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@AyleidCraft
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A chore to watch, as in, it's an onslaught of information. YouTube's layout has, if you haven't noticed, changed over the years to be more and more like a slot machine.
It's harder to find good content without the Featured Section, now you've really gotta look for it. The first few things I see are always Recommended and news videos.
(Pre-roll ads I get, but) double unskippable ads, in-video sponsors, optimization (every video is stretched to ~10 minutes) and content that isn't super easy to reproduce every day, animations, video essays, just random videos, is becoming rarer and harder to reliably find.
Everything starts to look the same so when I go on to watch people Broadcast Themselves, half my time is taken up looking for something good, instead of a vlog, gaming channel, or text-to-speech Reddit video.
How is it like a slot machine, then? It gives out rewards randomly. Most of the time when you click, it's just average. But every so often a really good video comes up and keeps you coming back. And this is intentional. YouTube slowly changed its algorithm from virality (hence keyboard cat, Chocolate Rain, Evolution of Dance, Lazer Collection) to retention; ever since Google bought it.
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