The Business: The Professor Learns That He Needs To Niche Harder

These are the sorts of videos that the Professor does best.

TLDR: A combination of algo fuckery, Network Effects, and Black Swans force the Professor to axe categories of content from his channel. This would be confirmed by Derik on Roll For Combat.

As much as most people with the sense God gave a diseased donkey would take the hint and close up shop, let's engage with the Professor's understated position--he's staying up, but shifting content focus--and be charitable about it.

SILO HARDER!

That's what YouTube rewards above and beyond anything else. You must niche, and niche hard, into a very narrow content silo to succeed on YouTube; this is why that Simon guy has so many channels--Warfronts, PoliticalFronts, Places, Into The Shadows, etc.--where he can take the same event and churn out several videos because each channel focuses on a very narrow content niche and his team knows that sensationalism sells so they get clickbaity with it.

The day of a channel being at all broad in its content is long over; that the Professor didn't do this sooner shows that he's like most in education and not as bright as he'd like to believe.

This is his business. He is approaching this as a business. Good on him; that already makes him better than most on YouTube trying to become the next Mr. Beast or Dr. Disrespect. One of the things to recognize is that businesses can and do fail, and do so through no fault of their own, so there is no shame in just closing shop and moving on; the smart folks in business do this as soon as they see that it's not feasible to continue. Take the hint, Professor, and close your business; you already have Patreon, where you busk instead, so use that and be done with it.

You want more signs of the collapse? Here they are. I said this was an outside-in collapse pattern; that applies to the influencers like the Professor as much as it does to the publishers and merchants. He said so himself: the channels with the biggest Network Effects are the ones that will endure, while smaller ones like him either close or conform by siloing harder into more narrow niches.

Yes, JDA, I hear you: "Niche harder, make more channels, and get on with it" is indeed the entrepreneural response to this but the Professor doesn't have it in him to do that. He wants his one channel to pay some of his bills so his dayjob paycheck as a school teacher goes further, and that's not going to cut it anymore- and YouTube wants it that way.

Close up, Professor. You're better off retreating to Patreon.