• Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      It really feels like YouTube videos are getting longer and longer. Finding stuff that’s 3 to 5 minutes is difficult. Everything is at least 10 minutes, but usually 30. Half the videos are padded with nonsense like sponsors or drama about the channel or whatever.

      The larger allowance for time means there’s less editing. Or the editing is worse than the old jump cuts every five seconds of 2010.

      • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        5 months ago

        The first 2 minutes of every video is a basic essay-style summary of their thesis. The next 6 minutes are shilling for a scam company, their channel merch, and Patreon. The final 2 minutes are the video but unfinished because part 2 is coming next month but you can get early access by going to their Patreon

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        5 months ago

        A few weeks ago I randomly clicked on a video about “the problem with the drama community” or whatever just for shits and giggles and turned it off after 2 minutes because they were just getting into a feature-length analysis of some twitter spat between irrelevant sloptubers nobody’s ever heard of like it’s the most important thing to ever happen

        And then I realized that’s basically all of youtube now