#youtube commentary

[athenap-wow]

WHAT IS THE ATHENA P YOUTUBE EVEN ABOUT???

here's the vid this was in lol

[zombiee-clowneryy]

How it feels hearing a take on an infamous/commonly disliked piece of media that isn't just the same regurgitated take of "It's cringe", "it's fans are weird", "the artstyles kinda ugly, man" "if you like this media then you are a cringey awful piece of shit" and it's clear that the person did research and has some nuance to their take

[trans-marvin]

Thing I texted toby that I want to share

[therobthatsucks]

big fan of this guy. just some old doodles i've done of drew <3

[tupik-the-officer-k-fan]

Dumb and incoherent yap incoming don't mind me

Holy fuck in the newest dankyjabo video about Lily Tino and he's crashing out the entire time, and any other time I would be like what the hell but this time I completely understand. My man is being perfectly reasonable with saying that 90% of hate Lily is getting is basically transphobia. He's just saying "hey she ragebaits and maybe is a tad weird but she doesn't deserve to be dragged online so much". And he's getting bullied by chat about it. One guy said he's defending a pdfile. Like??? Where?? Chat has no critical thinking. And don't even get me started on the ablaze video Jessie is watching. Ablaze is just transphobic and weird and mean and illiterate. Also ablaze can't read a 3 paragraph article and used an article by the most transphobic author (who is a trans woman herself) I've ever seen. Jessie is visibly cringing the whole time and it's both funny and concerning. My man here is defending trans people to the moon and back and everyone is being weird to him about it. I don't even blame Jessie for screaming and getting heated. Cuz genuinely ablaze is just transphobic, I literally just got to the part of the video where he's straight up saying shit things. And Jessie is genuinely going insane and honestly me too, I too am running around my enclosure furiously.

There's literally no reason to bring up Lily Tino anymore. She left, came back a bit better, maybe is still a bit cringe and weird and ragebait-y, but nothing criminal or terrible, just not liked by many people. We need to just leave her alone.

[lacewise]

Something was bothering me about how YouTube commentary is running right now, because people are missing or adding details to important stories that don’t make any sense… and I realized that a lot of people are just stringing TikToks together until it sounds almost like an intellectual thought, which is becoming recursive, which ends up sounding a lot like ChatGPT, with hallucinated details or missing context and that’s what I’m noticing

So a lot of it is not coming from chatbots but it doesn’t matter, because the way the content is constructed is exactly the same, just more or less human intervention

My husband is saying this can only get worse as people cut more corners to keep up with generative text, as platforms keep promoting it and so their lookalikes become ever more popular, until the creators finally break under the weight of the nonsense they helped build and he’s also worried platforms will use this to regain control of influencers via their lackluster marketing and lose all their employment leverage in the meantime by convincing everyone, including themselves, their labor is a commodity—like already happened in the entertainment industry proper

The whole idea that people can only get ahead by constantly running on fumes and putting out their best work, otherwise they don’t deserve a paycheck, is literally the definition of commodification of labor

This is worrying because there’s a key multiplier detail people polarized against LLMs don’t notice: talking head influencers are the people who fit the exact target demographic LLMs are going for, and the most easily isolated

Oh and this will be extremely difficult to course correct because everyone is polarized against marketing and business theory

So… hopefully that’s all wrong. i’m sure it’s fine. Probably. Not like influencers have a history of hiring people with little regard for their long-term relationships with their platform or audience.

Anyway if anyone with an online platform accidentally sees this: stop saying the love of influencer economy is the root of all evil, start tooting your own horn, like REALLY hard. Find an artist, a craftsperson to promote. Find ten. Dig up old videos you love. The whole “this genre is rot”, “influencers are so over [this line was imported directly from 2016]” or “I hate this genre” needs to dead, immediately. You are not attacking the platforms, you are attacking your paychecks, you are attacking yourselves.

[patheticpomegranite]

this is gonna sound insane but as a fan of danny and drew and kind of a fan of kurtis when you have watched all of them for a long time you start to notice their different localized sayings and phrases, because they all live in different parts of the us/canada. the one that comes to mind right now is that danny uses a lot more of "pep in your step" than drew or kurtis and i don't know if it's a danny thing or a midwest/surrounding chicago area thing. i'm from the pnw and i don't think i've heard people use that saying that much unless they were not from here.

[scripturienting]

kinda getting tired of those “video essays” that take a trend/behaviour that’s pretty exclusively a TikTok/online phenomenon and make it seem like it’s a new societal issue to watch out for.

“the i hate my bf but won’t leave him epidemic”

“the tiktokification of classics”

“Tiktok DESTROYED hobbies”

“chronically online kids taking over sephora”

listen to me—no, listen to me. this is not a video essay. it is barely even commentary. this is a reaction video to an online trend. algorithms silo people away into specific distinct corners of the internet and these micro-issues they see there do not apply to the human race at large. GO OUTSIDE