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I'm fine with some drama, obviously. Someone obviously enjoying what they're talking about or talking with some gravity about serious events is fine. But if you're just yelling at me all the goddamn time I start to get a headache.

Like on youtube. There's two channels that do HEMA, one is one guy with glasses gently and calmly explaining whatever topic it is. Sometimes he can get snarky, but he's never loud, melodramatic or demeaning.

This is in contrast to another channel with two other guys who are basically constantly yelling. Not like, screaming, but yelling. They are further away from the camera so I understand, but they can honestly get really annoying after a while. I get it, xxstoopidcommenterxx said something stupid, but I dont need you yelling at me and talking to me like an idiot in kinda baby-talk like voices.

It's a poltical thing too. I like Bes D. Marx and Hakim a lot more than, say Hasan or Bad Empananda. Not just because the first two are generally more intelligent and coherent, but also because Hasan and BE are very melodramatic while Hakim and Bes talk to me like I'm a normal person rather than yelling at me. It's why I could never really get into Johnny Harris even when I was a turbo lib and didnt question his shit videos, because he's soooo melodramatic. He'll be like

"I Just found this THING that is just jump cut So crazy rapidly flashes through a bunch of black and white photos AND you've just GOT to see what it is because ITS SO INSANE"

Like dude, I have a longer attention span than you. I don't need you to talk to me like I'm not going to take you seriously, or that I'm going to click off because there's no subway surfers gameplay.

Look, I know there are a lot of people who like this style, evidently, but for me it's honestly just very tiring.

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[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago

I think I know what you mean and if so, it seems to be a symptom of youtube culture in general, going back a while. Could be it originated beyond youtube as well, but that's where I'm most aware of it being a thing and even being meta joked about sometimes (I forget the guy's name, but I remember somebody who riffed on the tendency for youtubers to do jump cuts, even as he was doing them himself). I also remember a while back, a youtuber who compared youtubers to birthday clowns in kind of a playful self-referencing way. And all of this is kinda anecdotal from memory, but I got the impression from analytics people talked about that youtube audience tended to lean young. I don't know how true that still is cause a lot of this could have been 10 or more years ago, that I'm remembering, but the picture I get is one of people literally marketing to kids, which would fit with some of the over the top nature of it.