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Breadtube if it didn't suck.
Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
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There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.
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I'm really kinda confused about who is watching 4 hours of one person on a topic like youtube plagiarism without getting bored.
Do people watch these on 2x speed? 3x? Just download the audio and listen like it's a podcast or lecture?
Who is this for? What is the purpose or goal of it? Does anyone truly give a shit about plagiarism on youtube other than people making youtube content?
Real questions. Not rhetorical or irony poisoned. I do not get it.
No 2x speed, happily lounging around on a lazy Sunday watching a well researched lecture on a topic that is made interesting by writing and delivery. Bringing the plagiarism back to how this specific instance is damaging the queer community brought it home for me. I like seeing people trying to do some good in the world. Bomber guy and Shawn skull guy are sometimes hard to get invested into the story but usually it's pretty great. I will admit I forwarded through some of the examples of the plagiarism because I don't really care about it, the analysis and discussion are more interesting.
I want to like documentaries but usually I don't find them going in depth enough into a topic. Long form deep dives into a weird topic is oddly fascinating to me. I also listen to podcasts a lot so this is similar content.
That being said, I don't know how weird I am but I do not like being advertised at so I don't watch any cable tv, I don't really like movies or shows, I don't like Western propaganda in my entertainment so that rules out almost everything. So, I don't know, this is about the length of a football game and for me a replacement of that.
Videos like this for a lot of people are used as background noise when they're doing something like cleaning or working. I've used these types of videos for a slower day when I have to clean out my place for an extended period of time. I think that's what most people use Twitch streams and podcasts for.
Short-form content can be a pain because you're going to have to switch is up every ten minutes or so while something like this will help you stay occupied for long enough to get what you need done.
currently 2.5 hours in trying to clean my apartment.
Yep
Edit: finished the video. It was good. Hbomb is a good guy with principles. hexbear needs to chill occasionally. Even he says he's not doing a drama vid like this again.
I enjoy longform content when its made by someone who's entertaining and/or insightful. Hbomb in particular is both funny and fun to watch slowly become more and more unhinged as he dives deeper in a rabbit hole. But its definitely not for everyone. Also most of these types of videos could be way shorter if they were just more focused.
I'm mostly in the "listen like it's a podcast or lecture" camp. During this video I've: played satisfactory, played factorio, done prep for a TTRPG campaign I wanna run, and walked my dog.
This one's below par for HBomb. Like I've re-listened to his early stuff dunking on Sargon and The Golden One dozens of times, I've re-listened to some of his more recent ones like Flat Earth two or three times, but this one will probably be a skip for me in the future. He would benefit from giving himself a hard per-upload time limit and not exceeding it no matter what.
This is probably one of the least interesting topics he's covered. I want coverage of absolutely freakish gremlin people when I tune into hbomb. The people he covers in this video are just run of the mill mediocre video essayists.
Not saying you have to like this recent video, but the level of blatant plagiarism and serial lying on display by James Sommerton is so comical to me, that I feel like he definitely qualifies as a freakish gremlin
I think a shorter video focused in him would have been better. It takes 2 hours to get there.
Yeah, the unhinged quality of it is a lot of the charm. Some day Tommy Tallarico is still watching his takedown to this day.
maybe this is just my brain being shit but i cant listen to people talk and work on other things at the same time.
I can play video games but that's about it, and even then anything that requires reading or more than an instant's thought will cause me to derail.
I can listen to riveting lectures while doing routine housechores and casual podcasts while focusing on some important task, but I can't do the riveting lectures and important task at the same time.
I'm gonna pick up this here because having watched and liked it (allthough to be fair I'm a sucker for the guy, hits just right) there is a salient point here in Youtube being amongst the top media consumer things, especially for younger people, and the associated problems that come with that.
That is to say, to discount the effects a plattform like Youtube has entirely as E-Drama seems weird. The video isn't really about shitfights between people with nothing to say, it's about a problem and why it's a problem
I've listened to these long ass videos before, but I must really like the video itself, the message, the topic and the person(s) doing it. I do it mostly when playing videogames that don't require a lot of attention, like Rimworld, EUIV or a football (soccer) game where I can just kinda disconnect, listen and play or have the ability to pause if needed. After all, it's a video, you can take your time watching it, you don't have to watch all four hours of it at once, but rather bit by bit.
And yeah, there's people who really like a well researched video on youtube plagiarism, maybe they like the topic or maybe they like this guy in particular so much they're willing to listen to him for hours, and in this case, Hbomberguy is super likeable. I've had people in Uni willing to listen to a professor speak about I don't know, early Argentinian history for HOURS all while sitting in one place and doing nothing but listening, I can really see people pulling through videos of 4 to 6 hours talking about random shit as well. There's people for everything!
I like longform content that gets deep into the topic. I've watched the 20h Skyrim analysis -- not as background, although admittedly while playing slow paced chill games or in between game matches, and I'd watch videos as long as this as long as the topic is interesting and the analysis worthwile
I watch them section by section, split up over a few days.
Youtube plagiarism is definitely something everyone should care about, as I can say that I've made the mistake of trusting Somerton's videos and ended up spreading his misinformation.
just let it play in the background and listen like it's a podcast
Playing Old School RuneScape while watching 3 hour long video essays is a great way to drain my dopamine reserves and go the fuck to sleep
honestly i don't have time for it anymore but when I did watch breadtube and breadtube adjacent twitch people I'd get the vods, fast foward past the BS and then watch the rest of it on anywhere from 2.5x to 5x depending. i don't even have time for that anymore. i will however watch other slop for stress relief purposes and self-soothing when I need to, i just have better sources for political analysis these days that is proletarian and not the small business orientation most these people belong to
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