• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 days ago

    The whole format of stretching content to reach some arbitrary monetization benchmark is unwatchable to me.

    Good thing there’s plenty of content that isnt that format on the site

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      12 days ago

      Sure, I guess it does exist based on the sheer volume of content on YouTube. I’d just have to wade through a pile of schlock to get to it. Show me the part of YouTube that only has videos that cut right to the chase without meaningless exposition, ads and self promotion littered throughout the video.

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        11 days ago

        I love how Skippy62able has never changed , I find he is a channel that perfectly embodies what old youtube was really about

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      11 days ago

      A fairly popular youtuber I follow has called Jim Serling’s video “get 5 minute videos stretched to 20 minutes”. There was a point in time when the yt algo was favoring ~11 minute videos, so a lot of content creators would make a glut of low info videos stretched to that mark. It was so bad, that I was refusing to click anything around the runtime. Now, if I catch someone start reiterating themselves early on, I just close the video.

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      11 days ago

      This was my favorite thing about Tom Scott, it never felt like he was trying to pad the runtime for ads/algorithm. If it took 3 min to explain, it was a 3 minute video.