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cactuswatcher) wrote2025-06-24 01:10 pm
cactuswatcher) wrote2025-06-24 01:10 pm
Good Grief
It's bad enough that my YouTube general feed has filled up with ads this year. It's also so cluttered with garbage channels that I often don't even see my "favorites" when they post anymore without going to my personal favorites feed.
Too much of it is just a pathetic money grab anymore. They come up with interesting titles with no real relation to the video, so people will click on them. I suppose it's my own fault for clicking on a video about old movies and find the computer generated narrator can't pronounce Bette Davis; clicking on a video about geology and the fake narrator can't pronounce New Madrid the name of the most famous earthquake fault in the U.S. east of California; clicking on a video supposedly about rivers in the U.S. in which perhaps a human mispronounces Cairo, Illinois where the Ohio and Mississippi rivers meet... It makes Wikipedia in the old days seem reliably authoritative.
This afternoon I clicked on a video that was supposed to talk about some old movie stars. It started off the first section (on John Wayne) with the phrase "From the dusty streets of Monument Valley..." Even if this is AI B.S., who was so stupid as to enter Monument Valley in a data base of Western towns? Either nobody edits this garbage or they are so ignorant they couldn't edit properly, if they wanted to.
I wish YouTube gave us a way to block these channels from nitwits, so I can get to new creators I'd like to watch more quickly.
Too much of it is just a pathetic money grab anymore. They come up with interesting titles with no real relation to the video, so people will click on them. I suppose it's my own fault for clicking on a video about old movies and find the computer generated narrator can't pronounce Bette Davis; clicking on a video about geology and the fake narrator can't pronounce New Madrid the name of the most famous earthquake fault in the U.S. east of California; clicking on a video supposedly about rivers in the U.S. in which perhaps a human mispronounces Cairo, Illinois where the Ohio and Mississippi rivers meet... It makes Wikipedia in the old days seem reliably authoritative.
This afternoon I clicked on a video that was supposed to talk about some old movie stars. It started off the first section (on John Wayne) with the phrase "From the dusty streets of Monument Valley..." Even if this is AI B.S., who was so stupid as to enter Monument Valley in a data base of Western towns? Either nobody edits this garbage or they are so ignorant they couldn't edit properly, if they wanted to.
I wish YouTube gave us a way to block these channels from nitwits, so I can get to new creators I'd like to watch more quickly.
Thoughts
The problem I have is that on the YouTube site, trying to watch a video usually just gets stuck in an endless loop of ads.
>>They come up with interesting titles with no real relation to the video, so people will click on them.<<
Haven't seen that problem, so thanks for the warning. Then again, I'm watching stuff like vivarium builds and archaeology news, not exactly clickbait territory.
>>I wish YouTube gave us a way to block these channels from nitwits, so I can get to new creators I'd like to watch more quickly.<<
That would be nice. Or maybe someone else will think of creating a similar product with better service.