With Limited Run teasing reprints of the 1993 Jurassic Park games, I am once again revisiting my failed Jurassic Park video. This was the video the algorithm completely ignored because in its infinite wisdom it says my audience only wants Sonic videos. So basically nobody saw this! A good Sonic video can hit 50-100k viewers for me easy, but this struggled to just barely break 2k views at launch and has limped to 4k views in the years since.
I will forever carry a chip on my shoulder about it. I even bought a Google Adsense recommendation slot on Youtube for this one weekend around the debut trailer for the last Jurassic World movie. Getting people to watch this damn thing has felt like pulling teeth.
Is it a bad video? I mean, I don't think it's a bad video, but I suppose I'd be biased. Other people, when I do finally get someone to watch it, often tell me it's a good video, but they might also be sparing my feelings and/or it's just not bad enough to complain about.
Or maybe it's just a good video and these are the brushes of uncertainty that the Youtube Algorithm paints with. At this point, it's impossible to know which. I need to just let go, but it's "the one that got away", you know? It will spook me forevermore about venturing outside of my channel's comfort zone. That's the real toll of the algorithm, right there.
