-Overly long opening logo. Why do I have to stare at this for five seconds?
-Overly long introduction. Get to the point!
-Long-windiness. You made your point, move on!
-Asking me to subscribe and "hit the bell" in ALL your videos.
Yours?
The commercials annoy a lot of people
If they are more that 15 seconds the commercials annoy me too
I love the comments though, some of that stuff is brilliant
These, and those videos where you want a comment from someone. You find a video, and 99% of it is some dumb guy talking about it, with the 30 second clip somewhere in the middle.
shareIt's AI that predicts what you would like weighs too heavily on views and on new content.
I am a history buff, but history clips usually have little views. The AI program never recommends a history clips with few views.
I watch one "funny memes" clip that has 1 million views and the AI program immediately recommends 10 more just like it.
yeah , i'm always conscious if a click on one video on a subject , im likely to get more.
Ever since my recommendations were all stupid "top ten blankiest blank"
This applies to viewing youtube on my smart tv: When browsing through the "recommended" tiles, videos which I'd like to watch but not right away, disappear after hitting the back button ( after watching one or more other videos from the recommended menu first. Then I have to do a search, which seems to screw up the algorithm. I don't have this issue when watching on my PC.
Ad content ( sponsor ) in videos even though I have a premium subscription.
As already observed by others: Long introductions and roundabout references. They'll make a reference to a point they say they want to make and they'll brush up against it, circle around it, make feints at it, and never deliver. I feel like I've been click-baited.
Teaser points in the title that are never discussed or explained in the actual content.
Stupid sound effects. "BLOOP", "POP", "swish"
Music that overlays over the actual live sound content in a way to muddle it.
In order, from most to least annoying:
1. Commercials
2. Commercials
3. Commercials
4. People who combine music they didn't make with a montage of still photos they didn't take and think they're doing something clever.
5. People who post songs and/or video they don't own, violating copyright, without the copyright owner's permission. I suppose it's marginally acceptable if it's a song or movie that's out of circulation and there's no other way for the average person to hear/see it. It's still theft, but at least then the copyright owners are no longer trying to make money off it, so you're not depriving them. But people who do this with the latest hits and such? You like the artists, so you deprive them of their income by putting their works out there where people no longer have to pay for them. Brilliant.
6. Copyright owners who are too stringent regarding fair use. Sony is especially bad for this. Try putting a thirty second excerpt from a Jeopardy episode on Youtube and watch what happens.
7. Copyright owners who put things on Youtube where they can be seen for free but restrict access so that people outside their home countries cannot see it. If you're gonna give it away so that dozens or even hundreds of millions of people can see it, why not let everyone see it?
Saturday Night Live is very strict about enforcing their copyrights.
It amuses me when someone posts copyrighted material (in excess of what would fall under 'fair use') and then adds a homemade disclaimer such as "all copyrights preserved" or "not intended to violate any copyright." Ha ha that's meaningless drivel.
> Saturday Night Live is very strict about enforcing their copyrights.
I didn't know that, but I stopped watching SNL a long time ago. Somewhere along the way it got stale for me. Also, I didn't like the way they treated James Stockdale, Ross Perot's running mate for President in 1992. OK, Stockdale was clumsy as a public figure. But I strongly felt these cooler-than-thou hipsters should have considered that he spent the better part of a decade as a Vietnam POW defending, among other things, their right to ridicule him.
A ridiculous example I saw with Jeopardy was this. If you watch the show, you're aware that the game pauses briefly during the first round and the host chats for about thirty seconds with each contestant. Each tells a personal anecdote. I stumbled across one YouTube clip. A contestant whose episode had just aired had video captured that thirty seconds of she and Alex Trebek chatting, and had put it up so her friends could see it. Just a half minute. A couple of days later the clip had been removed because of copyright violations. Wow.
4. People who combine music they didn't make with a montage of still photos they didn't take and think they're doing something clever.
This. And also people who take a clip out of a film and then combine it with a sappy romantic song as though they are being a soulful "creative".
YouTubers trying to sell me something for two minutes in the middle of a video.
Special content for patreons and their names in the credits.
Reviews and critiques of movies that have a longer running time than the bloody movie!
Reviews and critiques of movies that have a longer running time than the bloody movie!
LOL
1. Comments being turned off which is becoming increasingly common.
2. "Creatives" editing clips ( eg deleting the sound track and adding a song ) because they think they are being "artistic" and soulful.
3. The lack of good broad based educational material.
4. Too much trash to wade through.
I think replacing the soundtrack is more for avoiding Youtube's crazy content-match algorhythm that would make the video DMCA'd than for "artistic" purposes.
shareThe ads. Even though most are 5 seconds before you can skip them, I actually mute them because I can't even stand the BS audio. But sometimes they make you watch the whole ad, which I don't watch or hear of course. But your issues with the content are easily skipped over.
sharethe volume is often double the volume of the vide - and the take the vol control away!
you have to be ready with a secondary vol control , like the tv remote