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I just looked into it.. Ugh, this kind of content is just abysmal. 25 GLUE GUN HACKS YOU HAVE TO TRY 24 SIMPLE BEAUTY TRICKS TO MAKE YOU LOOK FABULOUS https:
by honkdaddy 4y ago
I just looked into it.. Ugh, this kind of content is just abysmal.
25 GLUE GUN HACKS YOU HAVE TO TRY
24 SIMPLE BEAUTY TRICKS TO MAKE YOU LOOK FABULOUS
https://www.youtube.com/c/5MinuteCraftsYouTube/ https://www.youtube.com/c/5MinuteCraftsYouTube/
Who are the people watching this stuff? I assume it's largely women and parents, as a lot of the "hacks" are beauty or parenting related. I watched a few minutes and all the ideas were just... terrible? Ranging from silly to impractical to dangerous.
- cupofpython 4y agoI sometimes find myself watching similar content for a bit like a kind of engineering "reality" show. no real goal in mind and absolutely no intention of doing any of the things though. Knowing now that they put out videos suggesting people mess with live transformers... i think im over it.
- InefficientRed 4y agoStay At Home Mom is a massive market segment with a lot of purchasing decision power. Long-form advertising targeted at SAHMs is nearly as old as the advertising industry itself. This is just the next iteration. Video does particularly well with this segment (as opposed to text) because of the nature of parenting and housekeeping -- lots of time spent on your feet with busy hands and occasionally available eyes. The same reason radio/long-form podcasting is popular with truckers. Or text with office workers (relatively speaking). It's entertainment you can engage with during work hours between or during tasks.
- usrusr 4y agoSoap opera of the YouTube era, you might be on to something!
- shiftpgdn 4y agoLittle kids. My 7 year old loves five minute craft videos.
- tehwebguy 4y agoPlenty of people hate this shit and still watch it because they got tricked. I watched (skimmed) like 12 videos yesterday trying to find a hack to locate my empty AirPods case. There’s apparently no way to do it but each video had a more infuriatingly false title than the last.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoIt would never even occur to me to watch a video on finding my AirPods case. Either there is an article or forum post for it, or I need to post a question on a forum, but no way am I sifting through the garbage that is YouTube.
- InefficientRed 4y agoSame. It's probably a generational thing, with the split at maybe 20 or something where video became both searchable and trivial in terms of bandwidth. But, to be fair, the Google-as-front-door internet has become totally useless for these types of tasks as well. Those wiki-style pages with huge walls of text offering nonsense advice are a plague.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoYes, I filter out all that garbage too, but because it is text, I can filter it out 100x faster than video.
- InefficientRed 4y agoIf you don't mind explaining: how? I constantly find myself on those (very heavy) pages and haven't found a good way to avoid them except to restrict my search to certain domains (SO, Reddit, etc.)
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI guess it is mostly heuristics learned over a couple decades. I use an ad blocker (Wipr), so if there are problems loading the page, that is a flag. If it looks like an SEO churned out page with lots of links and poor sentence structure, another flag. A lot of times, you do end up on Reddit and SO, but there are some good forums available if you dig deep, especially for car/HVAC/home maintenance related stuff. Sometimes you have to join a forum and post a question.
- DIARRHEA_xd 4y agoChildren and ESLs. I personally tune in to see just how far they'll go this time.