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Has anyone else noticed that YouTube has become a bit elitist lately? And I’m not talking about taking down all the copyrighted material. We all knew that was bound to happen. But I feel like in the old days (last year) you could go to the front page and watch a few videos and have a few laughs in a matter of two minutes. But these days all the “Featured Videos” are either:
1) Video Blog entries by people I don’t care about
2) Episodes of Internet Shows that you need to already be involved in to understand
3) Singers trying to jump start their careers
Take a look at the screenshot I took today:
Look at all those featured videos! The average length of all those is 3 minutes and 24 seconds. And not a single one is something short and fun I can watch at work with the volume down. What happened to short snippets like Sea Otters holding hands? It’s a minute and forty seconds. I can watch it at work. And it makes me smile. Why don’t they feature stuff for the little people anymore? Or you know, like, Spoofs of the A-Team, or something.
Am I alone on this?
October 10th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Unfortunately the featured videos is a reflection of the way the YouTube community has evolved into the elitist “YouTube Stars”, the middle class “Viral Exposure”, and the rest of us.
Personally, I’m okay with that. I’d rather sell my soul to Bill Gates (aka, Satan) than Google at this point.
October 10th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Try Break.com
The funny stuff is usually right up front.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
*SIGH* Well there’s only so many spoofs of the A-Team out there, ya know? Once you watch those, everything else just seems inferior by comparison.
HUGS…
October 10th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
I have a friend who is on a YouTube show. I know I should watch it to support her, but I would much rather catch up on old episodes of The Little Rascals and Bugs Bunny.
October 11th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Craig your a-Team video is what got me logging into youtube. You are right youtube has changed. There are alot more vloggers now. It seems to be the next blogosphere. I no longer go to youtube to laugh I go there to see what is going on my you tube friends. Much like I go to google reader to check out what all my blogging friends are doing.
October 13th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
The thing is… some people don’t understand the whole point of a viral… the idea is that the video spreads itself by word of mouth… people like it so much they spread it around… instead, they get pumped by G4 and a variety of other places, they get advertised everywhere by sties instead of people, and 90 percent of what people direct you towards is just not funny.