Former Gaming YouTuber: “Hey everybody, today we’re making more Dragon Puppets. 13forlife2010 requested a pink bedazzled male dragon puppet, so that’s what we’ll be assembling.”
youtube was dead to me when they introduced the custom thumbnail. fundamentally anti-user move, designed entirely to let people obscure the actual contents of their video with photoshopped soyfaced slop
It’s not like people weren’t already just putting a single frame in the video that they could select as the thumbnail before the fully custom thumbnail option was added.
YouTubers and streamers aren’t your friends. They are just trying to make money.
If you could switch jobs and make double your salary, would you? What about all your coworkers you’d be letting down by suddenly quitting? Oh well. You’re getting paid.
If you work in retail or fast food or something you probably don’t give a shit about your coworkers, but if you’ve worked a production job on a small team, you know what I mean. And you still would taken double the salary for the same sort of work.
PushingUpRoses doesn’t do gaming content much anymore, practically every video she uploads is about Murder She Wrote or sometimes other old daytime TV, and I’m just not into it. If it’s working for her more power to her but I guess I’m her “old audience.”
Vsauce went from a kinda smarmy gaming channel to that kind of smug “look at a bunch of random smart things that ultimately don’t matter” show, then stopped uploading regular episodes for awhile and instead created some long-form ready for television crap on Youtube Red or whatever that subscription-only service that failed was, and then kinda puttered out.
The Modern Rogue has done a lot to make it difficult to be a subscriber of theirs, and both the quality and quantity of uploads has gone downhill. They’re apparently still at it, but I dunno man.
And a whole bunch of 'em just don’t upload anymore.
I hate all of it. But most of all I hate how most of my favorite content creators who did long-form educational documentaries and in-depth discussion videos have went to the minute or less format for most of their uploads.
They’d be a lot more tolerable if, like, they released a blooper, an outtake, a side jag, something relevant to the previous or next episode, rather than parts of episodes from years ago. Not sure why they thought that was a good idea.
I see what you’re saying about moving away from smarmy pop culture videos, but the claim that all the “random smart things” ultimately don’t matter is weak when you’re comparing them to topics that literally do not matter at all. I’m not invalidating your example, just pointing something out.
It was gamegrumps for me. It started too feel to corpoare and not just 2 dudes on a couch. Censoring swearing removing numbers in episodes so you dont even know which order it is.
Probably some weird AB testing where it was found people don’t like clicking on episode 107 of a long series because they don’t know if it’s something they need to start from the beginning of.
I hate it though when yt channels do that because they often reference previous or even spoil stuff in previous and I’m like… I had no way of knowing this was ahead of that!
Animation is pretty hard for youtube, since you need at least 10 mins I believe, which is difficult for animation. And there’s already a large overlap between vtubing and animating so I would expect some channels to switch over, but not all.
I know JaidenAnimations has a vtuber model, but I do not think she uses it too often.
The King of Random comes to mind. When Grant started to go crazy with liquid nitrogen videos it just went downhill for us curious DIYers. The new hosts didn’t help at all and instead of showing creative and useful ideas and projects, it tuned into a TikTok style kiddies experiment churning machine.
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