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.
I still see tons and tons of excellent processed quality video content of all genres. What are you looking for that you only see streams?
Lucifer Means Lightbringer / David Lightbringer on YT is a great example of a creator who started with well written, well edited videos about Game of Thrones lore, but then drifted into live streams and “read along” live streams that are exactly as OP describes. Very rarely is there an edited video put out anymore, but the dumbass streams are on a friggin schedule.
I find it more in gaming videos, specially latest releases or competitive games.
Also many famous youtubers I used to follow moved to this format when the move from youtube to twitch and stopped doing youtube videos.
From what I’ve gathered from the few content creators that have said anything, it’s that it is much more enjoyable and lucrative to stream as opposed to spending sometimes a week on a single video just for it to flop. They can stream what they want to and their supporter toss money at them while they do it, then they can upload that stream without editing it and get more views/income on YouTube.
Honestly I like it because I like to have a stream playing while I’m doing something or working so I don’t have to keep stopping to find something new to watch “next.”
I guess some kinds of content creators that specialize in stuff that’s current and ages badly, need to be up to date as much as possible, so streaming instead of making vids makes sense to them.
Just like some others moved to or added shorts.
It’s definitely not a widespread trend tho, fortunately, at least until YT starts completely killing longer structured videos.
I suppose you need to find some other tubers. Isn’t there millions of them doing gaming stuff?