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This is the greatest advertising rant of All Time 
Entertainment
I've gotten about 7 ads at once and just left the damn stream
Bruh
I joined a random stream of someone playing the same game as me to drop by and say hi, got 4 ads, got the free trial of turbo to avoid ads and still had to finish the ads
Half the damn time its the same fucking add 3 times in a row its so goofy
That’s because Twitch sucks
Same, at that point im leaving the stream and coming back later, its NOT worth it
Putting an ad when a viewer clicks on someone's stream for the first time is the actual stupidest thing you could ever do
Exactly, because it kills discoverability
Not to Twitch. Amazon is too big to fail, so they don’t care about viewers
It blows my kind that they don't realize how much this ruins the experience for people, it's like they never tried watching their platform without turbo.
@AlkaVirus the suits at Amazon don't know and don't care. They're coddled and spoiled business majors from private schools or ivy league schools that have never played a game or watched a stream.
@AlkaVirus Maybe if their sub count gets absolutely cratered and they aren’t stupid greedy, they’ll figure it out.
Not to mention the ads themselves are the worst most unwatchable slop advertising of all time
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and interspliced between banner ads during the actual content which flashbombs you when youre fullscreened
Make a quality product and people will buy it. Become known as that company that spams and people will go out of their way to avoid your product, no matter the quality.
Bro u gave two warnings
i let youtube play on my tv while im sleeping and i CONSTANTLY get ads now that are entire podcast episodes, an infomercial, or something along the lines of "you are entitled to compensation". Its non stop ads that are multiple HOURS long. why do they even allow that?
thats your fault for being low IQ dude. brainlet.. use Brave browser i use it on my phone and computer and havent had a YT ad since switching over a year ago.
I've noticed that if I accidentally let an ad play, they slowly get longer and longer until it's absurd lengths and amounts.
Not only that, but the ads are usually louder than whatever I'm watching and will startle me awake sometimes.
I hate to be this guy but you really should get an ad blocker. I get that maybe your favourite content creators aren't going to get a cut, but that's youtube's doing, not my responsibility - and ad sense is only a tiny fraction of how creators earn their money anyway. Most of them earn the lions share on sponsors and merch, not adsense.
@Shmandalf RUclips won't let me watch RUclips if I have AdBlock enabled
@Casted_Shadowsyes they do. Ublock origin
A massive difference between TV as well is you could flip channels when ads came on, if you flip channels with twitch, you're 90% of the time just going to end up with more pre-roll ads
You also must not forget that most of the time, the show or whatever is playing stops to let the ads play. On twitch, you're screwed because you littelary are missing out on everything that's happening.
In my experience, when the 3 minute ad breaks come on, if you leave for 3 minutes and go back, you avoid the ads, but if you return after 2 minutes, ir restarts, so you waste 5 minutes instead of just 3
True, stream hopping is awful with ads.
@Noah-z1q9qthis is a big one. I've gotten blueballed on bosskills in soulslikes after hours of trying. Peak of tension cut to pringles cut back to boss dead
@Noah-z1q9q You literally just regurgitated the whole point of this video pretending it's a original Thought 😂😂
Opens stream, 3 minutes of adds, leave. Try another stream, 3 minutes of ads, leave. Try one more time, 3 minutes of ads, screw this closes twitch.
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Thats me, but i leave at first ads, don't watch for years
Spot on.
Arguably that’s what they want though no? They make all their money from people hopping around after watching the ads and being fed more
this is important to see though because I've always run ads and paused the content (even though they make no money) to turn off prerolls and this shows me why it's so important!
The amount of ads have just been complete bullshit. I have never once looked in an ad and thought "wow I really want that product now". When I get ads shoved down my throat that makes me actively not want that product.
I used to think the exactly same way. I thought "has this ever worked? are there actually people who see ads and think "oh! I'm buying now!" But I recently learned from a marketing friend that ads are actually not about getting people to purchase on the spot but rather to create familiarity with the brand/product because studies indicate you are 10x more likely to purchase a product you are familiar with than one you are not. So that way when you're in the store or shopping online and you come across something your brain recognizes it and makes you feel "safer" purchasing that product as opposed to the one you've never heard of.
It's not even ads for generally acceptable topics anymore, it's all about pubic razors and diaper blowout barriers.
@stingray0 it's also why politicians who spend more money on campaigning are far more likely to win electrons, especially the more minor ones. People look at the ballot and see a guy they've never heard of before and a guy they've seen once on an ad and vote for the latter.
i have built a defense mechanism where i just lose touch and wander in my thoughts. I simply don't notice anything they shove in my throat. I am also less and less using apps and more and more my PC with every scripts i need to just ignore the bs. Just to roll back YT unwanted changes, like the new interface for blind people, i use half a dozen scripts. no more translation, no more shorts, an opening page to my liking, a black theme for YT just to name a few.
@stingray0maybe it just doesn't work on my autism. I want the same products I got as a child, anything different isn't right. So when I get ads for stuff it's just an immediate nope.
6:00 that’s why I like CaseOh.
He sets his ads to the lowest possible. And he almost always pauses his gameplay when ads come. Legend
Based Cased.
Same as me
Bro nothing you could be streaming is worth 22 MINUTES of unskippable ads 💀
You could be streaming the secret to creating the philosopher stone, and people would still leave after the 4th ad
even if it was they’d be watching ads instead of the content 40% of the time
@kingabdullah338 well yeah cause f ads lol shoved in our faces 24/7 gotta go into the deep forest without any tech and take that risk just to get away from them lol
it could be the charlie dance-a-thon.
I really think they/we should return to TV style ad breaks instead of these insane 15-40 second ad breaks every other minute
I don't have any interest in using Twitch when I'm absolutely spamfucked with over 2 1/2 minutes of mandatory ads just to watch a stream. This isn't remotely surprising.
Insert Tyler 1 incedent
its not even 2 1/2. you join the stream. get slammed with 1 minute of ads automatically. and then just double fisted with 3 1/2 minutes of ads right to your face.
I am going to use the term "spamfucked" from now on. Thank you.
dang
I stopped watching twitch completely 2 or 3 years ago for this exact reason. At least on youtube i can pay for one thing and be completely ad free, meanwhile on twitch i’d have to pay on every channel i’ want to be ad free, like wtf. Not like i’m starving to death, but i’m not throwing money out the window like that.
The fact that RIGHT NOW is the perfect time for RUclips to improve their streaming section yet they’re doing NOTHING is crazy man…
Give RUclips a break, they got more important things to take care of.
Like making the thumbnails rounder and giving the red playback bar a slight pink gradient.
THAT'S the important stuff.
While also dealing with the worlds worst detection's as well. YT streaming is really second banana to shorts.
No not crazy. Typical 👉
to be honest, everytime i scroll my feed i see a couple streams pop up from new creators. defs never seen this at the beginning of the year
@vrabo3026i know you're being sarcastic and yet i'm still mad at you somehow
we need these websites to come forward and show us their finances. if the sheer amount of advertising is to fund better servers for a better, uninterrupted user experience, or if its going straight into somebody's pockets, i think we all deserve to know
Its neither, they are just trying to show their shareholders how much they are growing.
2:25 No one has been talking about this sorta recent update that RUclips ads no longer show how long the ad is, it just shows how long it is until you can skip
I work at a care home and I've seen ads play for hours on the TV's and our clients are just confused as to what they are watching when they were supposed to be listening to sick ass tunes from them olden times.
I swear some advertisers prey on this sort of audience. It's pretty wacky
Huh did I just manage to miss that completely cuz I haven't seen that yet😭
Also each video seems to have triple the amount of ads recently and they're all practically unskippable by lasting only 5 seconds.
Idk about pc or TV (if anyone actually uses that godforsaken version) but on mobile you can tap on the video and it says how many total seconds are left. The yellow bar only going till skip is still frustrating though
I wouldn't know, I haven't watched a YT ad in about 10 years due to uBlock. I quit Twitch the moment they went to war with adblockers.
The ads are 100% out of control, idk if anyone has used youtube as background noise before but I fell asleep and woke up to my TV playing an hour long ad of a full church session. That was the moment I was done with ads on youtube and that was well over a year ago now smh
Oh yeah. Those 25 mins ~ 2 hour adds on youtube...
Plus most times it a scam or horrible mobile game with scammy practices.
One reason that i went back to good old Music via paid downloads and stuff.
yeah I got my personal music playlists on RUclips bc a lot of songs or versions of songs aren't on Spotify. I legit can't make it through two songs in a row wo an ad, it's become SO horribly unusable
I feel like if you watch RUclips on tv that’s what’s going to give you the longer adds. I could be wrong but I noticed extremely long adds when I’m on the tv and not my phone
You guys never heard of brave browser? It's free and comes with built-in adblocker. Plus supports background play on android
@sarahmorris6845yeah as someone who has kids that watch stuff on RUclips sometimes get a 5 minute unskippable, so ridiculous
I love making an insightful comment in the chat and just as the streamer starts responding to it I get smacked with 4 minutes of ads and never hear a word of what they said. Absolutely aggravating.
My favorite, you're helping or they are responding to you and bam now uour hearing about oxiclean
Im ngl I pay for twitch turbo and youtube premium. One of the very few things I pay for as a service, and my heart definitely breaks sometimes when I’m watching someone play Rivals or something… and just as a big fight or a big ult is about to hit, boom everyone gets ads. So as im watching a masterclass unfold, i go to chat to see reactions and its just “NOOO ADS” “L ADS”. Its actually insane, because its like they know when to perfectly time the ads.
I love watching competitive matches ingame and just aa it comes to climax 15 minutes of shit i dont want flies across my screen, so I have to go find the vod elsewhere just to see what i missed.
It's not just the ads either, it's the lack of discoverability, the ads like you said, the fact they delete streams after a while unless you're a partner. And all in all they just are not streamer friendly, (or even viewer friendly at this rate.)
Once I was hit with “Ad 1 of 12” I stopped trying to watch Twitch. 6 fucking minutes of ads before I can continue watching, and it’s not like TV where it picks back up where it left off. I come back from the ad interruption and I’ve just simply missed the last 6 minutes of content and context
A streaming service should just needs to invent a pay-per-stream or an ad stream choice to streamers. Bigger streamers can charge $1 or less per viewer and smaller streamers can be "free" but you got to watch ads.
EXACTLY THIS.
Lmfao
@gavriloking5637 Absolutely not
@gavriloking5637 what in the hell are you smoking? How is that better than the five dollars a month sub thing for a channel? Some streamers stream every single day. 5 dollars vs 31 dollars.
I have never truly used twitch, because every time I try using it, I get 5-6 ads, and 144p quality. Genuinely just close the tab as soon as I see it. Have not used twitch in years due to this
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Yeah. I'm just like you. Every once in a while I log in to see how it is and the blast of ads is absurd. Instantly exit out
It’s actually bizarre, like there’s no way they make more money doing this considering the amount of prospective viewers that get turned away when this happens. It’s better to have 5x the viewers watching 3 ads over the fewer watching 6
And it is a waste of time. I watch YT instead it's shorten. You can't talk to streamers anyway because every Twitch chat is agugugaga language. So I don't get the appeal of livestreams personally. Even at charity streams, I don't stay.
2:25 RUclips is really shady with this. I once manually put 3 ads in a 35 minute video, went to check back on it, and RUclips automatically changed it to 12 ads. It's super unprofessional to make that switch without us knowing
Nah dude I once got 2 in a 12 minutes vid. One ad was a 2 hr video the other was a 3 minute as for a book.
Thats why I used Revanced to not let RUclips get money
@magicalmadnessI leave RUclips open when I sleep and I once woke up in the middle of the night to a whole 3 hour long Asian game show from the 80s/90s being played as an ad back in 2020. I was flabbergasted that could even be allowed to be an ad at all cause it wasn't. It was just a whole TV show.
@magicalmadnessthose 2 hour ads drive me fucking crazy i can’t always skip the ads if im hands deep in rodent surgery so I’m just stuck listening to the most boring infomercial of the 21st century I hate it
RUclips will demonetize innocuous shit and then run ads all over it and take all the revenue. Like running extra ads on people's videos and taking 95% of the profit on the other ones wasn't greedy enough.
RUclips hack: use an old enough computer such that google chrome is unable to update to the recent version, refresh once before watching any youtube video, BOOM! NO ADS!
RUclips is literally unwatchable on TV. The amount of ad breaks I get for a short video is insane. Not to mention you now get a ad when the video ends. When ads do pop up you have to wait like a minute + before you even get the skip option.
i built a a 3rd PC just to use RUclips.
Exactly. Sometimes it'll hide the 'you can skip in ... ' button too, so you have to watch the entire time to see if you even CAN skip. It'll ask you if you're still watching... to make sure you're conscious enough to watch the ads. "Otherwise, what's the point of you watching a video???" - YT, probably
Watching longer videos is awful as well cause they tell u “fewer ad breaks for this long video” but the breaks are like 2 mins long and pop up like every 10 mins
There was a time that you can skip those ads in an instant you basically need to touch the right top thing and press the "never watch the ad again" which basically automatically goes back to your video that you are watching, but for some reason they removed the option which sucks a lot because i used it to skip way faster
Just use smart tube app, weren't it for that app I would not dare use youtube on my tv. It's unbearable.
i love watching a stream and then missing out on the most interesting part because it's buried under 5 minutes of ads. i've only ever donated to one streamer, and the moment he went to respond to my question twitch dropped a whole cluster bomb of fucking ads on me and i didn't get to hear the response to the question i paid to ask. absolute plague
Omg??? 😭 you couldnt watch a rerun of the stream? Idk how twitch works exactly
@ForeverBlooming-05 streamers don’t always share their recordings
hahaha you spent money to get more ads lolol
Diabolical!
@blob5907 not sure if it's what you were going for but i thought this reply was really cute lol
I hate the enshittification of these platforms that used to act as safehavens from this cancer.
It's time to start sailing the seas
this is go goofy. like twitch does not even force streamers to enable ads. charlie has his ads set to automatic managed by twitch. of course everyone will get ads. he can be in full control of his ads and even disable completely but he choses not to or is a complete idiot
Ahoy, fellow Clippy! Always nice to see another Clippy out and about on RUclips. (And sometimes surprising!)
@KewaiiGamer he literally cannot stream without having ads. twitch does not allow that. the bare minimum of ads you can do per hour is 30 seconds and thats what he has set. But if you have your ads that low, then twitch on their own force the viewers to watch other ads when they enter the stream. Do not be an idiot
Then touch grass
I wonder if that would change if twitch staff was stripped of admin privileges and had to sit through those ads too
Having ads on live streams are like if they put commercials during the actual football game and not during the break. It’s so annoying.
GREAT observation. You’re not missing anything when watching tv, there’s a set time for ads. On twitch it just randomly plays and it ruins the watch experience. I’ll ask the streamer a question or tell a joke in chat, and right when they’re gonna answer ads will play sometime it’s total garbage lol
@Morshoes streamers can control when the ads play however it can be difficult to manage sometimes when streaming solo
Now that youtube is starting to do live games im sure that's not far off! 🙃
wrestling does this :(
its when the biggest part of the fight that gets cut off by a 5 min ad it makes me insta leave
They also make you REWATCH all the ads if you muted them, when you unmute the stream!
🤣
@psalm.v you’re f***** stupid if you think it doesn’t make everyone leave
@YuumiMa1n or if you switch tabs while the ads are playing
@YuumiMa1nwhat da fuq???. That's fucking insane
Twitch ads are outrageous, like 8 30 second unskippable ads every time I click on a new stream. Really defeats viewership and discoverability when the few viewers who miraculously click into your stream don't even stick around because of the ads.
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sometimes i do pause and play again to unbugg their shitty player that makes the video stop working (with audio still) and it gives me ads. or when refresh the whole page it gives ads again...
I will say one thing ive liked about the ads on youtube streams is i can skip them after 5 seconds i watch most streams on my tv and its allways skip after 5 seconds
@pepegasourus Not to mention on YT you can at least rewind or pause to see what you missed with the ad break, on Twitch you just miss stuff and can't do anything about it.
They make ads unbearable to gradually force people into paying to remove them. Then, once enough people do and their ad revenue takes a hit, they add ads to the paid versions. Until it's loaded and unbearable, then, you guessed it, they will make another paid ad free tier, and the pattern continues until we are all broke and homeless.
*reports every ad as spam*
"I'm doing my part!"
I have a hard time believing that even does anything, so many times ive clicked "not interested" or even report it, i STILL get them
@ryanwest3590 Yeah... it doesn't do jack shit, not just ads but every mega brainrot bs for example all that key jingling cringe content meant to bait engagement from kids still show up to me no matter how many times i've selected "Don't recommend this channel" recently i saw some video with a great intention to do this to fight against garbage AI content and i just chuckled and said "cute, i wish it would be that easy"
That does not work. First time your report gets analyzed by a bot, if it dismisses then every subsequent report will have a higher chance of being ignore. In other words: YOUR reports get flagged as spam.
you realize they just mark your reports as worthless
i used to do this on youtube smart tv app where you report it as spam and it would skip the ads but it seems recently they patched this where now it just doesn’t do that anymore :/
10:50 caseoh used to wait for people who watched ads but, the people who subed complained so he stopped doing it.
He tries to make it as enjoyable as possible for people who don't want to open their wallet and they got pissy about it? That is pathetic. Nothing forces them to pay.
@okatori795mhm agreed and also caseoh can just find other ways to entertain and chat with the subbed users
@okatori795 he does? he makes fun of the people saying "L ads" now. Says "if you don't want the ads, you gotta pay". I used to watch him via my twitch prime freebie but once I stopped using it, it's pretty unwatchable so I just stopped. Which is fine.
@okatori795 they made something nice about them and turned it into something bad
I mean the type of person to give money monthly to an internet lolcow isn't the brightest person
Advertising is a plague
Always will be.
you are a plague
For the most part, some advertising is essential
*dramatic coughing*
Gurt: sdiybt 🤖✌️
This is why I only lurk on streams for drops and go to YT for highlights if it's someone I like. Having to wait through 8 ads while doing that just reinforces my choice.
Then I remember how YT just spams me with probably 30 ads for Marvel Rivals a day like damn, is the game struggling that much to have this many ads?
imagine being SO dense that you still get ads on youtube in the year 2025. brainlet.. use Brave browser i use it on my phone and computer and havent had a YT ad since switching over a year ago.
3:00 and if you accidently click off and back onto stream you gotta watch the ads again
Thats fucked.
And if you pause the stream for more than a couple seconds and restart it, you get even more ads. Nearly unwatchable
Or if you mute the ads then you get hit with them again
AND they remove the little miniplayer that at least shows you what's happening on stream (and lets you unmute it on some browsers)
update: seems like they removed the miniplayer entirely; definitely the tipping point for searching up an adblocker for me at least
And heaven forbid the flawless twitch player completely breaks, having to refresh and re-watch all ads.
AMEN CHARLIE. i have ad block but AMEN. 30 min of ads LOL nothing is worth that...
Unless i could store a bank of ad credits to prevent ads from popping up. I'd let the ads go while i go to bed and come back to have a week of ad free watching lmao
idk why charlie is trying to act like youtube is forcing him to run ads. You can absolutely turn ads off while streaming on youtube. You can even control how often ads run on your stream.
maybe i misunderstood him but it seems like he’s being a bit dishonest here.
I use Brave on PC, Firefox/Brave on phone, and I also use Revanced for YT. So I'm 0 ads at all times, but they still annoy me. 2-3 ads unskippable is crazy
What app do you use if I may ask?
@TheBeigeRaiderhe’s mostly talking about twitch
“Never charge for something that was once free”
The CEOs of Nestlè disliked that
can i ask what they did?
Tried to charge for water I think?
bottled water isn't free. neither is tap water, you pay for it aftewr you use it lol. go drink out of a lake.
@spookybaglesThe CEO of nestle stated he believes water isn't a human right, and should rather be privatized.
@spookybagles Labeled water as not a human right, child labor, modern slavery, hooking babies onto formula causing them to die, Ethopian famine debacle, various other inhumane business practices... etcetera. The real question is what HAVEN'T they done.
This is what youtube is becoming. The ads piss me off so bad anytime there's a countdown or if anyone says we're almost there. I have missed so many pivotal moments of streams that I no longer watch live streams on youtube.
then don't be a moron? brainlet.. use Brave browser i use it on my phone and computer and havent had a YT ad since switching over a year ago.
RUclips has 40 minute ads in 60 minutes watch time. It's all collapsing right in front of us
Every 5 mins is an add THATS ridiculous
Only on tv tho that's when I see the most ads
You can skip after a couple seconds, guess it doesn't seem too inconvenient to get my favorite creators a pay out
imagine watching a show then right before the most insane part of the episode it goes on a 5 minute ad break and then returns and now you missed everything that happened
The problem is how stupid everyone in charge is. They don’t understand what streaming is and just point at tv and go, “every hour is fifteen plus minutes of money coming in from ads. Do this to our service!!” because potential money is owed to them in their minds
Perfect way of putting it
Even tv doesn't give you ads WHILE the show is playing and you're missing it
He even brought this up in the video with how ads on streams you are MISSING out on content unless the streamer is chill at times and waits for the ad break to be over.
@Scrutanzeik i just feel it's something that doesn't get mentioned enough
@Scrutanze yup and that’s rare unless they’re out for a poop
too often I've seen streamers do an ad break and then the ads don't play and then the ads play later
5:36 love how I got an ad as he’s ranting about it😭
i did too shi is wild 2nd ad in a 12 min vid so far
Same
I got one too it was for pizza
Fuck mine was betterhelp....
Yeah, I gotta add right here too. It was an underdog ad.
0:21 just when I thought nothing Charlie could say would surprise me anymore
Put the poop back in my butt is wild
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He has such a way with words 😆
put it back
Cmon man he told you to put it back
2:22 They even started putting ads when I pause videos now lmao
DUDE I HATE THAT SO DUJCING MUCH
ITS SO INTENSELY INVASIVE, I CANT EVEN BREATHE WITHOUT AN AD
yeah bro that shit is crazy, and if you have one ad and you dont skip it it in 3 seconds for whatever reason, they give you another one
Never been so happy to have yt premium
@flimsyfire7667 Never been so happy to have RUclips Premium for free... ( ADblocker )
Got an ad as you said 'without any interruptions'. Wonderful timing
Ads will be the death of the internet.
*capitalism
preach
REAL.
Ads are the main way the internet thrives. People crave entertainment, companies will always advertise lol
@psalm.vstupid???
The ads on RUclips that we're seeing are absolutely abysmal. All we ever see now is scams, ai everything, mlm schemes, crappy mobile game ads, etc. I've been saying this for a while now, they've submitted themselves to this and the enshitification of this site has hit an all time high. Now with ads on Twitch I just switch to another tab until it's over, but yes. Ads are genuinely insufferable and invasive even.
I used to have RUclips playing on a tv when I was doing something boring in a game and ignore the ads. Now they have ads that are like 60 minutes long and fuckin music videos as ads. I know I can skip but I just wanna leave it on while I play a game.
Buy YT premium. Creators get more for your view and you NEVER see ads. And you can add up to 4 people to the family. This is a no brainer.
@user-cb9nl1ek7p why would you want to give money to a company who wants to steal your ids 😂
@user-cb9nl1ek7p even with premium they are starting to cram "sponsored channels" into my shorts and I dont care at all about sports. Especially tennis
Get a free ad blocker. Do not support these invasive vile antics by actually rewarding em with buying premium.
2:40 Is my exact thought process. Why am I watching ads for content that I may not even like? It's a risk regardless how small and it's logically not worth it.
Anyone else remember just a few years ago when twitch only had 15-30 secs of ads once in a while? I got annoyed back then but I now really miss those days 😢
ads should not be on LIVEstreams, it's very annoying and makes viewers sometimes miss minutes of a stream. it's not like a youtube video where you get an ad at 0:30 and after you can resume at 0:30. no, it's you get an ad at 1:10:00 and you resume at 1:15:00.
Yep. I pay for RUclips premium mostly for audiobooks and podcasts at work. It’s worth it for me.
But there is no world where I will subscribe to a bunch of channels for like 5 bucks a month just to not get spammed with 3 minutes of ads every 3 minutes
@Wakaflockaflanki love youtube premium, for twitch I know they have a subscription like youtube premium that removes ads for everyone. No one really talks about it because then your money goes to twitch not a streamer but that is a more cost effective method than individually subscribing
@Wakaflockaflanktwitch turbo exists and blocks ad's across the whole platform. Subscribing on twitch was never supposed to be the answer to ads but a way to support the streamer and get their emots
@reason_plsgot it. I still have a personal opinion that makes me not want to support the company. So I have no plans for that at all. But that’s still good to know
@reason_pls or I can just do none of that, not pay them a damn penny, and use adblocker lmao. I'll sometimes watch twitch streams (albeit once in a blue moon) but I never get any ads. It's a lot more complicated than RUclips, as youtube you just install an adlblock and it works. Twitch you kinda have to code it a little which is why 99% of people don't even bother with it,
4:20 -- What's amazing to me is that Twitch refuses to give content-creators an accurate "Estimated Ad Revenue" amount even in tightly controlled scenarios like this one. Twitch is deliberately remaining as vague as possible while promising creators the world by destroying the viewer's world with ads. No "insights" to be had here at all, actually!
Even streaming certain sports now shows an ad before loading the game.
Love your pfp.
@cheesewheezr No I love YOUR pfp
Yup everytime i go on twitch, the second I see an ad I instantly close that tab
What makes it even worse is that depending on your region, Twitch will only have ONE ad available for you. So it will play the same ad repeatedly. Some ads I must have seen close to a hundred times. I lost count with how often I left the site because I couldn't stand seeing the same ad over and over again
Happened to me in EU when I finally caught one of US streamer's livestream lol all my ads were for the exact same flavor of coca cola..
Why is this so funny!? 😂
Im imagining some guy getting the same Geico commercial 7 times in a row and I'm losing it.
At some point I'd start synching with the ad like it's a sing along
yep audible ads. audible is now fully banned in this house. i just do the trick to force 0 ads and watch in like 480p instead
What I do is mute it and check back after a few minutes. You can also be a bit scummy and just gift yourself a sub with Turkish Lira.
sometimes you don't even get ads, you just get a blank purple screen where an ad should be, 7 times.
The "1 of 8" ad logo comes up, and I leave.
legit like i just close twitch and go back to youtube
Trying to read recipes online is a nightmare, got me reverting to cue cards
YES! I resonate so hard with this. And most also have a long winded narrative about how their cousins sisters babushkas uncle gave them this recipe when they were in Florence for their wedding birthday. I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE EGGLESS BANANA BREAD.
@bekksplore4669 But but but think of the search engine optimizations!
Frfr it's so annoying, idk if this is actually what it's called but I saw a post ages ago about a site called just the recipe or smth, it's supposed to basically just remove all the other stuff and only give you the recipe you want
My partner and I started buying cookbooks because of all of that, lol. Going back to how my grandma was doing things, I guess!
@bekksplore4669
Me: I forgot how much paprika I need, I'll see what the recipe sa-
Recipe page: "Some years ago-never mind how long precisely-having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the wor-"
POP-UP VIDEO: "INTRODUCING THE NEW 7-PASSENGER DODGE HELLBLASTER 5000!"
Right when a long unskippable ad happens on my youtube i change the video then press the back arrow to go to the original video and it says there is no ad
Genuinely even as a creator, ill wanna tune in to see what my own creator friends are up to and then see I have to sit through 2 minutes of ads just to see if I might be interested in the stream and then I leave twitch entirely because that’s just every stream
Valid point, but why aren’t you subbed to your creator “friends”
@AAA-mk7gebecause friendships aren’t transactional ??? 😭
@AAA-mk7ge You have no idea how friendships work.
@AAA-mk7ge bro thinks having friends is a subscription
@AAA-mk7ge This might come as a shock to you but if you're paying your friends, they're not really ypur friends.
I resonate with this immensely. I'm a small streamer, for people to get pre-roll ads to my streams without any knowledge about who I am or what I do is INCREDIBLY detrimental. Like imagine just selecting a random streamer on twitch to see what they have to offer and then you have to watch like 3 minutes, 3 MINUTES, of ads to even have a taste. I have always had my ads at 30 seconds, like Charlie had shown, the lowest selectable lengths of ads but I still think it is an incredible bottleneck to my stream and to my audience. I think it really needs to change, and it's sad to see that it's happening to RUclips as well.
Twitch is still worse but hopefully RUclips doesn't follow suit
@alien_liwil ideally YT won't NEED to do that, because it already screws over viewers with ads on regular vids. Twitch only has streams to monetize, not a whole video platform. And, the streams on YT can be saved as VODs, so YT makes up for that revenue by slapping ads on the VODs
1:53 youtube is like this rn as well for example when charlie does his jokes at the VERY last second of the dead space before he cuts it gives me ads and it does this for a bunch of other youtubers after the Ai AD Break Update
read this and an ad played what the hell 😭😭😭
@keitastropheI was replying to your comment and ad played
An ad didn't play for me because I use RUclips revanced.
@TeskoMilkDELETE YOUR COMMENT BEFORE RUclips CRACKS DOWN ON IT
Ready for RUclips to die due to ads already
god I miss live streaming from mid 2000's to early 2010's.
Twitch ads are fkn annoying, and they always popup when a cool moment is happening in a stream
I agree, do streamers have the ability to play ads whenever they want within that hour? Like push a key and have ads run ..
I'm pretty sure that it's just the streamer starting the ad
@JustOktane from what I remember back when I was streaming there was a manual option to run ads, but you had to roll them out every hour or so, and if you didnt do it manually twitch would roll out the ads automatically
@Daddario315 yes. they can do that, streamers who don't when there's a hype thing happening have shitty mods or they are bad themself at paying attention. which is a lot of them. i genuinely think a lot of mods do it explicitely to make people frstrated of the ad and buy a sub...
I hate they always do that
advertising tactics are so bad, i love having a popup on my video about an ad i just skipped that im forced to manually dismiss cuz its blocking the video
6:04 it's crazy the other day I hilighted a message sent it and got ads idk if they read out what I said or not so I left
I just dont use Twitch anymore lol
It’s not just the abundance of ads, it’s the type of ads. I don’t wanna see ads that try to convince me to ruin my life. Ex. FanDuel, PrizePicks, Underdog. Like holy shit are you trying to get people to accept an addiction. cigarette adds have been banned for 30 years. I don’t understand
Don’t forget the online Casino ads. How is this legal.
I got a zyn add it was something like try going smoke free with zyn for ten days or something no joke.
There are some streamers that literally pause a video on a reaction stream for people who got ads on twitch.
SmugAlana does that alot :D
UTTPRUclipsChannel sthu
Just goes to show how inconvenient it is when even the guys making the ad revenue understand how annoying it is
Honestly, I like when streamers does that
jerma takes ad breaks, profit of that time to stretch and get up. i wish more streamers would do that. there is so many that just goes ''please watch the adds or buy a sub to support the stream'' *it's fucking 2 min of ads during a crucial moment in the game or a funyn moment* it's such an a-hole move, i hate when streamer don't even have a single clue about their ads happening
This actually happened this morning:
> Joined Dantes stream
> Immediately get hit with 1.5 minutes of ads
> Close page
I think I spent 10 seconds on the website
Bro watched a minute and 30 secs of ads in 10 secs
The only problem i see here is watching fkn dantes lmao
1ST WARNING TROLL! MY VIDEO lS BETTER THAN THIS lNCOHERENT & SOULLESS GPOLSYO
UTTP'S FAR BETTER THAN WHATEVER THIS NONSENSE IS .. .
@rispy4875 he saw a timer and made a choice in 10 seconds
@darkmark7366 😂
0:20 What a day to understand the English language.
did you put it back ?
What goes out must sometimes go back in.
Glad you reminded me of this incident
@ΔΡΠin the form of brown food
@EdgarRLVWhat incident? You know what? I don't wanna know.
When I visit streams, I suddenly get blasted by too many ads that I am like, "right, this is why I stopped" and I click the close button.
I miss the good old days of RUclips where every couple videos you'd get 1 skippable ad. I also miss the whole ass movies you'd sometimes get as an "ad"
It's even worse when you see ads that you know are scams.
5:45 maybe this explanation is why I can't stand ads
8:33 I don’t know why people even advertise on RUclips. The only time I get those double ads now is if I don’t skip the first one, meaning they’re pushing ads to people who aren’t even paying attention or watching.
They did do a "next ad" button for a little bit, but RUclips did something good for once and changed it back to the "skip ads". Guess too many people just kept clicking off the videos.
I don't mind that so much, I'd rather they cram their ads in when viewers aren't paying attention or just aren't there, instead of trying to watch someone I like and getting 3 minutes of straight ads. Also helps if I like someone and leave the tab open so they can get some ad money
Of course it's youtube though, so half the time it breaks and you're watching back to back 5 minute unskippable ads
The fact advertising even works baffles me. Ive never seen an ad thay appealed to me so much i clicked on it. I know its basically all women because theyre super consumers but jeez idk. Id love to see the data showing the returns
@Mini-c137a lot of the time it's for the psychological awareness, not to actual sell the product but to put it in the back of the mind of the viewer and so that the name is out there
@Mini-c137 it sometimes works, I got a video game from an add
I got the same ad 6 times in 1 ad break, havent been back on twitch since. It was like stepping into the twilight zone.
Funny thing is I can count on one hand the number of times an advert has made me want something. On the other hand most adverts assure I will never give your company a single cent. Most pointless crap ever. Adverts actively make me hate your company and product.
Most of the ads that work for me are video game or movie trailers (hello large chunks of Nintendo Directs). Even then they need to be of the right genre or series or be something incredibly wild to pique my interest.
Haven't watched twitch in years because of this. Hurts smaller creators the most too
Twitch put ads on streamers with onl 20 follow why the streamers not making money....
@alphafairfoxs Seriously?? Thats insane!
@RobinRos3no, that isn’t true, you need a minimum number higher than 20 to even be accepted as affiliate lol. Think for yourself a bit
@Kobercules yeah doesn’t that just mean there are ads… but twitch gets the money and the streamers don’t?
@mr.bingusthecat Streamers DO get a cut of the ad revenue, yes. However, unaffiliated and/or non partnered streamers/streams do not have ads.
RUclips is genuinely unbearable without an adblocker or premium.
I think premium is a good value. There is a lot more to it than just no ads. I use the downloads all the time.
@kevintrabert1922 adblock is free, google makes billions so don't buy into their pity story
this is literally why i switched my entire browser from chrome to firefox after chrome pulled that BS with a bunch of adblocker extensions
@hanten7people always say this but my chrome ad blocker has never stopped working.
Ive had premium for so long 99% of the time I forget youtube even has ads
Crazy how streamers set the ad length lol.
tried to watch my favorite balatro streamer and got 9 ads in a row. 7 of them were the same taco bell ad…
00:15 this is not gonna be the new lingo
Nah don’t get it twisted WE (as in me, you, and everyone else) *will* be using that from now on
wdym it's great
@christianmorales8978never heard twisted stopped being used
bro has no idea what peak sounds like
@christianmorales8978you’re gonna forget to use it
The issue for me with RUclips adds (I don’t use twitch) is not only the ads are a ton but it’s all for the most bullshit services half of the products are scam or vey obvious stupid. Scam services
1ST WARNING TROLL! MY VIDEO lS BETTER THAN THIS lNCOHERENT & SOULLESS GPOLSYO
UTTP'S FAR BETTER THAN WHATEVER THIS NONSENSE IS .. .
Don't bother without an ad block. I know the angle is to force you into buying premium but that's not what happens - instead I just leave your platform, especially with the cost of premium. Is it going to kill me to spend 12$? No. But your service isnt worth 12$ and inflation is sky high. Id rather by food. Id rather fund hobbies. Im not playing these games with these mfers anymore.
If you turn off personalized ads the algorithm goes absolutely batshit. 90% of my ads are AI generated social security scams. I'm 42. The other 10% is some goofballs trying to hock some garbage mobile game.
Buy the pandy! The obviously not fake ai generated panda that you can totally hold and cuddle like a real panda!
I hate that yt allows scam ads
@Code-Sandbox-Dev It feels like YT punishes users for turning off personalized ads. Porny phone games, health misinformation, AI "story" apps with AI voiceover and AI art, chatbot apps with pirated characters from popular media offering "unfiltered" content. All the shit that you find after you've already dug through the bottom of the barrel into the ground underneath it.
just went to check out a stream sat through the ads that play before you even get to the stream and not even a minute after got 7 ads yeah im never going on twitch again its cooked lmao
It's insane that there's no buffer between ads. Want to check out 3 streamers for a minute just to see what's up? Congrats, that's 3 sets of ads. The app is so broken you constantly have to refresh and watch MORE ads when the video freezes or the chat breaks. Absolute garbage.
And let's just say that video player and stream chat breaking is not the rarest of occurrences 😂 I swear one of those breaks at least 3 to 5 times everytime I tune in to a stream for more than 30 minutes
Welcome to the 2020s, the decade of enshittification and an ad block is no longer a suggestion
And pretty sure they will never fix the glitch when you just get unlimited ads that happens sometimes unless you refresh the site because they get to eek out extra ad revenue when it happens
I remember they started pushing more ads in 2021-2022. I used to watch and discover streams back in 2015-2021 but now that is not worth my time simply because of preroll ads. I rather focus on tv series or movies on the background. I havent watched twitch streams in 3 years now and I dont feel like I am missing out anything. The platform is just deteriorating year by year.
5:21 it's like having your video between ads 😂
without stream cleaner extension on the extension store i would never even consider twitch an option when im choosing what to watch
This is why basically no one i know actually watches streams live. Everyone just watches vods/highlight clips with adblockers.
I fully refuse to use basically any service if i cant disable ads. Like on youtube, i use revanced to bypass all ads and sponserships. I dont use streaming services like Netflix if it means ill see an ad.
Heck yeah another revanced boi ❤
@roxaskobold5101 I couldnt imagine using default youtube. It's genuinely a horrid experience
Same
Same
omg fellow revanced user
As a small streamer, i try to run the minimum amount of ads per hour (2 1/2 min) to completely disable pre-roll but apparently some people still get hit with Pre-rolls. It kills views for small streamers
This! I do the same thing, after first hour of stream run a 3 min max ad break and tell viewers that I’m taking a break until ads are over so no one misses out and pre rolls are cut off. I even have a !ads command explaining it. Think it helps but I never would have accepted affiliate had I know ads were mandatory.
stream on youtube/twitch. way less ads. i use twitch to chat, youtube to avoid twitch ads
You could just get a real job and actually contribute something to society
@MashaRostevalol what? most small streamers are doing it on top of a regular job
@MashaRosteva You're watching free content on the internet, go pay 200 dollars a year for some streaming service that will still shove ads down your throat. If you're on RUclips or Twitch consuming these peoples hard work then you have zero rights to tell them to "get a job" they're entertaining your ass.
The solution is to have ads be present, but non-intrusive. They could easily solve this problem by having ads perpetually silently playing in a ribbon below the stream video. That way, Twitch gets their ads, and the audience gets their uninterrupted stream.
They do that on top of the pre roll ads. It’s mostly just the fact that streamers are kind of in control of whether or not they enable pre rolls. If a stream is running pre roll ads it’s either the streamer does it for their own gain or twitch pressures the to run it
God I miss ribbons. They were bad long ago and probably still are as any ad. But considering the wretched slop they throw in your face and dare to call it an ad, Id much prefer that it only took 5-10% of the screen and didn’t melt my eyes and ears with utter mulch.
Likely advertisers like to make their ads as intrusive as possible because they want people to complain about their ads, because that's how they know they're working ontop of the other privacy invading measures they already do to make sure that their ads are targeted to the select group they believe are suspectable to them.
They would just get ignored and twitch wouldn’t get ad revenue and streamers wouldn’t get money. So this would never happen
This is dumb as hell. Ads by nature are intrusive. If not, then what's the point in companies spending millions into something that doesnt work?
I’ve had a streamer do ads during their starting soon screen then 3mins of ads every 1 hour. They also stop all content during the break and turn on words on stream for those who don’t have ads
9:33 streamers like kai cenat needs to hear this
Kai's entire stream is just begging for subs. He won't change
most of his viewers are bots there is a reason he wasnt streaming when the bots started getting banned
His back to back subathons are crazy
@Zac_Cole lowkey I didn’t even think of that cus mafiathon 3 came wayyyy to soon and that looked fishy
@Left4Survival1 yeah and i know most people don't like ludwig and his takes but as he said about having enough money to live a very comfortable life and he'd rather make good content and put on events like streamer games than do another subathon and make his viewers feel like they've to pay for him to go live. And there's kai out here making more money than ludwig and still doing his third subathon when his last one was like 9 months ago.
2:55 Right on the money lol
2:46 ads here been atrocious. I can’t even go 5 minutes straight without ads. Sometimes barely minutes of the beginning of a video and boom ads
I’m only guessing RUclips try to dump ads to persuade users to get premium 🤷🏻♂️ but idk what would I know
I open a stream to watch and get hit with 2 ads right away then I close the app
I think of that scene from The Social Network when they're talking to the guy from Napster about how to advertise
No wonder people buy newspapers 0:43
Most physical newspapers these days are half ads and the other half are articles from the AP, which you can get for free
That actually makes sense
@zephyrblayze yeah but you can easily look past an ad on a newspaper. You are forced to watch ads on websites.
Physical newspapers make sense again because you can instantly go to the content you want.
@zephyrblayzebut they can't force you to read the ads for many minutes until you can get to the content. Just move your eyeballs.
an ad interrupting at 5:28 was gold
Poetic irony 🎉
that’s actually charlies doing lol, probably ironically.
But idk why he’s saying youtube live ads are crazy when that’s 10000% his fault. you can set it to no ads, one per hour, etc. I’m gonna assume he does 1 ad every 5 minutes like most youtube streamers, if ppl are complaining.
if he’s trying to infer that youtube is “spamming ads” on his livestreams, he is lying.
skippable after five seconds😍
@TheBeigeRaider he's talking about twitch what're you on about
bro I leave when I see more than 10 seconds of ads lol
I’ll go out of my way to NOT buy from the companies that bombard with ads.
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Calling an adblocker a condom is too accurate! lmao
except condoms dull the fun adblock enhances it lol
@khit007 so true