My own mandolin videos very seldom get any Likes. Maybe the Likes get lost in transit.
Or I could just suck at mandolin.
Views are more concerning than likes, as far as incentive to make more videos. Mandolincafe does not generate much viewership, if that's the only place a video is posted.
I have not yet sold my soul to Facebook, so I don't cross-post there (or anywhere else) to rack up more Views and Likes.
But of course there are other possible explanations for lack of Views and Likes, including that I keep forgetting to don my corset and jackboots to give viewers something to look at besides just a mandolin and some anonymous skinny little pale hands.
Most of my YouTube subscribers don't want to hear me play mandolin anyway, they subscribed because they want more software/tech tutorials or more sheet music or more Star Trek clips (yes, seriously). There are some exceptions but not very many. It's one of those "it is what it is" things, I guess. I'm starting to get used to it by now.
As to giving Likes or writing YouTube comments, I only do that if something is exceptionally awesome. Most times I'm not logged in to YouTube anyway, but even if I was I wouldn't hand out Likes or YouTube comments gratuitously on every single video a person did because that would seem a little stalker-ish and creepy. Although I'm old, maybe I just don't understand social media.
David (OldSausage) wrote: "Every now and then someone takes the time to "dislike" one of my videos, which always makes me laugh."
Some people will dislike anything, even Bill Monroe. Maybe they wanted it in the key of A# minor but your key signature was Bb minor. Or maybe they fell asleep with their phone in their hand, and in addition to accidentally ordering 2600 dog collars from Amazon and sending "Be Right Back" autotexts to their boss (or their ex!) at 3:00am, they might have also inadvertently tapped some YouTube buttons.
- Jess