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Have you noticed the information density of youtube going way way down in the last year-two? Videos that could be 5 minutes are 35, everyone talks slowly and lazily. Up to the point where youtube offers x3 and I think x4 playback as premium features.
There's a whole type of content creator that basically makes videos answering very commonly asked questions on the internet, or with very short walkthoughs for commonly researched tasks, that puts most of their effort into stretching their video (that might even be answering a yes/no question) out to at least 10 minutes long with the actual answer appearing after two ads, then using SEO tricks, imitating the name and appearance of channels with better reputations, and other non-value add techniques to get views, that has been suddenly decapitated by AI, almost overnight. The channels that actually care about thier subject matter aren't doing much better if its not something nuanced or likely to be hallucinated about by AI. The stretching out of the videos to absurd durations is still about chasing as much add revenue as possible before the viewer closes the video. So not only does it take waaaay to long, it always seems like they are just about to answer the actual question in the name of the video, but they aren't. If you're lucky someone will timestamp it in the comments and the channel owner hasn't removed it yet.
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