• @Kinglink@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    As someone said in the comments, they really don’t make (promote) videos like this any more.

    It’s just a beautiful video, someone performed something on stage, the crowd clearly loved it. It required real talent, and wasn’t just done to get Youtube views in a weekly/daily video posts trying only to drive engagement.

    A shame that Youtube’s best days are long behind it. Yes the beast is bigger than ever and has so many more people, but it’s not quality rising to the top.

    • @kescusay@lemmy.world
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      182 years ago

      In defense of YouTube…

      The thing is, you absolutely can still find stuff like that. The trick is to search for stuff you like, and train YouTube’s algorithm to find more stuff like it. I’ve got mine trained enough that my feed mostly consists of stuff I actually do want to watch.

      Some of it is from “content creators,” yes (although nothing from the well-known ones), but a lot of it is just random things I happen to have an interest in.

      Okay, that said, YouTube’s default feed can suck my hairy scrote. It’s astoundingly bad.

      • @Psythik@lemm.ee
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        62 years ago

        The trick is to search for stuff you like

        Well therein lies the problem. I don’t know what to search for.

        And when I do think of something, most of the time I’ll get maybe 4 or 5 results for semi-related content that I’m not interested in, and then the remaining results are completely unrelated crap that the algorithm thinks I want to watch. I’ve heard that over 700,000 hours worth of video are uploaded every single day, but apparently I’m not allowed to actually search for them.

        • @Kikkertje@aussie.zone
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          32 years ago

          Instead we get the same old videos we’ve already seen in our feed. I’m so tired of fighting the system…

      • @SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        Yeah it took me a while too but but by carefully curating my subscriptions, likes, and comments I get what I like on youtube.

    • JackbyDev
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      22 years ago

      Videos like this still go “viral” but with hyper personalized algorithms today there are much more niche communities that things circulate in.

      • @Kinglink@lemmy.world
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        42 years ago

        That’s the thing, it’s not viral if it’s personalized. “Viral” expands far outside of the niche. You might not like videos of baby or slice of life videos, but Charlie bit my finger was everywhere. Almost no one wanted Rick Astley, but everyone saw it. Even this, I don’t look up dance videos, but I Watched this whole thing. That’s where “Viral” is… The “this is popular even without being a fan of it.”

        Now it seems the only videos that do that is shitty drama or clickbait crap.

    • Nioxic
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      12 years ago

      I never watched youtube for these “viral” videos…

      I qatch it for the creators who make content they (and I) really care about.

      The funny/viral stuff is great too but its not the reason i use youtube at all.