So...
I've watched, over the past few months, dozens of YouTube videos a day it seems so that may have something to do with my "YouTube burnout" (if it is one) but it seems as though YouTube videos especially teach you nothing, certainly not compared to written content or articles or even books. I have the videos on in the background when I'm doing something. I have tried to put more focus to actually, well, consuming the content or media in a way that's more mindful and where I am edified. Maybe I'm trying too hard, but a lot of what I'm watching seems a bit superfluous or whatever.
All art or content or products have this problem, to a point, I think, but at times, it seems that videos are either there to sell me something (bad, at least in my case, because I like retail therapy) or maybe "hook me" into something (not necessarily bad, perhaps, as it can be pretty innocuous and even fun, depending on what they're motivating you to get into, such as a hobby).
And I have to say:
I'm starting to see this in documentaries to, to a point.
I feel like visual media has this problem a lot.
And yeah, I know it's a "D'oh!" moment for me because, honestly, of course they're a bit sparse on details or info compared to, say, books and written text.
But...
I feel like I'm not getting stuff out of it? Like, I ask: "What are they hiding? What are they not showing?"
Am I just paranoid? It's one thing to contemplate this sometimes, but every time I watch a video now?
Maybe I am just burnt out on YouTube LMAO!!
(I will say that one thing I miss are videos that are 2 to 5 to 10 to maybe 20 or 30 minutes long instead of these LONG videos that seem, erm, "useless," from my point of view.)
youtube on average gets 300 thousand hours of content per hour. at least according to multiple websites that just go "no it's 500 thousand! no 200 thousand! 400 thousand dollars to fire this weapon... for twelve seconds."
it's not mentioned what is in those thousands of hours. most of them could just be throwaway junk automatically generated (i do not mean ai generated videos with a cookie cutter template. i mean shit like this that plagued youtube for many years), reposts or seconds of nothing accidentally posted.
we will never live long enough to fully complete youtube's unlimited range of videos. and all of them were made for fun. i say in the past tense because now it's for money and always will be. my parents don't go "haha what a funny video", they instead go "this is fucking stupid, they make shit like this for money"
but hey now you can watch the entirety of azumanga daioh for free instead of going through "Azumanga Daioh Episode 1 Part 2" and then cry because there's not part 4 through 7. or watch a rich man dangle keys in front of some bloke and then turn him into an investment so that he gets youtube revenue for a supposedly good deed also what the fuck happened to that former mr beast employee after those two videos i don't fucking know i am too busy watching a french man scream at the microphone about luigi fighting donald duck
the fact that youtube is the easiest way to share videos compared to something like vimeo or dailymotion makes educational videos or kid-oriented media easy to distribute. "super simple songs" is the one i vividly remember watching at the time since 2007 or so. now kids have ai generated pregnant shit made to entice kids into watching more fucked up shit due to their natural curiosity that is exploited for more ad revenue. please for the love of god do not look up sonic on youtube anymore. you won't get just sonic gameplay or cool fangame footage but also weird videos... as if it was perfect before, there was weird shit too but not mass produced to this degree
they say the internet is the wild west. it kinda was. kinda is. i don't know anymore. i have seen too much shit and i wish we had "big the cat sucks at brawl" and "big the cat sucks at starcraft 2" back
I get this, I do.