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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Nov 3 20:17:10 2025, in response to "Addiction" Wearing Off, posted by New Flyer #857 on Mon Nov 3 19:39:00 2025. I cannot stand the thumbnails people are making on the Youtubes now. Especially those I don't sub too. I think there is a direct correlation between thumbnails I hate and the people I don't sub to. I won't even click the crap.As for the rest of it, maybe the algo went to normal google trash? I may have found only one person I haven't subbed to that I like in the past year, and this was a few weeks ago. Otherwise, yes, it is worse than channel surfing now. It's more efficent if I know who I want to watch, because just doing the recommended for something new blasts through hours of nothing. Except of course when I go through the rabbit hole of how bad london/paris/brussels/dublin is now compared to the 3rd world. But Rosa tells us it's all fine. |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Nov 4 01:11:54 2025, in response to "Addiction" Wearing Off, posted by New Flyer #857 on Mon Nov 3 19:39:00 2025. You Tube has really deteriorated. Many of the content creators I used to follow have vanished, and way too many videos are way too long. It seems like a typical video these days is a half hour long with five minutes of useful content and 25 minutes of glurge. |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Nov 4 01:11:55 2025, in response to "Addiction" Wearing Off, posted by New Flyer #857 on Mon Nov 3 19:39:00 2025. You Tube has really deteriorated. Many of the content creators I used to follow have vanished, and way too many videos are way too long. It seems like a typical video these days is a half hour long with five minutes of useful content and 25 minutes of glurge. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Nov 4 04:23:00 2025, in response to Re: ''Addiction'' Wearing Off, posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Nov 4 01:11:55 2025. No; it's just that the content creators are not to your inscrutable liking, which you never made plain anyhow.Anyhow, ever since Google took over, there are too many rules and too many copyright strikes, particularly for reaction channels. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Nov 4 04:25:14 2025, in response to "Addiction" Wearing Off, posted by New Flyer #857 on Mon Nov 3 19:39:00 2025. FB has been a joke for years.YT is probably bigger on smart TVs anyhow. There's also Rumble, Tubi and a plethora of other apps. Network TV is kaput, and cable is barely hanging on. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Nov 4 09:22:59 2025, in response to Re: ''Addiction'' Wearing Off, posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Nov 4 01:11:55 2025. Symptomatic of today's attention span, or lack of. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Nov 4 11:41:23 2025, in response to "Addiction" Wearing Off, posted by New Flyer #857 on Mon Nov 3 19:39:00 2025. Who is doing the observation? Todd? |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Nov 4 11:49:11 2025, in response to Re: ''Addiction'' Wearing Off, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Nov 4 09:22:59 2025. But that’s what makes no sense. Attention spans may be shorter, but instead of making shorter videos that viewers will watch end to end creators make impossibly long slop. |
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Posted by AlM on Tue Nov 4 13:35:15 2025, in response to Re: ''Addiction'' Wearing Off, posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Nov 4 11:49:11 2025. Maybe greater length means YouTube inserts more ads and gets greater revenue, of which it then shares a piddling amount with the content creator? |
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Posted by AlM on Tue Nov 4 13:39:35 2025, in response to "Addiction" Wearing Off, posted by New Flyer #857 on Mon Nov 3 19:39:00 2025. even if it technically includes facts.Sometimes. Recently I looked at a click-bait item about "10 less known hikes in North Cascades National Park." There was a bit about the hike to Hidden Lake Lookout (which I've done). The information describing the hike was accurate but they had a picture which didn't seem right. I did a bit of Googling and discovered that their picture was for Hidden Lake Overlook in Glacier National Park. |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Nov 4 13:58:16 2025, in response to Re: ''Addiction'' Wearing Off, posted by AlM on Tue Nov 4 13:35:15 2025. Maybe greater length means YouTube inserts more ads and gets greater revenue, of which it then shares a piddling amount with the content creator?That could be, though I suspect it’s more that many creators are losing interest in You Tube, possibly because there’s less money in it, and therefore don’t bother with editing as that takes time. This ties in with the fact that so many once-prolific creators have vanished or at least have vastly reduced their postings. Something I’ve seen more than a few times is a creator who hasn’t posted in weeks or even months will finally post a video in which they’ll say that life has gotten so busy or words to that effect but will promise to have a lot more soon. You can guess how that goes. |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Tue Nov 4 13:58:29 2025, in response to "Addiction" Wearing Off, posted by New Flyer #857 on Mon Nov 3 19:39:00 2025. Yes, as I get older and older. My patience for all kinds of assholery is diminishing rapidly. I hardly watch TV at all anymore. |
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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Wed Nov 5 07:06:21 2025, in response to Re: ''Addiction'' Wearing Off, posted by AlM on Tue Nov 4 13:39:35 2025. That's a huge part of it for me. Even if the voiceover is speaking accurately, if it's accompanying a photo or video of an unrelated location, I'm worried about knowing less about the world because I may think a specific thing or place actually looks like the way it's being shown and I don't want to watch any more. |
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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Wed Nov 5 07:14:39 2025, in response to Re: ''Addiction'' Wearing Off, posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Nov 4 11:49:11 2025. I use the Watch Later feature a lot and when a creator has put care and concern into the video (minimal AI use), a 45-50 minute clip can be enjoyable when I know it's there and I'm ready to sit down for it at a screen larger than a phone and over some food/drink.I think that despite attention spans lowering, enough people still appreciate a well-arranged extended presentation. For me the issue isn't so much length as it is about lazy AI use. I'm not opposed to AI on principle - I've seen skilled creators use it but you can tell they reviewed it, checked it out and gave it their personal approval before letting it go. But the robotic voices and the photos that may or may not be the thing/place being discussed. . .that's no good. |
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