Ask HN: Why is almost every YouTuber trying to waste our time? In the last five years I've noticed emergence of a "essay youtubers". What they do is basically drag a five minute video to thirty minutes. |
Ask HN: Why is almost every YouTuber trying to waste our time? In the last five years I've noticed emergence of a "essay youtubers". What they do is basically drag a five minute video to thirty minutes. |
It reminds me of padding out essays at school to meet the length requirement, which makes me feel bad.
Life is short, and in some ways these expanded essays are taking your most precious thing, time.
Is YouTube cold turkey a thing?
They go to tiktok/ instagram/ YT shorts to binge-watch short videos. And come to YT either to have learn something from longform content (e.g. deeper tutorials), or find the interesting parts on their own, or just to have something longer to run in the background. Most Youtubers worth their salt would have fairly impressive engagement on their longer videos.