I don’t want to offend anyone by the term “generic”, but by that term I mean the typical Youtubers who generate the same repetitive content over and over and over and over and over again and it’s usually content that is made with little effort and often with filler, such as unnecessary jokes. For obvious reasons I won’t even mention specific names.
I for example use Youtube exclusively as a learning platform, I can’t say I’m a “fan” of any Youtuber because I’m not really there to watch the weekly/daily video of a content creator, I just jump in and if I want to learn about something I just watch it and that’s it, I don’t get distracted watching anything else.
I hope no one feels offended because it’s not my intention but it really makes me curious how some Youtubers can earn thousands of dollars in donations in streamings where they just play a video game, and when someone donates they don’t even pay attention to it, I don’t even think they need the money.
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I’m autistic so perhaps I’m more tolerant to repetitive content. I tend to follow reaction and commentary channels because they sorta help me navigate through social situations, and I consider them to be the judges of the situations, especially when they’re well trusted. Being comedic is a bonus.
See I use comedy panel shows for both entertainment as well as keeping up with daily affairs.
Have any names? I’m with you in the fact that I don’t understand watching someone play a game or “react” to videos. I do love a bunch of different creators though like MKBHD, Good Mythical Morning, Hot Ones (first we feast), Cold Ones, Dave2D, Gugafoods, there’s more but you get the idea if you check those out.
I don’t deny that there are some exceptional content creators, for example LearnLinuxTV, he usually makes series of something or his “Essentials” playlist where he teaches a new concept completely from 0 in a single video.
And yes I can give you names but maybe you don’t recognize them because they are spanish content creators, like Auronplay, ElRubius, and a huge etc.
Mostly nostalgia and all the in-jokes were jokes I was there for. It’s the same reason you enjoy watching movies/tv you’ve already seen.
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Certain voices make brain release good chemicals.
If I could make those good chemicals be released in another cheap way, I would do that.
I don’t watch like react channels, but watch lots of like let’s plays and video game content. Some of it is super repetitive and I’ll admit nothing noteworthy happened or was said.
Brain still says need to watch for good chemicals.
Then why not just watch the video?
It helps people relax and feel good, basically. In a similar vein, there’s no informational content in a sitcom and yet they continue to be made. Some people enjoy crocheting or playing guitar hero, even though they might not be learning much from them. Personally I like a good blend of entertainment and education, but I also don’t really try to justify to myself why I might enjoy one person’s videos over another’s, it might even come down to the voice or some other entirely subjective factor really.
Bad jokes makes sense. Obviously if a youtuber is telling unfunny jokes you wouldn’t want to watch them.
I don’t really understand unnecessary in relation to the content though, like all jokes are unnecessary, maybe off topic is better?
I feel like a lot of content creators have in jokes though that their normal audience would get that a new person would find random.
I wonder that about quite many things. I feel like I’m not in the target audience for almost anything new.
I mean there’s not even anything particularly wrong about that stuff. It’s just that I only have so many hours in a day, and there’s plenty interesting content out there for my niche interests, so I don’t want to spend it watching some braind numbing entertainment that’s mostly directed at the “masses”
To be honest the only reason I watch moist critical is because his content makes me feel like I’m hanging out with a friend. It’s like when your friend is showing you something funny or stupid.
The only ones I really follow are Game Grumps, but only sometimes and I like how they put it when they addressed some criticism - “We’re comedians playing video games, not gamers doing comedy.”
I don’t - I’m from the time when YouTube was just videos of idiots doing idiot things…
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