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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

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Post by joshstrange »

gradus_ad wrote: post #2

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

YouTube Premium is the best ~~$11.99~~ ~~$13.00~~ $15.17 I spend per month...

I actually don't care that much about YouTube content and it's not a place I go and hang out, but I'll pay just about anything to avoid seeing ads. Yes, I know ad blockers exist, but getting them to work on laptop, phone, Apple TV directly, Apple TV via casting, etc is not easy or even possible in some cases. If I had to guess I watch ~1hr of YouTube a week, if I watch more than that I'm watching longer-form content, but mostly it's because everyone hosts their videos there so the 3-7min here and there add up to ~1hr (tutorials, product launch, help/documentation video, etc). As much as it pains me to fork over $15+/mo for that, I hate being interrupted by ads more.

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

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Post by chaoticmass »

I consume a probably unhealthy amount of YouTube and have for years now. I’ve had Premium since the beginning (still only paying $7.99 a month). At least there’s studies that show directed consumption that I do when I manually search and find stuff to watch is less harmful than the idle scrolling for shorts that you get on TikTok and YouTube shorts.

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

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Post by loco5niner »

nkrisc wrote: post #14
dominotw wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I think not, mostly just removes ads, and a few other features

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

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Post by techjamie »

TheRoque wrote: post #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...

I highly recommend using the "Not interested" button on anything you don't want to see. It's actually pretty effective at pruning unwanted things from your recommendations. If I get anything political or slop related, it gets the not interested button.

I also have a second channel for language learning where I used it to prune out any videos in English. It's not perfect and recommends a few still, but they get more rare as time passes.

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

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Post by kalleboo »

TYPE_FASTER wrote: post #63

I have access to more content at the touch of a button than ever before. I struggle to find content I actually want to watch. It's really weird. I can't tell if it's me, or the content, or a combination. I think part of it is our attention span, or lack thereof.

57 Channels And Nothin' On

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

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Post by lonelyasacloud »

raincole wrote: post #13

Ofcom is a disgrace to humanity. I guess this is an early signal that they plan to control how people use YouTube.

So Ofcom publishes a factual report with the positively dull actual title of "Passive social media use, AI companionship, and online side hustles: UK adults’ media and online lives revealed"

A report that makes zero comment on controlling how people use YouTube or any other social media.

And yet somehow they are "a disgrace to humanity"

Really?

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

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Post by fragmede »

glimshe wrote: post #80
TheRoque wrote: post #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...

YouTube is as good as you make it. If you watch a lot of a type of content, it does a great job at finding similar content, including relevant things that you didn't know existed. If you just watch random popular stuff, then yeah, it's pretty trashy.

Unfortunately, it'll pick up recommendations from watching one thing one time, so watching that one video your weird uncle sent you is enough to pollute your algorithm with his weirdo shit.

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

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Post by dominotw »

nkrisc wrote: post #14
dominotw wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

its more about what you dont want to watch

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

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Post by shalmanese »

fragmede wrote: post #97
glimshe wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube is as good as you make it. If you watch a lot of a type of content, it does a great job at finding similar content, including relevant things that you didn't know existed. If you just watch random popular stuff, then yeah, it's pretty trashy.

Unfortunately, it'll pick up recommendations from watching one thing one time, so watching that one video your weird uncle sent you is enough to pollute your algorithm with his weirdo shit.

You can mark a video as not to influence your recommendations or delete it from your YouTube history.

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

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Post by red-iron-pine »

hnlmorg wrote: post #49
Lucasoato wrote: post #23

The thing is very simple: when watching TV I need to adjust my schedule to the shows I'd like to watch. With youtube (or any streaming platform), I can see them whenever I want, the platform adapts to my schedule. Of course there are some exceptions, for example when I want to watch my national football team, I'd like to watch it live. Luckily, that won't be a problem anymore this year (Italy).

I don’t think the schedule argument is a strong one these days. DVRs have been around for decades now, and built into satellite and cable services too. In fact, some TVs even have DVR functionality built in. What annoys me is when streaming services release shows on a weekly basis. Which makes them just as inconvenient to watch as traditional broadcasting.

you could just, like, watch it the next day

do you need to binge all of the episodes at once?

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