“Let’s work together and put an end to attention theft.”
The term “attention theft” is some dystopian shit, and just probable enough to make me vomit in my mouth.
Attention theft is an existing term, though it’s used to describe bad practices by marketers. I suppose it’s bad that the term has had to come into existence, but it is good that it exists as a way to talk about bad practices more easily.
Some insurance group put up a billboard on the route I use to go to work telling us how we all suffer from insurance fraud.
Each and every time I went past it I would try to imagine how much I would have to hate a person in order to side with the enemy against them. No saint and I never pretended to be one but I still wouldn’t do that.
There are no victimless crimes
Privately peeing on a grave.
piracy
not a crime
I remember a time before YouTube…it sounds like I will be living that time again
Yup. What YouTube doesn’t understand is that we’ve got ** other stuff to do.** I’ve got books to read, games to play, music to listen to. None of which requires YouTube.
I’ve found myself repatronizing half priced books lately. I’ve gone through five books since mid May.
I was a voracious reader before mobile devices existed.
I’d forgotten just how much more satisfying it is to let yourself go in a good story rather than bicker about minutiae with countless strangers all day every day.
(Sidenote: I’ve been looking up reviews for the books I’ve read and am surprised to find indignation at sexual scenes in novels. Like, if you’ve ever read a John Irving novel in your life, and you’re surprised and offended that the next one has sex in it, you should maybe reconsider your chosen career path)
surprised to find indignation at sexual scenes in novels
To quote Ryan Letourneau, “Gen Z is Puritanpilled.” Seriously, I’ve found post-millennial generations to be extremely prudish. I think part of it has to do with the fact that as the internet evolved and became mainstream (and more profitable by catering to general audiences), the edgy or adult content became more ghetoized and quarantined over time. Used to be you’d go to reddit and there’d be porn on the front page. There’s like a 0% change of finding something NSFW on the front page there now. As such, younger people who grew up with the modern incarnation of the internet have a very different perspective on sexual content than those of us who grew up with a more “wild west” style internet where porn was just something that lived alongside the more mundane content. The side-effect of this is also that content like the John Irving novels you’re talking about are treated as if they’re grotesque for presenting sex as just another part of people’s lives - something that you’re not supposed to be shy about or ashamed of. Which is, uh…concerning, for a number of reasons. Other theories are that the world in which we live has eroded platonic relationships among young people and that they want to only see platonic friendships among characters, as that’s the vicarious experience they most desire.
Oh youtube was great. It went downhill super fast when people made money on youtube.
Damn ur battery even lower than mine
What about if it’s a sexy lady with an eye that’s lazy, a girl that’s fly with a wonky eye, who’s smoking with an eye that’s broken?
People with ADHD will never make it through an ad.
This comment hit me like a gut punch of dread.
And now I’ll think about it for years.
*Ad 1 of 3.
I honestly wouldn’t even be suprised
People still running content blockers and piping video links in 2025: “You guys are still watching ads?”
I love otamatones.
How to make me lose interest in whatever I was about to watch 101
I like how much the design resembles YouTube’s design. I would believe it if I didn’t know about the state of mobile phones.
This will be me using YouTube in 2025.
I use it via browser. Just delete/disable it. Works great.
Dailymoition still exists at least.
And Peertube.
laughs in newpipe
“There will now be a short questionnaire on the ad you watched to see if you actually listened to it. If you get below 90%, we will show two minutes of ads.”
Don’t give them even more ideas…
A Russian video hosting Rutube (which was totally dead until the govt decided to detract Russians from using YouTube, which made the platform semi-dead) actually tried to do that, having a quiz after each ad break, asking questions such as “what TV channel has been advertised in this ad?” and repeating the ad video if answered wrong
“Why are you leaving? Fill out this survey and let us know what you didn’t like. Please enter your email. Before you go, 50% of YouTube Plus Ultimate!”
This will be the death of YouTube for me. I pay for YouTube premium so this day may never come for me.
I pay for YouTube premium
Not as bad as paying for Twitter, but close.
The biggest reason I pay for it is supposedly creators I watch get paid significantly more than someone who sits through ads without skipping. I also don’t really watch regular TV.
supposedly creators I watch get paid
I mean, that’s why I’m on Patreon. But fuck YouTube.
Yeah, I know it’s not an excuse but I’m lazy and this guarantees even the individuals I watch irregularly gets their share. I’ve heard it even pays out if it’s demonetized (don’t take my word on that one though.)
I know it’s not an excuse
Your heart is in the right place. YouTube’s just isn’t.
