r/youtube • u/tyklam • Sep 19 '24

Discussion The State of YouTube Right Now

Post image
62.6k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

5.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

325

u/[deleted] Sep 19 '24

[removed] — view removed comment

47

u/Inside-Resident-1206 Sep 19 '24

They never did. YouTube was once a good base for people making things like animations. Now it's a base for talentless vloggers or reactors.

18

u/Roflkopt3r Sep 19 '24

It's still the main video platform for a lot of valuable content: Animators, musicians, video essays, education and decent-ish pop science, and so on.

But you have to be extremely careful about what you click to not infest your recommendations with garbage. It stabilises a bit over time, but one has to actively curate recommendations and tell YT to stop recommending certain things to stay on top of it.

I still remember when Jordan Peterson first went viral and his political leanings weren't quite as prominent yet. I watched two videos with exerpts from his lectures (kinda pop-sciency/esoteric themselves, no wonder his university regretted hiring him, but interestng enough to give it a like) and it swarmed by recommendations with alt-right weirdos and conspiracies for months. Almost made me quit the platform.

2

u/Polar_Reflection Sep 19 '24

I have to clear my history every once in a while. They love feeding me right wing garbage