YouTube content creation "sins"

[Agema]

YouTube is fundamentally a bullshit world full of over-opinionated nobodies pretending their pathetic, ignorant, biased squalling is something other people need to hear. Sturgeon's Law states that 90% of everything is crap. If Sturgeon had lived into the internet age, he'd probably have revised that to 99 or 99.9%.

Whilst there are undoubtedly positives to the democratisation of media and being able to make oneself heard, a downside is that the "gatekeepers" to media in the old days (editors, publishers, etc.) played a useful role in doing quality control and excluding vast swathes of the worst rubbish so you didn't even have to waste your time finding out it was rubbish. The internet drowns us in dross. It's information overload, terrifyingly unfiltered by analysis and verification.

 

[SupahEwok]

YouTube is fundamentally a bullshit world full of over-opinionated nobodies pretending their pathetic, ignorant, biased squalling is something other people need to hear. Sturgeon's Law states that 90% of everything is crap. If Sturgeon had lived into the internet age, he'd probably have revised that to 99 or 99.9%.

Whilst there are undoubtedly positives to the democratisation of media and being able to make oneself heard, a downside is that the "gatekeepers" to media in the old days (editors, publishers, etc.) played a useful role in doing quality control and excluding vast swathes of the worst rubbish so you didn't even have to waste your time finding out it was rubbish. The internet drowns us in dross. It's information overload, terrifyingly unfiltered by analysis and verification.

I can't "Like" this enough.

 

[BrawlMan]

YouTube is fundamentally a bullshit world full of over-opinionated nobodies pretending their pathetic, ignorant, biased squalling is something other people need to hear. Sturgeon's Law states that 90% of everything is crap. If Sturgeon had lived into the internet age, he'd probably have revised that to 99 or 99.9%.

It's why I don't bother with a majority of independent Ytbr's, aside from an exceptional few. And even then, it's usually people having fun with out acting like or being sh@tholes to others around.

 

[SilentPony]

YouTube is fundamentally a bullshit world full of over-opinionated nobodies pretending their pathetic, ignorant, biased squalling is something other people need to hear. Sturgeon's Law states that 90% of everything is crap. If Sturgeon had lived into the internet age, he'd probably have revised that to 99 or 99.9%.

Whilst there are undoubtedly positives to the democratisation of media and being able to make oneself heard, a downside is that the "gatekeepers" to media in the old days (editors, publishers, etc.) played a useful role in doing quality control and excluding vast swathes of the worst rubbish so you didn't even have to waste your time finding out it was rubbish. The internet drowns us in dross. It's information overload, terrifyingly unfiltered by analysis and verification.

To be fair I think that's mostly the influences, drama and new channels. People whose """"job""" it is to report on other channels whose """""job""""" it is to report on other channels, etc...
I don't think the dudes doing 40k battle reports or the random science channels give a shit about YouTube algorithms and the like. Only people who think they should get paid for having an opinion care about the algorithms.

 

[Houseman]

The internet drowns us in dross. It's information overload, terrifyingly unfiltered by analysis and verification.

My, that sounds familiar to this scene from MGS2:

 

[Elvis Starburst]

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Man that game was messed up by the end there. So many fans wrote it off early on, but now that we look back at it there's so many crazy things that were missed. Kojima had us all figured out nearly 2 decades ago

 

[BrawlMan]

Man that game was messed up by the end there. So many fans wrote it off early on, but now that we look back at it there's so many crazy things that were missed. Kojima had us all figured out nearly 2 decades ago

It was one of the times as a pre-teen that I had a feeling Kojima would be right about that, the first time I got to that part of the game.

 

[McElroy]

"Reporting" on drama on social media. I'm willing to bet it has done little good on this world. I'm willing to also bet it has very little potential to do good.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

YouTube is fundamentally a bullshit world full of over-opinionated nobodies pretending their pathetic, ignorant, biased squalling is something other people need to hear.

Well, yes, but can't the same be said about any online discussion area?

 

[Agema]

Well, yes, but can't the same be said about any online discussion area?

Yes, but an online discussion area implicitly replicates the concept of several people sitting round a table and bitching about the world over several pints of beer, which everyone knows is instrinscially a bunch of amateurs mouthing off on stuff they know far less about than they act like, and it pretty much never goes further than the people involved in the discussion itself (thank god for some mercies).

YouTube is more about self-appointed egotists vomiting bullshit as if they were The Word. People for some bizarre reason cite these random nobodies and their unhinged dross around the internet - Twitter, Facebook, emails - saying stuff like "THIS GUY REALLY UNDERSTANDS [insert zeitgeist topic here]". Has anyone heard of Plandemic? 20+ minutes of fact-annihilating, conspiracy theory bollocks splattered over YouTube, duly retweeted and FBed by thousands including a few alarmingly senior politicians who you'd hope really should know better. And of course all these dumb tech firms suddenly start trying to delete it, but that Pandora's Box has long since been opened.

And just for the record, slightly tangentially, I made a video of clips from the game They Are Billions to humorously demonstrate coronavirus safety measures, private access only (because I only upload to YouTube a few videos to amuse my friends). YouTube deleted it in less than six hours, handing me a warning for dangerous and inappropriate content which, upon another offence, will result in deletion of my account. And yet stuff like "Plandemic" sits there for days until it's a worldwide phenomenon...

 

[BrawlMan]

And just for the record, slightly tangentially, I made a video of clips from the game They Are Billions to humorously demonstrate coronavirus safety measures, private access only (because I only upload to YouTube a few videos to amuse my friends). YouTube deleted it in less than six hours, handing me a warning for dangerous and inappropriate content which, upon another offence, will result in deletion of my account. And yet stuff like "Plandemic" sits there for days until it's a worldwide phenomenon...

YT/Google are nothing, but slobbering hypocrites. You put something informative/helpful and it's considererd "offensive" or "dangerous", yet horrible people like Logan Paul get to continue what they're doing. Only because he and others bring in the big bucks. People like him are more dangerous, than anything you or someone actually being beneficial to people or society. A load of bullsh#t!

 

[Elvis Starburst]

Well, yes, but can't the same be said about any online discussion area?

YT/Google are nothing, but slobbering hypocrites. You put something informative/helpful and it's considererd "offensive" or "dangerous", yet people horrible people like Logan Paul get continue what they're doing. Only because he and others bring in the big bucks. People like him are more dangerous, than anything you or someone actually being beneficial to people or society. A load of bullsh#t!

Amen to that

 

[Gordon_4]

"Reporting" on drama on social media. I'm willing to bet it has done little good on this world. I'm willing to also bet it has very little potential to do good.

Its like paparazzi training school; yet somehow even more morally bankrupt.

 

[McElroy]

And just for the record, slightly tangentially, I made a video of clips from the game They Are Billions to humorously demonstrate coronavirus safety measures, private access only (because I only upload to YouTube a few videos to amuse my friends). YouTube deleted it in less than six hours, handing me a warning for dangerous and inappropriate content which, upon another offence, will result in deletion of my account. And yet stuff like "Plandemic" sits there for days until it's a worldwide phenomenon...

Since you're teasing us with this, can you put them up on some other platform?

 

[Agema]

Since you're teasing us with this, can you put them up on some other platform?

I deleted it off my hard drive to save space - it wasn't that funny that I was attached to it. Sorry.

 

[Nick Calandra]

This same style of thumbnail is pretty much used by every clickbait garbage channel out there. I see a thumbnail like this, I avoid it.

 

[PointlessKnowledge]

This same style of thumbnail is pretty much used by every clickbait garbage channel out there. I see a thumbnail like this, I avoid it.

It does worry me. I'm worried that someone created yet another pointless video.

 

[SupahEwok]

It does worry me. I'm worried that someone created yet another pointless video.

Wouldn't that feel like kin to you, PointlessKnowledge?

 

[PointlessKnowledge]

Wouldn't that feel like kin to you, PointlessKnowledge?

There is no knowledge in that video.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

This same style of thumbnail is pretty much used by every clickbait garbage channel out there.

Oh god, those suuuck. With that example and mine in the original post, I'll add to this with clickbait thumbnails that have emoji faces plastered on it, red circles and red arrows all over, and my most personal pet peeve... the ones where it always has the YouTuber, or a show/video game character they're discussing, looking shocked/horrified in the thumbnail. GameTheory is extremely guilty of this