Reply To: Vlogs, podcasts and our hobby on YouTube and their (lack of) quality.

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If you think you are picky, I don’t know how I would describe myself.  On stuff like a video or podcast you have a very limited time to catch my attention or I will flick on through.  Long winded introductions, disorganisation etc, I’m simply not watching it.  Being brutally honest, if I don’t like your accent or even the way you pronounce some words… nope, not watching or listening to that.    Length of video is very important to me – if it takes you 30 minutes to show me how to paint something, I’ll not watch it, which is why I prefer written content for certain things.

Production quality is important, but if the content is good, I can live with it.  Queen’s University have put up a couple of videos recently on how soldiers in medieval Ulster would have dressed.  The presenter seems very knowledgeable but they filmed outside in the wind…and the sound quality is terrible… still watched it as I was really interested in the topic and that type of content is like hen’s teeth.

We live in a free world, people can do what they like, post the content they like within the law and their own moral compass.  No-one is tying me to the bed and forcing me to watch stuff (I normally have to pay extra for that).  So if people produce stuff I don’t like or don’t enjoy, I don’t watch it.  There are videos on OTT i don’t watch or have turn off half way through or even earlier because they just aren’t for me but when you see the number of positive comments, people seem to like them.  No-one can cater for everyone’s tastes.