I don’t go browsing all that much on YouTube, so I don’t have a grasp of overall video quality. However, the comments are indeed insane. As this comic notes.
Damn you I was just going to post that!
shakes fist angrily
OMFG TAHT VID WUZ TEH AW3SOME!!!#@!
Er, wait, no, no it wasn’t. Cute cat, though. And kinda funny watching the dude burn his finger. But other than that, meh.
Re: your OP: Might I suggest that, instead of railing at the Stupid, which is pointless (for it is powerful beyond your imagining!), why not focus it a bit more tightly?
Personally, I don’t care if every yahoo with a camera wants to post every minute of every day of his life. It’s not my bandwidth or server space. But if we could just get a LITTLE bit of enforcement going on with the tags! Yarrgh! That alone would enable me to ignore the craptastic stuff and focus on what might actually be, y’know, cool.
Edited to add: if I must complain about the quality… to the Stoopids: PUH-LEEZE don’t point the camera at the Sun, mm’kay?
There’s a clue in here about your OP.
That’s actually a hobby called “vidding” and it’s very popular in some fandoms. There are online groups and even conventions. I’m not personally into it but I think it’s an interesting expression of fandom.
Yea, yea… As was mentioned earlier.
If only there was a place on the SDMB to rant and rave, to vent. We could call it the “flame place”, or the “flame pit”, something like that.
Then it wouldn’t be like YouTube, where the cream is mixed with the crap…
Just because you’re in the pit doesn’t make your rant sacrosanct. You posted a stupid, inane elitist rant, and several people have commented on that. If you post something stupid on YouTube, you take the chance that some loud mouthed moron will piss all over something that’s really none of their fucking business on a message board, just to make themself feel superior. Here we just tell you to your face when you’re being a gaping asshole.
Of course, if you can demonstrate exactly who died and make you the unquestioned arbiter of all things YouTube, then I will freely admit that I’m wrong here. Baring that, the question the whole OP raised when I was reading it is “Just who in the fuck does this person think they are”, and that question remains.
Speaking as an author of idiotic video content on Youtube, I object.
Did I accidently wander back to amv.org?
I basically see YouTube as an easy way to share my own videos with others. I don’t browse much because there’s too much crap around. But if there’s something worth watching, it’s easily accessible. The standards of goodness among viewers is pretty low though. I can think of one video which got some decent reviews–I couldn’t comment on the editing quality because I couldn’t stop focusing on the numerous issues in the visual quality (and the amusement of seeing clips from one of my own videos used).
I can’t be bothered to rant about the amount of stupid crap on the 'tube though, because most people there just don’t care. If you want quality, find a more niche site to browse for videos.
Oh, and ditto tremorviolet. Those of us who are into it, enjoy it. And there’s some pretty good fan videos out there.
If by “intellectuals” you mean “copyright infringers.” If you’re going to use copyrighted material, at least use it in a clever way. This is a very clever description of copyright and fair use that actually falls under fair use provisions. The bizarre phenomenon of YouTube Poop- a bizarre mixture of clips, usually from video game-based cartoons and badly-animated cutscenes from Phillips CDI games- is a little cloudier legally, but there is no doubt it is original, actually funny at times, and a good example of the randomness of the Internet used in a good (or at least entertaining way). And reviewers- such as the Angry Video Game Nerd- are able to review material in ways that are unique and funny. You know what they say- all toasters toast Koopa football players.
Hahahaaa… Look, I just went on a silly rant and I thought the Pit was the place for that. I thought that the Pit was the place where you threw out the dishwater and stumbled through peyote trips. I guess not.
But as far as the elitism goes, you bet. I full on feel superior to people who post garbage on YouTube and I can’t say it bothers me.
If you give 1000 tree stumps 1000 video cameras, they will post better content than most of what’s on Youtube.
There is some good stuff on there, but you have to wade through so much crap to get it.