Creators should stop changing titles and thumbnails after a video is posted because it signals that the current audience is insufficient.

“I've kind of vowed like i'm gonna try to make the thumbnails best as i can but i'm gonna i'm not gonna change titles and thumbnails anymore because i feel like that is me telling my community you guys aren't enough for me”

Marques Brownlee argues that YouTube subscriber counts will not disappear because they remain a valuable indicator of an audience's willingness to watch content.

“if you want to see a video get to a million views you need it to have some sort of an initial kick to get it into that that algorithmic feed to get it to people and that comes from subscribers that comes from the initial audience of when you first serve up the video”

Andrew Manganelli contends that while subscriber counts are a vanity metric, they function as a necessary second chance for content to be discovered by an audience.

“a subscriber is kind of any time you enter a like let's say like pinterest or um maybe like a background like wallpaper app or just like a lot of social media when you're first joining it doesn't have any information on you so a lot of times you'll get that prompt”

Mark suggests that YouTube's algorithm drives the popularity of John Stewart's podcast by recommending it to viewers based on his previous work on The Daily Show.

“it's that that they're great to be fair I never saw any of Trevor Noah he might have been great too I I never saw him host but I have seen a lot of the John Stewart ones because for some reason the YouTube algorithms like did you see John Stewart I'm like oh God please I'll watch leave me alone”

Wade asserts that YouTube's algorithm functions as a recommendation engine that populates a user's feed based on popularity and content patterns.

“it's popular so it gets recommended cuz YouTube's algorithm is just like based on recommendations and what it thinks is these are just advertisement it's going anyway”