Not sure if this is just me...

Fresh blood isn't bad, but there's a limit as to how many people a server can manage. It's like a small city, there's enough police and firefighters, enough schools and libraries, everyone's happy. Then 5000% more people move in. Suddenly the roads are full, crime is out of control, schools overcrowded, everything grinds to a halt. What's even more problematic is lets say I made a video about SS13 wherein I just show me murdering people the whole time. Just going around, murderboner in full swing, etc. It then gets a million views. People come check out SS13. Some are going to realize very quickly its a wonderful game with a tremendous amount of depth. However, the vast majority of very, very, very stupid people who watch all of 90 seconds of a video only, will go "Wow, this is an online free murder simulator" and then go onto those servers and do just that. It's the problem I've discussed with many SS13 admins/headmins. They have no problem with new blood, its good. It keeps the game alive and keeps gameplay fresh. New perspectives, new ways of doing things, new changes that keep someone from establishing themselves as murderboner mcgee on a server, at least in theory. However, the problem most servers have are that 90% that have no idea what they're doing, and are just some insane 14 year old fanboy looking for dank memes, griefing, and seek to follow the path of kek wherever possible. New blood is good, but good players are better. Turning one into the other requires a lot of time. The grey-tide issues stemming from the latest 'surge' called among admins to my knowledge, the "oneytide", is just the latest in a series of things. Most of those people get banned or destroyed after a week or two. They just cant wrap their head around the game, or move on to the next momentary fascination due to a very limited attention span. Some stay and go forward to add to the community in a vastly positive way! It's what happens every so often. it's like with EVE online. I love eve, have played it off and on since 2004. However, every so often there will be a big gaming magazine or article on "THIS EPIC HEIST" or "THIS MURDER FOR HIRE" that is truly amazing to read about. The game floods with newbies keen to set up their own "big thing", which lasts all of 3 months until they get bored.

THE BLACK PANTS LEGION

I been through this amusingly, back in 2008 I got my 15 minutes of fame as a video showcasing a L4D glitch ( <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efnS37__nSY" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efnS37__nSY</a> )quickly gained over a million views. Why I was never entirely sure, it was linked from some fansites of the time but I doubt that would been reason enough. A ridicolus amounts of views for a bug that Valve fixed a few days after. Turns out one-hit videos don't get you many subscribers either so the effect is rather short term. Not that it bothers me, since i rarely make videos in the first place. When it comes to SS13 though I don't think fresh blood would be bad though even if there would be a intial flood of clueless newbies. But SS13 gotten plenty of press before without being flooded even in the early goonstation days.

It's hit and miss. It usually happens on the strangest thing. I saw a channel put out one GTA-V video, just one, in a sea of GTA-V videos, and they got a million views. Just like that. Zero to big in one day.

THE BLACK PANTS LEGION

That has occurred to me. It pains me to say so, but I realize that may come to this. In that case, I hope I bring good people and not the grey-tide. I hope I can encourage people to be good 2d Spessmen.

THE BLACK PANTS LEGION

Just be careful. Once you do get popular, it will be like what you were worried about with Oney. And I say 'once' for a reason. You make one breakout video, and it will all be over for you being the unknown tuber. Fans will start coming out of the woodwork.

Aaron Archer

There is a whole game to how you put your content out there. It is a dance. Unfortunately. I know there are some people who put out tutorials, but the problem with growing a fan base is most of them are VERY particular. They get pushy.

Aaron Archer

You could try a Twitch experiment and just post the recording to YouTube. Also, you may want to do some research on YouTube SEO. For example, your latest SS13 video does not mention SS13 in the description at all, and does not appear to have any tags. Not that there aren't shenanigans going on, but you could definitely do more to help. <a href="http://backlinko.com/how-to-rank-youtube-videos" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://backlinko.com/how-to-rank-youtube-videos</a>

Matthew Seidl