youtube
i've recently come to realize that i hate the first and last minute of youtube videos. why, you ask? well, it's because they're a complete fucking waste of time. the ones i'm talking about are the ones that examine some piece of popular culture that i find interesting for whatever reason. videos with titles like, "7 great movies that were ruined with a shit ending" or "8 random occurrences that completely changed the modern world." i watch a lot of these.
and as a quick aside, what the hell is up with everything being lists? i get that people are obsessed with lists, but it has gone so far that there is actually a video called "10 Weirdly Conservative Hidden Messages in 'Con Air'" that isn't even a list! it's just a discussion! there is absolutely zero bullet pointing of any manner in this video! ...i mean, i guess people just fuckin love lists... so a list title is gonna get you more clicks, so... fuck.
anyway, back on track. the first minute of these videos is usually a sales pitch to get you to watch the rest of the video. they'll prattle on about how a great movie might have a shitty ending, and how that makes us feel. probably on top of a montage of clips from movies that they'll get to later in the video. the problem is, i already clicked on the damn video - i'm already sold. i don't care about your stupid introduction; it contains absolutely zero information that i didn't get from the title. i know english class taught us all to start off with a nice, hearty introduction, but i've come to believe that was a terrible idea. keep it to a sentence or two if you absolutely must have it for flow, and then get to the damn content.
the last minute of these videos is someone who works at the youtube channel asking you to subscribe to said channel. as someone who never subscribes to youtube channels, i'm pretty tired of seeing these. and i can imagine that someone who has subscribed might get pretty annoyed at someone repeatedly asking them to do something they've already done. i know i can just turn off the video at this point without missing anything (as opposed to the intro, where you have to skip around and try to figure out where it is that they actually start saying something worth hearing), but i still get annoyed hearing the very beginning of the sales pitch. it's like when i was a kid and after the news, "wheel of fortune" would come on, and my parents would change the channel as quickly as possible. "WHEEL! OF! [insert onomatopoeia for the dial of a television from the 1980s being turned with great haste]" ...gotta shut off the dumb before it infects my brain!
so, yeah. that's my little peeve about youtube videos. i realize that all of this is extremely trivial and pointless to complain about, and about as productive as asking a dog to stop begging for treats, which is why i'm writing it on livejournal! because no one is here anymore, and i didn't want to waste anyone's time! end brain dump.
and as a quick aside, what the hell is up with everything being lists? i get that people are obsessed with lists, but it has gone so far that there is actually a video called "10 Weirdly Conservative Hidden Messages in 'Con Air'" that isn't even a list! it's just a discussion! there is absolutely zero bullet pointing of any manner in this video! ...i mean, i guess people just fuckin love lists... so a list title is gonna get you more clicks, so... fuck.
anyway, back on track. the first minute of these videos is usually a sales pitch to get you to watch the rest of the video. they'll prattle on about how a great movie might have a shitty ending, and how that makes us feel. probably on top of a montage of clips from movies that they'll get to later in the video. the problem is, i already clicked on the damn video - i'm already sold. i don't care about your stupid introduction; it contains absolutely zero information that i didn't get from the title. i know english class taught us all to start off with a nice, hearty introduction, but i've come to believe that was a terrible idea. keep it to a sentence or two if you absolutely must have it for flow, and then get to the damn content.
the last minute of these videos is someone who works at the youtube channel asking you to subscribe to said channel. as someone who never subscribes to youtube channels, i'm pretty tired of seeing these. and i can imagine that someone who has subscribed might get pretty annoyed at someone repeatedly asking them to do something they've already done. i know i can just turn off the video at this point without missing anything (as opposed to the intro, where you have to skip around and try to figure out where it is that they actually start saying something worth hearing), but i still get annoyed hearing the very beginning of the sales pitch. it's like when i was a kid and after the news, "wheel of fortune" would come on, and my parents would change the channel as quickly as possible. "WHEEL! OF! [insert onomatopoeia for the dial of a television from the 1980s being turned with great haste]" ...gotta shut off the dumb before it infects my brain!
so, yeah. that's my little peeve about youtube videos. i realize that all of this is extremely trivial and pointless to complain about, and about as productive as asking a dog to stop begging for treats, which is why i'm writing it on livejournal! because no one is here anymore, and i didn't want to waste anyone's time! end brain dump.