Monetization of YouTube ruined it

[Vintage Racer]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

I keep getting updates from YT vloggers. One in particular is this cute Korean woman with very large breasts doing tours of Korea. lol

Good for you.

[sc_rufctr]

Guys like this make YouTube worthwhile!

Before YouTube how did we learn stuff like this?

[berettafan]

Originally Posted by wilnj

First world problem? Maybe, but not long ago YouTube was a great resource for like minded people to share tips and tricks that would take a lot of effort to post photos and narratives on forums like this.

Instead someone could record a 3-5 minute explanation of what they’re trying to show.

Now we have to wait for an ad, then sift through 20 minutes of video beginning with an intro montage, pleas to like and subscribe across all their social media platforms, long winded explanations of the problem, unrelated material for giggles and then out going credits.

I find myself spending twice as long looking for a narrative rather than scroll back and forth trying to see if this video even addresses my problem.

Couldn't agree more. Youtube has really gone down the tube. Bummer for sure.

[Tervuren]

Yup, I'm not the target audience for stuff like this, but apparently lots of people are.
I wouldn't mind a "If its popular don't show it to me" option.

Originally Posted by pmax

I can do without the clickbait titles and images , top ten videos and incessant shouting for attention. Watch my video, watch my video.

[Hawkeye's-911T]

Sadly it is also becoming rife with the sort of tripe promulgated by the von däniken-esque/geraldo rivera crowd.

Cheers
JB

[Shaun @ Tru6]

[berettafan]

Slick production appears to be valued over actual accuracy and expertise.

[aschen]

Monitization of youtube was one of the best things that happened to the internet since boobs

Wasn't that long ago that top gear was one of the best car related programs you could watch and mythbusters passed as "science" tv.

Now I can watch a detailed rebuild of nearly any vehicle and a guy building a scanning electron microscope in his home shop. The ads and pandering to commercial objectives definitely sucks at times but sort of a necessary evil for such diverse content.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by pmax

On the iPhone, you do what Jobs says you are allowed to.

On the PC, adblock ultimate is the bomb. What ads ?

Pi-hole, FTW!

[john70t]

Originally Posted by wilnj

Now we have to wait for an ad, then sift through 20 minutes of video beginning with an intro montage, pleas to like and subscribe across all their social media platforms, long winded explanations of the problem, unrelated material for giggles and then out going credits.

So monetization is based on video length?
They want to capture the viewer's attention and push more ad revenue.
Why they place milk and eggs at the back of a big store.

That might work with personalities and politics and road trips, but definitely not with the technical and learning channels.

It's like a return to the early days of the internet with all the endless spam pop-ups and sensory overload.
That didn't go so well back then either.

Today we are even more busy, and the next ADD generation will reach a point where they stop watching certain types of media altogether.
Unfortunately that media will be the educational content..

[MMARSH]

There's been a few channels that I started out really enjoying. Then as they began to get a larger audience, you could see them become more commercial and slick which caused me to lose interest. I don't mind good production, but when it becomes to polished and you start hawking items that are sent to you, it turns me off.

[911 Rod]

We don't like them because we are old.
I'm doing a You Tube premium free subscription. Takes out all the commercials.
The new trend appears to be getting family stuff in with the build/fix video.
I want to see you rebuild the Samari, not your wife getting you lunch and guessing car parts.
Your daughter naming ducks when you are building a bass pond.
Get off my lawn!

[Shaun @ Tru6]

[VINMAN]

Understand the need for the ads. Just wish they kept them at the beginning or end. Not 20 times in the middle.


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[sugarwood]

Originally Posted by berettafan

Slick production appears to be valued over actual accuracy and expertise.

What a stupid comment. The level of quality on Youtube has taken quantum leaps forward with people creating professional content with full time staff and crew.
Meanwhile, people on this obsolete forum are too clueless to even post a photo with a repair write up.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

[VINMAN]

Originally Posted by sugarwood

What a stupid comment. The level of quality on Youtube has taken quantum leaps forward with people creating professional content with full time staff and crew.
Meanwhile, people on this obsolete forum are too clueless to even post a photo with a repair write up.

Seriously, how old are you? 17??

If this place is so obsolete, why are you here? Just to randomly snipe it with some negative, nasty, insulting, douchebag comment, like you usually do??

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[Tervuren]

I don't think monetization ruined it.
What set it back for me times to when the CEO decided to take an "Authoritarian" goal to how youtube worked.

Which was counter to what made youtube great as a resource.
As a consequence, lots of channels I'd started watching got demonitized, stripped of search results, and some of the creators in reacting lost what they had.

Youtube used to provide me with lots of interesting stuff from all sorts of values and people.
Now it tries to push the big corporate messaging and squeeze out the very content that was creative and independent.

From music, to news, to politics, to movies, to how to's.
All got effected.
Now I mostly visit some hard bookmarked channels that retained their sanity.
Recommendations no longer function to find new stuff that isn't independent.
For me, this change hurts the most with finding off the wall music.

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

Seriously, how old are you? 17??

If this place is so obsolete, why are you here? Just to randomly snipe it with some negative, nasty, insulting, douchebag comment, like you usually do??

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+930. Sugar tits has never had a positive thought. Why does he persist in staying here?

[RANDY P]

Originally Posted by sugarwood

What a stupid comment. The level of quality on Youtube has taken quantum leaps forward with people creating professional content with full time staff and crew.
Meanwhile, people on this obsolete forum are too clueless to even post a photo with a repair write up.

LOL, you won't even post a pic of a car you allegedly own and have the nuts to say that?

rjp