 Alright, I want to talk about how bad the comments are on YouTube and why it's so Aggravating for creators to deal with the comments on here and it's not about the people at all by the way We love you. That's you know, you're in our audience. We're wanting to interact with you more This is more of a rant a little about YouTube and hopefully to create an understanding That There's such a problem with the way YouTube does these things though They make it really hard for us to communicate with you and I don't understand you're talking about Google here You're talking about the company that specifically is supposed to be the purveyors of information and organizing all of it But they're doing a really bad job when it comes to YouTube and it really creates a disconnect between Us as the creators and you as the audience. So let me give you an example here I'm logged in as my personal Tom Lawrence account and I'm gonna go ahead and make a comment here and What I've got here is I'm gonna overlay my phone So you can see how the notices come through on my phone and it I'm gonna show you both sides So how it works on the phone and how it works on the system I get more notices on the phone app less notices on here and we can explain how this works. So this is a test And I'm gonna comment and you're gonna hear my phone go off There's my phone making a noise. Let me know someone made a comment So we're gonna go ahead and see the comment at the top here. This is a it abbreviates So it says not completely. This is a test and if I refresh the comments There it is. This is a test Sounds great, but this is where the problem comes in Let me go to another Video so if I wanted my comments, I'm gonna reply to it with just a smiley face. So you hear the phone go off Actually, I'll clear the notices. There's no notices up here So reply Now here's where the problem comes in. I replied to a comment So YouTube notifies me here And I'm gonna refresh this and it's not there Missing don't know where that comment was. I can see there was a comment But if a comment is not a top-level direct reply to the video It's a reply to any comment my comment or a reply to your own comment I only can get notices. I can't see where the comment was made. So and actually someone else made one here So someone made a comment I see here and only because I have reference to what video that was I know where that comment probably goes. But if I touch it You'll notice it doesn't bring me back to the comment and I don't know where these comments are This is the constant confusion we face as creators who want to reply to our audience We know you said something because we see it. I've tried turning on emails for this doesn't work by the way I only in my emails get to see the top-level comments and not this not the reply comments I've went through the options. I've reached out to other creators who said they yeah, they got the same problem They wish YouTube would fix it now. Let me show you what it looks like in the studio side I'm gonna switch back over to my account so And here is the new YouTube creator studio and you notice I left a smiley face I'm one of the old blog vlog Thursdays as a reply once again. That's it This is why I didn't even type the word test I was wrong about it abbreviating that that truncating that much because I forgot the letter T when I typed So I can see this top-level comment. This is this is a test, but that's not it I can see the replies here by expanding them out. So this person has two replies. These are public So I'm not sure anything. It's not public But I replied to a video forever ago So I would have to try to find it in here and search for it and they don't even have a Let me see if I can possibly if I search for the word test. It's gonna find everything in there So I guess I could try to pull a phrase that you had that I seen in a notification But if I clear the notification it goes away Oh, also if the note if a second notification come only one notice So when more than one notice comes in and when I first post a video, I probably get like, you know, 10 of them right away I wiped all the other ones out. So I really want to reply to everyone's videos. This is my Reason I don't reply is not it partly. I'm busy, but I don't I sit down especially in my phone I'm like, okay. I got a few minutes. I'm sitting here and I'll go and reply and answer people's questions I love doing that. I love interacting with all of you, but YouTube is making this really really hard for me. They're not they're not kindness graders in some ways like great I like the platform. This is a minor complaint that I'm hoping they address Because it's not us and it's not you It's the system that doesn't allow us to interact as well Which is why some of us push for things like, you know, hey Can you come over to our other channels or other places and other forums and in my case? I'm used to being on Facebook. So I chose the Facebook forums, but I'm open other ideas on this I thought maybe I'll start a discord channel as well But I can't be in here a lot and scrolling through a lot of messages when the chat gets going in discord Becomes a different challenge and I don't know if I'm prepared to try to be real responsive in that manner But I do like the the openness and things like that a discord But back to this I if anyone has a solution, let me know any other youtubers. I talked to has the same problem Well, and I'll go to the regular YouTube as well Not just this is the beta studio But if the regular studio exactly the same problem it works in exactly the same way the only thing difference when you're in the main YouTube I get these notices atop and these are useless These are I don't even know where it pulls this information from During this conversation I've seen you heard like one or two other comments besides mine come up It decides to pick and choose different ones, and I don't know why it's like Oh, let me just choose these random couple comments someone saying very cool nine hours ago and throwing it in the list here. I Don't know this notification bell up here to tell me The what where comments are is useless. I've played with the settings. Yeah, it's I don't know So if anyone a solution awesome. Oh, by the way push and email occasion seems I am on this page I have Someone subscribe to my channel resumed. I don't have that Unsubscribe emails. I I don't have that but I do have like wonders updates announcement unit announcements Notify me new videos activities subscription push and email now These are ones I do have turned on activity on my videos channel activity and comments from other people's videos and activity on our Channels I want that activity. So this is my account notifications all turned on But the except for the fact that everyone's subscribing is that just creates a lot of noise and I thank you for subscribing But I don't want to bell every time because that's that gets me going Just thank you for doing that But you can see the challenge I'm having here as a creator who wants to engage with his audience And I will tell you they may or not made a video about it But this is probably a lot of other creators who are having trouble engaging with the audience So really to kind of hear like a subscribe if you're applying to a comment I'm doing my best based on the circumstances that I've just shared with you That's about it. Have a wonderful day and thank you for watching Oh, if you have a solution send it to me, but send to me. There's a top comment or an email