Why Did I Choose BitView?
December 6, 2025That's a very good question. Infact, it's so good that if i were to get 1 Pound for every time someone's asked me that question, i'd have enough money to buy Malta.
I'm the kind of person who ditches something the moment it spits in my face, and it's been like that ever since i was young. The only difference is that the lengths i've gone to have only started to get more and more agressive, and i feel like it's a defining trait for who i am as a person. Just to give you an example, Nexus Mods folded to the Online Safety Act, and added a requirement for any UK citizens to submit their ID if they want to install mature mods. What was my response? To delete all of my mods and put them on another site. That's just a baseline example for some of the stunts i've pulled.
However, moves like that are a lot harder to do if the subject matter is something you've been pouring your heart and soul into for 12 years, and YouTube was already pushing the line way back when it changed the way the site looked in the Late 2010's and when they removed their API for dislikes, but the boiling point for me (and for a LOT of other people) was the dreaded August 13th update where they added AI Surveilance to any viewers in the United States. If the AI thinks you're a minor, you then can't watch any videos that it THINKS is for older users, and the only way to prove you're an adult is by giving them your ID.
It's still unbelievable to me that we've even reached that point, but that's the world we live in now.
A little bit after the announcement came out, i was reminded of a site that i used for a little while back in 2021, but to explain how i found it, i need to go on a brief deviation and talk to you about Roblox Revivals.
I'm someone who can confidently say that they are a veteran of this fairly niche community, as i was around for the final few years of both Finobe and GoodBlox. Even though i have a LOT to say about Finobe, we're only going to be focusing on the latter for this page.
Revival communities usually tend to be interlinked with some kind of other revival community in one way or another. Whether it be one developer's name showing up in multiple communities due to their own contributions or one revival being oddly trendy in the community of another revival. The latter was true for GoodBlox, likely due to the official trailer for Goodblox only ever being uploaded to there, and it lead to a large chunk of BitView's users at the time being people from GoodBlox making accounts because they thought it was cool. I was one of these people, and the first two videos i uploaded to BitView perfectly showcase this.
However, due to this solely being something done to compliment another revival rather than being done for BitView on it's own, when GoodBlox shut down due to a hack shortly after it's "Goodblox Grand Prix" event (which i ended up making a Summoning Salt parody for) almost nobody from GoodBlox stuck around with BitView. The only person who interacted with my videos in 2021 that was still active on BitView by the time i came back to the site was a user by the name of "TB1". Everyone else was either inactive or terminated.
Over the next couple years, i would use BitView occasionally as a dumping ground for a couple of videos that i wanted to put up without going through the effort of displaying them on my main channel, and that's how it would stay for the next 3 years.
And now we return to the present day, where YouTube had announced a whole raft of new changes made to make using the site a living nightmare for literally everyone. At this point, i figured "Okay, why don't i just go for it?" and made my main focus BitView instead of YouTube. However, i couldn't just immediately make the jump. I had a channel that was still growing thanks to one video that, for lack of other words, blew the fuck up. There was no way i was going to completely abandon that. To combat that, i came up with a system where my videos would come out on BitView first and every time YouTube screwed up the video would come out a little bit later onto their site. I initially designed this to be a gradual thing, thinking that there was no way YouTube would make THAT many rash decisions...
...and it only took them 43 days to reach an entire year on the waiting list. I'm not even joking.
And that's how i ended up choosing BitView. What started out as a trend from an era that's pretty much completely vanished ended up being my ticket to a site that i actually felt comfortable putting my videos on. I might make another page about my experiences with BitView, but this page should at least answer the question for why i chose it.
Oh, and i almost chose VidLii. Considering the reputation they've got, thank GOD i did my research beforehand.