I miss old YouTube so much it hurts omg. i miss how it wasn’t about engagement, branding, money or camera quality, it was about broadcasting yourself and having fun. now it’s become a bland corporate shell of what it used to be and half of my recommendations are AI slop lol
source: I’m so old I remember when YouTube vids were rated with stars and everyone had neon channels with funky text
I listen to lots of music on youtube, just random playlists in the background. Unfortunately, there is a TON of AI music on there now, and it’s really hard to tell the difference these days.
Do people generally just watch YouTube recommendations? Literally my entire usage of YouTube has been looking for something in particular (how tos or whatever) or I have a large amount of channels I’m subscribed to that I go look at their channel specifically for any new content I want to watch.
I only ever go straight to the Subscriptions page. I’ve got enough good quality channels to keep me entertained for long enough. I’ll occasionally check out a new channel form the suggestions on the sidebar, and I’ve found enough good new ones that way to keep me doing it, but it’s not a frequent occurrence. The thing I like about these services is that you can curate whatever experience you like by being sufficiently selective with what you click on, and the more you click on good quality stuff, the more stuff like that it’ll show you.
I have a roommate that watches YouTube like that. He was out of work for a long time and basically watched YouTube all day. I saw him finish videos and click on a recommended one.
Naturally he’ll say the craziest shit sometimes but most people around us are the same. It really sucks and I can’t wait to move out of this living situation.
I miss being able to tell at a glance whether an instructional video was trash. I have the “return youtube dislikes” extension but it doesn’t work as well for a multitude of reasons.
I miss old YouTube so much it hurts omg. i miss how it wasn’t about engagement, branding, money or camera quality, it was about broadcasting yourself and having fun. now it’s become a bland corporate shell of what it used to be and half of my recommendations are AI slop lol
source: I’m so old I remember when YouTube vids were rated with stars and everyone had neon channels with funky text
I listen to lots of music on youtube, just random playlists in the background. Unfortunately, there is a TON of AI music on there now, and it’s really hard to tell the difference these days.
I use YouTube music and the community playlists on there aren’t bad.
Just wished the player didn’t break when content warnings popped up, can’t play RATM as a result.
I don’t have that problem
They took our jobs and our art.
Freetube my friend
Do people generally just watch YouTube recommendations? Literally my entire usage of YouTube has been looking for something in particular (how tos or whatever) or I have a large amount of channels I’m subscribed to that I go look at their channel specifically for any new content I want to watch.
I mean, yeah man that’s literally how 95% of people under 30 watch YouTube.
I only ever go straight to the Subscriptions page. I’ve got enough good quality channels to keep me entertained for long enough. I’ll occasionally check out a new channel form the suggestions on the sidebar, and I’ve found enough good new ones that way to keep me doing it, but it’s not a frequent occurrence. The thing I like about these services is that you can curate whatever experience you like by being sufficiently selective with what you click on, and the more you click on good quality stuff, the more stuff like that it’ll show you.
I have a roommate that watches YouTube like that. He was out of work for a long time and basically watched YouTube all day. I saw him finish videos and click on a recommended one.
Naturally he’ll say the craziest shit sometimes but most people around us are the same. It really sucks and I can’t wait to move out of this living situation.
For that usage pattern, I recommend the Freetube app to block Google from spying.
I miss being able to tell at a glance whether an instructional video was trash. I have the “return youtube dislikes” extension but it doesn’t work as well for a multitude of reasons.
I miss playing amv’s in the background while drawing final fantasy fan art.