videogames is one word

I fuckin hate That Kind of Guy, like at least I wish they would admit that they're just making garbage, the digital video entertainment version of popcorn, designed to be unremarkable but consumed in infinite quantity without really thinking about it, instead of having all the fuckin pretension about being brain genius mind educators of the future or whatever

Keeble @Keeble7/6/2023, 5:21 PM

if they weren't "good content" they wouldnt be getting enough views to make them profitable, right? like, people dont turn them off. there's a reason the standard episode lengths pre-advertisements are 22 minutes and 42-44 mins

gravis again @cathoderaydude7/6/2023, 5:29 PM

i mean i'm not even gonna try and deny that i think tons of people have godawful taste and will watch anything, i think there's tons of sludge on youtube that shouldn't exist, but the idea that videos should be like 10 minutes tops "or you're making filler" is just asinine and divorced from reality.

Livyataan Tiamat @vanadiya-cataclysm-athelya7/6/2023, 5:37 PM

we need one of those ww2 aircraft identification charts that are like "they may look alike- but only one is the enemy!" with "3 hour youtube video about a plane crash or whatever" on one side and "11 hour youtube video about picking through a 9 hour long youtube video by someone else frame by frame and reacting to every word they say with disgust and anger and also the 9 hour youtube video is the same premise except with a video by the people who made the 11 hour long one" on the other

n.s.@reth7/6/2023, 5:49 PM

the type of guy that never heard of a podcast in his life

alys @actuallyalys7/6/2023, 6:33 PM

Reminds me of the crypto guy (possibly Sam Bankman-Fried) who said that writing a book instead of a blog post was a waste of time.

gravis again @cathoderaydude7/6/2023, 6:33 PM

oh my god

Gadfly Goods @Gadfly-Goods7/6/2023, 7:15 PM

This is really funny, because I feel like there is a ton of 10-20 minute videos that only have a minute or two of actual content, while a lot of multi-hour documentaries are essentially all killer no filler. Length does not strongly correlate with quality or information density either way on the youtubes, and this guy should know that.

signal eleven @widr7/6/2023, 9:29 PM

man who has incorporated youtube's 10 minute video algorithmic incentive into his moral worldview

cool ranch davidian @kuffs7/6/2023, 10:05 PM

Please never stop making intense deep dives into utterly insane technology

Thomas Winwood @ketsuban7/7/2023, 6:34 AM

Given this Guy exclusively posts about cars it makes sense he'd be bored of all the reviews of identical metal shitboxes padded out to half an hour so they can fit another twelve ad shows in the runtime.

gravis again @cathoderaydude7/7/2023, 6:34 AM

that's an incredibly good point that I have to admit I hadn't considered

in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

Stryx-9 @hootOS7/6/2023, 6:30 PM

i feel like it's important to point out that a lot of extremely long video essays out there are actively preserving history. i've watched a lot of videos without breaking my attention from them because they're specifically written to point out every single small detail that may get glossed over in a shorter video if not completely left out. and sometimes, really small details matter!

like, idk. youtube video essays don't always have to be just for pure entertainment. sometimes a youtube video essay can be educational, which is what makes it entertaining!

Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy @pervocracy7/6/2023, 7:21 PM

without this kind of content my kitchen would never get cleaned

signal eleven @widr7/6/2023, 9:29 PM

i know exactly who "the other" refers to here