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I actually completely agree with this statement. I tend to follow the gaming industry pretty closely and lately I've noticed that there are simply too many low-

by dimgl 6y ago

I actually completely agree with this statement. I tend to follow the gaming industry pretty closely and lately I've noticed that there are simply too many low-quality gaming YouTube channels. I was recommended a video the other day "The Downfall of Blizzard" or something like that, started watching it and was surprised at how incredibly bland the content was. Even more surprising was the amount of views and likes the video had. The jokes were bad, the production quality was low, there was no critical or opinionated analysis, etc. There are tons of channels like this, full of videos where it's just some some guy or gal talking to a camera with some uninspired editing and generally run-of-the-mill content. And this is just one slice. I see this kind of content everywhere now. Of course, everyone wants to be happy doing what they like doing, but it simply isn't sustainable that everyone lives off of their hobbies. Not only are they providing little value in general, but they're just not really good at it...

xemdetia 6y ago
This definitely has been bred from 'fitting content creation to the algorithm'. There seems to be many dimensions of this with the first being maximizing minutes watched which is where the meandering and stumbling content seems to come from. The second is monetization and knowing if you have to dispute it's essentially already too late, re-uploading is punished heavily and the algorithm heavily favours new content. The third is people observing that to get reliably recommended having a strict upload pattern seems to be favoured by the algorithm which can turn into 'produce to produce' instead of a creative effort. The fourth is just the overhead of dealing with claims and other weird administrative backend and/or YouTube making a sweeping policy change that generates dozens of hours of manual work for people with a large catalog. The last is that because of all of these previous problems many of these people moved over to twitch and then just use their old YouTube account as a clip/advertising mill/stream archive dump site. I put a lot of the blame on YouTube, because people seem more than happy to reward/watch well produced content but YouTube's algorithm rewards daily junk content over polished content produced biweekly or monthly. You can see glimmers of old YouTube from time to time where the video is trimmed precisely to support the actual content even if it's 3 minutes or well edited to be engaging but YouTube keeps creating (and revising) a game where that kind of content loses.

by dimgl 6y ago

xemdetia 6y ago

This definitely has been bred from 'fitting content creation to the algorithm'. There seems to be many dimensions of this with the first being maximizing minutes watched which is where the meandering and stumbling content seems to come from. The second is monetization and knowing if you have to dispute it's essentially already too late, re-uploading is punished heavily and the algorithm heavily favours new content. The third is people observing that to get reliably recommended having a strict upload pattern seems to be favoured by the algorithm which can turn into 'produce to produce' instead of a creative effort. The fourth is just the overhead of dealing with claims and other weird administrative backend and/or YouTube making a sweeping policy change that generates dozens of hours of manual work for people with a large catalog. The last is that because of all of these previous problems many of these people moved over to twitch and then just use their old YouTube account as a clip/advertising mill/stream archive dump site. I put a lot of the blame on YouTube, because people seem more than happy to reward/watch well produced content but YouTube's algorithm rewards daily junk content over polished content produced biweekly or monthly. You can see glimmers of old YouTube from time to time where the video is trimmed precisely to support the actual content even if it's 3 minutes or well edited to be engaging but YouTube keeps creating (and revising) a game where that kind of content loses.