Youtube

[poliphilo]

 "Terrifying", "Disturbing", Worse than we thought"- how tired I am of Youtube videos that sell themselves with these kind of straplines! Yes, I want to know what's new in archaeology etc, but I'm an old bird and you can't tell anything that's going to knock me off my perch. Sell, but don't oversell- and don't appeal to the lowest emotions. Sometimes when scrolling down through the latest offerings I think, "I don't want to do this anymore".....

Also, there's good AI and there's crap AI- and if a vid is too obviously being narrated by a machine or is illustrated with bog standard AI images of the kind I've seen many times before it has to be very, very interesting to prevent me from clicking out.

Yet again, Youtubers, come to the point and don't string me along, because if you do I'll abandon you and find something to read on the subject- and that'll take me a couple of minutes and not the three quarters of an hour you're hoping to hold me for. 

Now for something positive. I've been watching 30 year old episodes of Cadfael with Derek Jacobi- and I do love how Youtube archives such things. 

Comments

[cmcmck]

Those were made in Hungary as there's not enough left of Shrewsbury abbey- only really the abbey chuch itself.

[poliphilo]

Also, if I remember rightly, Shrewsbury Abbey is practically on a traffic island.

[paserbyp]

Do you have alternative of Youtube? Do you have alternative of Google?

[poliphilo]

There are alternatives to Google but I don't know of any alternative to Youtube.

[paserbyp]

TikTok?

[poliphilo]

I don't do Tik-Tok

[paserbyp]

Because of age or because of China?

[poliphilo]

Because I'm simply not drawn to it.