I miss old YouTube so much it hurts omg. i miss how it wasn’t about engagement, branding, money or camera quality, it was about broadcasting yourself and having fun. now it’s become a bland corporate shell of what it used to be and half of my recommendations are AI slop lol
source: I’m so old I remember when YouTube vids were rated with stars and everyone had neon channels with funky text
I miss being able to tell at a glance whether an instructional video was trash. I have the “return youtube dislikes” extension but it doesn’t work as well for a multitude of reasons.
I listen to lots of music on youtube, just random playlists in the background. Unfortunately, there is a TON of AI music on there now, and it’s really hard to tell the difference these days.
I guess it comes and goes now since I only ran into it once recently, but the entirety of RATMs discog will appear as labelled with that content warning that you need to manually confirm and it can make playing music let alone an album from them a chore, reuploaded a copy of their discog onto the private library to get around it but sometimes I’ll forget, queue an official upload and be like “oh yeah they still haven’t fixed this” when everything pauses. Other than that YTM is endgame music streaming, the YT community as the backend for streaming music, the actual proper releases and the ability to manage a private library is just perfect.
Do people generally just watch YouTube recommendations? Literally my entire usage of YouTube has been looking for something in particular (how tos or whatever) or I have a large amount of channels I’m subscribed to that I go look at their channel specifically for any new content I want to watch.
I only ever go straight to the Subscriptions page. I’ve got enough good quality channels to keep me entertained for long enough. I’ll occasionally check out a new channel form the suggestions on the sidebar, and I’ve found enough good new ones that way to keep me doing it, but it’s not a frequent occurrence. The thing I like about these services is that you can curate whatever experience you like by being sufficiently selective with what you click on, and the more you click on good quality stuff, the more stuff like that it’ll show you.
I have a roommate that watches YouTube like that. He was out of work for a long time and basically watched YouTube all day. I saw him finish videos and click on a recommended one.
Naturally he’ll say the craziest shit sometimes but most people around us are the same. It really sucks and I can’t wait to move out of this living situation.
I miss old YouTube so much it hurts omg. i miss how it wasn’t about engagement, branding, money or camera quality, it was about broadcasting yourself and having fun. now it’s become a bland corporate shell of what it used to be and half of my recommendations are AI slop lol
source: I’m so old I remember when YouTube vids were rated with stars and everyone had neon channels with funky text
I miss being able to tell at a glance whether an instructional video was trash. I have the “return youtube dislikes” extension but it doesn’t work as well for a multitude of reasons.
I listen to lots of music on youtube, just random playlists in the background. Unfortunately, there is a TON of AI music on there now, and it’s really hard to tell the difference these days.
They took our jobs and our art.
I use YouTube music and the community playlists on there aren’t bad.
Just wished the player didn’t break when content warnings popped up, can’t play RATM as a result.
I don’t have that problem
I guess it comes and goes now since I only ran into it once recently, but the entirety of RATMs discog will appear as labelled with that content warning that you need to manually confirm and it can make playing music let alone an album from them a chore, reuploaded a copy of their discog onto the private library to get around it but sometimes I’ll forget, queue an official upload and be like “oh yeah they still haven’t fixed this” when everything pauses. Other than that YTM is endgame music streaming, the YT community as the backend for streaming music, the actual proper releases and the ability to manage a private library is just perfect.
Do people generally just watch YouTube recommendations? Literally my entire usage of YouTube has been looking for something in particular (how tos or whatever) or I have a large amount of channels I’m subscribed to that I go look at their channel specifically for any new content I want to watch.
I only ever go straight to the Subscriptions page. I’ve got enough good quality channels to keep me entertained for long enough. I’ll occasionally check out a new channel form the suggestions on the sidebar, and I’ve found enough good new ones that way to keep me doing it, but it’s not a frequent occurrence. The thing I like about these services is that you can curate whatever experience you like by being sufficiently selective with what you click on, and the more you click on good quality stuff, the more stuff like that it’ll show you.
For that usage pattern, I recommend the Freetube app to block Google from spying.
Lol I have paid for yt prem (for yt music too) for a while, but I do use FreeTube on my Linux laptop still lol
I have a roommate that watches YouTube like that. He was out of work for a long time and basically watched YouTube all day. I saw him finish videos and click on a recommended one.
Naturally he’ll say the craziest shit sometimes but most people around us are the same. It really sucks and I can’t wait to move out of this living situation.
I mean, yeah man that’s literally how 95% of people under 30 watch YouTube.
Freetube my friend
I miss playing amv’s in the background while drawing final fantasy fan art.