I have definitely unsubscribed from some big channels that I used to watch routinely, and simply often don’t click on videos from channels I haven’t yet unsubscribed from. It’s just not interesting stuff. It’s filler crap. thankfully it seems like there are enough smaller channels to fill that space, including some of the people originally from those other ones (like speed and donut)
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towerful@programming.dev 5 days ago
Probably doesn’t help that a bunch of the decent channels were bought by private equity and are now churning out boring, safe and uninteresting content.
youtu.be/hJ-rRXWhElI (a yt link, lol).
A brief summary from dailydot.com/…/youtube-channel-private-equity/
Some channels like Donut Media, Veritasium, and Task and Purpose have been acquired publicly. Others, such as Dude Perfect and Coco Melon, have been acquired more privately, with no public disclosure.
Plenty others. A key giveaway is when a channel diverges their risk. When the front man who is the reason you have watched the channel suddenly has co-hosts and large segments from other channels in their regular content.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Ugh yeah and they had to interview the owner of Noah’s Arcade and he did an awful rap
dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Linus Tech Tips is not one of them though. They did receive an offer for $100 million, but refused it to keep their independence.
towerful@programming.dev 4 days ago
But if less people are watching the other big channels because the content quality has slipped, then there is less people spending less time on the platform, so less non-subscribers that might be recommended an LTT video.
Ashenlux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Oh, so that is why Veritasium went to shit. That’s such a shame. It was a great channel that I was excited about when a new video would drop. Then low quality videos started coming out and I don’t watch them anymore. Haven’t unsubscribe yet though, maybe I should get around to that.
Stitch0815@feddit.org 4 days ago
Honestly The PFAS and Monsanto videos were quite good in my opinion.
Ashenlux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Maybe I should give the channel another chance. There was a noticeable shift in quality on the channel, but maybe they course corrected since then.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 5 days ago
What is it you don’t like about Veritasium lately?
Ashenlux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
It was a while ago that I noticed the decline in quality, they may have course corrected since then. But there was a point in time where videos had a very sudden and noticable drop in quality. I forget which video it was, but I wasn’t the only one that noticed it.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m not a regular viewer, so I can’t know if there was or wasn’t a drop of quality at an unspecified time. If there was, hope they got better.
Krudler@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m not the other person but my reason is I feel they’re faux-intellectual videos that mostly serve to confuse people and muddy issues. A bit of an embarrassment to science, cloaking their tomfoolery in faux-surprise and scripted wonder.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Can you give an example for me to better understand your claim?