Did a stupid little remix of the boiks riffing on Palworld.

Wondering what everybody's thoughts are on GTA 6, both in general and for the boiks.

From what I've seen it's a bit more focused on realism than GTA 5, and I feel like that might make it a less entertaining playground for them to explore. I'm thinking of things like the more complicated car jacking mechanics, which slows the pace down a bit.

Obviously it's early days and I'm hoping they'll announce more about multiplayer and content creator tools soon, but based on what we know now are people excited to see the boiks play it?

Also I've not caught them live recently, does anyone know if they have discussed the extended look trailer on stream?

Boiks I love you but the loose, out of tune mouth trumpet bit has fully ran its course. I can’t stand hearing that awful noise EVERY video. It’s causing a Pavlovian response when I hear real life trumpets, please, no more.

EDIT- Fine due to popular demand the mandrake sounding nails on a chalkboard mouth trumpet can stay

The first of hopefully several, more songs here: https://www.youtube.com/@HatFilmsMusicUnofficial

I am manually going through every public video from 2026 to find music, if people want to suggest clips then leave a comment on the video of the title (and time stamp if it's a stream).

I noticed Hat Films content has been seriously underperforming where it should be, so I investigated the video descriptions and I see a common theme. The descriptions have front loaded links and zero actual descriptions about the content of the video itself.

I have a bachelors degree in computer science and recently restarted my own Youtube channel (after years of studying how the algorithm works, been on Youtube almost as long as Hat Films, by a few months.) The NEW algorithm is heavily reliant on AI (mainly NLPs) and this is actually hurting their overall impressions/discovery.

There is a quick and simple fix they can implement in the future that will see instant results - Simply front load into the descriptions "Hat Films playing [Enter Game Name] a [Meta Words] game." all it will take for their content to start seeing double the overall engagement.

Here is an example "Hat Films playing Shift At Midnight, a Hilarious Co-op Survival Horror game; is Smith a doppleganger?"

The NLPs only read the first 60-90 words in your description, so this is best practice now for maximum impressions across the website, rather than pushing purely to subscribers/using the limited information the NLP gathered from the title/transcript to push the video to the correct audience.

A short, simple description that describes what the video is about, and one link right under (then you can load the rest of the description with the links/ect)

They don't really need to change much at all about their descriptions, just adding this front loaded meta rich information does all the work in 2026. (hashtags still "work" but this is actually being phased out by this NLP system)

Anyways, I love the content, love the hat bois, so proud of them as a long time fan, hopefully this information can be of some help, they deserve way more views than what the system is providing them.

EDIT -

One thing I forgot, time stamps are also incredibly important in 2026, it segments the video automatically and the NLP is incredibly biased towards content with chapters for whatever reason, somehow it helps categorize/recommend content. (I am not entirely sure how this works, supposedly it helps google index the video/make it show up in searches, but this isn't something I have fully researched yet.)

Don’t go get those nips out (0:23)

Hopefully we get a new hat films voice pack

Will you try his billiards game?

Been doing another listen of old episodes of the podcast and I was noticing I was hearing more ads, but it’s all been on while packing up a house so I didn’t pay much attention to HOW frequent I was getting them. I would just get annoyed, skip and move on.

That is until I was heading to work this morning and was hit with 5 ad breaks in the first 5 minutes which I then screen-grabbed. It was leaving the show basically unlistenable with all the interruptions.

Unsure if this is solely on my side, but this is with Spotify premium allegedly stopping more coming in, and a few of these are definitely the “in pod” ads that are put on usually around the half way mark. And it only happens on HatChat, all other pickaxe shows I listen to have normal adverts.

Anyone else having any issues with Spotify for this?

unless it's the Hats, they are so fucking good!

Good game for the boiks. An actually well made multiplayer fishing game and shooter AND it has gambling!