YouTube Model Review Irks.

[Ace-Garageguy]

39 minutes ago, johnyrotten said:

...the internet can be a big ,scary, place if you don't have thick skin...

Ain't that the truth.

But it's great for anger-management training, invoking the age-old mantra of "consider the source".  

[Bugatti Fan]

Some YouTube videos showing actual builds are brilliantly conceived and produced.

Unfortunately a great many are pure drawn out dross, and a huge proportion of the box opening videos are just that.

[sidcharles]

15 hours ago, LDO said:

. . . anyone who uses AI to narrate a video is a lazy waste of oxygen. 

is that what i am hearing when the lips don't jive with the words?  i assumed in circumstances it was because the producer's first language was not Engrish. (sic)

[sidcharles]

1 hour ago, Bugatti Fan said:

Some YouTube videos showing actual builds are brilliantly conceived and produced.

Unfortunately a great many are pure drawn out dross, and a huge proportion of the box opening videos are just that.

i think a great part of life is " pure drawn out dross."

don't get me started of bicyclist YT-ers!

[Bugatti Fan]

Could be right there Sid !

When you think about it much of our lives are spent just doing routine chores

[Beans]

YT can be ok but is quickly becoming more garbage than information.  The majority of the "content creators" aren't trying to pass along knowledge or help others or educate.  They are trying to get free stuff.  I watch my teenage daughter and her friends.  They all make the same kinds of videos (I won't let my daughter have a YT account).  They all want to get the clicks and likes.  Why?  to get free stuff.  They inundate companies they like and request free stuff.  They say they will hype in on their channel.  Its all one big advertisement.  The older kids thought they would get rich having other people watch them play video games.  That kind of died out.  

I can count on one hand the number of model related YT videos I have watched all the way through.  Mute - look at what is in the box - back arrow.

I learn more on techniques and skills on this forum than I ever did on YT.    And don't even get me started on FB.  

[johnyrotten]

1 hour ago, Beans said:

I learn more on techniques and skills on this forum than I ever did on YT.

Same here. Not knocking any creator, but the wealth of skill and knowledge here vastly eclipses what I've seen on YouTube. I use YouTube as a "third source", if at all, for a technique or product review. 

Edited 4 hours ago by johnyrotten
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