3 hours ago · Music · 0 comments

I've watch a lot of videos on youtube in my life, more than I am proud of. Recently I've gotten kind of tired of it and struggled to find videos that I really like. The mrbeast- and tiktokification of the platform has made it less and less appealing to me, leading it to feel more as a sensory overload than a "hey I wonder what this person has to show me". There are in particular two categories of videos that I miss: the "friends hanging out and playing video games" and the video covering whatever topic clearly being made by someone at home. YouTube has gotten very "professional" and studio-ified. Going on the home page (that is, my personalized one since youtube has removed the old front page) more and more videos have really high quality thumbnails, a script, a high resolution microphone usually talked one sentence at a time to cut all the silence between, looots of b-roll, greenscreen, zooming in and out of things, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It's feeling much less indie and…

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