What do you find irritating about YouTubers?

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I find impromptu YouTube live streams utterly irritating. Your only way of knowing when someone's streaming is if you're on the site and get a notification or somehow get it on your mobile device. It's an awfully inefficient way of fostering a streaming community because the audience is composed of randos who just happen to be at the right place at the right time. All it does is alienate everyone else who would have wanted to participate. You wouldn't believe how many times I missed a live stream because there was no way of knowing it was going on, especially since I'm not on YouTube most of the time.

Is it really that hard to set a schedule for yourself and your fans to follow? You may even get way more watchers, and with them, more superchats since everyone would know when you're available and choose whether to watch you or not. But even if YouTube implemented a streaming notification system similar to Twitch, it still doesn't change the fact that you're still streaming without prior notice and disrupting your fans' plans for the day.

I know it's not possible to bring everyone to your stream, especially when they lead vastly different lives and live in different time zones, but you can at least make it easy for as many as your fans to watch you by communicating your plans to stream.
 
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Becky McDonald said:
Not so much the video authors themselves, but fans who think a hiatus longer than 8 - 9 days is too much. I would rather watch one 30 minute video that is extremely well-made, factual, and free of padding once a month than I would 5 10 minute videos every 6 or so days.
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Quality > quantity, for sure.

It's because of this why Internet Historian, JonTron, EmpLemon, and LEMMINO are such juggernauts in their craft, despite only uploading a handful of times per year. Then in addition to them, there's also quality channels with large audiences (but less than a million subs) who put out great, well-edited content on either a monthly or biweekly basis like J.J. McCollough or Ghost Gum. The latter only makes stuff like every month or two, but he hits the nail on the head each time, so I don't mind waiting if it's going to be a quality video.
 
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Ron Jeremy Stan Account said:
Quality > quantity, for sure.

It's because of this why Internet Historian, JonTron, EmpLemon, and LEMMINO are such juggernauts in their craft, despite only uploading a handful of times per year.
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Would you count Cinemassacre in that camp (ignoring James' plunge in quality)? New AVGN episodes are a rare treat, but they're generally great for the most part -- assuming Justin's fat ass or Rex Viper doesn't shoehorn in an appearance. I'd also include maybe Blameitonjorge, Barely Sociable or perhaps NexPo in the category of big Youtubers who sporadically upload but always put out out worthwhile videos, although his [NexPo] recent content has been questionable lately.

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Then in addition to them, there's also quality channels with large audiences (but less than a million subs) who put out great, well-edited content on either a monthly or biweekly basis like J.J. McCollough or Ghost Gum. The latter only makes stuff like every month or two, but he hits the nail on the head each time, so I don't mind waiting if it's going to be a quality video.
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In that camp I'd also include Larry Bundy Jr.: he normally puts out quality content every few weeks, and I find myself typically enjoying his uploads despite his sporadic schedule. Whang!, Wavywebsurf, and Mista GG typically put out quality content on a biweekly or monthly basis too, and it's generally good for the most part.
 
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Becky McDonald said:
Not so much the video authors themselves, but fans who think a hiatus longer than 8 - 9 days is too much. I would rather watch one 30 minute video that is extremely well-made, factual, and free of padding once a month than I would 5 10 minute videos every 6 or so days.
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That's the power of parasocial relationships these days.
Or, depending on how you look at it, people's general attention spans are getting / already are ridiculously short. Or maybe even some level of addiction.

It's probably the same reason why Twitter is melting down every time YouTube is down.

But alas, this is just musings.
 
When I need a guide for a game to show me where a hidden door (or object, or collectible whatever) is that should take about 30 seconds to demonstrate from start to finish but there's a 4 minute intro of the guy's shitty animated intro with royalty free music in the background followed by begging for subscribers, likes, follows, retweets, introducing himself, his channel, his alternative channel his cat, all social media accounts, the game we're playing, the expansion we're on, the achievent/collection we're doing and the item we're looking for.

I know what fucking game we're playing and what item we're looking for you dumbfuck its specifically why I clicked on your fucking video.

As if some rando who has no idea what the fuck is going on is gonna click on "How find collectible #34 for hidden questline H.2 in expansion D" out of sheer curiocity and become so enthralled by the sound of your retarded voice that you just *have* to shill everything in case they desperately want to become a fan and have no way to find you other than clicking on your goddamn channel.
 
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Holly shit videos like this. This guy makes his point before the 10 minute mark but he drags the video out for 51:40 minutes.
 
Probably mentioned before, but the whole quirky "every line is a punchline" delivery.

Drinking alcohol that was wasted for a food experiment isn't a punchline.

Showing off tech from the 1970s isn't a punchline.
 
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AlephOne2Many said:
Probably mentioned before, but the whole quirky "every line is a punchline" delivery.

Drinking alcohol that was wasted for a food experiment isn't a punchline.

Showing off tech from the 1970s isn't a punchline.
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what youtubers are you watching that caused this conclusion
 
Deadwaste said:
what youtubers are you watching that caused this conclusion
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There's too many examples I've seen so I'll narrow it down to this one:


Then again, what am I expecting from product "reviews" anymore?
 
I used to love Buzzfeed unsolved and anything ryan and shane had control over, they were the only good things Buzzfeed ever made, well when they left Buzzfeed to make Watcher i followed, now my one of my favorite things about Unsolved was how it never made any political statements ever, it was very apolitical which was a shocker for buzzfeed.
This did not carry over to watcher.
I've only watched puppet history and ghost files out of their catalogue of shows, but puppet history started having so many annoying political references its annoyed me to no end, Highlights include!
-The Professor (host of puppet history who is literally just a dyed blue elmo puppet) saying acab about 5 times in 1 minute during a episode about Isaac Newton
-Alot of champagne communist "I hate the rich dontlookinmybank" from shane (he plays The Professor)
-A very overt reference to January 6th in the most recent episode
I can't think of more off the top of my head, but every episode after season 2 generally has 1 or 2 overt political references that just irk me to no end, no one wants to hear about how stupid and dumb trump supporters are in a video about Czech people being thrown out windows, was buzzfeed really saving us from your stupid ass political humor, Buzzfeed?!?

So yeah, random, totally unneed poltical humor irritates me to no end, just shut the fuck up and make the video.
 
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Every video longer than 10 minutes being titled a "documentary"

Said "documentaries" consisting of a compilations of clips and videos someone else made, while reading a script consisting of information others gathered up
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https://www.youtube.com/@DarkDocsSkies is practically bad in this regard. He just reads a script and puts on video or images that are only somewhat related to the topic.

A super good doc channel is https://www.youtube.com/@rorymacve. It's mainly directed at British transport related topics but he does one hell of a job.
 
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Serbian Peacekeepers said:
no one wants to hear about how stupid and dumb trump supporters are in a video about Czech people being thrown out windows
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It degrades and devalues any semblance of professionalism to insert opinions (esp political and personal) into something meant to be perceived as observational and informative. Like the first rule of journalism that journo’s no longer follow, be objective. The opposite of objective is when they insert their personal opinion or feelings about whatever issue, smack dab in the middle of a deep dive into an overview of feudal Japanese clothing or whatever completely different topic that is no where close to the bs the creator has decided to regale their audience with. It detracts, and makes the creation not stand the test of time, let alone a few minutes of video footage. To scale this up a little, art which endures in any fashion, knows this, to not misuse hot topics of flash pop-culture in the middle of a work of art, as it will decrease the timelessness and interrupt suspension of disbelief or simply concentration or enjoyment, as not everyone will agree or even understand that little Trump joke you just couldn’t resist inserting into a completely different story.
 
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Lew Later ruined it for me by doing pre-recorded livestreams. Pat Contri does the same thing. I'm not sure how much longer Lew can do it, his numbers are awful now and he barely does his big thing, Unbox Therapy anymore.
 
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