<![CDATA[Dear YouTubers: please shorten your videos.]]>Dear YouTubers: please shorten your videos. Most of the time you’re just repeating everything five different ways. You do not have to empty your brain on a topic. Just get to the point and then stop. I am not sitting through a 10-minute video for something that could have been a TikTok. (Hint: if someone posts a comment on your video summarizing it or giving a timestamp so nobody has to sit through the whole thing, I’m not the only one who feels it’s too long.)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/d81827da-5653-4ba3-9b4f-6d669f4a2392/dear-youtubers-please-shorten-your-videos.RSS for NodeMon, 25 May 2026 20:45:16 GMTSun, 17 May 2026 12:47:32 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Dear YouTubers: please shorten your videos. on Sun, 17 May 2026 13:36:22 GMT]]>@wendynather Dear youtubers: if your video is less than 30 minutes long, don't post it to youtube. Keep that shit on tiktok or something.
Or even better, post is as text.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fux.am/users/amlor/statuses/01KRV2DWARDN2P29PCZYXJJY23https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fux.am/users/amlor/statuses/01KRV2DWARDN2P29PCZYXJJY23Sun, 17 May 2026 13:36:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dear YouTubers: please shorten your videos. on Sun, 17 May 2026 13:11:36 GMT]]>@wendynather
It's all about the ads.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/koehntopp/statuses/116590083854017189https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/koehntopp/statuses/116590083854017189Sun, 17 May 2026 13:11:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dear YouTubers: please shorten your videos. on Sun, 17 May 2026 13:06:53 GMT]]>@wendynather Or they could write it with words and let me read it at 800 words per minute and just get what I need and move on. 🤷

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://vis.social/users/wcbdata/statuses/116590065301776414https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://vis.social/users/wcbdata/statuses/116590065301776414Sun, 17 May 2026 13:06:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dear YouTubers: please shorten your videos. on Sun, 17 May 2026 13:01:36 GMT]]>@wendynather Just write it down. It’s way easier to parse and focus on the relevant bits. Sigh.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://troet.cafe/users/DrWhoZee/statuses/116590044529132430https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://troet.cafe/users/DrWhoZee/statuses/116590044529132430Sun, 17 May 2026 13:01:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dear YouTubers: please shorten your videos. on Sun, 17 May 2026 12:57:48 GMT]]>@wendynather what genre/topic of YouTube content do you think suffers from this "a short that was stretched out to 10 minutes" trend the most?

I'm curious if you have any perspective into whether it is genre specific or just YouTube overall. Lately I've seen a *lot* of content creators complain that what used to work on the platform has suddenly stopped getting eyeballs, advertisers pull out, and nobody can make ends meet any more.

That along with something I've noticed -- there appear to be a large number of low-subscriber channels (less than 20k) popping up on my homepage, with videos that sometimes are years old, and many times those videos don't particularly seem to be directly targeting my interests.

Capitalism be weird, yo.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/xabean/statuses/116590029621095186https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/xabean/statuses/116590029621095186Sun, 17 May 2026 12:57:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dear YouTubers: please shorten your videos. on Sun, 17 May 2026 12:55:52 GMT]]>@wendynather totally agree. but I'm told algorithm rewards on watch time. Gotta sell those ada.

I wish almost all of new videos/creators wasn't slop. Poorly edited phone videos with audio so quiet you had to turn volume to max was the best version of you tube.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/popio/statuses/116590021974389346https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/popio/statuses/116590021974389346Sun, 17 May 2026 12:55:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dear YouTubers: please shorten your videos. on Sun, 17 May 2026 12:51:44 GMT]]>@wendynather don’t they have to be 10 minutes long to get monetized or something? I don’t quite recall the exact rules

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/hotsoup/statuses/116590005743742596https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/hotsoup/statuses/116590005743742596Sun, 17 May 2026 12:51:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dear YouTubers: please shorten your videos. on Sun, 17 May 2026 12:48:07 GMT]]>@wendynather b- but the algorithm

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/lahosken/statuses/116589991531011270https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/lahosken/statuses/116589991531011270Sun, 17 May 2026 12:48:07 GMT