The algorithm now is so so bad. Recommending crap and if you watch 1 video about 1 thing, it will bombard you with similar videos. RUclips shorts horts is just a crap pit. Muzic is more on youtube music now. Also , the : do not recommend channel does Not work.
To be honest, this is actually true. If you watch all cooking videos for example and accidently watch a video on a horror game, youtube won't stop crapping out horror videos for you instead of cooking videos.
The only thing that is killing YT are the advertisers, the algorithm has been skewed so far to the corporations that to find an original creators content you already have to know the creator or the vid title. Try finding a vid that only has "the date" as the title, even with content info you will get thousands of cooperate produced crap vids first.
Excellent video. To be honest though RUclips for me is starting to creep back into being decent (and your videos are a part of that). Another note on the death of TV: TV can't easily compete with RUclips not only because of authenticity but recency bias. Why watch something that is high production (even something legitimately artistic or authentic) that came out even only few months ago when 3-4 new decent RUclips videos have come out in the past hour taking about something immediately relevant and currently talked about? Our atomization makes us crave recency even more because we want the sense of an ongoing conversation and you don't want to be the guy that's trying to push for a conversation about how you just watched Cyberpunk Edgerunners for the first time or something when everyone has already watched and discussed it.
Omg I just commented on an old upload of yours saying something like you forgotten about us now that you get hundreds of thousands of views and now here you are brightening my rainy Helene dreary day. Thank you , sir , for proving me completely opposite of super green. Love you and keep on keeping on
Still salty over the Watcher situation. The official subreddit is trying to prune any criticism over it, too lol. They really thought they could pull a Dropout but, they don't have the volume of interesting content like Dropout to really be worthy of a streamer. Also Travel Season is just... not very good. They don't even really discuss the food beyond "Mm" "Thats good" "Yeah thats real good"
Something I think the community could actually do (aka something I'm definitely not going to do) would be to make something like, I dunno, "Little RUclips", where there's no front page, no recommendations, and you can only find stuff by specifically searching for it or being recommended it - kinda like RUclips when it first stated out and everyone agrees it was better. Most of what people hate about RUclips seems to be the way it waves stuff in your face that you weren't really looking for and don't really want; or stuff that's intended to game the algorithm rather than just be on the site for people to find. Maybe there could be, like, curated playlists of stuff, I dunno. I guess this probably already exists somewhere, probably on Reddit or Tumblr, but it seems like the best way to "fix" a problem that RUclips itself has literally negative incentive to fix. But the biggest problem with this (kind of) is that it's probably not going to help anybody get rich, or even quit their job. I miss when RUclipsrs were mostly people who either had, or had to have had, a job at some point. I think some of the worst parts of modern RUclips culture have a lot to do with a whole generation of content producers who have literally never had any other job. So much of their content has the same tone and style to it, because the only experience they have to draw on is making RUclips videos.
i know exactly what you mean and to be fair, i got an email the other day from youtube saying how theyre releasing something next year called a hype page, which is basically for youtubers under a certain threshold of subscribers and you can push and upvote youtubers you think should be higher so that's cool (even though it'll probably get manipulated and broken in a week)
funny story, the top thing on my recommended videos below this one is the movie "Idiocracy." which is both an answer to the title of this video, and a relevant social commentary on modern youtube culture in general lmao.
Quality vid as usual Henry, always surprises me to see your sub count being lower than it should be! What's the song you used at 22:00 min for the transition?
I stopped paying attention for two seconds and somehow it turned into a video about English philosophers. Noice. RAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH (I’m getting ptsd from civics class)
You just did what you denounced. You tricked me into watching more and more of your CONTENT, by making it well-written, insightful commentary on the current state of this platform, pandering to my curiosity. We do not know each other, but your hard work made a lot of people and myself happier today!
Dude how do you manage to seamlessly integrate philosophy with topical discussions so meaningfully? It's amazing, thanks for making me feel 10% smarter after watching your video, you well read goof! 🎉
Bo Burnham’s Inside was a beautiful punch to the gut. It really hit me emotionally. I wish you had talked about it a little more. I’m a RUclips premium member because I got sick of the ads. Most of the channels I’m subscribed to have fewer than 500k followers, and the ones that have over 500k have modified their content to appease The Algorithm.
I just finished watching the video and I agree completely. I feel like I'm watching the new Smosh videos and Dropout like I used to watch old Smosh and college humor videos and I love it. You can't beat the vibes of good fun times with friends. Or the vibes of a solo geek in their house filming themselves talking passionately about something. 😅 Great video!
why did everyone leave icq, then msn messenger, them aim, then skype, then teamspeak, then ventrillo, then skype again, then discord. ohhhh social media platforms. well people went from myspace, to facebook, Instagram, snapchat, somehow kik became a thing even though itd been around forever. youtube is a place for corporations or school projects. was never a place to make money yet people made it to be that, and the pay is wonky af after over a decade of it being brought up. i, as a consumer of youtube, view free edutainment over 90% of the time on the platform which was pretty nonexistent until the late 2000s outside of documentaries which you'd have to hunt out through other websites that just listed documentaries and where to watch youtube is no different than the American public broadcasting system, some AMAZING things, goofy things, garbage things, and all the shows are always struggling for money except for maybe a few. sesame streets on HBO max now for example
The algorithm now is so so bad. Recommending crap and if you watch 1 video about 1 thing, it will bombard you with similar videos. RUclips shorts horts is just a crap pit. Muzic is more on youtube music now. Also , the : do not recommend channel does Not work.
Can't be too bad, got recommended this foppish chap a while back and he is alright
Or recommending videos I watched a month ago and nothing else
@@daveberry7136 a diamond in the rough
To be honest, this is actually true. If you watch all cooking videos for example and accidently watch a video on a horror game, youtube won't stop crapping out horror videos for you instead of cooking videos.
FOPPISH (i don't know what that means but i will use it forever)
WAIT, WHAT YOU ONLY HAVE 15K SUBS WHAT THE HELL, IT FEELS LIKE I'VE WATCHED YOUR CHANNEL INTERMITTENTLY FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS I'M TWEAKIN RAAAHHHH
The only thing that is killing YT are the advertisers, the algorithm has been skewed so far to the corporations that to find an original creators content you already have to know the creator or the vid title. Try finding a vid that only has "the date" as the title, even with content info you will get thousands of cooperate produced crap vids first.
Excellent video. To be honest though RUclips for me is starting to creep back into being decent (and your videos are a part of that).
Another note on the death of TV: TV can't easily compete with RUclips not only because of authenticity but recency bias. Why watch something that is high production (even something legitimately artistic or authentic) that came out even only few months ago when 3-4 new decent RUclips videos have come out in the past hour taking about something immediately relevant and currently talked about? Our atomization makes us crave recency even more because we want the sense of an ongoing conversation and you don't want to be the guy that's trying to push for a conversation about how you just watched Cyberpunk Edgerunners for the first time or something when everyone has already watched and discussed it.
yeah its fully a thing of once you've watched it who cares, then you move onto the next thing to fill the void
Too many ads and the fight against blockers.
@@terriblegas30 and scam ads no one with any common Sense would actually click on.
The Brave browser automatically blocks ads.
Is the end implying that I am going to be dead ? Spoilers !
sorry i should've put a spoiler warning, my bad
Ads, shorts, AI, big shots acting like children, drama, rage bait, politics. That's the problem.
Omg I just commented on an old upload of yours saying something like you forgotten about us now that you get hundreds of thousands of views and now here you are brightening my rainy Helene dreary day. Thank you , sir , for proving me completely opposite of super green. Love you and keep on keeping on
it's like you knew i was about to upload, that's truly impressive hahah
Are you dealing with Helene too? There's over a million people without power in my area (myself included). Hope you're doing okay!
So at what point will RUclips be considered "mainstream?" Is 122 million users a day not enough?
I'd argue RUclips as a Platform is there, but RUclips videos aren't.
A new Henry video, a new banger.
hahahah why thankyou, i'm glad you enjoyed it
In before a streamer reacts to your whole video taking away all your views☠.
Still salty over the Watcher situation. The official subreddit is trying to prune any criticism over it, too lol. They really thought they could pull a Dropout but, they don't have the volume of interesting content like Dropout to really be worthy of a streamer. Also Travel Season is just... not very good. They don't even really discuss the food beyond "Mm" "Thats good" "Yeah thats real good"
Something I think the community could actually do (aka something I'm definitely not going to do) would be to make something like, I dunno, "Little RUclips", where there's no front page, no recommendations, and you can only find stuff by specifically searching for it or being recommended it - kinda like RUclips when it first stated out and everyone agrees it was better.
Most of what people hate about RUclips seems to be the way it waves stuff in your face that you weren't really looking for and don't really want; or stuff that's intended to game the algorithm rather than just be on the site for people to find. Maybe there could be, like, curated playlists of stuff, I dunno.
I guess this probably already exists somewhere, probably on Reddit or Tumblr, but it seems like the best way to "fix" a problem that RUclips itself has literally negative incentive to fix. But the biggest problem with this (kind of) is that it's probably not going to help anybody get rich, or even quit their job. I miss when RUclipsrs were mostly people who either had, or had to have had, a job at some point. I think some of the worst parts of modern RUclips culture have a lot to do with a whole generation of content producers who have literally never had any other job. So much of their content has the same tone and style to it, because the only experience they have to draw on is making RUclips videos.
i know exactly what you mean and to be fair, i got an email the other day from youtube saying how theyre releasing something next year called a hype page, which is basically for youtubers under a certain threshold of subscribers and you can push and upvote youtubers you think should be higher so that's cool (even though it'll probably get manipulated and broken in a week)
It´s an easy game these days. I get to see Matpat and Tom Scott so you get a big fat thumb up.
funny story, the top thing on my recommended videos below this one is the movie "Idiocracy." which is both an answer to the title of this video, and a relevant social commentary on modern youtube culture in general lmao.
hahahahah
Electrolytes- it's what plants crave!
Quality vid as usual Henry, always surprises me to see your sub count being lower than it should be! What's the song you used at 22:00 min for the transition?
BTW I can say confidently that you are not the least funny person I've ever met in my entire life. :)
it's lonely rolling star from katamari damacy, thanks for the incredibly kind words
Thank you for being there, its good to know, that there are some sane people left on RUclips.
Everybody's talking about content, but only inside this one container. I call conditioned containment.
echo chambers, confirmation bias... etc.
That ending was deep.
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oh my word you don't have to do that ahahh, that's so kind of you thankyou
@@henryisdumband you don't have to make awesome videos. Let's just keep doing our best.
hahahah i shall try to, until i eventually get bored and set up my own streaming service
What ruined the internet (in my gorgeous opinion): money
Everything goes to shit when even one asshole thinks to themselves "But how can I monetize this?"
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I stopped paying attention for two seconds and somehow it turned into a video about English philosophers. Noice. RAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH (I’m getting ptsd from civics class)
hahahahahahah i can only apologise
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I'll forever be upset about watcher, I can't even watch them anymore without having a bitter taste in my mouth
i know exactly what you mean
Tthank you for this. You put a name to a feeling I've had for a while
no worries! i've been working through that too and this was the only way i could get it out of me hahah
great video
Yes! Cant wait to watch this and I do hope that you never leave RUclips.
hahahah thankyou, i hope you enjoy it! (hopefully i don't, but who knows future henry is an idiot)
amazing editing dude!
You just did what you denounced. You tricked me into watching more and more of your CONTENT, by making it well-written, insightful commentary on the current state of this platform, pandering to my curiosity.
We do not know each other, but your hard work made a lot of people and myself happier today!
Dude how do you manage to seamlessly integrate philosophy with topical discussions so meaningfully? It's amazing, thanks for making me feel 10% smarter after watching your video, you well read goof! 🎉
Ghost shows... having those expenses to chase the existence of non-existent...bravo, super business model! Not.
Really good video. One question, who did you edit for?
Stupid creators making stupid stuff that people won't watch.
Your deep dives are awesome. Thanks for being you!
To make room for smaller channels like mine.
Only found this channel last week and already love the content! Another HQ vid 👌👌
i'm glad you enjoyed it! that means so much to hear
Someone who's successfully left is Troye Sivan
Thank you for divorcing my wife
Nebula clears RUclips now.
first time viewer, subbed.
Bo Burnham’s Inside was a beautiful punch to the gut. It really hit me emotionally. I wish you had talked about it a little more. I’m a RUclips premium member because I got sick of the ads. Most of the channels I’m subscribed to have fewer than 500k followers, and the ones that have over 500k have modified their content to appease The Algorithm.
LOL, just realized I wasn’t subbed. At least the algorithm knows me enough to recommend your vids. Subbed now.
This is a fantastic video. 👏👏👏👏👏
thanks so much! i'm glad you liked it!
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I just finished watching the video and I agree completely.
I feel like I'm watching the new Smosh videos and Dropout like I used to watch old Smosh and college humor videos and I love it. You can't beat the vibes of good fun times with friends. Or the vibes of a solo geek in their house filming themselves talking passionately about something. 😅
Great video!
hahahah that last line is going on my cv
why did everyone leave icq, then msn messenger, them aim, then skype, then teamspeak, then ventrillo, then skype again, then discord. ohhhh social media platforms. well people went from myspace, to facebook, Instagram, snapchat, somehow kik became a thing even though itd been around forever. youtube is a place for corporations or school projects. was never a place to make money yet people made it to be that, and the pay is wonky af after over a decade of it being brought up.
i, as a consumer of youtube, view free edutainment over 90% of the time on the platform which was pretty nonexistent until the late 2000s outside of documentaries which you'd have to hunt out through other websites that just listed documentaries and where to watch
youtube is no different than the American public broadcasting system, some AMAZING things, goofy things, garbage things, and all the shows are always struggling for money except for maybe a few. sesame streets on HBO max now for example