Dear smAsh teAm members:
We’ve changed the YouTube visibility settings. Yesterday, and pardon the lack of warning, we only made one video publicly visible. The other three videos were only viewable via links here at the smAsh teAm posts page ( https://smashomash.com/smashteam/?page_id=116 ).
This is for a variety of reasons, but mainly algorithmic ones. YouTube’s algorithms are increasingly nonsensical, and they incentivize all sorts of odd behavior. Think releasing more content helps a channel grow? Turns out releasing less content is there only way to grow. Seems counter intuitive? Censorship is counter intuitive and backward, and so is the algorithmic insanity. Anyway, for members at Gold and Silver levels, you’ll still see all the content we’ve been creating. Unlisted videos are not able to be found without the url, and what we’re doing is driving more traffic to our websites. Since we cannot rely on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to fairly distribute content- we have little choice than to deliver it via our own ‘sovereign’ websites.
Also, we’ve made massive changes to the entire site design, so enjoy the ride. Thanks viewers with enough sense to send us a few dollars per month (and for the entire year, for Gold annual paid up subscribers)! It’s a huge deal to us, and welcome to the Neo-Renaissance.
Love,
Dan, a.k.a. smAshomAsh