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Am I the only one who has never been able to watch YouTube since it became more than a two minute clip of how to do a thing? The whole format of stretching content to reach some arbitrary monetization benchmark is unwatchable to me.
The whole format of stretching content to reach some arbitrary monetization benchmark is unwatchable to me.
Good thing there's plenty of content that isnt that format on the site
A fairly popular youtuber I follow has called Jim Serling's videos "great 5 minute videos stretched to 20 minutes". There was a point in time when the yt algo was favoring ~11 minute videos, so a lot of content creators would make a glut of low info videos stretched to that mark. It was so bad, that I was refusing to click anything around the runtime. Now, if I catch someone start reiterating themselves early on, I just close the video.
edit: One example of the ~11 minute video people was CinimaSins. They were never very good, but could be funny in small doses. When they started to stretch the video length, you started to realize how pedantic and media illiterate they were.
This was my favorite thing about Tom Scott, it never felt like he was trying to pad the runtime for ads/algorithm. If it took 3 min to explain, it was a 3 minute video.
Sure, I guess it does exist based on the sheer volume of content on YouTube. I'd just have to wade through a pile of schlock to get to it. Show me the part of YouTube that only has videos that cut right to the chase without meaningless exposition, ads and self promotion littered throughout the video.
I love how Skippy62able has never changed , I find he is a channel that perfectly embodies what old youtube was really about
This is RealLifeLore for me, it used to be great. But now he makes his point in 10-15 minutes and what the hell are the remaining 30 minutes for?!
not only him, but his circle of friends too
Real engeneering, Mustard, Wendover, and probably some others I'm forgetting
I like what Wendover has going on overall with HAI, Jetlag, etc. but the Wendover channel itself I don't watch as much anymore.
I still enjoy Wendover 🤷♂️
Ya, unsubbed a while ago. I feel like he repeats everything 2-3 times throughout the video - like we've all forgotten what he said just a few minutes ago. He uses also uses so many words in a single sentence, just to seemingly pad the runtime.
No way I could sit through 30-45 minutes of that anymore, and no way those videos needed to be that long.
It's to bad, because I otherwise like topics and presentation.
Get sponsorblock, it automatically skips the fillers - if someone has annotated the video.