Popular gaming YouTuber Videogamedunkey has seemingly abandoned his traditional approach to making videos in an elaborate joke meant to roast content creators who are riding the wave of Among Us and Minecraft's popularity. Dunkey has dropped his weekly upload schedule in exchange for low-effort daily videos that are still more entertaining than the creators they are meant to emulate.
Videogamedunkey, or Dunkey for short, is a YouTuber with over 6 million subscribers who uploads comedic gaming montages, critical video essays, and game reviews. Dunkey's videos can vary widely in terms of their content from solo gameplay bathed in his signature sarcastic humor, playing games with his friends while annoying them, or ditching humor altogether to break down his more serious viewpoints on certain games. Regardless of the type of video Dunkey produces, each contains hours of writing, recording, and editing all done by the Dunkster himself.
In a recent video titled "I'm Done Making Good Videos," Dunkey compares his style of videos to more successful gaming content creators on the platform. While Dunkey only uploads once a week due to the amount of effort put into a single video, other YouTubers push out one or two low-effort videos every day. These frequent uploads still manage to garner the same amount if not more views than Dunkey's weekly videos. In an attempt to roast YouTube's frequent and annoying uploaders, Dunkey has started to produce his own low-effort Minecraft, Among Us, and drama videos.
While the point of Dunkey's daily videos was to take a jab at YouTube's algorithm rewarding lazy creators, his hypothesis was proven correct when YouTube sent him a message alerting Dunkey that he had received 344 percent more views in a single week due to publishing more content. Dunkey's new videos are hilarious while proving to be a commentary on the current state of YouTube's gaming sphere. From hopping on the Among Us bandwagon to reacting to other peoples' videos, YouTube creators are taking advantage of trends and sacrificing quality for quantity in terms of videos. As they should since YouTube rewards this behavior, and even sends encouraging messages to creators who upload more often.
While these uploads started as a joke, it will be interesting to see if Dunkey returns to his normal weekly uploads. Before the switch, Videogamedunkey's videos averaged 2.5 million views, and his daily uploads have averaged the same number of views. When looking at Dunkey's videos from a financial standpoint, he would theoretically be making seven times the amount of ad revenue per week by uploading daily instead of weekly. While creating content instead of his usual "mastapieces" could prove to be more profitable, it will be interesting to see how long Dunkey can stomach non-stop Among Us and Minecraft uploads.
Source: Videogamedunkey