I think you might be referenced in this video 😉
Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel
M137@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s definitely not only that.
I and, from what I’ve seen discussed here and elsewhere online, many other people have stopped watching the channel because of many valid reasons completely unrelated to AI.
I haven’t watched a single one of their videos for years, something changed in their content and I just lost interest. Then there have been several controversial events throughout the years, both objective bad stuff and subjective things that made many loose interest and faith in their integrity.
They definitely became one of the many channels that lost it’s way because of how big it got. The animations became too “perfect” in a weird way, they lost their personality and they also got scared of having real opinions so they started doing this “all sides” shit and that’s when I tapped out.
I’ve tried to watch new videos from them about once every 6 months or so, but I can’t even make it past a minute without completely loosing interest.
bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
46_and_2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Completely agree, their channel has changed a lot and seems to be producing videos on a conveyor belt now, while before they used to do one video or maximum two a month. Now it seems they produce a video a week.
When they said that they’re “almost 70 full time people and a lot of freelancers on top” I almost did a spit take. I know there are big channels and operations on YT, but this seems such an unreasonable amount of employees for this type of channel and audience. No wonder it feels oversaturated and overdone, and they feel the need to put more and more videos.
Just find a sustainable pace and team size, don’t go the corporate way of growth over all.
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You didn’t even watch this video.
MudMan@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
In that it's mostly a merch ad hidden behind a clickbait title.
So I guess it's a good test for that sort of "just read the headline" response.
It's been a rough few days and I think I may be coming around. What hope is there to parse AI misinformation if people can't parse a Reddit-like link aggregator?
I may be done with this place at this point. It's just all bad. If not the whole Internet, certainly the whole of social media.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
This is not an airport, you don’t have to announce your departure
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I mean, I didn’t watch this video because I lost interest when the channel started getting really dark around 2020. I just needed a laugh during the pandemic. I didn’t need 4 videos in a row about the end of the world, then a few about the end of the universe, followed by a future civil war. It was too much.
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Personally, I find videos about the end of the universe very humbling and comforting.