What annoys you about Youtube?

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Anyone with a camera and an axe to grind can be an instant YouTube star.

(Although I did learn a lot about axe-grinding, and when to use an oilstone vs. a whetstone.)

^ Yep, that message is annoying.

Some of the most popular types of videos are people doing something embarrassing or stupid. I actually can't stand stuff like that, it's a similar problem I have with a lot of tv shows. I feel physically pained when I see embarrassing (or what I think is embarrassing) situations and have to leave the room or fast-forward (maybe because that's what I dread of happening to me in real life?).

There's a woman who has a vlog about living in her car. Her name is Katie Carney. She's funny.

I don't like how it suggests things I want to watch, based on what I have already watched.
So, if I click on a video on social media and it turns out to be something I hate, I automatically get more suggestions of what I hate, and you often don't know you hate it until you click on it because the title is not always descriptive.
This gets annoying when I listen to philosophy lectures at night and the next video happens to be some loud, obnoxious comedian or something.
That's why I rarely watch videos people share unless I know what the subject is.

What annoys me about U Tube?

Glad that you asked.

The amateurish narrators.
Both the bots, and the humans.

These lone people who make these vids out of their basements narrate one of two ways (a) do their own narration, or (b) use some kind of newfangled software that enables an electronic voice to narrate it for them (there is an ap called "Dragon" that turns speech into text. Apparently there is some similar ap that does the opposite. Folks write copy, and then have their computer read their copy and the computer apparently generates an annoying robotic voice to narrate the video from their text.


Both the real humans, and these robot, narrators are as annoying as hell.

The robots sound like robots (or like a person talking on autotune being fed back through auto tune). That on top of the fact that the robots never quite know which syLABble to put the emphasis on. Ugh!

But when these amateurs get on the mic and do it themselves it can be equally horrible. I forgive them for sounding like normal reedy voiced guys who sound like everyone's college room mate, and for not having stentorian voices like Walter Kronkite. But I cant forgive them for the literacy blunders.

For example I watched a vid about missing ships around the world. And the narrator guy tells us that such and such a ship was last seen "off of the cannery Islands". That's how he pronounced it. Like "Cannery Row" (cannery meaning a fish processing plant). The correct pronunciation of the name of the "Canary Islands" is just that- "Canary". The little yellow birds of that name were first discovered on the Canary Islands in the Atlantic and were named after "the Canary Islands" , so both the island and the birds are pronounced the same way. Canary. NOT "cannery".

On another U Tube history vid I heard the young reedy voiced narrator inform us that a certain British commander of the 19th century had been decorated with "the medal of VEIL-lure". I guess that he had been the go to guy for wearing veils! That's why he won the Medal of Veil Lure. Lol! He must have looked very alluring in his veils to earn a medal for veil lure!

Or maybe what he earned was..."the medal of valor" (you know, as in "valient"), and maybe the U Tube narrator was such an illiterate dumb cluck that he didn't recognize the word "valor" in print.

How can someone born into an English speaking country reach adulthood without ever hearing the word "valor" ever spoken?

I don’t go on YouTube too much. I have a Roku streaming device, I have YouTube on there, I cannot sign in, I can sign in on YouTube on my iPad, I must be doing something wrong.

One other thing that annoys me, someone posts the whole movie but it's actually just a link to another website and you have to pay to join it to watch the movie free.

Mainly just their crappy suggestions of what I might be interested in watching and the garbage that's in the trending section. As for user content, one must be selective.

Slow speed and buffering
Ugly comments on comments page
Notifications of your favorite video no longer accessible

I would say this:

No matter how annoying, You Tube is much better than No You Tube.