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4-Time GIF/Meme God
Back in the TV era, there was a method with ads. You show a thing, you have like 7 minutes of screening and a interval, some ads, then you go back to the thing or comes a whole another thing, repeats the circle and there's your structure. The day have 24 hours, and every second matters. It was predictable, and kinda cozy. I mean, you watch a sitcom and the punchline could come after the ad, or a plot twist in a good drama. Wasn't the best thing ever, but was fine
Now we don't have "a rule". It's just an algorithm, and changes all the time
I got YouTube Premium mostly because I like to hear gaming music, so I don't have ads while watching YouTube. Ok. Got to my folks this weekend and they don't have Premium, but I started to watch some videos anyway, and got like two ads that I could skip or whatever. But then, in a longer video that I don't remember right now, there was an ad like every two minutes or something. I couldn't see any standard. It could be a video starting with ads, or maybe starts and out of nowhere three unskippable ads, or a even not having at all in a video. Not a single rule, just being annoying. What the fuck?
I guess that everyone knows that YouTube doesn't care about less than 10 minutes videos now. If the videomaker do that, it's not that easy to see their content even if you're subscribed to the channel. Videomakers now needs to fill with shit a video that could easily be half of the time, but guess what? The site needs those ads to show, baby. If someone does a small video, it's better to just do a short, then your channel pops... on the shorts tier. The algorithm is fucked up
And with the ads thing, not just Youtube has this problem, but Netflix and Prime Video also got some shit like it. While Prime is the cheapest of all and their focus is on their own material that only shows sometimes when I start a Prime content, it still sucks - I heard that Max also has, but I signed inside Prime, so doesn't show up to me
The worst of all? We are kinda powerless against this thing
One might say that we can "vote with our wallets", but streaming is not really a product, it's a service, and services can't change in a snap of fingers. Even if everyone cancels their signature, the ones that you need to pay to consume will just adopt a freemium catch, and this method you can't really have a saying. We can pressure them for sure, and hope they fix some stuff and don't fuck more of it. But it has so much different people with a lot of different perceptions in different companies... oh, boy
Now we don't have "a rule". It's just an algorithm, and changes all the time
I got YouTube Premium mostly because I like to hear gaming music, so I don't have ads while watching YouTube. Ok. Got to my folks this weekend and they don't have Premium, but I started to watch some videos anyway, and got like two ads that I could skip or whatever. But then, in a longer video that I don't remember right now, there was an ad like every two minutes or something. I couldn't see any standard. It could be a video starting with ads, or maybe starts and out of nowhere three unskippable ads, or a even not having at all in a video. Not a single rule, just being annoying. What the fuck?
I guess that everyone knows that YouTube doesn't care about less than 10 minutes videos now. If the videomaker do that, it's not that easy to see their content even if you're subscribed to the channel. Videomakers now needs to fill with shit a video that could easily be half of the time, but guess what? The site needs those ads to show, baby. If someone does a small video, it's better to just do a short, then your channel pops... on the shorts tier. The algorithm is fucked up
And with the ads thing, not just Youtube has this problem, but Netflix and Prime Video also got some shit like it. While Prime is the cheapest of all and their focus is on their own material that only shows sometimes when I start a Prime content, it still sucks - I heard that Max also has, but I signed inside Prime, so doesn't show up to me
The worst of all? We are kinda powerless against this thing
One might say that we can "vote with our wallets", but streaming is not really a product, it's a service, and services can't change in a snap of fingers. Even if everyone cancels their signature, the ones that you need to pay to consume will just adopt a freemium catch, and this method you can't really have a saying. We can pressure them for sure, and hope they fix some stuff and don't fuck more of it. But it has so much different people with a lot of different perceptions in different companies... oh, boy
