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The Jenna Marbles Paradox: Why Are YouTube Videos So Terrible?

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Re: The Jenna Marbles Paradox: Why Are YouTube Videos So Terrible?

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There's no paradox: people don't care all that much about production values. People watch Jenna Marbles because she's funny and attractive. Whether or not she frames her shots well is much less important.

Agree with you, but it saddens me that people will listen to her just because she's "attractive." She's not that good looking, she just wears a lot of makeup. I'd have a conversation with her in a bar, but since she's hundreds of miles away from me I don't have to pretend that she's interesting because I don't get anything out of it.

I put funny first for a reason - I think that's the primary reason for her popularity.

Re: The Jenna Marbles Paradox: Why Are YouTube Videos So Terrible?

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I couldn't help but agree with a lot in this article. Youtube's video page tends to be too busy and distracting. It's more of an entertainment/pop culture platform, if anything. It's really hard for tutorial/educational content to rise, and since they don't reach that many page views many channels don't collect much revenue from youtube.

which is why, recently I launched a site called Starseed - it's a youtube-like platform just for tutorial/educational videos. Starseed.io was created so that tutorial authors can upload tutorials on any topic they care about – no matter how advanced – for free and start collecting donations on their video’s page from day one. It's sort of like each channel on starseed is like the PBS network - getting funded by its viewers.

you can check it out at http://www.starseed.io/.

I hope, one day, educational channels can sit on a platform meant for their growth and not competing against epic meal time lol.

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