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I don't know why, but I hate the tiktok trends and it's spread all over other platforms (eg. "shorts" on youtube). Cooking channel? What was once a 10 minute v

I don't know why, but I hate the tiktok trends and it's spread all over other platforms (eg. "shorts" on youtube). Cooking channel? What was once a 10 minute video with a recipe and all the details is now a reddit-gif style recipe, 30 seconds without any details (eg. how cooked the first ingredient is, when s/he throws in the second, etc.). Tech channel? Yeah, 30 seconds can only be a teaser (=ad) for a full video. Music? another teaser (=ad) I know i'm a different generation from the current teenagers, and I prefer videos without many fillers, but those <1min things are way too short to be of any value to me personally.

ChrisRR 4y ago
I've seen Tiktok described as "what happens when you give the illiterate a platform" I'm sure hoping this short attention span, no time to think sort of content doesn't become common
- mrguyorama 4y ago
  I really really hate how common it is for someone on tiktok to claim they have relevant credentials and then repeat a blatant lie about the industry that's been a lie forever. There was a person who posted a video saying "I'm a flight attendant and airline seats are designed to kill you to pay less for the lawsuit" even though that's been debunked IN POPULAR MEDIA for about twenty years (mythbusters) and "Flight attendant" should not be considered a reputable source for information on the engineering, legal, and liability of an airline. And yet, she had millions of views. It's just utterly FULL of assholes claiming they are reputable and spouting the dumbest, oldest, most asinine conspiracy theories for views.
iso1631 4y ago
I'm in a different generation from you and I prefer my recipes and tech information in text form. Horses for courses.
snehk 4y ago
It depends on the content. YouTube rewards long watch times, which is why the people creating content stretch the video's duration regardless of whether it's needed or not. Much of the content in the past was largely devoid of actual content with the focus being to build up suspense to get the person to keep watching. Take those slow-mo videos, for example. There's a few seconds or a minute of actual content - the rest is just filler. Myth Busters was the same years ago. I'll watch a longer video if the amount of content in it justifies this. That's rarely the case for me, though.

ChrisRR 4y ago

I've seen Tiktok described as "what happens when you give the illiterate a platform" I'm sure hoping this short attention span, no time to think sort of content doesn't become common

mrguyorama 4y ago
I really really hate how common it is for someone on tiktok to claim they have relevant credentials and then repeat a blatant lie about the industry that's been a lie forever. There was a person who posted a video saying "I'm a flight attendant and airline seats are designed to kill you to pay less for the lawsuit" even though that's been debunked IN POPULAR MEDIA for about twenty years (mythbusters) and "Flight attendant" should not be considered a reputable source for information on the engineering, legal, and liability of an airline. And yet, she had millions of views. It's just utterly FULL of assholes claiming they are reputable and spouting the dumbest, oldest, most asinine conspiracy theories for views.

iso1631 4y ago

I'm in a different generation from you and I prefer my recipes and tech information in text form. Horses for courses.

snehk 4y ago

It depends on the content. YouTube rewards long watch times, which is why the people creating content stretch the video's duration regardless of whether it's needed or not. Much of the content in the past was largely devoid of actual content with the focus being to build up suspense to get the person to keep watching. Take those slow-mo videos, for example. There's a few seconds or a minute of actual content - the rest is just filler. Myth Busters was the same years ago. I'll watch a longer video if the amount of content in it justifies this. That's rarely the case for me, though.