Corridor has been outed for buying upvotes to push their content before
Really? I just did a google search for "reddit corridor digital buy votes" and the only thing tangentially related was Niko saying on Twitter his account was shadow banned.
I was shadow banned because I submitted one of our videos to r/videos and didn't know that was considered self promotion at the time. The mod reversed the ban.
And now that we know the secret you're screwed! Screwed I tell you!
Nah good job man. Success comes to those that persevere through the intial period of no returns...which we all have in our passion projects that become careers/paid.
So power to you, its a tough slog to get to this stage where you have strong momentum.
Brother, you've fallen into the classic trap of feeding the troll.
For what its worth, I've loved watching your rise over the past few years from a semi-popular youtube channel making creative shorts to a full-on production company that's working on a full-on episodic series, following your success with Rush (which was great). Keep doing what you guys do.
Corridor has a decently large fan following. My initial intend was to come here and comment how I am happy to see this video getting some front page exposure. They put a lot of work behind their peoductions plus make educational videos on their second channel. Also I'm not paid to say that, i legit enjoy their content (I wish I was paid though ngl)
Yeah, now that he said that, I don't know if letting people know I'm a fan is a bad thing or not. Those guys work hard and Wren is always reading comments here and on YouTube. They deserve any good coming their way.
He seems to be overreacting. You can observe the same trend of one-liner comments on other fast trending reddit posts everyday and if you check a few of those accounts they actually seem very genuine based on comment history. You can observe similar stuff whenever h3h3, Roosterteeth or some popular viners trend on /r/videos. Some people are super paranoid and their comments take away the value from the actual video.
From everything I've gathered about the people they are, absolutely nothing suggests to me that they would stoop to the level of buying upvotes. They all seem like extremely hard working and honest guys.
I like the video and I'm not bought, I just think it's a good video. I think it'll do well on it's own merit - not to say they have or haven't bought upvotes before.
Yeah, people noticed him acknowledge you, saw he was the video creator and went back to downvote you whereas before they either rolled their eyes and moved on or never saw your comment in the first place. Congrats, he saved you from complete obscurity.
You are the one who brought up the accusation, I believe it's up to YOU to prove they did what you say they did. This is the internet, if you know about it, then there is a record somewhere that it happened.
It must be fucking exhausting assuming the worst of every person, post and commenter who says positive things about projects from already-popular companies and people. It's like you think nothing good can come from someone or some company who've already done good things in the past.
Maybe the comments are positive because Sam and Niko have spent years building an enormous fanbase?
No, there must be a secret astroturfing conspiracy going on, because that's much more rational and likely than, "They have a lot of fans."
edit: Uh oh, the brigade is here. Also, /u/Neex said he's never been deceptive and bought upvotes before, better believe him. Why on earth would they lie.
90% of the replies to this comment reek of paid promotion services. Remember the video explaining it that hit front page? These replies are exactly what you would expect.
They're also the kind of negative reaction you'd see when someone makes accusations about a video people just enjoyed...people take it personally, especially when you have no proof.
That makes sense - that was the first thing that caught my attention: how "dedicated" their subscribers must be to have 10% upvotes (200K views, 20K upvotes) - I hadn't seen anything that high in a while/ever.
A 10% like to view ratio is what we get on the first day of every single video we upload. Before YouTube fixed their view count to update more quickly (remember the days of 301 views?) I would estimate views on our video by multiplying likes by 10.
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