I miss old YouTube so much it hurts omg. i miss how it wasn’t about engagement, branding, money or camera quality, it was about broadcasting yourself and having fun. now it’s become a bland corporate shell of what it used to be and half of my recommendations are AI slop lol
source: I’m so old I remember when YouTube vids were rated with stars and everyone had neon channels with funky text
I listen to lots of music on youtube, just random playlists in the background. Unfortunately, there is a TON of AI music on there now, and it’s really hard to tell the difference these days.
I guess it comes and goes now since I only ran into it once recently, but the entirety of RATMs discog will appear as labelled with that content warning that you need to manually confirm and it can make playing music let alone an album from them a chore, reuploaded a copy of their discog onto the private library to get around it but sometimes I’ll forget, queue an official upload and be like “oh yeah they still haven’t fixed this” when everything pauses. Other than that YTM is endgame music streaming, the YT community as the backend for streaming music, the actual proper releases and the ability to manage a private library is just perfect.
I miss being able to tell at a glance whether an instructional video was trash. I have the “return youtube dislikes” extension but it doesn’t work as well for a multitude of reasons.
I miss old YouTube so much it hurts omg. i miss how it wasn’t about engagement, branding, money or camera quality, it was about broadcasting yourself and having fun. now it’s become a bland corporate shell of what it used to be and half of my recommendations are AI slop lol
source: I’m so old I remember when YouTube vids were rated with stars and everyone had neon channels with funky text
I listen to lots of music on youtube, just random playlists in the background. Unfortunately, there is a TON of AI music on there now, and it’s really hard to tell the difference these days.
They took our jobs and our art.
I use YouTube music and the community playlists on there aren’t bad.
Just wished the player didn’t break when content warnings popped up, can’t play RATM as a result.
I don’t have that problem
I guess it comes and goes now since I only ran into it once recently, but the entirety of RATMs discog will appear as labelled with that content warning that you need to manually confirm and it can make playing music let alone an album from them a chore, reuploaded a copy of their discog onto the private library to get around it but sometimes I’ll forget, queue an official upload and be like “oh yeah they still haven’t fixed this” when everything pauses. Other than that YTM is endgame music streaming, the YT community as the backend for streaming music, the actual proper releases and the ability to manage a private library is just perfect.
I miss being able to tell at a glance whether an instructional video was trash. I have the “return youtube dislikes” extension but it doesn’t work as well for a multitude of reasons.
Freetube my friend
I miss playing amv’s in the background while drawing final fantasy fan art.