To all the great people who post instructional youtube videos...

[LuckyCharms]

I want to thank you for posting these videos and helping me out.

I have one teeny complaint though.

If you are posting a video of, for example, of how to change a tail light on a specific car model, and it takes 1 minute to explain the procedure, please don't make an 8 minute instructional video in which the first 7 minutes of your stupid video is spent telling me about yourself, your dog, how you are fucking feeling, how tall you are, how much you weigh, the goddamn weather where you are, your goddamn tool collection, how beautiful your wife is, etc. Just get to the point already.

See, I poop a lot. Sometimes when I am trying to get something done, I also have to poop. But I figure....Hey, I have time to watch this instructional video and change the tail light before I poop, and instead of getting instructions on how to change the tail light, I have to fast forward through how funny it is that you named your hairless dog "fluffy".

This throws off my anticipated poop schedule, and sometimes I don't make it to the bathroom in time.

Thank you.

[Jamastiene]

1. Or another Square Space or VPN advertisement.

They only require you to spend a certain amount of time on it. Spending the whole video on it is not necessary.

I also hate it when something that would take 10 seconds takes 10 minutes because they want to make sure their video gets an ad for them to get ad revenue too. Just tell us and give us more quality than quantity.

It is going to get to a point where YouTube is going to go the way of TV because of too much filler to get ad revenue. I don't necessarily blame the content creators for that part. YouTube's "adpocalypse" a couple of years ago started this crap.

YouTube is going to greedy their way out of business and take a lot of once good content creators with them.

I wish someone would start an alternative to YouTube and good content creators could go there and leave YouTube with it's transphobic, homophobic, and sexist ass gamers only. Let them go down with that sinking ship. Let YouTube keep their precious bigoted gamers.

The good content creators, including not bigoted gamers, there are a few, can move to whatever new platform comes up. I wish I knew how to make it happen or do it myself. I would love to see YouTube replaced by a new site that stops bigots and lets content creators make videos like they used to without having to sell products while they talk about something completely unrelated in their videos.

[LuckyCharms]

3. Good post. Thanks, Jamastiene. n/t

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Or add a 'soundtrack' of the worst fucking 'music' ever

[Srkdqltr]

4. They do that with recipes also

They go into several paragraphs of home and family until they get to the recipe. Then look at the comments and most say they loved it but they changed it in some way. 🤣🤣🤣

[dawg day]

8. I see that in the cooking blogs too---

They have to have 9 paragraphs of how this recipe reminds them of grandma's farm (pictures of farm and Grandma), how the husband likes this even though he doesn't like that, how much fun it is to make with the kids....

I guess they need room to put in the ads and all. Okay. I'll scroll through it if I need the recipe. I guess we should be glad it's free.

[Phentex]

11. true...

lately I've seen some that have a button that says JUMP TO RECIPE and I do.

[Phentex]

12. I think there are some recipe trolls...

I like to read the reviews of a recipe if I'm really interested in it. And you'll see plenty of comments like "this sounds good!" but they haven't made it yet. And then there are the ones who change nearly every ingredient and either praise it highly or complain about the original recipe. They HAVE to be trolls, right?

"I didn't have any eggs so I used leftover hush puppies and I substituted beans for the strawberries. This recipe is terrible!"

[dawg day]

13. I always laugh at those "fixes"

Sometimes it's helpful if it's just a small tweak-- "I didn't have olive oil, but vegetable oil worked fine." or "I subbed skim milk for the cream, and it tasted good, but I would put in a bit of flour next time to thicken."

But sometimes they completely transform the recipe and complain about it! LOL, substituting beans for strawberries.

[grumpyduck]

5. I've been noticing that for a long time

in books and DVDs too. There's so much padding.

First noticed it with "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People." I bought a one-cassette condensation. The seven habits were printed right on the cardboard box, but the cassette just went on and on with this and that. I tossed out the cassette, cut out the panel on the box, and posted it where I could see it every day. Later I saw a multi-cassette package. Can't imagine what was on it.

[dawg day]

6. I have a very old garage door opener-

and had to reset the codes.

What do you know, some nice guy had a video for exactly that model. And all he did was show the pieces, show how to do it, and tell the instructions. (He even climbed a ladder in his garage to show how to take the cover off.)

No "fluff" or "fluffy"! I was really grateful.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Amen. These people feel (who put out such longer than needed videos) like they have to ...

tell everyone that they've done this, or changed their underwear, or did this, or did that, etc. to the point it's sickening and it defeats the whole purpose of the help video.

I don't even bother anymore to go further into such videos, I just get out and go to the next one, and hopefully, it will be brief and to the point, conveying the information I want. There are thousands of videos on literally everything out there in YouTube, and there are a lot of people posting good stuff out there, w/o ads, or the like.

[JudyM]

9. I usually choose the shortest one.

Not for pooping reasons, though

[Varaddem]

10. Yesterday

Watching a miracle back stretch video. 25 minutes in and three versions of the same story with no stretches and my back had tightened up.I gave up.

[csziggy]

14. I've been watching wood turning videos

On some, the people talk, or they put annoying music. My favorites are where they show the whole process and speed it up so a four hour wood turning project makes a eight minutes video.

Recently, in hopes I will soon be able to get some kitties, I have been watching DIY cat tree videos. My favorite of those was one where the guy showed the entire process sped up many times. The best parts were where his wife came in smoking a cigarette and talked to him for a few minutes and when his kid came in to help for a few seconds and he and the dad talked over something.