Just STFU and review the damn thing.

[justmax]

Has anyone checked on @Moonpie lately? After this morning's rant, blood pressure came to mind.

 

[Nofir55]

At least now I know what I'm missing by rarely watching YouTube videos.

Unfortunately there is no substitute to the amount of information in YT. (as much as I hate "supporting" google). Rumble and UGE tube just has not been around long enough to gather that much content.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I believe I heard about rumble somewhere here.
Is "UGEtube" really a thing, or a play on YouTube?

 

[zackmars]

I've heard a few YTers mention the algorithm favors a certain length video and certain amount of posts a week.

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Yup. YouTube pushes for 10 minute videos. Happened a while back and screwed over animators who typically had shorter videos

 

[no2gates]

Youtube is both a great resource as well as a giant time-suck.
My wife was trying to look up info on how to do something a couple of weeks ago and found someone with a video that was about 20 minutes long. The person had never done it before, and this was their trial on doing it. Fast forward to the end of the video and it doesn't work at all, yet she posts a video on it. Unfuckingbelievable!

 

[zackmars]

As long as they keep delivering good info. I can easily sit through a marathon of C&Rsenal, but not Nutnfancy.

 

[SQLGeek]

There's a Reddit meme that's several years old now known as The Wadsworth Constant which basically means you can skip the first 30% of a video and not miss anything.

The easiest way to do this is to press 3 on the keyboard when the video starts playing.

 

[seeker_two]

About the only gun review channels I watch are The Firearms Guy, Graham Baates, and Justin Opinion. They stay brief and on-subject. I'll also watch 9-Hole Reviews and Colion Noir....but usually just for entertainment than actual data.

 

[cycleguy2300]

Truth. For instance, this is a pretty long review, but it is bookmarked.



The biggest problem I have with most reviews is that they are too shallow and based on too little time and effort to be truly useful.

Yeah, like ONE 3 shot group for each rifle then professing a "winner"

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[striker55]

I watched a video about smoothing the trigger on my S&W SD 9v. Worked out for me, just fast forward through the bs.

 

[benenglish]

And don’t forget their annoying/ self important montage of clips for their intros to every video.

Ian of Forgotten Weapons addressed that in one of his Q&A videos. He was asked why his opening sequence had dropped the montage and become so short. His reply was that the opening montage was something he did without thinking. It was a holdover from broadcast TV where you needed to tell the viewer what they were watching in case they had just flipped to that channel.

The net is different, though. When you click on a video, you know where you're going...so an intro is superfluous. He dumped it.

I had never stopped to consider all that. It was nice to hear him explain it.

A five second title screen is all a YT video needs. Long intros really irritate me these days.

They are, however, a good way to pad out your run time to get to an algorithmically necessary run time.

Personally, for some channels to which I subscribe I've memorized how many times to hit the right arrow key on my desktop to get past the opening niceties.

 

[SQLGeek]

That's something I've noticed recently. The best channels I follow in my hobbies of choice (firearms, woodworking & tech primarily) have either significantly reduced or completely eliminated their intros.

 

[zackmars]

Ian of Forgotten Weapons addressed that in one of his Q&A videos. He was asked why his opening sequence had dropped the montage and become so short. His reply was that the opening montage was something he did without thinking. It was a holdover from broadcast TV where you needed to tell the viewer what they were watching in case they had just flipped to that channel.

The net is different, though. When you click on a video, you know where you're going...so an intro is superfluous. He dumped it.

I had never stopped to consider all that. It was nice to hear him explain it.

A five second title screen is all a YT video needs. Long intros really irritate me these days.

They are, however, a good way to pad out your run time to get to an algorithmically necessary run time.

Personally, for some channels to which I subscribe I've memorized how many times to hit the right arrow key on my desktop to get past the opening niceties.

Nothing sets the mood like a 2:30 long intro with cheesy heavy metal guitars then going to a poorly lit tutorial video filmed from 6 feet away with a potato for a camera, and the heaviest, most incomprehenisble frontier-giberish southern accent in the world telling you how to detail strip the gas system on an FAL

 

[bbbass]

Something weird....

I watch YT for entertainment on my big box set. One thing that I noticed is that the voiceovers on a whole bunch of vids seem to be done by the same person. Same voice, diction, etc. It's either a computer generated voice, or one kid is making 50% of the vids I've been watching.

 

[zackmars]

Something weird....

I watch YT for entertainment on my big box set. One thing that I noticed is that the voiceovers on a whole bunch of vids seem to be done by the same person. Same voice, diction, etc. It's either a computer generated voice, or one kid is making 50% of the vids I've been watching.

British sounding voice? Lots of people use text to speech

 

[benenglish]

Some text to speech apps have gotten very good. They occasionally make themselves obvious by ridiculously mispronouncing a word in ways no human would. Always gives me a chuckle when that happens.

 

[bbbass]

British sounding voice? Lots of people use text to speech

Not at all British sounding.

Maybe 'puter voice is that good nowadays that it sounds real?

 

[candcallen]

Been researching a couple of guns I’m thinking about purchasing.
So I go to the youtubZ. Yep. Numerous vids on them. So I start watching.
Got damn. Shut. Your. Pie. Hole!
Review the fvckin thing. I don’t give a bloody fluck about you, your purse swinging bullshite with some other tuber, or how many other videos you’ve done. STFU and do the the gun review. You know. The one in the title.
Do it work? Fine.
Otherwise just shut the he!! up.

Hhhrruummff!

Touchy?

 

[bbbass]

Some text to speech apps have gotten very good. They occasionally make themselves obvious by ridiculously mispronouncing a word in ways no human would. Always gives me a chuckle when that happens.

Maybe those folks could get together with the ones doing captioning? Sometimes it's just fricking hilarious and sometimes it's annoyingly wrong!

 

[benenglish]

You Tube is a business !

Yeah, it certainly is. The days when you could become a big deal on YT by putting a camera on a tripod and doing everything yourself seem to be gone. When you look at how channels work these days, even low end reaction channels that look like a family project tend to have a producer and editor, at minimum, behind the scenes.