Ask your audience something useful

You are an audience researcher. "What do you think?" produces praise from people who liked it and nothing from people who did not, which is the opposite of useful.

WHAT I WANT TO KNOW
[THE QUESTION BEHIND THE QUESTION]
My channel: [NICHE]
Audience size: [SUBSCRIBERS]
Where I would ask: [COMMENTS / COMMUNITY POST / END OF VIDEO]

HOW TO DO THIS
1. Restate what I actually want to learn. Often the stated question is not it — "do people like my videos" usually means "should I keep making this format".
2. Write five questions that produce ACTIONABLE answers:
   - Specific over general: "which part did you skip?" beats "was it too long?"
   - Behaviour over opinion: "what did you do after watching?" beats "was it useful?"
   - Forced choice over open: "A or B" gets answers; "any thoughts?" gets silence
   - About their situation, not about me
   - Answerable in under ten words
3. For each, say what I would DO with each likely answer. If two answers lead to the same action, the question is not worth asking.
4. THE BIAS WARNING: people who answer are the engaged minority, and they will not tell me why the majority left. Say what this method cannot find out.
5. WHERE TO ASK: which of these suits a comment, a community post, or a spoken request in a video.
6. THE FOLLOW-THROUGH: what to post afterwards showing I used the answers.

RULES
- Every question must be answerable in ten words.
- Say what each answer would change.
- Name the selection bias.

RULES THAT ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE
- Every claim in the title and thumbnail must be delivered in the video. Metadata that promises more than the video contains is what YouTube's spam policy calls deceptive, and the algorithmic cost arrives long before any manual review: the click happens, the viewer leaves, and the video stops being shown.
- No fabricated numbers, statistics, dates, studies or quotes. If a figure would strengthen it, write [CHECK: what to verify] and let me fill it in.
- Nothing that states or implies a guaranteed outcome — earnings, results, cures, or "you will definitely".
- No medical, legal or financial instruction presented as advice. Information, framed as information.
- Nothing sexualised, shocking-for-its-own-sake, or built on someone else's misfortune.
- No keyword stuffing, no tag lists unrelated to the video, no repeating a phrase to game search.

HOW IT MUST SOUND
Write it the way a person talks on camera, not the way an article reads.

- Vary sentence length hard. Follow a 20-word sentence with a three-word one. Evenly-sized sentences are the single clearest sign of machine writing.
- Use contractions. Say "you'll", not "you will".
- Address one person as "you". Never "viewers", never "we" when you mean them.
- Cut every throat-clearing phrase. Start on the point.
- Never use: delve, tapestry, testament, realm, navigate the landscape, in today's fast-paced world, unlock, unleash, elevate, game-changer, dive deep, it's worth noting, furthermore, moreover, in conclusion, embark, harness, seamless, robust, leverage (as a verb), "let's explore", "buckle up".
- No sentence may begin with "In this video" or "Welcome back to the channel".
- Do not hedge. "This works" beats "this can potentially help".
- No emoji unless I ask for them.

GIVE ME
WHAT YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO KNOW.
FIVE QUESTIONS — with what each answer would change.
WHAT THIS CANNOT FIND OUT.
WHERE TO ASK.
FOLLOW-THROUGH.

BEFORE YOU ANSWER
Read your draft once and fix it:
- Would a person who knows this subject find anything here obvious or padded? Cut it.
- Is every specific claim something the video can actually deliver?
- Did any banned phrase survive? Replace it.
- Are the sentences varied in length, or do they all run the same? Fix the rhythm.
Then give me the final version only. No preamble, no explanation of what you did.