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Am I the only one who doesn't like that streaming has taken over internet media? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I remember when everything was recorded and edited videos, from short to long, maybe 5 minutes to 1 hour, but it was rare seeing longer videos. Most videos where edited, cutting off boring parts, and videos seemed centred on the content. Also facecams, while still gaining popularity, were not omnipresent.

Nowadays I find it hard to find videos that are not just reuploaded streams. Hours and hours of unedited video. Most of the time seems that the streamer really do nothing, they vaguely read comments, talk about their life and sometimes play a game or something, but the unedited nature of it make it really boring for my taste, there are lots of long dead times where nothing really happens. Also there are constant interruptions, visual and audio noise, the whole every time someone suscribe or paid something noisy has to happen for everyone to see. That takes the quality of the content down. And of course half the screen is covered by face cam, chat, subscriber count, donation objetives, etc. And the streams are always hours and hours and hours, the content is so diluted in long periods of time, it's unrespectful with out time.

I just don't see how this format has taken over the internet, it's worse than what we had. I see how it's more profitable for the creators, more hours of content for less effort, but I don't get how viewers prefer that format over a well curated and edited video.

Just a rant. Maybe someday someone searches "why everything is a stream nowadays" and sees that they are not alone, I hate streams too.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I still see tons and tons of excellent processed quality video content of all genres. What are you looking for that you only see streams?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I find it more in gaming videos, specially latest releases or competitive games.

Also many famous youtubers I used to follow moved to this format when the move from youtube to twitch and stopped doing youtube videos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I guess some kinds of content creators that specialize in stuff that's current and ages badly, need to be up to date as much as possible, so streaming instead of making vids makes sense to them.

Just like some others moved to or added shorts.

It's definitely not a widespread trend tho, fortunately, at least until YT starts completely killing longer structured videos.

I suppose you need to find some other tubers. Isn't there millions of them doing gaming stuff?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

From what I've gathered from the few content creators that have said anything, it's that it is much more enjoyable and lucrative to stream as opposed to spending sometimes a week on a single video just for it to flop. They can stream what they want to and their supporter toss money at them while they do it, then they can upload that stream without editing it and get more views/income on YouTube.

Honestly I like it because I like to have a stream playing while I'm doing something or working so I don't have to keep stopping to find something new to watch "next."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

If the internet has taught me anything, it's that no one is the only person who thinks anything. You could love eating expired cereal out of a traffic cone with raccoon piss instead of milk and somebody, somewhere will see that on a forum and be like "dude no way, me too!" And there will be like 57 replies saying "I thought it was just me" lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'm not really seeing the same thing. I see what you're describing on twitch, sure, because I'm watching streams directly, it's a different form of content not directly comparable to recorded videos in terms of convention. If I'm watching video of a recorded stream it is almost without exception edited to abridge the content in the way you described you wanted. They do rely on 3rd party editors for that though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Gotta say this hasn't been my experience at all, I watch a ton of normal video content and very rarely am recommended streams. Unless I'm on Twitch obviously but if you're on Twitch you know what to expect.

If you're talking about YouTube, you might want to consider interacting with those uncut stream uploads less otherwise the algorithm is just gonna think that's what you're into.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't really mind streams, as I mostly just...Don't watch them. Very rarely I'll watch the odd stream with small streamers that I kind of enjoy hearing their live commentary, and afterward they typically edit them into separate parts if they do upload them.

More than streaming overtaking a lot of online stuff, I find myself more bothered by the move to video over written essays/blogs. I've watched a number of video essays and enjoyed them, but I've rarely gone away from many of them thinking, "You know, this really was better being a video." Instead I tend to think, "I feel like I could have read this faster than the time it took to watch/listen to."

It's possible I'm overestimating my reading speed, admittedly, but it doesn't change my sense that many video essays don't do enough with the visual component to justify being video essays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Nowadays I find it hard to find videos that are not just reuploaded streams. Hours and hours of unedited video

I hate this. The creators that I follow on YT all made their names on edited videos full of actual content but once they have followings, it’s nonstop streams where they collect micro tips and stroke the egos of Patreon people. There’s no way in hell I can set time aside in my schedule to be there for one of these live, and they’re boring as hell to watch recorded.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

There's still tons of pre-edited video creators. I don't think that's decreased in output at all. It's just that streams are now ALSO being produced.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not too bothered about it, most of the creators I follow haven't dropped their edited content for streams, but I still find the concept of watching a Twitch stream weird. From quick looks, most of them have so much downtime where nothing is happening at all. I guess they would make good background noise though