tags
So about a week ago, I checked my channel analytics to see how I was doing. I scroll through everything to see what works and what doesn't, though, was surprised to find that some people who had been watching me had "originally" "found" me did so by looking for the tag Disabled Veteran.
You'll notice the two words that are being put in quotations. I do this specifically for 2 reasons:
1 - I have never and will never use the Disabled Veteran tag as I am not disabled, nor have I ever been in the military. I have great respect for all Veterans and would never want to advertise myself as such when I am not one.
2 - I sent in a support ticket regarding this and come to find out: the reason this tag shows for me is because someone who raided and hosted me at some point was using this tag.
I like having all the data I can possibly get my hands on to further better myself as someone who provides content and entertainment for people and the platform, but I feel this is something that misrepresents or, at the very least, doesn't accurately represent everything that occurred and leads to confusion.
My recommendation is simple. Instead of putting tags from others who have raided and/or hosted me have used into my personal analytics, I think there should a listing of tags of those who have raided and/or hosted me have used. Currently, the the subject for the listing of tags reads "Which tags are users filtering by to find my channel?" If someone raids me and uses a tag I either can't or will never use, that specific tag ends up under this particular heading which again, leads to a lot of confusion and depending on how large that raid/host was, completely skews the analytics. For reference: The Disabled Veteran tag which I have never used now accounts for 33% of all the viewers that have watched my channel. Although this very well may be true, this DOES NOT mean that they found my channel specifically because they found me using that tag. Instead, they found me because someone that does use it hosted me and this does not help my personal analytics whatsoever.
So add another header, something along the lines of "Which tags do those who have raided/hosted me use?" or "What tags have viewers searched to find those who have raided/hosted me searched for?" Something like this would show all tags those people use and search for, as well as allow me to see whether there is something I have not been utilizing and also does not skew the analytics of tags people were using specifically when then found me or anyone else.