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.
Funny you mention her because in only subscribed recently. Her science news episodes are corny but very informative while lacking hype. Her deep dives are also informative, but a bit off topic sometimes.
Contrast that Two Minute Papers idiot. Every fucking video is hype, and he gets called out for it routinely. Everything is sO aMaZiNg… HOLD ONTO YOUR PAPERS! He once expressed awe at noise in an AI generated image. 🤦♂️ That’s when unsubscribed.
So compared to YouTubers like him, Sabine is a breath of fresh air. (Not that they cover the same topics, I’m just talking about tone and delivery.)
I unsubbed Veritasium when he made that video on electricity and the speed of light and didn’t once mention induction. He went over the top to make it seem like magic. Fuck that guy. Unforgivable!
If you’d like a VERY thorough explanation, check out QuentinReviews video on Fred. The very condensed version is that he got tired of the character and sold the channel, which immediately started producing generic throwaway content and quickly failed.
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!
Used to love Mutahar, but it’s all been downhill ever since he stopped doing creepypastas and is now just a news roundup guy in the most boomer way possible.
Wow, I’m actually impressed that I got mostly upvotes, this is the kind of thing that would get you crucified if you set it on reddit. Sometimes I think they did me a favor by Banning me from the site.
He’s just slowly morphing into a standard opinion tech bro with no light between him, moist, and like a dozen other rich dudes.
Wealthy, incredibly insulated from life, experiencing everything through a screen then discussing what they’ve seen into another screen. Good and bad opinions melt together into a gray mush.
It’s so much like Plato’s Allegory of the Cave that I don’t even want to mention it, it’s so fucking obvious.
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.
Or they made good edited youtube videos and then they starting chasing the streaming trend like Critikal and other youtubers I used to watch. Sorry I want to watch a single 10-30 min video once or twice a week and not hours of unscripted rambling. The only person I can watch do that is Nothernlion but even then I don’t watch most of his content anyway.
i actually really enjoy long form interviews. i watch 5 hour interviews and want more, but not everyone can host them and only a certain kind of content is good long form.
I haven’t watched a streamer yet that could pull it off except NL. People get into this young with no education or lived life outside of streaming and honestly it’s a pain listening to them try to be relatable to talk about something for hours. Even NL starts getting tiring after the 5000th take on peloton.
Podcasters are usually better at this than streamers. There’s a Canadian political podcast I follow that’s great for hour-plus interviews. Really good for “politics in complete sentences” stuff.
I’m not sure what a “steamer” is. Is it video game related only?
The content that I watch is for 40+. The example that I was thinking about was of Mormon stories podcast host. He has a phd in psychology. Hearing him interview ex Mormons is really interesting. I always learn something about myself during 5 hour interviews.
Streamers usually people who play games for 4-8+ hours almost every day with a face cam and a running chat. Twitch is the main website for these people.
Video: 3 hours of rambling with five minutes of addressing interesting topic.
I could hardly stand his actual videos before but at least he experimented and showed some conventions to be useless traditions but recently it’s really been garbage long form rambling.
his my summer car lets play was great then it went downhill very steep i looked up his channel recently and non of his videos make even the slightest bit of sense
I've been watching ZFG (OoT streamer) for a while. Lately he's only been playing Tears of the Kingdom, which... I don't like or care about, much. Looks like he's actually going to do runs of it, so it might be a while.
Someone else already mentioned Joshua Weissman, "comedian" cook who refuses to realize he can't sing and the "papa" thing is... cringe. Channel was much better when he didn't try so hard to be funny. Cooking stuff itself is still fine though, he does know his stuff.
I guarantee you ZFG doesn’t give a single shit about “the algorithm” - he’s always played games that he wants to play, which is usually every Zelda release, Mario Kart, Smash, and Pokemon. His only two concerns are going fast and having fun.
Literally finally made an account to respond to you. I don’t really watch streams much anymore, but he has a main channel (highlights and records) and a VOD channel on YouTube. I used to go to sleep watching Clint Stevens every night, and now I use the VODs a lot of the time. Anyway, the point I was actually trying to make is that there is a ton of old content available if TotK isn’t doing it for you.
Maybe I started watching late but Weissman always kind of struck me as trying too hard on the comedy bits, but I don’t mind because it is good knowledge nonetheless. My biggest issue is that he’s a little on the pretentious side and he occasionally uses fancy/expensive/inaccessible ingredients or tools, but that’s really just a personal problem for me.
That last bit is why I love the Aaron and Claire cooking channel. Dude cooks recipes with both ‘original’ ingredients and also just tells you it’s fine to omit/substitute stuff with other more common ingredients and even cooks using both so you can see. It’s still a Korean cooking channel so some ingredients light still be a bit hard to come by in certain places like rice wine vinegar but it should be mostly accessible if you live anywhere with more than one skintone walking around.
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