Haven't been paying much attention to Quartering lately because he was just doing more of the same but figured I'd pop into his livestream today. Oh boy, about half the run time was him and Melanie Mac having a cope session about where all their Youtube views went. Jeremy is in massive denial that people are just tired of his shit. He threw out a bunch of lame delusional theories like maybe USAID getting shut down knocked out some bot farm that was watching his videos and a bunch of equally pathetic copes. He also trotted out a lot of the old reliable copes about Youtube fucking with him in the algorithm and basically anything but his content sucks and people are tired of it.
At one point he argued with a chatter who said his views are falling off because he puts out a bunch of low effort clickbait full of ads and spams 5+ videos a day. He got very heated and told the chatter his opinion "doesn't fucking matter" because he's been doing the same format for the past 6 years nonstop with no problem. Sure Jeremy, nothing ever changes, keep telling yourself that and ignore the hundreds of different video formats and thousands of channels that have completely disappeared due to changes in trends over the past 5 years.
Reminder, I know this has been posted before but his "I killed my channel video" had literally thousands of his fans telling him that they were getting tired of his content and why. Here's the top two pages of replies on that video. Note some of the comments, like the one about his videos being clickbait about nothingburgers have thousands of likes.
I could go more in depth but that's basically the vibe. Just half of a two hour stream spent coping that of course people still want this kind of content but some magical force that can't be understood is keeping his channel in the gutter. He's even been calling his Youtube rep begging for answers and getting "we don't have any data on why your views are down" which is just a nice way of saying "problem seems to be on your end champ."
Jeremy, you've already gotten this feedback directly from your fans, you just don't want to hear it. When thousands of people engage with comments on your video that people are tired of your low effort trash content so they stopped watching and the average engagement rate for a Youtube video is around 2-3%, you do the math.
He's been down before and rebuilt but he's never been down this bad. In the past he's been able to rebuild off new viewers when outrage cycles replenish the pool of viewers. At this point though, who is interested in this kind of content who hasn't been exposed to TheQuartering? The woke media outrage viewers have moved over to the long form channels like Nerdrotic and Critical Drinker. There are a ton of new Youtube drama channels who cover that stuff better than he does. The hard news people have a million better places to go. Quartering's average viewer is in their 30-40's and only getting older. As their kids grow up and woke stuff is getting pushed out of schools they care less and less about culture wars nonsense and move on to other things. Zoomers aren't going to tune into this slop, they have their own taste in slop and it's not this. Across the right leaning griftosphere Quartering has become a punchline whenever he's mentioned. So where does the next crop of paypigs even come from?
He seems to be of the impression that his livestream is the future of the grift. Bad news, he admitted on this stream that the livestream is bleeding money and his new deal on Rumble makes no guaranteed money and fully relies on him pushing Rumble Premium to survive (as predicted in this thread). He admits he's been resisting moving to more premium content under increasing pressure from Rumble but that it will have to start by Fall. I think he realizes with the spot his channel is in right now that running another hard begging campaign would put too much stress on the grift to survive and is desperately hoping things turn around soon so he can pivot to another round of begging for money to pay his staff. He says the Youtube channel is currently paying the bills for the livestream but now with those views falling off a cliff he's clearly getting very nervous. He also deleted an underperforming video mid-stream that had something like 3000 views in the first hour. At one point he is talking about Youtube paying for the livestream and says "if things don't change..." then gets cut off and never finishes that thought but you can see where that was going.
Meanwhile more frivolous spending revealed. He was ranting for a while about a package not being delivered to his house because he couldn't get to the door fast enough and casually mentioned he had a "fish guy" making house calls to tend to his expensive new fish tanks. Money sure sounds tight over at Case De Hambly.
One more piece of cope. While he was saying the livestream was the future of his channel he was crying that Twitter, Kick, and Twitch views were view botted to shit. Meanwhile he was gushing about how his livestream supposedly had 25,000 concurrent viewers, which mysteriously jumped almost 15k in a matter of minutes. I can't imagine he's actually stupid enough to believe this. He kept going on that if he had 10k people sub to his stream across all platforms he would be happy with that and that is doable with his current audience, which is what leads me to believe that will be the next begging campaign with more promises to put out exclusive content (which he hasn't done in over a month). So get ready for this grow man to casually beg his audience to give him ~$50,000 a month sometime before Halloween. If your livestream actually had 25k live viewers you would have advertisers beating down the door to get in. Instead he's most recently been hawking chewable kids vitamins from some small company his buddy just started.
Last time I watched his stream was around 2 weeks ago and he was ranting about his declining views on a daily basis so I assume this has just been an ongoing thing this entire time. Things are only getting worse. Viewstats has his channel views down 20% over the last month.
Edit: Oh and speaking of Rumble view botting and engagement, the Rumble "Leaderboard" ranks all content from the previous day based on engagement, not "views." His livestream is ranked #41 for yesterday and there are streams with twice the engagement of his that barely got 20k views. His view count is entirely floated by view bots and being featured on the homepage during prime hours.
