there was 1 youtuber who discussed things that i struggled with and made the information very relatable, and i was able to do them/overcome my emotional block. now all she posts are videos about tv shows :(((
youtube was dead to me when they introduced the custom thumbnail. fundamentally anti-user move, designed entirely to let people obscure the actual contents of their video with photoshopped soyfaced slop
Well except people were making thumbnails inside their video and referencing it via timestamp, so it wasn’t a huge change.
It’s not like people weren’t already just putting a single frame in the video that they could select as the thumbnail before the fully custom thumbnail option was added.
There are web extensions to use a random frame instead
Joshua Weissman for me… But I found Anti-Chef and he more than makes up for it! Edit: a word
I don’t really watch his videos, what is he doing now? What did he do before?
Yeah agree with amio. He used to do actually useful instructional cooking videos - his sourdough series is great. Now he’s really leaned into the mega high energy persona, clickbaity concepts ($1,000 waygu in a HOTDOG?! kind of thing).
He’s “funny”. Except if you don’t think he’s funny, then you might think he’s extremely unfunny. He used to not try so hard, and IMO made better videos for it. Now it’s off-pitch singing, cringe catchphrases, clickbait, and general “funny stuff”.
So it’s not getting better. I see. Thanks!
French construction workers.
PushingUpRoses doesn’t do gaming content much anymore, practically every video she uploads is about Murder She Wrote or sometimes other old daytime TV, and I’m just not into it. If it’s working for her more power to her but I guess I’m her “old audience.”
Vsauce went from a kinda smarmy gaming channel to that kind of smug “look at a bunch of random smart things that ultimately don’t matter” show, then stopped uploading regular episodes for awhile and instead created some long-form ready for television crap on Youtube Red or whatever that subscription-only service that failed was, and then kinda puttered out.
The Modern Rogue has done a lot to make it difficult to be a subscriber of theirs, and both the quality and quantity of uploads has gone downhill. They’re apparently still at it, but I dunno man.
And a whole bunch of 'em just don’t upload anymore.
The Modern Rogue has done a lot to make it difficult to be a subscriber of theirs
Yeah they lost me when they went to pretty much all shorts and the occasional video every month or so. I fucking hate shorts.
Don’t you love the new section of suggested videos beside the player that has shorts now!?!?
I hate all of it. But most of all I hate how most of my favorite content creators who did long-form educational documentaries and in-depth discussion videos have went to the minute or less format for most of their uploads.
They’d be a lot more tolerable if, like, they released a blooper, an outtake, a side jag, something relevant to the previous or next episode, rather than parts of episodes from years ago. Not sure why they thought that was a good idea.
I see what you’re saying about moving away from smarmy pop culture videos, but the claim that all the “random smart things” ultimately don’t matter is weak when you’re comparing them to topics that literally do not matter at all. I’m not invalidating your example, just pointing something out.
I liked mind field
I’ve been watching ZFG (OoT streamer) for a while. Lately he’s only been playing Tears of the Kingdom, which… I don’t like or care about, much. Looks like he’s actually going to do runs of it, so it might be a while.
Someone else already mentioned Joshua Weissman, “comedian” cook who refuses to realize he can’t sing and the “papa” thing is… cringe. Channel was much better when he didn’t try so hard to be funny. Cooking stuff itself is still fine though, he does know his stuff.
Literally finally made an account to respond to you. I don’t really watch streams much anymore, but he has a main channel (highlights and records) and a VOD channel on YouTube. I used to go to sleep watching Clint Stevens every night, and now I use the VODs a lot of the time. Anyway, the point I was actually trying to make is that there is a ton of old content available if TotK isn’t doing it for you.
I guarantee you ZFG doesn’t give a single shit about “the algorithm” - he’s always played games that he wants to play, which is usually every Zelda release, Mario Kart, Smash, and Pokemon. His only two concerns are going fast and having fun.
Maybe I started watching late but Weissman always kind of struck me as trying too hard on the comedy bits, but I don’t mind because it is good knowledge nonetheless. My biggest issue is that he’s a little on the pretentious side and he occasionally uses fancy/expensive/inaccessible ingredients or tools, but that’s really just a personal problem for me.
That last bit is why I love the Aaron and Claire cooking channel. Dude cooks recipes with both ‘original’ ingredients and also just tells you it’s fine to omit/substitute stuff with other more common ingredients and even cooks using both so you can see. It’s still a Korean cooking channel so some ingredients light still be a bit hard to come by in certain places like rice wine vinegar but it should be mostly accessible if you live anywhere with more than one skintone walking around.
Watching the Adam Conover AI video is like watching somebody do a wacky parody of Adam Conover.
How so?
Just compare the Adam in that video to any of his TV or podcast stuff.
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RIP Penguin0
What happened?
He’s changed his style of uploads twice now and is an empty shell today. Just posting junk from his live streams to YouTube.
Charlie used to not care about YouTube as a method of making money. Would donate all of his money to charity.
tbh he probably make a good sum of money and can life an stress free live who wouldn’t take that ?
I am happy for his success but sad at quality of his content.
He’s ragging on AI generated YouTube channels, all the while the content he is churing out is just as bad.
I’m looking at you Five Watt World.
I remember the transition of prank channels from pranking each other in more or less controlled settings to “pranking” (harassing) strangers in public. Not saying that pranking each other was the pinnacle of comedy, there are definitely still problems with it, but why do people like watching random unrelated people being accosted at all, let alone enough for the prank channels to catch on and start catering to that crowd?
I remember those!
Heck, I remember mine craft prank wars with h20delerious. They were all happy to participate, stakes were 0, but the best pranks were creative and over engineered.
Did they over react for content? Yes, of course.
Was it fun seeing creative pranks in totally harmless ways anyway? Yes. Yes it was.
Shout out to EthosLab for doing the exact same format of content for ten years with minimal changes
Oh man, I haven’t watched any of his videos in forever but I’m so glad he’s stuck to what he likes doing.
Occasionally he uses star wipes instead of jump cuts between scenes, but the style is incredibly consistent.
Every YouTuber who starts catering to 10-15yos.
It was gamegrumps for me. It started too feel to corpoare and not just 2 dudes on a couch. Censoring swearing removing numbers in episodes so you dont even know which order it is.
I seriously do not understand how removing numbers was a good idea. That, more than anything, was when I practically stopped watching altogether.
Probably some weird AB testing where it was found people don’t like clicking on episode 107 of a long series because they don’t know if it’s something they need to start from the beginning of.
I hate it though when yt channels do that because they often reference previous or even spoil stuff in previous and I’m like… I had no way of knowing this was ahead of that!
That does make sense. It is no less infuriating 😂 but it makes sense.
Mine is “te lo resumo asi nomás” he did resume/commentary of movies but the resumes became shit he did less of them and everytime he did more and more meme commentary. He picked things I love and did shit with them then he started doing rankings and such I wasn’t mad but bored as fuck mostly.
