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tooki:

--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on December 25, 2020, 03:49:05 pm ---I stump up the $2.99 per month - problem solved. Changes the whole YT experience.

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What option is $2.99/mo? YouTube premium is about $12/mo in USA and $15/mo here...

rdl:
If they would stop screwing around with the UI and replace it with one that loads fast on browsers other than Chrome I might consider paying for Premium.

engrguy42:

--- Quote from: AntiProtonBoy on January 07, 2021, 12:14:58 am --- There is so many good stuff out there, highly educational and creative. Not many platforms offer the same level of variety and amount of content.

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You realize that people aren't interested in "educational and creative", right? They want video games where they can sit for hours shooting guys' heads off. Or, worse yet, spend hours watching SOMEBODY ELSE play video games. They'll gladly pay a monthly fee for Netflix and HBO subscriptions and not blink an eye. But "educational"? Not even on the radar. Spend 5 seconds watching an ad in a Youtube video so the creator gets 0.1 micro-cents? No freakin' way.

Well, unless the creator has his cat in the background.

By the way, if anyone wants to be amazed, look at the list of those videos that have gone viral to the tune of BILLIONS of views in only a few days. Music and entertainment.

Tech/educational channels often are lucky to get thousands of views in a span of months. Unless it's a 3 minute video showing the latest gaming GPU that just came out and "blows the shorts off" the previous GPU's by 1.3 frames per second. Especially if it has cool LED's and stuff.

That's what people want. 

langwadt:

--- Quote from: engrguy42 on January 08, 2021, 08:15:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: AntiProtonBoy on January 07, 2021, 12:14:58 am --- There is so many good stuff out there, highly educational and creative. Not many platforms offer the same level of variety and amount of content.

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You realize that people aren't interested in "educational and creative", right? They want video games where they can sit for hours shooting guys' heads off. Or, worse yet, spend hours watching SOMEBODY ELSE play video games. They'll gladly pay a monthly fee for Netflix and HBO subscriptions and not blink an eye. But "educational"? Not even on the radar. Spend 5 seconds watching an ad in a Youtube video so the creator gets 0.1 micro-cents? No freakin' way.

Well, unless the creator has his cat in the background.

By the way, if anyone wants to be amazed, look at the list of those videos that have gone viral to the tune of BILLIONS of views in only a few days. Music and entertainment.

Tech/educational channels often are lucky to get thousands of views in a span of months. Unless it's a 3 minute video showing the latest gaming GPU that just came out and "blows the shorts off" the previous GPU's by 1.3 frames per second. Especially if it has cool LED's and stuff.

That's what people want.

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before youtube there was TV with loads of crap and nothing else
with youtube, still lots of crap but also some  technical, educational and creative

engrguy42:
I used to watch a guy who was a really talented software developer. Really good at teaching a software language I wanted to learn. His videos were just that, explaining the language and how it worked. All tech, all educational, writing code.

Then he quit his job and decided to go full time into Youtube. And he decided in order to get decent income he needed to change things drastically. Now instead of how to write code it's videos of him responding to video games, and discussing stuff that is 80% entertainment and only 20% technology and education. Because that's what people want.

Over the years I've seen channel after channel buckle to the desires of their audience for more entertainment and less education and tech. I suspect his next move will be reviewing the latest "ooo, shiny" new hardware like most of the other computer tech channels.

And I'm sure he'll buy a cat. And maybe have his girlfriend join him. And maybe even start doing pranks.

That's what people really want. That's what Youtube is becoming. In fact it's almost there.

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