Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video
joneskind@lemmy.world 1 month agoIf you ask a 40+ year old maybe…
Content creators are flying away to TikTok or Snapchat. Gamers are on Twitch, discord etc.
My nephew is 11 yo and has never watched content on YT.
AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
None of those services offer the same kind of content though. Tiktok offers 30s - a couple of minutes videos (vines, essentially), streams are hours long and are fundamentally different because they’re interactive with chat. YouTube offers the 5min - 30min edited content, with exceptions here and there (1hr+ content).
Your 11 year old nephew doesn’t watch YouTube because he’s 11 and has the attention span of a squirrel. He’s not watching a 30 minute video about the Canadian housing crisis.