| YouTubers: For The Attention Of |
[Jun. 9th, 2026|09:37 am]
Tony Grist
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"Terrifying", "Disturbing", Worse than we thought"- Sorry, chaps, but your revelations are none of these things. Yes, I want to know what's new in archaeology etc, but I'm an old bird and you can't tell me anything that's going to knock me off my perch. Sell, but don't oversell- and please stop appealing to the lowest emotions. Sometimes when scrolling down through your latest offerings I think, "I don't want to do this anymore".....
Also, there's good AI and there's crap AI- and if a vid is too obviously being narrated by a machine or is illustrated with bog standard AI images of the kind I've seen many times before it has to be very, very interesting to prevent me from clicking out.
Yet again, come to the point and don't string me along, because if you do I'll abandon you and find something to read on the subject- and that'll take me a couple of minutes and not the three quarters of an hour you're hoping to hold me for.
Now for something positive. I've been watching 30 year old episodes of Cadfael with Derek Jacobi- and I do love how you guys archive such things. |
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I was nodding along in agreement and then you mentioned those Brother Cadfael episodes - now I want to rush to YouTube. I don’t think I ever watched all of them at the time because I was living abroad, but I did catch a few after devouring the books.
I missed them first time round.
YT has about half the episodes....or, at least, that's all I could find.....
Yes, there's an awful lot of AI slop masquerading as a documentary on YouTube. But on the other hand, a lot of good drama has indeed been archived there, as you noted.
I found a site yesterday that had hundreds of old British TV shows archived- most of them all but forgotten.....
I hardly watch any YouTube now. I watched a fair bit a few years ago because I could crochet or knit while I watched, but they changed the algorithm and after that I didn't find anything interesting in their recommendations. I have a few YouTubers who I watch sometimes, but they're all real people doing things in real life. They're not documentaries.
If you click on any Youtube offering the algorithm is set up to feed you more of the same. This can be annoying.....
Exactly! I watched one video by an American comparing life in the UK with the US and suddenly that's all YouTube thinks I want to watch. :-(
The old algorithm promoted videos by the people I'd subscribed to, but now I have to seek them out deliberately and, as result, I'm watching much less than I used to.
Last year I found I, Claudius on youtube as well. Didn't know Cadfael was on it, will have to try out that show. I also was reading that in 2013 that Derek Jacobi came out with a memoir called As Luck Would Have It, that is one book I am hoping to get through a library loan soon. Also don't know if you are Good Omens fan, but the finale for it came out in May. I wasn't too thrilled with the final, but after the fallout with Neil Gaiman, I am just glad we got some closure.
I've watched clips of Good Omens. Those two actors have great chemistry. Also I've read the book.
Makes me shake my head inside every time when seeing what YouTube serves me as video suggestions which "could interest me too"... So many fucked up and sensation-seeking headlines, which you can see right through without having to watch them that this crap can't be made by people who are really educated about a subject or know this discipline well.
You know... No matter which side, I don't need spectacular conspiracy shit about "What are Zelenski and Putin doing next?", "How Ukraine/Russia is just about to win the war!", or "AfD politician X made person X in the government/mainstream media look like a fool".
Does YouTube's algorithm seriously "think" I'm such a cliché person that looks for this kind of stuff?
Between music links/suggestions to listen to?
Quite demonstrates to you on one hand, how stupid the algorithm itself is (or just directly wants to keep you tied to the screen), and on the other - if "my profile" of clicked links matches somewhat the patterns of people who are into this kind of nonsense and bonkers conspiracy stuff... It tells you something about what people are like meanwhile. What kind of bullshit they fall for.
Like you I'm tired of Youtube "experts" who make political prophecies that never come true.
Oh, dear, yes! This kind of stuff is so annoying. Such a waste of (chip memory) ressources on servers and electric energy, which, in the end, is a kick in the nuts of the envionment again. | |
