[Zeke]

YouTube is nothing like it used to be. Everyone trying for the best clickbait title and the shorts are seldom informative. Just gimmicks to get you to watch the channel.

The thing that pissed me off the most was a requirement to post shorts to become monetized. It used to be over 1000 subs and 4000 hours of watch time in any 365 day period. Now they've added a million views for shorts before you get your 5 dollars.

I still watch but with no hope of ever getting a dollar and having to make grabby shorts, I quit making videos. Fun while it lasted but a ton of work.

The best days of YT were when a channel called Expert Village existed. There were nothing but tutorials about anything and everything. Now tutorials are anything but with a few exceptions. And they are hard to find as YT has buried them in favor of more clickable content.

Pretty soon I will turn YT off as well. I know there are other video sites. I always enjoyed reading but I'm not a reader like many. I just recently read a good article about how reading works the brain differently than most other mental activity. From now on I intend to have one book going at all times. I've always got my set of the Harvard Classics to pull a volume from. My goal was to read all 50 volumes in my life. I've had to put a couple back. They are just too tedious.

The worst part about using a browser or email site is the national enquirer type of crap on the page. It's insulting to intelligence. Even broadcast TV isn't that bad.