In this informal, rant‑style video, the creator (Speaker A) shares a stream‑of‑consciousness commentary on several frustrations with YouTube. He first predicts that YouTube will help kill traditional TV, arguing that younger generations will forgo cable because all entertainment—including sports and popular shows like The Walking Dead—is available for free online. He then shifts to the gaming side of the platform, describing how the gaming commentary niche is oversaturated: countless creators upload similar content every minute, making it impossible to stand out. Using a piranha‑in‑a‑pond analogy, he illustrates the cut‑throat competition for viewer attention. He criticises the community’s unwillingness to accept constructive criticism, recounting a personal incident where a harmless comment about mic quality led to retaliatory dislikes on his own videos. The creator also laments the comment section, calling it a spam haven, and argues that YouTube does not adequately police reported spam, which fuels a cycle of annoyance and ad‑driven revenue for spammers. Finally, he decries YouTube’s algorithmic bias that privileges large, often mediocre channels in search results and related videos, leaving medium‑sized and small creators with little exposure. The video ends with a brief lyrical interlude from Speaker B that does not relate to the main rant.
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This is going to be a ranting video. I know, how original, a guy talking over video games ranting about something that in no scenario will ever benefit anyone in the world, but I'm gonna do one anyways just because I kind of feel like doing one and and holy crap, I wish it would stop raining. But before I go bashing all the users on YouTube and exalt myself like I'm the only one who knows what he's doing, even though I have less than 2,000 subscribers, I wanna mention something real quick. I believe that YouTube's gonna be one of the primary reasons that TV dies off. I feel like once our generation graduates from college, you know, grows up, gets their own house, no one's gonna be buying cable for their television because, you know, there's nothing really worth watching on TV anymore. All I watch on TV is sports and, you know, of course The Walking Dead. Who doesn't watch The Walking Dead? And, you know, I can get that stuff online, especially sports, that's streamed online now. You know, I feel like no one in our generation is gonna buy television, and one of the main reasons is, you know, you can get all the entertainment you want from videos from YouTube online. There's no need to pay money, hundreds of dollars every year to Suddenlink, when you can just get it online. So that's just my two cents on that. Now, of course, we're gonna be talking about the video game side of YouTube, because for the last 4 years I've wasted countless hours making video game videos. Video game videos? Yeah, whatever, go with it. So I went on YouTube and searched gaming, and I made it where the newest videos would pop up first. And then I kept refreshing the page, and I noticed how every minute dozens upon dozens of people upload video game content, commentaries exactly like mine, exactly like every other YouTuber out there who does, uh, video game commentaries, and how every hour there's just thousands of people who upload commentaries every hour to YouTube, and just how saturated the YouTube community is. It's like all video game YouTubers are piranhas, and they're all in the same pond, and there's a little fisherman at the top sitting in his boat holding a chicken over the edge, and all the piranhas are fighting for the chicken. The chicken's like the success of YouTube, and everyone's fighting for it. You can't tell the difference between all the piranhas. We all look the same, we're all doing the same thing, but we just want the chicken, the success on YouTube. Wait, did I just make an analogy using piranhas? People are not open to criticism, and everyone thinks their content is the best and that they should be famous. For instance, one time I left a comment on someone's video saying, "Your mic quality isn't that good." I did not dislike the video, I was just pointing out that his mic wasn't that good. Because, you know, it literally sounded like he took a potato, put it on a stick, and then started commentating into that potato. It was really terrible. You could hardly understand what he was saying. I did not dislike the video. He replies to the comment saying, "Why you hatin'?" And then I look on my channel 2 minutes later and a bunch of my videos have dislikes on it. And I know exactly where the dislikes came from. And all I'm saying is, you know, people should be more open to criticism in the community. People criticize me on my video, I do not click on their channel and start disliking their videos. I, like every other YouTuber, reads every comment left on my videos because, you know, I have no life. And whenever you guys point out a flaw in my videos, I seriously take it into consideration and try to fix it. Speaking of comments, the YouTube comments section just is full of spam, and it really has to stop. If you look on any big YouTuber's videos, all the comments are just self-promotion and completely irrelevant to the video. Nothing they say pertains to the video, and look at me trying to use big words. But I believe part of that's YouTube's fault. You can report a comment for spam, and I've reported tons of comments for spam. I'm sure a lot of you guys have too. YouTube's a company that makes hundreds of millions of dollars, and I feel like it would not be that hard for them to hire a team of 20 people to investigate, you know, comments that are reported as spam multiple times, and if it's actually spam, you know, give the channel a punishment of some sort. I feel like that's not too hard to do, but they don't do that. And since there's no punishment for spam, people are just gonna keep spamming videos. I mean, whenever I see a spam comment, I usually click on it, and I'll be honest, I dislike one or two of their videos because they really have to stop. It's really annoying. And make sure if you ever do do that, make sure you have your ad blocker on, 'cause if you click on their video and you dislike it but you actually end up watching an ad, you're just doing what they want. All they want is money from the spam. And, uh, don't give them what they want. The last thing I'd like to see changed on YouTube is how the fact that it's geared towards the bigger channels. The term "richer get richer and poorer get poorer" is so true on YouTube. Search results and related videos are all geared towards the top channels, and to be honest, a lot of them aren't even that good. I'd like to see that changed, and I'd like to see it help out a lot more medium-sized channels and occasionally throw in a small channel. So let me get this straight, Beast. You just made a video talking about how every kid and his mom makes commentaries for YouTube, Yeah, you're gonna keep doing commentaries and expect to get somewhere? Um, yeah.
No exception to the rule, do what you do to get by, 'cause I keep stickin' like a metronome and my thoughts keep tellin' me to get me home, but my balls keep tellin' me to let me owe. Oh, just let me owe. That clock keeps tickin' like a metronome and my thoughts keep tellin' me to get me home, but my balls keep tellin' me to let me owe.
