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Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow

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Re: Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow

#11

YouTube Premium is the best $10 I spend per month. Nowhere else can I consistently find the sort of niche content that interests me.

I prefer newpipe for $0/mo

nowhere near comparable experience if you want to seamlessly use your YT account across a TV + phone + computer

i'd rather pay the $10 than pay with my time by being an ad-block whack-a-mole diagnostician

Re: Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow

#12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I prefer newpipe for $0/mo

I prefer Tubular with Sponsorblock

Do you know how it compares to LibreTube[1]? For the SponsorBlock integration; it works well for me, but I kinda miss the newpipe interface.

[1]: https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube

Re: Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow

#14
post #9

YouTube Premium is the best $10 I spend per month. Nowhere else can I consistently find the sort of niche content that interests me.

i judge ppl who dont have youtube premium as a not curious ppl :D

Is there anything you can watch on premium that can’t watch on YouTube for free?

Re: Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow

#15
post #9

YouTube Premium is the best $10 I spend per month. Nowhere else can I consistently find the sort of niche content that interests me.

i judge ppl who dont have youtube premium as a not curious ppl :D

I judge people who watch that much youtube as susceptible to disinformation.

Re: Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow

#16
Because you can't get doomlooped into right-wing podcasts and "citizen journalism" on the TV.

Sample quotes from men in the study:

"Who tells me what's right and what's wrong... is it true or is it not true? Some of the things on YouTube are independent. I find I would listen to them more, because they're on the ground. They're telling you the story. "

"If you see something on social media, whether you believe it or not, you can go to the comments and see everyone's points… If most people agree with it, you know you should be at least somewhat agreeing with it. "

"It seems to everyone that it's an agenda, like the government's behind an agenda… it's like a brainwashing tool for the government. An illegal immigrant killed someone in the street the other day, stabbed them to death… And it's all over Facebook, all over YouTube. And the news hasn’t even said anything about it"

Only one man mentioned using YouTube for entertainment.

Re: Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow

#17

YouTube Premium is the best $10 I spend per month. Nowhere else can I consistently find the sort of niche content that interests me.

More channels are fighting for attention though, so finding more channels are "creating buzz" or "news" based on mediocre information ie. taking things out of context and making unwarranted conclusions or blowing things out of proportions for clickbait titles.

"This changes everything!!"

Getting youtube fatigue.

Re: Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow

#18
Youtube is also pretty boring though. I mean, there are ton of interesting content and quality content too, but the stuff that gets recommended, the "hype stuff" is full of false information, clickbait, tweaked reality to conform some narrative...

Re: Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow

#19
post #9

YouTube Premium is the best $10 I spend per month. Nowhere else can I consistently find the sort of niche content that interests me.

i judge ppl who dont have youtube premium as a not curious ppl :D

is there a difference between youtube premium and youtube-with-adblocking?

Re: Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow

#20
post #9

YouTube Premium is the best $10 I spend per month. Nowhere else can I consistently find the sort of niche content that interests me.

i judge ppl who dont have youtube premium as a not curious ppl :D

If you don't watch on mobile, is there anything that YouTube Premiums gives you that an ad-blocker doesn't?
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