King Sasanka – Sri Lankan Writer & Retired Aviation Professional.

Breaking Free from the Algorithm: Why I Pulled My Most Successful Video Looking at my YouTube analytics brings me a profound sense of relief. It is a strange feeling, considering the dashboard shows a significant drop in every major metric that influences monetisation. For most content creators, a downward trend is a cause for panic. For me, it feels like a hard-won liberation. The Illusion of Viral Success Some time ago, I posted a short video recorded purely on a whim. The footage captured an animal being handled or, more accurately, mishandled. I didn’t post it with expectations of grand reach, but the internet had other plans. The video exploded, pulling in thousands of watch hours, a surge of subscribers, and a relentless flurry of comments from self-proclaimed activists and animal lovers. On paper, my channel was thriving. In reality, it was suffocating. My true passion lies in creating educational, long-form content. However, because of the sudden algorithmic spike from the shor...

Nowadays Social Media is galore with thousands of Animal Lovers in different forms.  That is fine with me because I love all living beings. However, when one steps out onto the real world, one would see more and more Meat shops being opened in every nook and cranny in the country. The problem is that most of these so-called Animal Lovers' attention is always one-directional. Once when I posed this to some of them to explain, what is their standing on the Horse driven carriages being used by some royalties to parade in ceremonies, Bullfighting etc, and I found they were dumb silent. There are many police forces around the world that have mounted police units in their amour. What is their real standing on those issues, not only a tusker being used to carry around a venerated religious symbol? What do these So-called Animal Lovers really want? The Sooner we find out, the better for all.

The United Kingdom celebrated the Queen's 90th Birthday with pomp and pageantry today. She was driven around in a horse driven carriage and hundreds more were seen on horse back during the ceremony. It was something nice to watch. But I could not help wondering where were the so-called Animal Lovers today, who are very active in some of the social media about elephants being mistreated in Buddhist Temple festivals. If using elephants for festivities is bad, then how come it is good for horses? Can someone enlighten me please?