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occasionally I’ll be watching a YouTube

video I’ll go to the comments section

and then I’ll see a comment asking why

do you youtubers ask for likes and every

time someone leaves that comment some

person with the Masters and Internet

common sense comes along and replies to

that comment saying the youtubers asked

for likes because they get paid when you

like the video youtubers make money

because businesses pay to place ads

before their video you clicking that

like button does not generate them

revenue or at least not directly and

I’ll explain what I mean by that by

showing you this experiment so what I’m

going to do is I’m going to upload two

videos with the exact same title tags

and description so when you search a

certain phrase those two videos are the

only two videos that pop up and then I’m

going to search that phrase I’m going to

click on the second video I’m going to

like it and watch it all the way through

then I’m going to watch all the way

through the first video and the idea is

because both videos have the exact same

title tags and description both videos

have one view all you know 100% watch

time but the second video has a like in

the first video doesn’t the second video

should come up above the first video and

I already conducted this experiment and

it was a success video number two moved

up in front of video number one because

this video didn’t have like this video

how to like so it moved up above it so

basically what I was trying to say

earlier is you clicking that like button

doesn’t earn the money they don’t get

like 10 person you know 10 cents a

dollar whatever whatever people make up

for you clicking that but you clicking

that like button does help them in

search results which will equal more

views which equals more ads seen which

will equal more revenue for that

youtuber another reason why youtubers

ask for likes besides search results is

because the recommended videos on the

side of this and on your YouTube

homepage those videos are all based off

of engagement if a video has a lot of

likes dislikes or comments has a lot of

engagement then it’s going to appear

recommended for random people and it’s

going to appear on people’s home pages

my worst intro series people typically

like that video even if I don’t tell

them it just gets lots of likes it gets

lots of comments people complaining

about the intros so it has super high

engagement and a lot of the views on my

worst intro series come from being

recommended to other people

and come from other people’s home pages

it’s not even it’s not even anything

I do it’s just it has lots of engagement

so it just appears randomly throughout

YouTube YouTube does the work for me and

that is what other youtubers are hoping

for when they ask you to like the video

now having said all that asking for

likes is still annoying I hate it I

especially hate like goals when people

are like we get 500 likes I’ll upload a

video tomorrow that to me is really

annoying and I will admit I have asked

for likes you know occasionally if I

spend a ton of hours making a video I

will ask people to like it because I put

lots of effort into it and I want other

people to discover it but I do not do it

on every video because it is repetitive

and its really annoying it makes me want

to just like commit suicide when someone

says 500 likes with that stupid sound

effect like go I don’t know what I’m

saying but yeah lights do help it

doesn’t make people money directly but

in a way it does make them money and

that what am I saying I have a ping-pong

ball here we should oh I miss all right

walk your dog kill squirrels take out

the trash do your dishwasher bye

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