Congratz @kingarbinv !
Pewdiepie made a anwer to Youtube heroes program and in it he was putting -potatoes- as subtitle ( of course it was a joke not real thing).
I think that Youtube wanted to do something good, but for sure there will be some users that abuse the flaggin power...Of course not all of them but there will be few of them .
Such programs need to be monitored and we understand how hard it is....I have olso a youtube channel...it is small...and what I want to say it is hard...
First making videos-- owner(me) must follow the guideliness --yes the ...new ones- and be very carefull what I say...mind you ...my channel is still finding his identity because I created it 1 month ago.
Second the Hero ( you) has the power...well...to destroy me...
my case:
- mass flagging
- private chat rooms with other heros...to flagg olso my videos.
Ultimately...this can destroy a channel...and I am very afraid of that because I put a lot of effort and time into my videos and I try to improve and give a good experience for my viewers and subscribers ( now on 28.09.2016 I have 9 subs but that matters to me).
I just hope that in the future Youtube will try more to improve this problems and maybe the Hero program can work to the benefit of all users.
Thanks for your onest post!
The good thing about the program on the subtitles side is you get to review other peoples subtitles and approve them before anyone ever sees them. Kinda a teamwork effort. I'm sure it works the same with the flagging but I haven't ventured into that area yet, but when I do I will be sure to write about it.
I understand what your going through with your channel finding its identity. I went through the same crisis on my own for months and finally settled with minecraft type videos because I enjoy playing the game. I don't have many more subs than you do at the moment, only 44. Those came from my vlog era and my beginning minecraft era. When I stopped the minecraft type videos though, my subs stopped increasing, now that I have picked doing them back up, I have slowly been gaining again.
Also as far as the youtube guidelines, follow them loosely. None of my videos have been demonetized and alot of what I say in them breaks those guidelines. Happy Creating.