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
Storror, a UK parkour collective. Amazingly talented, made an unbelievable documentary about doing parkour on the rooftops of Asia. I still watch every week but they’ve done parkour like once in the last 3 months. Everything else is
We climbed this weird building
Can we escape from this pit?
We wrapped ourselves in bubble wrap
Stuck in a hollow tree!!
Then there are “water challenges”, ie fairly easy jumps but you fall in a canal if you miss. One guy already had a career ending injury doing this and is now a camera man, another hurt himself badly and you can tell he’s lost patience with it.
Oof, I blame youtube. They pay jack all on videos like that, even with 15 million views. The price is anywhere $1,200 to $6,000 per million views, based on view length. A short video like that probably was on the lower side in pay, but the time investment probably was immense. The practice, the planning, the editing, the probably hours of parkour that was cut, just the travel and flights alone…
Compared to them just going up a weird tent thing that is padded with 20 minutes of them reacting, and I’m going to “bet” has some sort of ad/product placement.
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.
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.
Sigh. This happened, sort of, to my favorite channel. It was a fun channel all about her hamsters - cute videos of their antics and informative videos of how to care properly for them. Then she got a chronic illness and switched to only posting about the illness and awareness of it. And that’s her prerogative. But she took down all the cute stuff. I was devastated. They were my go-to when I needed cheering up.
Fuck the algorithm. My favorite Youtubers still do quality videos, luckily, but now they take longer because they have to fill their channels periodically with less inspired stuff or the all-seeing algorithm will toss them out. I hate it.
there was 1 youtuber who discussed things that i struggled with and made the information very relatable, and i was able to do them/overcome my emotional block. now all she posts are videos about tv shows :(((
How about the ones that seem to have just fucking quit? Barely Sociable popped up, produced a bunch of pretty cool videos, and has just fucking disappeared. Same with Fredrick Knudsen or however you spell the name of the “Down The Rabbit Hole” guy. Apparently some noise about making a 5 hour video followed by months of radio silence. Like my dude…break that up into parts.
The way you phrase this comes off as incredibly entitled. Sometimes, a lot of times even, people make something and put it out there; then something else in their life happens that just pulls them away.
They’re not beholden to continue to make anything for anyone.
I love how Dunkey had a week where he did this sarcastically – and they still ended up being some of his most popular videos. Thankfully he’s stayed himself though and not abandoned what he does best.
I follow a channel called MightyCarMods that recently bought into a trend of cheap vs expensive parts, but it seems like it was just something they tried because they’ve gone back to their old format of multi part car builds
It amazes me how long MCM has been going. At least from what I remember, they definitely had a lot of “doing stuff for cheap” content, so I don’t think it’s too out of line that they also now have the budget to actually do it “right” with expensive parts and compare.
It’s at its worst now imo. He plays the algorithm so that you can’t get the video concept in the preview. You have to click the vid, sit through the ads(unless adblock), and then he spends 2 minutes doing his lead up just making goofy words up to describe the topic to delay mentioning what happened.
I agree with the thumbnail garbage, that shit is annoying. But the videos themselves have just become whatever he’s doing that day. It’s like he’s terminally online now, he’d stream from the shitter if it wasn’t against the ToS. He streams, puts the big clips on his moist Charlie channel, then puts the more interesting stuff on his main channel.
I don’t watch his current content but it was bittersweet seeing the transition from his original style. He mentioned at the time that he had depression during that period and it seemed like the change was a lifestyle one as well; he seemed pretty happy around that time.
Doesn’t surprise me, Mr Beast recently posted that A/B testing showed that the classic open-mouth YouTuber Face thumbnails don’t perform as well as the creepy dead smile does. Linus thinks Mr Beast is a YouTube Algorithm God (and should be president of the US!), so I’m sure he jumped on that.
As Linus (and other YouTubers for that matter) have said, awful thumbnails and clickbaity titles work.
And when YouTube is a side gig you can refuse to do it on principle, but when you need to pay 100 folks (in case of LMG) - I don’t think it’s much of a choice.
Let’s face it, we’re fricking old. The demographic of YouTube is getting younger and younger and the young 'uns engage more in cringey reaction face of thumbnails. It’s not a coincidence that YouTube/Google is going hard on anything that might not be “kid friendly”. They de-monitised lots of historical YouTube channels for being “age inappropriate”. Unfortunately, there are no alternative to YouTube. I love Nebula, but sometimes you’d just want videos and channela where you can just turn your mind off.
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.
Enterelysium used to be one of my favourite youtubers for playing stuff like From the Depths but he lost his way to the algorithm and now just seems to play whatevers new and trending.
I have yet to meet any person in real life who has spoken of Subscribing to a YouTube Channel. I have never subscribed to any YouTube channel or even smashed the Like button on any YT video. I find the social media oriented facet of YT to be completely useless and irrelevant to my purpose of finding and viewing certain videos.
This whole pretend culture around youtubers is as alien to me as it would be for a Commanche Indian from the old West to be given an electric hairdryer.
I mean most people in adult spaces aren’t really discussing YouTube and who they subscribe to lol. But it’s a useful feature to tell the algorithm “hey, show me when this channel uploads a new video please”
I think you’re really over thinking it in regards to the ‘culture’ most well-adjusted adults don’t think about the people they subscribe to on YouTube as anything other than cool creators whose work they want to follow.
There is a whole dumb culture around it though. Listen to the cadence of the professional tube jockeys. There is a Youtuber Voice that has become part of that dumb culture. Notice how they all pander for their button clickers with similar carnival barker catchphrases to gather their little micro-boosts to raise their Tuber Rank.
they all pander for their button clickers with similar carnival barker catchphrases to gather their little micro-boosts to raise their Tuber Rank.
People do what helps them make a living. I don’t like it any more than you do, but you seem to be attributing way too much baggage to something that’s no different to a street vendor hawking their wares at passerby. Times change, but people’s motivation stays the same.
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