Seeking Feedback On My Interviews Videos

It would be nice for you to respond in the moment to some of the comments. Cutaway from the woman and inject your analysis then cut back

Well you're the star and your insights are most valuable.. but they are fun sometimes. I guess I'm never quite sure the women are being honest on camera and whether they are representative. Also the girls are pretty young so does a women in her thirties have the same perspective?

Andy

I prefer your monologues

Devin Barnes

Maybe still interview with as many questions, but break them into pairs of questions for review and analysis each video? Don't underestimate the library you're creating here though - in the future you'll be able to do a Topic video and pull from a variety of interviews where women say things in support of your conclusion. I think, in the end, people want you to talk to them and, even if you don't want to make a conclusion, give a leading question for us to think about and come to our own conclusions.

Joe Mullany

Interesting how many people are bothered by the imperfect sound quality and the accents. That doesn't bother me at all. And I think lately you've been providing lots of subtitles anyway. I still think the interview videos are fascinating and valuable. Other channels have street interviews with girls, but yours is unique, I think, in asking deeper, well-thought-out questions.

Blair

For me the videos that are just interviews without your analysis are too long and repetitive. Its when you break things down and add context to the interview that it becomes interesting.

I'm one of the guys who likes to watch the interviews, but usually just on the subjects that pique my interest. I would say I'm probably influenced on some subconscious level, by the attractiveness of the girl on the thumbnail - sorry it wasn't me it was the right side of my brain. I notice the top two most viewed interview videos also have attractive females in thumbnails. That's probably my biggest single motivator to watch anything, I want a high quality female or I want to know why I don't have one. Yours is the best channel that explains the mysterious dynamics of the www - weird world of women.

In one of the interviews a women called nice guys pathetic. It would be great if you asked a follow up question as to why that is

I love them. Even if it’s the same topic a year later to see how responses may change over time or if they stay consistent. Interviews feel real or in-real time type feel. Thanks for everything.

MRM_7

Your commentary is the reason I tune in to the channel. Without your commentary the interviews with the women are just un-developed and unprepared statements by everyday women. Not only is there usually nothing said which stands out, but a large appeal of your channel is your deciphering of the everyday speech of women.

The problem with the street interviews is that it is rare that the random woman on the street has any unique insight into the nuance in the relations between men and woman. You, on the other hand, have your research and the intelligence to make sence of it. You often have a deeper insight into why the woman in the interview answered the way she did. It is not often you are surprised by the answer given.

Michael Carleton

The biggest problem with most of the interview videos is the low quality of the sound editing and the background noise. Sometimes you can barely hear what the women are saying because if the things going on in the background (bangs, pops, birds, traffic, etc.) or it's just too hard to understand the women because of the accents. In cases like those, if you were to be able to provide subtitles I believe that would help. For the record, YouTube's automated subtitles are horrible and rarely help. I realize this puts an extra burden on you producing these videos but, I think added up, that's the reason for the lower viewership on those videos. You watch a couple of them and get frustrated by these issues and bypass them in the future.

Thanks for asking Alexander. Personally, my motivation for watching your content is very simple, I want to be successful in life. While not everyone will agree on what that means, I'm convinced that for me, understanding dating and relationships is a big step toward this. There are other channels which I follow for succes regarding productivity, purpose and financial succes. I regard your content as the more advanced segment of the dating and relationship category. Dating coaches make up the simpler side of the spectrum, considering that they will only focus on the basics of attraction between people rather than also considering the functioning of successful long term relationships. The videos I value most are the ones which are efficient at teaching some of the broader underlaying principles. In that respect, the interview videos seem less efficiënt. Firstly, due to the fact that the content is very narrow and it does not fit within a logical sequence of videos (things don't flow in chapters of a consistent story). Secondly, the interviews feel less efficiënt due to the limited production value (not meant mean - the sound and lighting are not always optimal, the interviewees are literally coming up with answers on the spot -hence they mumble and weigh their words - and aren't focussed on a specific topic as much). In all honesty, the videos I liked best were the ones which were the most educative: where you discuss the basics of the dating market and the deeper psychology of men and women. Anyway, that's just my 2 cents. Hope you find it useful.

When miked (sound control) and edited well, these videos are extraordinarily useful, as women often tell you things with their eyes that don't always match what's coming out of their mouths. A great potential springboard, but sometimes the sound quality and speech (sometimes accents, too) are so difficult to plow through. Please keep them up.

Captain Slick

The interviews are lower ROI to me because they're largely predictable and more illustrate a phenomenon that I'm already familiar with. They also suffer from the typically low age of the interviewees, and a normal distribution of intelligence leading to shallow answers a majority of the time. I think they'd be improved by occasional bits of you cutting in with analysis. Also, many of the interviews have great, structured questions that go somewhere; others just ask a cornucopia of simplistic questions... obviously I prefer the former.

William Mullen

I equally like the video where you conduct interviews with women and where you talk. In both I find a lot of interesting things for me and I don’t understand why some people don’t watch them to the end.

VitAnyaNaked

I really enjoy the interview episodes, but think they can be improved in two ways: adding context to (some of) the questions before the answers are shown and by giving instant analysis of some of the more interesting answers. I think this would still provide the entertainment of the interviews while also bringing some of that valuable knowledge of your monologues.

I generally enjoy the interviews although, as mentioned already, the audio quality sometimes makes them difficult to watch.

I do like the street interviews even though they resemble as some sort of a male version of a Cosmopolitan Magazine poll. Occasionally you will catch someone who is conflicted or confused and its comical but there are those interviews where you get someone who just says it like it is and is open and upfront and those can be eye opening. Keep the interviews but work on finding better questions or topics.

I apologize for the lengthy comment about to happen as I have a very difficult time with keeping my answers short, because I want to be precise and not be misunderstood. For those who hate reading, if you bother to even read the first 4 lines of my comment after looking at the length, you can jump down to conclusions and suggestions if you are hoping for something shorter and you are interested to some extent. Please don’t think I am referencing everyone or anyone in particular with my comments below. I read a lot of comments after watching a video, so I am generalizing, which of course will never be 100% accurate. There are so many videos. A lot of the interview videos I have watched so far were the ones automatically recommended by the youtube algorithm to watch next. This may attribute to the problem for the way some people choose what to watch. I didn't realize how many interview videos you had until I went directly to your channel, as most automatic recommended videos are your analysis. I will probably get to them sooner or later, but it was not purposely ignored at this point for myself. With that said, I do have some feedback from my personal thoughts/opinion about those videos. Personal experience: When I was growing up and was trying to understand females, I have gotten a lot of feedback from women telling me how I need to behave around them and how to speak to them regardless if I was asking for advice or not. I have spent a lot of my life applying women's advice during my youth. Some women are more aware of how other females are than others, just like males. However, I noticed that most of the times I followed females advice, it usually was situational or pertained to being more empathetic to them. Much of females advice helps women to feel more relaxed around you when the advice is applied properly. The situational advice seemed useless at first until I was able to see/understand the reasoning behind it, but then I would realize they poorly described the advice and what they said they wanted vs. what they really wanted was poorly conveyed due to they were having trouble putting feelings into words. This is a common issue with males and females contrary to the popular belief I see a lot of comments from people saying women don’t know what they want. I understand why so many come to that conclusion though. Observations/Analysis: Viewers: I think your channel attracts people who have done more analysis of males and females than the average person has. I could be wrong, so my analysis below will cover different basis. The attraction of your channel is trying to understand women and men trying to make sense of things regarding themselves and women. There are different types of viewers you are going to attract, but I will try to break it down from my perspective. You have 2 types of videos right now as you mentioned: Your interviews with females and your explanation videos. (You may have more different types than this, but I am new to your channel, so I have not had the time to go through enough of them to break it down further. Please excuse any inaccuracies I may have due to I need time to catch up.) 1. Some men have talked to plenty of women and they don't understand them. It’s not easy for some people to understand a reality that is different from their own perspective. So for these types of males I will break it down to 2 groups. Group A. Males who are keeping an open mind and trying to understand the women, but struggle with it. It is difficult to understand another person’s life experiences/view points when there is a gap between your personal life experiences and another person’s life experiences. When you can’t relate to a person it is more difficult to understand them. I would have to have to say that these types of people would probably watch your interview videos and be unable to understand what conclusions to draw from them. They may try to understand, but this can cause them to come to inaccurate conclusions. They probably feel more comfortable watching the videos of your explanations, because you make it easier to understand for them and your confidence in your answers probably makes them feel more assured of the conclusions rather than drawing their own conclusions from your interviews with females videos. Group B. Males who may or may not feel they are keeping an open mind, but are really close minded. They may attempt to try to understand the women, but they have already drawn their conclusions about females, so when they watch the female interviews they only do so with a listening ear to wait for the handful of moments that confirm what they feel they know regardless if their original conclusion was accurate or not. For those people, they probably feel why waste my time with those videos when they don’t help? I am not saying when they see or hear those moments of confirmation they are inaccurate or what the woman/women said was inaccurate. I am also not saying they are accurate. What I am saying is that in all science you get observations. Some people notice more details than others and some notice different details than others. We are all looking at the same details in different ways based on our personal prior experiences and knowledge. When it comes to drawing conclusions in understanding the reasoning behind what details we see, we all have an innate personal bias that will determine the results/conclusions. Example: 2 people on the opposite side of the road see a car crash. Let’s say 1 of those people is a mechanic and other a cop. 1 person saw the car on the left crash into the car on the right. The other saw the opposite being on the other side of the road. Each person saw only the details from their angle and they both disagree with each other on how or why the car crash happened, because of the different details they picked up on and how they interpreted what they saw. They may come to some accurate conclusions and agreements, but sometimes even both parties would come to an inaccurate conclusion without keeping a completely open mind and trying to analyze all the details. The conclusion could have been the brake lines were cut on the car behind and without further inspection and an open mind nobody would have ever known, because the when you draw a conclusion, then people tend to stop looking further into the matter. Therefore, their feelings is that it’s a waste of time and they never understand the reality behind it. I am not saying this is the case with everyone. 2. Some men have rarely talked to females or not at all. For these types of people, they will run into a couple of issues to say the least. You have the case of inexperience, which makes them take what women say at face value, which if they do, then they will see contradictions in what women say and see comments of what people say and draw the conclusions that are stating the obvious. These conclusions will seem “accurate” when looking at everything at face value. The female said 1,2,3 and then later said 3,2,1 for a similar or same question when she started trying to further explain herself. Therefore this must mean this female is a liar or does not know what she is talking about. Right? Right!? RIGHT!? I will explain the reason for this emphasis later in my conclusion. For right now, I am pointing this out as a reason some people will come to the conclusions that either they can’t/won’t understand females from watching those videos. This creates a self fulfilling prophecy. If a person thinks or feels they can’t understand or won’t understand something from a video, then subconsciously or consciously they will give up, because they have already come to this conclusion, whether based on their own original thoughts/feelings or the comment section of other people’s thoughts/feelings. At some point the females words morph from words to blah, blah, blah for them. Then they run to your other video of explanations to get an understanding or interpretation of what they saw/heard and are like...oh! I didn’t know that that! So interesting! or yes! I knew that/I agree with that. People feel good about what they understand and what makes sense. Conclusions and Suggestions (based off my personal analysis so far) Your videos are really well done. The questions seem to be articulated fairly well to say the least, so that the questions help the females give their initial thoughts, then later come back to analyze their own perspectives (in some of your videos). I do think that a stranger with a camera in front of anyone’s face and asking personal questions is going to cause them to hold back people from divulging a completely accurate and honest truth. Especially if they do not see anything personal to gain, this may also contribute to some of them reluctantly being truthful if at all. The way the interview questions are formed can help curb this, which is what has been done to some extent. I know I emphasized that point 2 times now, but I emphasize this for a specific reason. The way the interviews feel is as follows: Some random guy (I’m assuming he is good looking, otherwise the females would probably not give them the time of day for these types of questions especially.) goes up to a (maybe or maybe not) random female and asks to do some interview questions. The woman feels special to get the attention, (especially a possibly attractive male attention) and agrees. She hears the question(s) initially and tells her initial/instinctive thoughts on the subject of a question she may or may not have given much thought to previously. She gets asked more situational questions that are sometimes about other women and sometimes directly about herself. She has no problem being open with what she thinks about other women and generalizing (aware of others), but when asked questions about self, then she is hesitant and sees things differently (self aware). Then she is asked the same or similar question as the beginning question, where she either: A. recognizes what she said is inaccurate and is now able to explain her new thoughts about a subject she may or may not have thought of before. B. held back from the truth on the initial questions, because she did not feel comfortable giving an honest answer, but now sees that the person doing the interview already has an idea of the real answer and now feels she must be more honest or come off as not knowing what she is talking about. C. is not self aware enough to make the connections, because she is not an introspective person. I appreciate how brave some of these women are and feel bad for the women who didn’t realize what they got themselves into. I am not saying this is wrong or right in case this feels that way. I am indifferent about it., but can feel empathetic. I just wonder if these same women would respond different if they were given time and anonymity for their responses to the question. I think we would see a similar result in answers, which leads to my suggestion to figure out an answer to your question about if videos of you talking gets more views than women being interviewed. As I said before, I am new to your channel to some extent, but have binge watched some of your content, so you may have already tried some of the suggestions I am about to make. Do you think there would be a difference in the responses of females in person on video vs in person off video vs online video vs online chat vs questionnaire given to females, which gives them time to think and write responses? I would expect there to be slight differences relatively speaking, but I feel that with different female personalities, the females that allow you to do in person video recording of interview questions about personal questions about their gender would only be able to be done with certain types of women. I think this won’t result in a completely accurate depiction of all types of women. When we generalize the idea of a high quality woman, are we suggesting that a high quality woman will be willing to do the in person video interviews or can shy women be considered high quality too? Maybe I am the odd one, but I think there are high quality women who are more shy and would not get involved with this current process. This would make inconclusive results. Also, you could voice those results with more anonymity, and explain your findings through you talking to see if it really is the case that you get more views on you explaining results to question/answers from women.

I often find the answers of the women quite cringeworthy, which is hard to watch. So if you don't talk at all, it often gets too much for me. And I always feel like I am wasting my time, when listening to clueless people. Also the camera and audio quality is often quite bad. Maybe you should give the interviewers money to get a better camera and microphone. That will improve things a lot. I would use a shotgun microphone with a deadcat, because it eliminates background noises to a huge degree.

The interview only videos aren't as entertaining in my opinion because there only seems to be one perspective. But the ones where you are giving your thoughts in between the interview clips are more effective. As it's more of a 'reaction' video, which usually does better on YouTube. Maybe even having more controversial topics could help as they would stand out more.

It’s seams obvious, but some might not admit it. When you produce video for mostly male audience they would prefer to see some female faces in it (even despite it carrying less educational value). I often only listen to your analysis videos but the interview videos one have to watch, even just to keep up with who is speaking. I think you should try some shorter (<20min) one to one interviews with a older girl where you discuss thoughts on some specific phenomena or scientific article. Your last huge tinder video was kind of that format but the girl was just too young to have a perspective (although she was a good subject of experiment). I was surprised you didn’t “confront” Georgia Free live in your last “When should you tell the girl you like her” video. It might be strange since she would have been split between objective truth and keeping her appearances of high value. That is why I would recommend you keep the topic detached.

Some interviews I liked when they managed to expose some flawed thinking and showed the reaction of women who realize some logical inconsistency in their world view. A good example is the interview on make-up being for women what confidence/pick-up seminars are for men. It was really cool to see the women's reaction to that thought. Other than that, not much to add to what previous commenters had written. Most of the time it interviews provide little value as women respond in a socially acceptable manner sometimes far from reality.

David Koerner

I have already commented on this before - the interviews are fine but you are mostly talking to kids. You need to broaden the age brackets.

Marek Szumlas

They're a great format which is why I became a patreon supporter. Lately I've noticed I don't always watch them in full. However, if they are just a segment of your long form / face to camera content, I'm more likely to watch 100%. Keep up the great content

Ruairidh

Difference between you speaking and girl interviews is density and quality of information, I think. Try conducting pools. Ask many girls and then present statistics. That would make interview more meaningfull and dense, and also raise quality of information. Also, interviewer should be a girl. That would make us trust more at what she say since there is possibility of them catering answers to male interviewer. Also, consider giving option to every interviewed girl if she wants to have her face blurred. If she sad yes then blur it. That would have multiple positive effects, I think explanation is not needed. Inform audience all girls had that option. Also, interview could be done by two people, camera+interviewer. That would seem higher production quality, important for youtube but not so much for patreon. Very good work, keep it up. 👍

Your street interviews were what got me interested in your channel to begin with. Don't stop that. I think that you are doing a great job there, but try to not overexcuse certain female behavior...like: This girl was so funny, she was sociable, friendly etc.... It's like you are trying to defend her position, instead of getting to the meat of the matter, which you are REALLY good at. View reduction does not mean that there's losing interest in the material. It can only be temporary. Besides...how do you know the viewcounts are 100% reliable? Maybe youtube is fudging your numbers because they find your content unsettling to them as you expose the truth about women.

I don't get so much out of the videos with only interviews. Most women answer in unintersting socially acceptable ways, regardless of if they actually believe what they say, or say things they believe they are supposed to say. If you don't add context to their answers or discuss them somehow with some analysis, there is not so much value for me.

Rickard Fors

I am very happy with your work. That is why I support you on Patreon.

Mickey Turner

Hello David, i’d like to comment on this to leave some nuance if Alex reads this. While i understand your point of view, and agree that watching alex speak rather than the girls is far more interesting. Leaving the girls’ answers in makes it more palatable for new viewers, who are still trying to decide if they should trust Alex, which is important i believe.

I love the interview videos as it provides raw data that is often contrary to social commentary and expectations. Treating the videos as a survey I believe provides better information than if you were to explore issues more deeply with an individual. I also think your knowledge and experience in these matters leading to how to edit the interviews is valuable. Maybe a different approach is to interview people who feel they have significantly benefited from the content you produce and use that for marketing purposes.

I watch your interview videos, but I can get quite frustrated with the lack of interaction. Sometimes the girl just answers the question and you can already interpret what she says in many different ways, I would like to have more follow-up questions that investigate why we have this answer and the implications, so taylored to this answer which would mean giving more freedom to the interviewer. Basically, I would be more interested in discussions/debate rather than interviews with preset questions.

I kinda like those interviews. The only thing that bugs me is when two women are being interviewed at the same time. They constantly look at each other and validate what they say. It's so annoying to look at. It's much better to see a single woman being interviewed.

Marcin Rajski

I like 'em. Helps me get a feel how women turn with the wind based on their current emotional state. I'm not judging that anymore, I just want to grow my understanding/feeling for it so I can better deal with it irl. Still funny when they contradict themselves though ^^ But also kinda lovely!

rumlyne

If i see a video with only interviews, I skip it. It is because of following reasons: Women are usually not self aware, they change their mind during the interview, they do not have their own thoughts sorted out, they are lying to themselves, so basically it is of zero value to listen what several women thinks without your discussion afterwards. I rarely watch such videos as soon as I realize it is interviews only. It is almost impossible for me to learn something from such videos, because I do not know where is the "truth" :)

The videos in which you interview women in the street serve a purpose different from your discussion videos. The former is the raw material, the latter your carefully thought out analyses of the various issues. The interviews are always interesting to me, at least, not because the women provide any insight, but because they demonstrate how young women communicate. Almost nothing they say can be taken at face value – they contradict each other and often themselves because, putting it bluntly, they never tell the truth. This is because they are programmed to dissemble and it is often the case that they don’t really know what they think, how they feel or what they mean when they speak. They are even less likely to be honest, if that is even possible, when interviewed in the presence of others. So, I wouldn’t dismiss the interviews, but it is always helpful to discuss them as well.

I definitely get more out of the videos of you talking. Sometimes after watching those videos, I have a real "ah-ha" moment. There is still a lot of value in the interview videos, but they mostly confirm what I already suspected in the first place. I think the two videos styles compliment each other very well.

Ken Schafer

Alex, your street interviews are very revealing! I particularly like it when you rephrase your questions and the ladys' resultant answers.

Personally, I really enjoy the interview format and would even like it if you were able to get more interviews to get the perspectives of even more women. It's nice to have you analyze their responses, but for me personally, it's also nice to have multiple women echo similar sentiments.

Brian Bae

I like them, even though they may be pretty straight forward. I would like to see more trick, 180° type question on expectations. I.e. .. let princess go on and on about what she wants in xyz... then flip the question around asking what they bring to the guys in that realm and watch their eyes turn l lizard and roll back into their heads in as they spas out looking for programming to quote ... and find none. I crack myself up! I think it is all good .. just bait'em and switch to find the real response. You do great work .. thank you !

K M

I would prefer a fast paced approach with a fast conclusion as opposed to not knowing what the video is about and it having a generic feel?! Videos that are specific?

Ebrahim Ali

They feel long. It's like I'm doing the interview myself and not only that it's taking a long time. I just want 1,2,3,4,5,6 answers in quick successions showcasing something. You can provide a link for the full interview for legitimacy.

Ebrahim Ali

The street interviews have too much noise in the background a lot of the times, usually I have to turn up the volume to listen what people say. Also, the audio volume is too different to your recordings in your room.

Also, would you do another video about simping/whiteknighting, and what's the biological and social reason why most men are simps.

I think the interview videos can be more difficult to decipher Alex. The learnings and take-aways aren't as straight forward as your straight-to-camera videos. We guys generally need things to be spelt out for us.

Communicate With Confidence

Alex, while I genuinely appreciate you go on to the street and interview women on a variety of topics (since this involves huge effort), like most viewers with limited leisure time, I prefer my time spent on valuable talks with you talking alone. When women talking, their answers are easily predictable for people with just a little bit knowledge about female nature. Also when they tell a lie it's easy to see spot it's a lie (they don't want to jeopardize their own SMV or the modern SMV system that biased crazy toward themselves). When you are talking alone, on the other hand, you are making critical points with science theories that explain why certain behaviors exhibit despite they are seemingly easy to predict. This is ultra valuable to me and other men as well. I personally not only watch your content as to improve the dynamics between me and females, but also expand knowledge in this regards.

I think those interviews are not useful. The girls respond in a politically correct way and that's it. Wasted time!

I can never be sure those women are telling the truth because they may just be playing up to the expected societal answers as they are on camera. With you alone, I feel you talk directly to the me like you are a friend actually trying enlighten me, and have data to back it up.

I like your interviews. Although some of the topics/questions that you use for the interviews. I don’t really pay attention to them because I already know the consensus amongst women. I guess that these interviews can either be a miss or hit when it comes to their popularity.

Love the interview format. If I don’t click on them, it’s mainly because I don’t know it’s an interview video. I noticed with your previous videos, the concept or question that you talked about was in the title (ie. AWALT - Interviewing beach girls). I think if you have the main question and then put interview somewhere in the title, I would be more likely to click on it. Do whatever you think is best though! I appreciate your content nonetheless.

Kyle Worden

I still love the interview format. It's actually one of the reasons I originally subscribed to the channel.

Huh thats weird. The streetinterview videos are fantastic

Nhat-Lam Luong