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I agree with other commenters about "low quality content" being subjective. However, on a couple subreddits I will sometimes skim I often see tons of people pos
by jccalhoun 7y ago
I agree with other commenters about "low quality content" being subjective. However, on a couple subreddits I will sometimes skim I often see tons of people posting links to videos that are just someone's take on a current event or just summarizing it. I have largely given up clicking on those because most of them can be summarized in 2-3 sentences much more quickly than watching some video and yet, on the times I actually do click on one of those links the video will have tens of thousands of views. Who is watching this stuff? I understand that the creators are trying to make a living but I don't understand why people watch the videos when they could learn the same amount of information much more quickly by reading it.
- knzhou 7y agoYeah, there's an annoying genre of videos that's just a dude in his basement talking to his webcam for an hour. Not only is the format low information density, but you can't even extract the key bits by skimming through it.
- catalogia 7y ago> but you can't even extract the key bits by skimming through it. I generally avoid that format of video entirely, but using the subtitles as a searchable index helps a lot.
- jacobolus 7y agoThis is also 99% of “podcasts”. Except instead of 1 dude in a basement, it’s usually a few people on a conference call.
- 6nf 7y agoThis is all Youtube's doing. Youtube rewards channels that upload a full video every day, and for individual creators the only way to do that is to talk into a camera for 30 minutes and just upload it.
- WWLink 7y agoUgh I know exactly what you mean! A lot of websites have been slowly morphing into "watch this 20 minute video of us explaining to you something that could be documented on 1 piece of paper"