Palladium YouTube Sections Added

I added a group of YouTube search results to the sidebar for various Palladium games and topics. I like listening to these podcasts on my walks, and they help me zone out and focus on the games I love.

What has happened to all the Palladium videos? I swear there were a bunch 4-6 years ago, and then most of them disappeared. YouTubers figured out it was more profitable to complain about Wizards and 5E rather than cover the games we love, so all the great Palladium coverage dried up.

This is YouTube's massive problem, and the negativity feeds on itself. Even the dedicated D&D YouTubers openly admit "clickbait titles and thumbnails work," and they do it on purpose to game the system, but there is nothing they can do. Wizards, D&D, and their games get all the attention and coverage, and the game everyone wants to hear about gets none. It is a cycle that feeds on itself and poisons the ecosystem.

Yes, I want clicks too! But at what cost? If all I am going to do on YouTube is yell at Wizards, I will not even do it. Other people are better at it than I am, and why do I want to waste my time and energy on negativity-chasing clicks? It is garbage in, garbage out.

I will happily watch a 7-year-old Palladium video I have seen before over "what did Wizards or Games Workshop do this week" outrage clickbait.

Don't force me to do a channel devoted to the games I love; I will happily prove everyone wrong. You can be a role-playing content creator and never touch D&D, Wizards, or clickbait outrage.

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