I mean those weird and gory YouTube videos and stuff with the blackest humor and seas of blood and a real living soul.

I even re-watched some videos, some from archives, some from open access, and it was magical, a little strange of course, but damn alive. Doctor, I want to go back to the past. And the most important thing is that there was no AI.

Does anyone still remember the times of the 2000s and 2010s?

Edit: Oh yeah, can you also send links to some videos or art or even music that you liked before.

  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    5 days ago

    I feel like video rolling onto the scene was the beginning of the end. I don’t like video as a medium, so that’s an easy place for me to draw the line. Before Youtube&co link zines and blogs would link to other readable stuff. Sometimes it had pictures, but it was complex and thought out (usually). Over time, as monetization become more of a thing, Youtube became more of a thing, along with influencers and unskipable ads. And here we are.

    • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      If youtube stayed as it was in its first ~4 years it wouldn’t be so bad. Everything being video has ruined the internet for me, though, since I agree with you that it’s generally a bad format for information + discussion.

      There used to be readable how-tos and tutorials for things, and now all that’s left is 45 minute YT videos littered with influencer garbage.

      • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        There used to be readable how-tos and tutorials for things, and now all that’s left is 45 minute YT videos littered with influencer garbage.

        This is so much of what I hate about the internet today. Many, many things which should be a single page wall of text is now some 20 minute video which just shows the person doing something, with terrible music in the background and fuck-all for deep explanations. I do understand how hard it is to write those deep explanations, my own blog has gone over a year without an update. But fuck, if you’re the type of person who can be constantly working and posting, this seems like something that should be reasonable to do. Of course, monetizing the written word is harder. I know some writers are getting there on substack,. but that seems like a platform where you need to have an audience first and then you can monetize it. There isn’t really any discoverability in substack. If people don’t know you’re there, they won’t find you.

      • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        I like the idea of short videos. But guess that’s not the best way to make money, so instead we have long videos. 🤷‍♂️