A slice of the United States

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Another example of why you should throw your TV away.

[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.

[Tim Hancock]

Zeke, there are still some pretty good YT channels out there. I have been hooked on this guy (Escape to rural France) who typically daily posts an 8-10 minute video of him restoring an old Chateau in France that most sane individuals would never even think about doing. I have been watching from the beginning and it is amazing how far it has come since he started.

[Zeke]

Tim, on the same level is Carl Rogers, but he stopped working on the house in France and has spent a year building a horse drawn "caravan."

www.youtube.com/@carlroge

Thanks for your link, I may watch beginning tonight.

[fintstone]

The video looks like Beverly Hills compared to the holler where I grew up (in Appalachia). Of course, we did not have the drug issues and folks wanted to work (because if you did not, you did not eat). Few folks even drank beer. None of my extended family drank alcohol at all. Most folks raised a lot of their own food so you worked (if you could find a job) and then when you got home, you worked some more. Drugs are pretty bad back home now too. Mostly meth.

We had no industry (unlike coal regions). Coal was pretty lucrative at one time...so a lot of those coal towns were relatively prosperous/wealthy at one time and there were plenty of good jobs (mining). We had/have some very pretty natural scenery (just like in the video) ...but our shacks were much worse. Of course that was 50 years ago.