yay now you have to watch the whole video to tell if it's a scam/troll/shitty tutorial, at least capeshit movie trailers won't be downvoted anymore

  • cosecantphi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Fuck, that sucks. I remember when Youtube used to show you the number of stars a video had in the thumbnail back when they had stars. You didn't even have to click on a video to know it was bad and not worth your time.

    Now we're all gonna have to sit through clickbait, scams, screamers, just generally bad videos every single time.

      • cosecantphi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        There is so much useful information on Youtube that it's basically impossible. You can stop watching Youtube for entertainment, sure. But it'd be terrible to give up all of the tutorial videos, educational videos, technical videos, etc. For that there is basically no replacement.

        • SerLava [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah it's The Video Website, exactly like how Reddit is The One Forum

          • cosecantphi [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            This consolidation of the entire internet into just a few websites has really ruined something that used to be a treasure. Now a giant portion of the collective public consciousness is at the mercy of a few companies.

            Just another example of how capitalism can't even deliver on its main promise that competition drives innovation. Under capitalism competition is like entropy. It can only trend down as the wealth concentrates into the hands of a few major companies and monopolies form.

            Edit: I realize entropy trends up. you get what I mean, though

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I only watch people I follow, so I always know what I'm going to get, I've never wandered on youtube because it's shit