Making "ART" or "CONTENT"...

Fake Kyoto FM Radio Stream MIX10. Something I prepared a few weeks ago, but ended up posting more interesting to me MUSIC+COMICS that almost no one were shown. In recent months, one of these simple "Japanese DJ chat/my music mixes" did better than anything I spent much more time on.

And that is a downer.  

And after 30 minutes can see MIX10 is doing much better than my typical shorts

"But this is music, why aren't you happy about that?" you might ask. Because this has Japanese chat in it, and guess that is the attraction to this video, not my music.

And I have seen that isn't just me either. 

Musicians being "forced" by the YouTube algorithm into not making the music videos they want to, but "content" with personality, gear reviews and making of stuff.  The YouTube algorithm prioritizes a type of content so that if you don't make it, your videos will not be seen.

That is the world we currently live in. Now being retired, it isn't that my lively hood depends on my channel, and building my channel isn't important in the way it is for many others.  

14 years ago my YouTube channel was monetized, and I had AdSense on my website. For the first few years that paid for the hosting fees I had. I also had reasonable views for my videos.

But Googles continuous Bait & Switch with creators meant that after a few years, there was no point in disfiguring our own website with Google Advertisements when the return for doing so was nothing, other than Analytics that our site has with more traditional tools that don't spy on everyone anyway.

The rise of FACEBOOK and it's walled garden approach to the Internet websites outside it had a lot to do with that too though. Wasn't Google alone at all. 

Unless a video is a SHORT now, it gets so few views it isn't worth the effort, if the making of them wasn't the main thing to me.

So the algorithms driving social media are now are all about engagement content and if you want to just make art your audience will not be large.

Other Things

ARTEMIS2 is amazing, but an NHK story on it brought up something I hadn't realized.

We all know the MOON RACE 50 years ago by America was all about Beating the Russians, and once that was done, the Apollo missions soon stopped and we didn't get the future we had expected.

This renewed rush back to the moon is about Beating China. China has already brought moon rocks back to Earth in their own moon program and has a schedule for commercial mining of the moon in place.

Because of that, America is back to the moon for commercial exploitation.  

Same old story...

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