In case you hadn’t heard, more than a few YouTube users are stating that “it isn’t like it used to be” (more or less) and that the site is nothing but a big ball of boring. In addition to that, users of that site are abso-frickin’-lutely sick of the negativity that goes thru that place like a never-ending tidal wave; this means video-makers either “play it safe” with video content or just don’t post anymore.
I pondered this and came out with a well-thought-out pie chart showing what the content of YouTube is like.
As you can see, YouTube is overwhelmed with crap.
But maybe it’s the community that makes YouTube great? I don’t think so.
Here’s a screen shot I took of a random video comment section on YouTube. I blurred out the names (because I’m not about to make them “famous”, thank you very much.)
Bear in mind that other than the blur-outs, this is UNEDITED.
Want more proof? Check out Metafilter vs. YouTube and see for yourself.
YouTube is teeming with morons and people are abandoning it left and right (for good reason.)
It’s official: YouTube sucks.
But you probably already knew that.
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Actually, you have accurately summed up not just YouTube, but almost EVERY popular social/new media/web 2.0/ site out there. User generated content is all well and good but the sad fact is most people aren’t that interesting and have nothing original to say.
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Beyond having nothing original, I am almost (ALMOST) surprised at how negative people are. Can’t we all just get along?
YouTube has always been like that, perhaps less so in the early days but now the moron stats and quits are kinda steady. I must give them a lot of credit.. they’ ve managed to run the show this long despite the fact that a vlogger revolt was constantly in the air. The biggest crack in the ceiling so far was probably LiveVideo’s arrival.
If nothing else, after you get bored of videos, switch to reading comments… their entertainment value can be substantial :>
Why bother looking at the comments?
One fairly negative article relating all the bad aspects of YouTube
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Three (thus far) replies to said article also with marginally negative slants/opinions on how horrid YouTube is becoming or already has become.
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YouTube sans videos??
Not quite. PCMech readers know how to write complete coherent sentences in the comment area.
Point taken. That’s what separates the men from the boys – I’ll remember that.
That and we aren’t all yelling at each other and having a massive flame-fest. Except on the DIY Mac article, where I got called stupid, when the comment could have been avoided. By the way, I was wrong in my opinions there. I hope that guy sees this. Consider my outmoded Macology rectified.
See? You don’t get apologies on Youtube.
One word: VideoSift.com
Youtube is bad in every given way. It became so bad that I cancelled my Youtube account despite having about 50 favorites on it. Ratings would not save, comments (even single-word comments) would never post, and comments get deleted for no reason. It took me at least 18 months to get a comment to score a whopping +1, which occurred on a comment to a Super Bowl XLII video. That was a landmark achievement considering that the average score was about -4. (BTW, the current single-score record is +3.) Also, many videos would not stream properly and you would have to download them in order to watch them. I am now using Google Video to watch and upload videos.
….You do know Youtube and Google Video are the same company right? Basically by leaving Youtube and going to google video they pretty much have you by the balls. I hardly think Google cares what one you use because they own both anyway. You are better off using a service run by a completely different company.. And yes, Youtube had turned into a trash site filled with idiots and copyright crybabies.
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yah, i also hate the random site maintenence that seems to do nothing at all(except inconvinience me) and the negativity just blows.
I hate how YouTube nowadays censors the content posted by users to the degree that it does. Originally, you could post just about anything on that site but not anymore. On top of all that, their censors are quite often very inconsistent. Case in point, I posted the classic cartoon, Coal Black & the Sebben Dwarfs, and YouTube removed it, saying that it violated its terms of service. But, on the other hand, others have posted the cartoon and YouTube does absolutely nothing about it. It’s like WTF!? I guess their censorship wouldn’t be as bad if they applied their rules to everyone equally.
Also, as of late, the videos on YouTube quite often won’t load at all. I go to other video sites & their videos load just fine. Therefore, it is nothing wrong with my computer but the way YouTube is rendered.
youtube sucks, I have almost half of my videos taken from them! like this week! and the reason is? using music without permission, come on, just type ‘final fantasy music video’ for example and you get loads of them! why me? still, guess how long i had these videos on youtube? three years. This is bullcrap, my very first video on youtube was taken and i can’t get all of them back now my pc was rebooted liked two years ago. Youtube changed a lot compare to way back then, we used to watch tv episodes in there, now thanks to them, youtube’s full of all these youTubePoops and all loads of craps!.
Yeah, my account was suspended today after almost 3 years :/ All my videos.. gone. Several of them had over 80k views and 5 star ratings. Ah well, guess I shouldn’t have uploaded that small clip of Captain Murphy from Sealab 2021 (god forbid). Cartoon Network got all up in arms over that. Lesson learned I suppose?
Yeah. Youtube’s quality has definitely diminished. Not much to look at except a bunch of uninteresting people acting like they have something important to say – much like I’m doing right now ;P
Agreed: I don’t mind reading your comment as long as I don’t have to look at your ugly face. The YouTube idiots and their video responses to every asinine thing? No such luck.
OH GAWD. SOMEONE PLEASE FIRE THE YOUTUBE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!! IT SUCKS SO BAD!!!!!!! everytime i try to find videos, and it goes “internal error” or just plain page load error. what the hell!?!! YOUTUBE SUCKS BIG TIME BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
you folks wanna know the worst thing about youtube? that @&%+$ing jumpy video thing. once you could’ve watched ANY video with no problems. now nearly every video i try to watch ends up with the image jumping in the left hand corner and leaving streaks, yet the audio is fine. turns out i’m not the only one who has this problem. at first i thought it was my computer, but when i tried other sites like google video, i had no problems. youtube has fallen off. i’m canceling my account.
i have been suspended numerous time due to the nazi policing youtube. its call censorship or copyright infringement
these corporate loser are beginning to get on my nerve
most of us need to come together and put youtube out of business
it is owned by google inc since november 2006 and it doesn’t care about our fair use rights. the policy suck and the corporate media now police youtube 24hrs a day looking for video, audio to disable. it is no longer a free for all which is what made youtube a great place to share video in the beginning. we the user can put them out of business for good by spreading the truth about their censorship and how they have sold us out to big evil corporate nazi owned by very few elite ppl at very top of the pyramid scheme.
Videosift isn’t any better than YouTube. And in YouTube’s favor, at least they give people the ability promote themselves and their work.
There isn’t much difference between the comments in VideoSift or YouTube and what you might hear in a prison—both are profane, deeply disturbing, and aggressive. The fact is Videosift and YouTube are simply reflections of our what our society has become and it’s a shame, but the picture’s not pretty.
Youtube is the Lars Ulrich of video images. This is an issue of greed, and corporate ignorance. Our culture is constantly warped and bastardized, bent over the kitchen table and give what for by men in fancy suits. Youtube is another example of something being popularized by a general public, growing into a beautiful expression of mass culture, and then the men in suits saw we were having fun, and decided to either make a buck or ruin it for everyone. It’s just a perfect example of why this country is going down the tubes and will be a third rate international village in 50 years with about 14 rich white guys runnin the entire show from an Aspen condo. Youtube is trash.
Dont forget AMVs everywhere, god forbid if your trying to watch a show actually seeing it
Yeah, to prove that Youtube is full of idiots, look at what has happened to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWsXpOYnpuU. There has been a severe outbreak of thumbs down, thus blocking all comments from public view. Once a comment is given a -6 score, the block becomes permanent and the negative score cannot be reversed. A bunch of noobs being thumbs-down-happy if you ask me. lol
I agree with all the above posts. If I may add, youtube has the most horrendous scripting ever. who the hell maintains that website, a bunch of morons?? seriously.. half of the links never work (i.e. to sort comments by the “newest” never works, when you reply to a specific comment it always pops it up on the top of the comment list and not under the comment you’re replying to.. very rarely that happens, the favorites link you have to press about 5 times for it to actually add the video to your favorites). google is worthless and so is youtube. anything google has touched in the past has gone to complete crap. even google search engine is shite. pure garbage. well, it really always was. i still use altavista and find a lot more stuff on it than google. it seems that everything thsese days is done half-assed and nobody gives a shit.