Ola needs your help!

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glpg80 said:
Draven is a badass and is coming up with new heavy songs for every amp he demos and he stacks pedals and shit that’s cool to make it hahappen.
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Are you talking about Draven Noire? I dig that guy. Talked to him on the phone once or twice. He plays baritone guitars tuned way down so it's hard for me to really hear his stuff on my phone or tablet. But gets a Crack at a lot of cool amps for sure.
 
Not directed at Ola. But these days when a decent looking girl can strum a guitar, get tons of views, take pics all day get $$ and not have a regular job....It.almost makes you detest the time it took to get good at guitar, start bands, etc
 
Btw the history behind Gorilla amps actually would be a good idea
 
This has less to do with Ola specifically but I've noticed a problem with YouTube as a platform that I think directly correlates with established youtubers getting fewer views. I think part of the problem is how massively, appallingly shitty YouTube's user interface is, specifically regarding allowing users to organize their channel subscriptions.

This isn’t just Ola, but every single video always has “LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE, DING THAT BELL” plastered in it, right? Youtube wants you to "subscribe" to everything on the site. But what is the user’s benefit for liking and subscribing exactly? What do I get for following along? I get a completely fucking unusable vertical list of description-less channel icons 18,000 miles long, all jumbled up, zero ability to even so much as arrange them how I want.

If you want me to watch more YouTube videos from channels I like, petition YouTube to let me organize my subscribed channels into folders and subfolders. Let me create smart folders that auto-include any new unwatched videos from whatever list of channels and maybe even title keywords I assign to that folder.

Basically I think the reason any given YouTube channel loses views is because of its ever-expanding user base. The algorithm pushes new stuff at you all the time, and users have no way to reliably keep track of the channels they want to watch unless the almighty algorithm shits out the video onto the front page feed.

Imagine if Spotify or even the music folder on your computer worked that way. No ability to organize, just open the whole folder to one big randomly shuffled list of files of which you can only see like 8 at a time and from there you just have to hope something interesting shows up. YouTube’s user experience is complete shit and honestly until users gets more command of what they are presented with, individual content creators are going to continue to lose views and get shoved off to the side as the algorithm changes its tastes over time whether actual users like it or not.

Give me the ability to make a channel folder called “Guitar Gear” and another folder called “Guitar Gear - Unwatched” that dynamically adds new videos and removes the ones I watch. Let me make a subfolder in my “Guitar Gear“ folder called “Ola Englund” and Smart Folders in that folder named like “Sunday With Ola” and “Will it Chug” and have those folders scripted to auto-search through Ola’s Channel and automatically add any videos with those phrases in the title to each respective folder so I have a place I know I can go to check if any new videos have shown up. Add another folder called “everything else“ that automatically adds all of Ola’s other videos that don’t get filtered to Smart Folders. Do that and I guarantee I’ll add more views to my favorite channels.
 
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rottingcorpse said:
Are you talking about Draven Noire? I dig that guy. Talked to him on the phone once or twice. He plays baritone guitars tuned way down so it's hard for me to really hear his stuff on my phone or tablet. But gets a Crack at a lot of cool amps for sure.
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Dravens stuff is awesome. He captures amps very accurately to how they actually sound IMO.
 
TheGreatGreen said:
Basically I think the reason any given YouTube channel loses views is because in YouTube’s ever-expanding user base, users have no way to reliably keep track of the channels they want to watch unless the almighty algorithm shits out the video onto the front page feed.

Imagine if Spotify or even the music folder on your computer worked that way. No ability to organize, just open the whole folder to one big randomly shuffled list of files of which you can only see like 8 of at a time and just hope something interesting shows up. YouTube’s user experience is complete shit and honestly until the user gets more command of what they are presented with, individual content creators are going to continue to lose views and get shoved off to the side as the algorithm changes its tastes over time.

Give me the ability to make a channel folder called “Guitar Gear” and another folder called “Guitar Gear - Unwatched” that dynamically adds new videos and removes the ones I watch, and I guarantee I’ll add more views to my favorite channels.
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Good idea really. YT today provides you with their best guess on what you want based on their algorithm. Logic would say that AI and ChatGPT could make this better. I have no idea what YouTube's 'policy' is on ac their arvhive videos (server/space/power) into however you like. And if I were to go the folder route, I wouldn't want random - I would want customizability with an easy search function. Including random. If there was an alternate source that could store YT, Soundcloud, Reels, Shorts, whatever in one place - that would be cool.
 
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311splawndude said:
Good idea really. YT today provides you with their best guess on what you want based on their algorithm. Logic would say that AI and ChatGPT could make this better. I have no idea what YouTube's 'policy' is on achieving their videos (server/space/power) into however you like. And if I were to go the folder route, I wouldn't want random - I would want customizability with an easy search function. Including random. If there was an alternate source that could store YT, Soundcloud, Reels, Shorts, whatever in one place - that would be cool.
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Thanks!

If I could do it my way, I'd let users make folders for their subscribed channels. Click a folder on the left hand side of the screen (let's call it the "Guitar Gear" folder) and from there, the main part of the screen populates a vertical list of all the channels you've tagged for that folder (Ola, Euge, Draven, etc). Then, videos for each channel extend out to the right of each channel's icon like this:

Ola Englund: -> [will it chug #xx], [Sunday with Ola #xx], [Interview with rockstar]
Euge Valovirta: -> [Marshall amp comparison], [Recording technique video], [Touring Rig Video]
Draven Noire: -> [Amp X vs Amp Y], [Amp Y vs Amp Z], [OD pedal video]

Now you have a curated list of channels you choose on your screen and you can clearly see videos uploaded to that channel all from one window. Check an "only show unwatched" checkbox so any videos you watch will automatically clear out of the list. Keep watching until each channel has no more videos and bam you know you've watched everything you wanted to catch up on in that category.

It's amazing YouTube has never added anything like this. It seems so obvious, especially to anybody who has ever tried to actually navigate their nightmare of a subscription "browsing" system.
 
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I def like the folder idea.

I like Ola too. Didn't want this to be a bash thread - just more of a 'where is the industry going' thread. He seems to care about that and he is genuine like I said. He may have done the whole Will it Fart thing :lol: but it was all fun and games. Plus, if he can attract young people to pick up an electric guitar and wail then all the better :yes:
 
I like his content. "Will it chug" and "in the room" are my favorite. As far as the world of YT guitar/amp videos growing stale goes... well yeah. The world of guitars and amps themselves has gone stale. How many fucking high-gain this or that amp do we need? They're all the same. There's been very little innovation in this space for years.

Look at Drumeo. Genius of them to invite pro/celebrity drummers in to play someone else's song (that they've never heard before) without hearing the original drum track first. Then you get to see how they learn and write a drum track, you get to hear their take on that song, and then their reaction when hearing the song with the original drum track. Super entertaining. And it ties back to Drumeo's actual purpose—a resource for people to learn how to play the drums.

Nobody has done anything as cool in the guitar/amp space, that I'm aware of.

As far as crowd-sourced ideas for Ola to make more money goes... sorry, I don't work for free.
 
There have been some great ideas on this thread. The interviews are a great idea. I think one he could do also is with fake celebrities. He could do a "heartfelt" indepth piece on reza, his divvorce from rig-talk, and his butthurt video.

But seriously, meeting with folkesson, hermansson, larry, eddy lenz. This is low hanging fruit, and could be the beginning of a very lucrative series
 
I just want to know why Kyle Bull wears safety glasses in all his videos. Maybe scared of getting popped in the eye with a broken string? I had a close call once about 30 years ago but guitar+safety glasses is kinda like wearing a crash helmet while rocking on a lazy boy cause you might fall out. Just seems unlikely. I think safety can be taken too seriously sometimes.
 
VonBonfire said:
I just want to know why Kyle Bull wears safety glasses in all his videos. Maybe scared of getting popped in the eye with a broken string? I had a close call once about 30 years ago but guitar+safety glasses is kinda like wearing a crash helmet while rocking on a lazy boy cause you might fall out. Just seems unlikely. I think safety can be taken too seriously sometimes.
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Kyle Bull does not play with eye safety. We know that now
 
Smash said:
Kyle Bull does not play with eye safety. We know that now
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Just seems a little over the top to me but maybe he has a really aggressive picking hand that tends to snap strings so I don't want to judge the dude for it.
 
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