It's replaced what was traditional TV in our home.
We watch movies, and youtube as if it were tv.
Old TV is now either 24 hour garbage news, reality shows, or similar nonesense.
We watch movies, and youtube as if it were tv.
Old TV is now either 24 hour garbage news, reality shows, or similar nonesense.
Intentional: look for a certain show/movie, e.g. the weekly episode of House MD, Lost, Friends, HBO, ... -> This is the streaming war between Netflix, HBO, Disney, ...
Casual: You turn on the tv with the aim to just browse around and relax, and get something accidentally interesting/amusing -> Youtube is king and more or less the only option here (and a bit of Nebula)
The two together is the traditional TV
A lot of content is low effort edu-taintainment that seems to be little more than Wikipedia in video form.
More original and higher integrity creators like Veritasium, CGP Grey, Engineering explained don’t seem to be involved (actually I think CGP was but left without an explaination).
Maybe this is just a fundamental problem of bundling. It makes more sense for lower value content but less sense for higher value content.
I don't think there's a single even semi-popular edu-tainment channel that wasn't at least approached by Nebula, but of course not every creator is interested. If I had to guess why, I'd say it's a tradeoff between Patreon/Nebula. You can have both, but you can only prioritize one of them, making the proposal far less interesting to those that already have a sizeable Patreon income.
However a lot of channels available on Nebula also use it as a place where they don't have to deal with those sometimes nonsensical rules, as a place to publish more "uncensored" versions of their videos. Sometimes they're as simple as not bleeping out the word fuck, sometimes they contain an extra section that would get their entire video demonetized on YouTube (example: showing a piece of art with nudity in it, or pretty much any blood), and sometimes they use it to cover topics that they know YouTube would instantly demonetize (example: pretty much any discussion around armed conflicts).
I think there enough decent quality channels (many that I was following on YouTube before anyways) that it is definitely worth my subscription.
a friend is actually a creator there! speaks very well about them
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlCEg4hCa1LHLLYk4KQQI...
On a certain movie/show, you can’t be bothered to divert your attention: you’re committed to the show.
Take a look at YouTube's trending page. There's clearly a reason for that content on TV.
- BeardMeatsFood (https://www.youtube.com/beardmeatsfood)
- Johnny Harris (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmGSJVG3mCRXVOP4yZrU1Dw
- RealLifeLore (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP5tjEmvPItGyLhmjdwP7Ww)
Last night it was Vewn animated shorts and music videos by group_inou, here's a favorite: https://youtu.be/JP2728BtJ34?si=UGkXJWJFGdy8muyu