I've mostly given up trying to find genuine content on youtube anymore. I used to watch blind lets plays of old super nintendo games I played in my childhood, but I can't find that anymore. Sure there are some if you search, but its the same 4-5 people, with the surprised picachu face in the thumbnail. Carefully selected, preheated content from the assembly line, wrapped up in nicely with a ribbon on. Soulless, It's not fun, its work. I used to never subscribe to channels, but now if I find something i even remotely like I hit that subscribe button or favorite the video right away, once the tide goes back out, there is a high change I'll never see that channel ever again.
It's true. There barely seems to be real joy or passion involved. I do blame YT for 80% of that, though. YT rewards channels that use the same old advertiser friendly formula of videoproduction, and it doesn't push the ones that try to be a little different. I can imagine that this kills all creativity on the channels' side.
@@seamonia Good point, I am sure there are good people out there, its just that youtube makes it really hard to find them. Just give me genuine people. Hell, I'll take unregistered hypercam2 and bad audio over the content factory. But yeah, you need to get the formula right, and people have been getting really good at figuring out the "algorithm" Remember when all videos used to have red arrows in the thumbnail, because youtube really liked those? I guess its no longer "in" as you don't really see much of them anymore. Sometimes I just want to watch some random dude who has been at work all day sit down, crack open a cold beer, and see if he can get a couple more stages into Donkey kong for the super nintendo. I don't want to watch some people who does not care about thr game, but only plays it because youtube likes the game that month. I don't want to buy merch, or "RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS" (actually haven't seen that one for a while) Didn't mean to be so negative, its just frustrating sometimes when they systems works against its intended purpose.
Check out Crimson Cavalier. He's done Nintendo game runs and is a pal that pops up in XEI Gaming comments and Discord. You may dig his stuff :). I used to know a few other YTers in this retro, but unfortunately no other ones have made it through the gauntlet of the 8 years that I've been active. Thumbnails with red circles and arrows were definitely a thing that couldn't be stopped--they'd literally circle and point to things on the thumbnail that had nothing to do with the topic/reveal in the video too! The UA-cam face is still a thing, and YT actually uses AI to detect faces and emotions in thumbnails, and this also influences Reach & Discovery. It's outrageous where things have gotten to. A channel can't even "hook" in a potential viewer without carefully manufactured emotions on the thumbnail, while at the same time needing to sell "authentic-ness".
I've mostly given up trying to find genuine content on youtube anymore.
I used to watch blind lets plays of old super nintendo games I played in my childhood, but I can't find that anymore.
Sure there are some if you search, but its the same 4-5 people, with the surprised picachu face in the thumbnail.
Carefully selected, preheated content from the assembly line, wrapped up in nicely with a ribbon on.
Soulless, It's not fun, its work.
I used to never subscribe to channels, but now if I find something i even remotely like I hit that subscribe button or favorite the video right away,
once the tide goes back out, there is a high change I'll never see that channel ever again.
It's true. There barely seems to be real joy or passion involved. I do blame YT for 80% of that, though. YT rewards channels that use the same old advertiser friendly formula of videoproduction, and it doesn't push the ones that try to be a little different. I can imagine that this kills all creativity on the channels' side.
@@seamonia
Good point, I am sure there are good people out there, its just that youtube makes it really hard to find them.
Just give me genuine people. Hell, I'll take unregistered hypercam2 and bad audio over the content factory.
But yeah, you need to get the formula right, and people have been getting really good at figuring out the "algorithm"
Remember when all videos used to have red arrows in the thumbnail, because youtube really liked those?
I guess its no longer "in" as you don't really see much of them anymore.
Sometimes I just want to watch some random dude who has been at work all day sit down, crack open a cold beer, and see if he can get a couple more stages into Donkey kong for the super nintendo.
I don't want to watch some people who does not care about thr game, but only plays it because youtube likes the game that month.
I don't want to buy merch, or "RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS" (actually haven't seen that one for a while)
Didn't mean to be so negative, its just frustrating sometimes when they systems works against its intended purpose.
Check out Crimson Cavalier. He's done Nintendo game runs and is a pal that pops up in XEI Gaming comments and Discord. You may dig his stuff :). I used to know a few other YTers in this retro, but unfortunately no other ones have made it through the gauntlet of the 8 years that I've been active.
Thumbnails with red circles and arrows were definitely a thing that couldn't be stopped--they'd literally circle and point to things on the thumbnail that had nothing to do with the topic/reveal in the video too! The UA-cam face is still a thing, and YT actually uses AI to detect faces and emotions in thumbnails, and this also influences Reach & Discovery. It's outrageous where things have gotten to. A channel can't even "hook" in a potential viewer without carefully manufactured emotions on the thumbnail, while at the same time needing to sell "authentic-ness".