mesaSep 5, 2025

"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

A lot of Youtube channels are reporting declining viewership lately.

EX1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpVnx4_yqTo
EX2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0tmhEtVJE

Fun times. Looks like a lot of channels are seeing a decline not just Linus. Hes just the latest to talk about it.

Then I saw this article as well and thought I would share.

Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?

"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

Linus Sebastian, the founder of the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel, has spoken out about its recent decline in viewership, describing it as a "very dramatic shift.

Show threadfox2263Sep 6, 2025

YouTube is hostile to viewers unless you pay them £20 a month.

It’s like 15 ads per 2 mins screen time with 2 being unstoppable and 1 being 3 minutes long. Slightly exaggerated but not far from the truth. It’s horrible. And they slow everything down too, the main video fake buffers whereas when you’re in premium it doesn’t.

I didn’t mind paying a fiver but had to do it via the moon to get it cheap but now they have stopped that.

Show threadHudellSep 6, 2025
And God forbid you enable captions on the video or something - it’ll disable itself every time an ad plays.
Show threadXatolosSep 6, 2025

How do I turn that feature on?

I keep turning off captions off, and every few days they are automatically turned back on.

Show thread3dcadmin
you can force a lot of options still when you upload a video OR provide a link. Plenty do that. For example in the tags add yt:cc=on will force on captions when you play a video
Sep 6, 2025 at 6:26pmWeb