I remember when everything was recorded and edited videos, from short to long, maybe 5 minutes to 1 hour, but it was rare seeing longer videos. Most videos where edited, cutting off boring parts, and videos seemed centred on the content. Also facecams, while still gaining popularity, were not omnipresent.
Nowadays I find it hard to find videos that are not just reuploaded streams. Hours and hours of unedited video. Most of the time seems that the streamer really do nothing, they vaguely read comments, talk about their life and sometimes play a game or something, but the unedited nature of it make it really boring for my taste, there are lots of long dead times where nothing really happens. Also there are constant interruptions, visual and audio noise, the whole every time someone suscribe or paid something noisy has to happen for everyone to see. That takes the quality of the content down. And of course half the screen is covered by face cam, chat, subscriber count, donation objetives, etc. And the streams are always hours and hours and hours, the content is so diluted in long periods of time, it’s unrespectful with out time.
I just don’t see how this format has taken over the internet, it’s worse than what we had. I see how it’s more profitable for the creators, more hours of content for less effort, but I don’t get how viewers prefer that format over a well curated and edited video.
Just a rant. Maybe someday someone searches “why everything is a stream nowadays” and sees that they are not alone, I hate streams too.
If the internet has taught me anything, it’s that no one is the only person who thinks anything. You could love eating expired cereal out of a traffic cone with raccoon piss instead of milk and somebody, somewhere will see that on a forum and be like “dude no way, me too!” And there will be like 57 replies saying “I thought it was just me” lol
I thought it was just me
And there will be a few other people like, “possum spit is the best way to spice it up” and another like, “nah nah, you want skunk ear wax in there. possum spit’s beginner shit.”
then it devolves into like a 90 page/comment deep argument between possum spit and skunk ear wax folks meanwhile people in-between are like, “but really if you mix them just right and add some squirrel snot it’s king shit”