is if they put a video out in front of a lot of people, they get better data on how well it retains, how interested people are. Do they follow you further? They're going to learn a lot more about that if more people see it.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

They have algorithms that automatically inflate videos early on in a new creator's space because they want to get data. And the data that they get is if they put a video out in front of a lot of people, they get better data on how well it retains, how interested people are. Do they follow you further? They're going to learn a lot more about that if more people see it.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

They have algorithms that automatically inflate videos early on in a new creator's space because they want to get data. And the data that they get is if they put a video out in front of a lot of people, they get better data on how well it retains, how interested people are. Do they follow you further? They're going to learn a lot more about that if more people see it.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So they don't want to have just like a couple of hundred people see it. They want a few thousand. They want tens of thousands. I've seen this on my own views. In fact, I saw heating occur. I did some short form video work a couple of years ago. I did it on TikTok. I did an Instagram and I did it on YouTube shorts and all three of them. He did my videos. You could see it very clearly.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So they don't want to have just like a couple of hundred people see it. They want a few thousand. They want tens of thousands. I've seen this on my own views. In fact, I saw heating occur. I did some short form video work a couple of years ago. I did it on TikTok. I did an Instagram and I did it on YouTube shorts and all three of them. He did my videos. You could see it very clearly.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So they don't want to have just like a couple of hundred people see it. They want a few thousand. They want tens of thousands. I've seen this on my own views. In fact, I saw heating occur. I did some short form video work a couple of years ago. I did it on TikTok. I did an Instagram and I did it on YouTube shorts and all three of them. He did my videos. You could see it very clearly.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

Huge spike in the beginning and then it tailed off.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

Huge spike in the beginning and then it tailed off.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

Huge spike in the beginning and then it tailed off.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

and i knew about heating at the time but nobody else that i talked to there knew about heating so i was able to share that and now i'm sharing it with you that's what heating is so do not be surprised if you start a show and you're like oh i want to get a lot of you oh i got a lot of views don't quit your job and don't cash out your kids tuition fund because that's artificial that's called heating

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

and i knew about heating at the time but nobody else that i talked to there knew about heating so i was able to share that and now i'm sharing it with you that's what heating is so do not be surprised if you start a show and you're like oh i want to get a lot of you oh i got a lot of views don't quit your job and don't cash out your kids tuition fund because that's artificial that's called heating

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

and i knew about heating at the time but nobody else that i talked to there knew about heating so i was able to share that and now i'm sharing it with you that's what heating is so do not be surprised if you start a show and you're like oh i want to get a lot of you oh i got a lot of views don't quit your job and don't cash out your kids tuition fund because that's artificial that's called heating

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So lots of different interesting viewpoints about what went on the show. And like one of the interesting things is TikTok was going went down during the show. And I thought that was really apt. And I saw like on Blue Sky and other places where people are talking about how important it was for their career, for their, you know, to make money that that TikTok was important to them.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So lots of different interesting viewpoints about what went on the show. And like one of the interesting things is TikTok was going went down during the show. And I thought that was really apt. And I saw like on Blue Sky and other places where people are talking about how important it was for their career, for their, you know, to make money that that TikTok was important to them.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So lots of different interesting viewpoints about what went on the show. And like one of the interesting things is TikTok was going went down during the show. And I thought that was really apt. And I saw like on Blue Sky and other places where people are talking about how important it was for their career, for their, you know, to make money that that TikTok was important to them.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And now it's gone and they're really angry about it. And I'm going to make the unpopular opinion that if you're really angry that TikTok went down and it hurt your career, you need to think about your career differently because you're never going to win that. Right. And I'm telling you this and I told them this at the convention.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And now it's gone and they're really angry about it. And I'm going to make the unpopular opinion that if you're really angry that TikTok went down and it hurt your career, you need to think about your career differently because you're never going to win that. Right. And I'm telling you this and I told them this at the convention.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And now it's gone and they're really angry about it. And I'm going to make the unpopular opinion that if you're really angry that TikTok went down and it hurt your career, you need to think about your career differently because you're never going to win that. Right. And I'm telling you this and I told them this at the convention.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

As someone who gets 40% of the new people who find my work, find it through YouTube. Right. I have pretty good data on this. And 40% of the people who find my stuff find it through YouTube. You're probably watching me on YouTube right now talking about this. And that's how a lot of new people find me is through YouTube. And I'm kind of screwed, right?