So I haven't had a good rant in a while, thought I'd make one about the new feature of YouTube: reactions. And other crap over the years that has annoyed me.
So I guess they decided that there wasn't already enough annoying features, and they just added "reactions", which are basically the most common coined phrases over the internet in the last 10 years. I would be more impressed if they actually let you type out the reactions you could possibly want, but no, they've given you almost no control, as per usual.
Here's the problem, if you get all these people making these videos that have all this crap on them, people focus more about producing crappy videos just to get funny reactions. Much like the infamous thumb spam, this goes down the same road.
Speaking of thumb spam, why is it that people get a feeling of self-worth if they get a few "Thumbs Up" ratings? Does it REALLY make you that much better of a person?
I remember when YouTube first started. It was about original content, creativity, etc. Now it's just a big attention whore convention. You get more people worried about making the next funny video, than you do about creativity.
Let's move on. The greatest (and by great I mean most annoying) feature of all time: Video Annotations! Yes, for some reason people are attracted to spamming 400 "subscribe" links on their videos. It makes you wonder why they make videos with anything visual, because all they seemingly do is cover the videos, meaning it's not so much what's on screen, as the words in front of what's on screen.
A perfect example:
The next thing: People need to get video editing software, or at least use the crappy ones that come installed on your OS.
This is not a way to write a productive tutorial:
It seems like as the money rolls in, Google caters to those who don't have a single smidgen of creativity nor logic. Most people here produce videos of their games, at least it's creative. I'm talking about the ones who think that they're funny, when they're simply not. Or the ones who say, "To leave your responses, leave them in the comment box below!"
It's like people are getting a feeling of self-worth of a few words written on a computer screen. When someone comments on my videos, I never bother to reply. I generally feel like simply disabling comments and ratings.
Another thing, what makes you think people want to see your face ranting for 3 minutes straight? Rants are to be written in words, not read aloud or not to be expressed in facial expressions.
I'm sorry, but I know I can't be alone on this one. YouTube's quality has severely declined in the past 3 years. It's went from a simple, limited-ad site, to one that requires you sit through a 2 minute Peopsi commercial before you can watch a 20 second clip.
Not to mention, they've given the users even more tools that can be used to completely irritate even the most rational human being. It seems like YouTube wants to do ALL the work for people, and not even let creativity in. Creativity is a thing of the past. It's all about repetition, memes, stupid crap like that.
I just now realized I've had a typo in my signature for the past 3 years.
