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YouTube has gone to crap in my book for one reason:
They embedded video ads into the videos.
Now, I don't see them because I'm a pro and have AdBlock+. However, I would gladly turn off AdBlock if ads were simply banners around the video and not in the video itself. Nothing irritates me more about marketing than embedded video ads. You want me to really not consider your product? Don't shove a video ad at me. Make a banner that will open a video, but don't put it in what I'm trying to watch.
theres alot of shit wrong with youtube in ALOT of ways.
Broken flagging, the guilty till proven innocent part of the DMCA take-downs, view bot manipulations, broken algorithm's so that animators get COMPLETELY FUCKED on any monetary aspect of it... and that doesn't say ANYTHING about the bullshit copy-right shit.
but it's been like this for YEARS, it's not something that just suddenly happened.
Hell remember when you used to be able to see reply's at the bottom of video's and follow conversations and debates back and forth between users?
http://esportsexpress.com/2014/05/tw...ube-ecosystem/
Where has YouTube date joined gone? The option to hide your YouTube
date joined has disappeared and is no longer available under the "about"
link on your YouTube channel home page. Has it been moved to
somewhere else or is it no longer possible to hide the date joined in YouTube?
Anybody know?
Youtube has been on a steady decline in every aspect. A lot of the worst ways, but the least noticed, are the ones Bodie's mentioned - shit, I remember when YT comments formed coherent, chronologically ordered threads and so it was easy to keep track of a discussion. Now, there are a lot of orphaned replies which link back to posts which no longer exist or which appear before replies to them in turn. The like/dislike rating system has been justified a million and one times, but that doesn't make it good. The fact that most people tend to rate 1 or 5 and seldom anything in between doesn't mean we should further reduce the human experience to whether you "like" or "dislike" something. The actual page layout is shit, and has forever failed to take advantage of wider monitor aspect ratios, which is profoundly retarded with how common 16:9 24"+ monitors are these days (if anything, the internet is getting worse for this as it stumbles over itself trying to cater to mobile users at the expense of anyone on an actual computer).
Really, the two positive changes I can think of since I started using YT in 2006 are HD video support and the ability to put as many videos as you want into your favourites. Everything else has been either pointless fluff or a downgrade in the name of design appeal or "user friendliness" (for retards who can't work a computer).
Of course, one of the most offensive changes has been the introduction of automated content recognition and DMCA flagging. I've had two separate fucking gameplay videos flagged by some random music publishing house. Neither claim was legitimate, and neither bore any resemblance to what they accused me of using. One video was Il-2 gameplay (somehow the constant drone of the plane's engine triggered a content match for some new-agey ambient bullshit track) and another was an ArmA 3 video where it was raining ingame (the content match was for one of those white noise CDs people hawk to help you get to sleep, as if you can't just record rain sounds yourself or go find a fucking video of it somewhere else on YT). It's blatantly broken, and either means the automated recognition is so shit-poor it detects things that are nothing like the content in question, or that the companies involved are deliberately designing it to ensure it makes as many spurious claims as possible in order to allow them to plaster people's videos with adverts that generate income for said companies. I'm pretty sure you all know my views on capitalism by now, and to have this kind of shit happen to me twice inside two weeks was beyond the pale. The worst part is that I don't even monetise my own fucking videos and never will, and so pity help any shitcunt who thinks he can get money off of my work by placing bogus copyright claims.
Now, onto the topic of content itself: YT is mostly shit. I don't mind the odd comedy compilation but there is just so much "LOL EPIC FAILS VOL 400,213" and "BEST GIRL FAIL VINES 2014" that it clogs the shit out of the system and makes it difficult to actually find anything useful. Because of the sheer volume of it and the fact most of it is deliberately tagged with everything under the sun, you don't even need to watch something tangentially related to suddenly have your related videos panel or recommended viewing tab filled with garbage.
This doesn't only apply to generic "fail" compilations or cat videos, either; most things that exist now have an unholy number of "top 10" compilations put together by idiots for idiots. I don't need some sweaty neckbearded CoD shitlord to tell me what he thinks the 10 best tanks in the world are, because he's probably never fucking seen a tank in person and is inevitably going to place the Merkava, Leo 2, and Abrams somewhere in the top 3 unless his country of origin has some bizarro, obscure failed prototype for him to jizz over. It's bad enough when formerly educational channels like Discovery do this shit (protip: any Discovery/History Channel/Military Channel doco made post-1995 is generally garbage, and anything less than 15 years old is blatant fucking propaganda), worse yet when watching an actually informative documentary about something then causes YT to shove the idiotic opinions of several prominent shitlords under my nose.
Gaming is no better for this. In fact, it's probably one of the worst of all. Here is my summary of what you can expect to find about gaming on YT:
- Some autist's dramatic meltdown about some inconsequential bullshit nobody cares about
- Gamers flipping their shit about things that are self-evident to anyone whose knowledge of world history reaches back to 1972 (#gamergate is fucking retarded on every level)
- Top 10 lists, which are somehow even less objective or informative than the ones I already bitched about
- Shitty attempts at cashing in on the popularity of the LP format, usually by someone who sucks at the game they're playing and who has all the charisma of a toad that just got run over by a ride-on mower
- Shitty attempts at reviews which somehow exhibit even less journalistic integrity than the already garbage mainstream gaming journalists
- Shitty AMVs (technically, a tautology; I should've just said AMVs).
Occasionally you come across people who are actually quite decent at what they do. ShackTac members unanimously put out good content. There are good guides and walkthroughs (Chip & Ironicus' Revengeance LP is excellent in both technical skill and presentation). There are comedy videos which are actually amusing (at least until the beating-caused internal bleeding finally kills the horse, like Lowtax's shitty game playthroughs which should have ended long ago when they were still funny). Some people put out content that isn't very good in presentation but is at least not totally obnoxious (I like to think this is what I do, since I don't monetise my shit and don't pander to viewers).
However, the vast bulk of what's on YT and isn't shit to begin with rapidly turns into it. Streamers are especially bad with this. For every one good player who streams and gets a handful of viewers, there are about ten whose viewercounts come from pandering and presentation, not skill. I'm going to use World of Tanks as the example here since it's a game I know, I have an idea how the community works, and I'm fairly decent at it myself. Some of the best players I know have relatively small but dedicated fanbases - Hardest, Anfield, Sela, Dodoma. Hardest probably has the hardest time getting viewers out of that group because he's particularly abrasive, but in each case these are players who know their shit and focus more on actual play than presentation. Meanwhile, one of the biggest names in WoT on YT and Twitch (BohemianEagle/Jingles) is a slightly-better-than-average player who is popular because a) he has a "favourite uncle" sort of personality and voice, and b) he does pander to his fans. He doesn't actually know the game hugely well, something he does thoughtfully admit, but it does little to stem the tide of idiots parroting his (often wrong) opinions and advice across the internet. QuickyBaby is probably one of the most authoritative personalities in WoT, even more than Jingles since he's actually quite decent at the game, but he does loads of stupid stuff and gives bad advice just for his viewers' sake. Trying to counter this shit with actual logic gets you shit on because how dare anyone question QB, even players who are objectively better than him (not myself, in this case).
Of course, there's also the fucking ubiquitous needy "LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT!!!!!" nagging as well, but you find that fucking everywhere, because people dream of being able to live solely off of streaming or uploading shit to YT. Very few are capable of doing this and it is never, ever the ones who deserve to (look at how popular that shitbird PewDiePie is, all from being an obnoxious loudmouth who makes loads of unfunny juvenile jokes and pretends to be scared of shit games).
Sorry if I crushed any of your dreams, but that's just the way the world works. Get a real job, save up some money, do your gaming on the side as a hobby and don't expect it to ever do more than provide a little supplementary income.
Am I the only one who finds my settings for video quality are totally ignored and it always defaults to the highest setting as soion as I open fullscreen?
It does that for me too. It also automatically sets to shit quality if my net is even a little slow, so I have to manually change it and let it buffer, like I was going to in the first place.Quote:
Originally Posted by n00b1n8R
YT is dumb, "user friendly" web design is dumb.
I don't even know if i'd call it 'user friendly', in fact, I'd call it 'all our users are retarded and so are we, so we'll make it even worse'Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum