It seems that everything turned into scams, aggressive self marketing and just click bait irrelevant content. I liked finance videos, but every creator sounds like “the world will end soon” or “my secret method to make 1 million per week day trading stocks/forex/crypto.”

Content aimed at culture (movies/series) also behave the same way, throwing a bit of politics into the mix. Always the same incendiary click bait title spewing a bunch of nonsense that has nothing the story, setting characters or other topics relevant to the piece.

Is there anything that can be saved on that platform? It has gotten so bad that I’m start to think that Tiktok and Twitter both have better content than YouTube. At least in those platforms you can find a random dude writing an essay in a series of 20 tweets on why an increase of mantis is related to the global surge of ballpoint pen prices.

    • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      312·
      11 months ago

      A lot of people complain about the clickbait headlines or that he’s hamming it up for the camera. He does get a lot of hate.

      I personally find him entertaining and I like most of the other presenters. I don’t mind the clickbait headlines because they’re all clickbait, it’s like a running joke itself.

      • WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca
        271·
        11 months ago

        Yeah they’ve openly said that they wish they didn’t have to do the clickbaiting, but that the effect it has on their total views/revenue in undeniable. It’s kinda just how YouTube is at this point, adapt or die

        • hansl@lemmy.ml
          15·
          11 months ago

          Veritasium did a video about it, with data to back it up. They took old video and reposted them with and without clickbait titles and images. The difference of views is staggering. People just like it o suppose.

        • tleb@lemmy.ca
          21·
          11 months ago

          There’s always option c, which is not pursuing a media empire… lots of small channels that are successful without the clickbait crap.

          • Two@lemmy.world
            4·
            11 months ago

            A lot of what they want to do and do in fact do wouldn’t be possible at a smaller size. Their new lab uses equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a piece.

      • FiralTheSpiral@lemmy.world
        62·
        11 months ago

        Aw, that’s unfortunate. Clickbait by itself shouldn’t ruin a creator for someone. Gotta look for the positives, not the negatives.

      • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        I thought the Linux gaming pc challenge was fair. You have to remember that most users are not technical at all and that’s where Linux falls down.

        The only thing I disagreed with him majorly on was his complaint about the GitHub interface not downloading files you click on by default. I get where he’s coming from as a non-dev, it’s jarring and confusing but as a developer that’s the last thing you’d want. His complaint about GitHub’s interface really should have been directed at all those people using GitHub as a place to store files. But that’s so intrinsic to Linux, it’s hard to get away from yet it’s something that does prevent Linux from appealing to the mainstream.

        Don’t get me started on the reliance upon the terminal and bash scripts to achieve anything. I cringe every time someone says “just go here and copy/paste these commands”, not just because it’s unintuitive but because it’s also a major security risk. Not that windows is innocent of this either but it’s much more common in Linux.

          • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            I’m going to bet your 80 year old gran isn’t playing AAA games and streaming on her Linux PC.

              • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                I think you’re missing the point I’m getting at. The Linux challenge was specifically a gaming challenge, or at least gaming was a significant part of the challenge and while yes, gaming has indeed come a long way in recent years (and the stream deck is helping drive that further), it still has as long way to go.

                You need to separate the “what’s doable” fun “what works out of the box”, it’s the latter that can fall down for most people and the second you have to open as terminal, you’ve lost the audience that we’re talking about.

      • FiralTheSpiral@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        Spoken like an average cancel culture enjoyer; especially since this post hasn’t had any activity in like, what, a week? Digging up an old comment to do something like this is something people enjoy for some reason, and I don’t get it. Look for the positives, not the negatives, for God’s sake. There’s too much negativity in this world (which probably won’t change, but I can hope).

          • FiralTheSpiral@lemmy.world
            1·
            11 months ago

            Crying? You’re the one getting worked up about it. I just like to spread positivity, and it’s clear that you don’t. Not my problem.

              • FiralTheSpiral@lemmy.world
                1·
                11 months ago

                Okay, sorry if I misunderstood your tone, but I didn’t get insecure lol. I was just trying to defend the good sides of LTT, despite the drama. Nothing wrong with looking for the positives in a negative situation. And, I still feel that my assumption that you support cancel culture was justified, but disagree with me as you will. Anyways, just a suggestion, but try looking for the positives hidden in the negatives, because I can almost assure you that Linus and his team are trying their best to make things right within the community, and the company. Take that as you will.