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Oh you mean the 99% of “creators” flooding YouTube with repetitive and ai-generated crap content to leverage ad revenue “ethically”? They can go pound sand as f

Oh you mean the 99% of “creators” flooding YouTube with repetitive and ai-generated crap content to leverage ad revenue “ethically”? They can go pound sand as far as I’m concerned. There is great content in YouTube for sure but let’s face it, 99% is garbage designed to 1) latch on to popular trends to get more views and 2) use that to show ads and generate revenue for what’s essentially no content at all - just random garbage.

antifa 3y ago
Is it not safe to assume we're not watching the 99% of videos?
Reubend 3y ago
It's not productive to say that 99% of the people contributing content are making garbage. Even if that were true, the 1% of good creators are equally affected by a lack of ad revenue as the bad ones. The parent comment is basically pointing out that you're depriving the creators you watch of ad revenue. If you sponsor the creators you watch directly, that's great! But most people don't, and even for the people on HN I suspect that they watch a lot more different channels than just the ones they sponsor.
- throwaway5959 3y ago
  These people are willing to contort themselves into a pretzel to justify getting something for nothing. They’re no different than people that show up to a restaurant, get an hours worth of good service from a waiter then tip them nothing (in the US) and claim they believe tipping is morally wrong and the system should be brought down. “No dude, you’re just a cheap bastard.”
  - ChrisArchitect 3y ago
    Weird obsession around here with avoiding ads. We're talking what, 5-20 seconds every few videos? You barely have to "watch" them. If it's inconveniencing your life too much maybe you're consuming too much YouTube. It's all passive consume consume consume. Think we should be talking about YouTube addiction more.
eddythompson80 3y ago
I'm assuming they are referring to the other 1%. Presumably ones they follow/subscribe to.

antifa 3y ago

Is it not safe to assume we're not watching the 99% of videos?

Reubend 3y ago

It's not productive to say that 99% of the people contributing content are making garbage. Even if that were true, the 1% of good creators are equally affected by a lack of ad revenue as the bad ones. The parent comment is basically pointing out that you're depriving the creators you watch of ad revenue. If you sponsor the creators you watch directly, that's great! But most people don't, and even for the people on HN I suspect that they watch a lot more different channels than just the ones they sponsor.

throwaway5959 3y ago
These people are willing to contort themselves into a pretzel to justify getting something for nothing. They’re no different than people that show up to a restaurant, get an hours worth of good service from a waiter then tip them nothing (in the US) and claim they believe tipping is morally wrong and the system should be brought down. “No dude, you’re just a cheap bastard.”
- ChrisArchitect 3y ago
  Weird obsession around here with avoiding ads. We're talking what, 5-20 seconds every few videos? You barely have to "watch" them. If it's inconveniencing your life too much maybe you're consuming too much YouTube. It's all passive consume consume consume. Think we should be talking about YouTube addiction more.

eddythompson80 3y ago

I'm assuming they are referring to the other 1%. Presumably ones they follow/subscribe to.