Most Annoying Things About YouTube
YouTube is working with already rich corporations to isolate certain material and censor the internet. It all seems innocent now, but this is setting up a population for brainwashing and social manipulation. Soon, entire websites will be banned and controlled, and the only people who gain are, again, the already rich.
These petty copyright issues shouldn't be a problem. I shouldn't have to dispute a claim because of 20 seconds of someone's song. It's not even the whole thing. Unless it's a 1-to-1 copy of something in its entirety, YouTube should butt out. To hell with the lobbyists looking to improve sales stats at the cost of freedom.
How is this not first? YouTube ads are by far the most annoying thing, if not the only annoying thing, about YouTube! Can you really blame me for wanting to throw my computer or phone out the window when I see two little kids advertising Honey Nut Cheerios?
If I were allowed to skip the ad, or if it were an ad I liked, that would be okay. But YouTube's insistence on torturing me with that elementary school commercial is too much. I refuse to watch it. I just won't watch the video I wanted to see. That ad will not be given the satisfaction of having me watch it beginning to end.
Is it really that hard to make it skippable? It's not. I can wait five seconds, but I'm not watching a little kids' advertisement beginning to end.
YES! My friend uploaded a Backyardigans video, and it's not available in the US, but she didn't get a copyright strike. Also, this channel called Treehouse Direct is a verified channel, but almost all the videos of The Backyardigans episodes, along with the official Backyardigans channel, are blocked except for a few: Surf's Up (Season 1), Race Around the World (Season 1), High Tea/The Tea Party (Season 1), and one of the International Super Spy episodes, either part 1 or 2 (Season 2). Those are the only unblocked videos for the official Backyardigans YouTube channel, but all the episodes on Treehouse Direct are blocked.
The one thing I hate most about this is when something good is about to start, like they're about to start playing the game, and just when they say, "Let's get right into the video!" a stupid French perfume ad comes on that I can't understand! Seriously, people need to cut down on the ads! I mean, if it's a 40-minute-long video (which I would never watch), then I can understand, but if it's just 12 minutes long, you don't need 5 ads!
I guess these would be fine once in a while on long videos (30 minutes or above). But these appear every minute on videos that are as short as 10 minutes. It gets irritating fast.
With all the advanced technology we've created, why couldn't we make it so YouTube videos don't have a second loading bar that makes the video buffer and pause if the red bar goes past it? Why can't the video start and already be fully loaded? It's even more frustrating when the video buffers for 20 seconds and then says, "Loading Error, Tap to retry." It's super annoying.
The worst part is when you right-click and report a problem. Then YouTube asks you what the problem was. GUESS WHAT, GENIUSES, WHAT ELSE? What else might go wrong with YouTube except for the video not playing?
The kind of people that report these videos are angry parents with 3 kids who aren't allowed to watch Nick, Cartoon Network, Disney, Disney Channel, or anything but baby shows and can't get on the computer unless it's for school.
I really don't care. I mean, like, what? Just curse words/inappropriate sentences? Who cares? I am under 18 and I still watch AGE-RESTRICTED videos. But not the censored content, though. Only the ones with bad words.
I love how YouTube will unnecessarily censor an innocent video where a content creator accidentally says "heck" because that's inappropriate for kids. Yet they never age-restricted any of Cardi B or any other modern rapper's music videos, which contain full pornography.
I had this dream last night that I clicked on a video and there were five ads before the video! I was like, OMG, so annoying! I hope it doesn't come true. If it did, I would be mad.
Just reload the page, skip 5 seconds by pressing the keyboard arrows, switch to a different browser, or use ad blockers. There are many ways to bypass YouTube's greedy practices.
You can't skip a 15-second ad, but you can skip a 5-second ad even though the ad already finished before you skip it.
YouTube is dead. It died as soon as Google bought it.
YouTube was once a giant forest where everyone had their place, sharing the fruits of the trees and having fun with each other. After the corporates discovered this elysium, they cut down the trees, deprived the people of their property, and built estates/manors for the powerful landlords (like Smosh, RWJ, ShaneDawson), who then enslaved the natives and made every effort to profit off the already-poor natives. That is a perfect metaphor for what happened to YouTube.
R.I.P. old YouTube!
I hate it with burning passion. There is no need for it to exist.
YouTube Kids is one of the most pointless apps in the entire universe! What was the point? How am I supposed to comment on MLP videos?! If kids want entertainment, let them watch their shows on TV, not THIS! YouTube was made for 13+ age, not for kids! Did you know that some videos not made for kids are on YouTube Kids?! If Salad Fingers (one of the best shows ever, in my opinion) was ever on YouTube Kids because it is animated, I will personally go to court and sue COPPA! This is not okay if you really think about it!
I will always still love YouTube, but the system is broken!
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This is just annoying. YouTube keeps asking if you want Premium a gazillion times, and you have to say no a million times.
Also, when I changed my VPN location to the USA, I remember all my offline videos were unable to be played because I needed YouTube Premium. Like seriously, stop it, YouTube. Don't we get enough of two unskippable 10-second ads?
It is annoying. I don't want YouTube Premium, and they keep giving me ads about it.
One ad is driving me crazy! It plays on almost every video! It's really annoying! I just saw it again, and it made me super annoyed!
I had to take a break from YouTube because it was driving me nuts.
I had this issue with a few ads - once with a Facebook ad and a Joe Fresh ad. Every video I clicked on would play the same ad. It drove me nuts.
It's annoying, but sometimes it's not the creators that do it. On about half of my old videos (that I don't have the password to the channel I uploaded them on to take them down or at least set them to private), comments have been disabled. I have never uploaded a video where I've disabled comments myself.
Probably because of the infamous update in late February 2019 where people could get demonetized for the comments.
Imagine this times 2. I had to suffer through that 5 times!
It is VERY annoying when you are trying to watch a video, only to see "An error occurred. Please try again later." in the middle of the video. Or when you go to your channel page and about 1% of the time you get an error very similar to the video player ("An error occurred. Please try again"). Or how about when you try to upload a video only for it to sit at 0% for five seconds and then say that an error has occurred while "sending data over the network"? That makes me want to bang my head on the keyboard!
I HATE THIS! I try to watch The Shadow Reader's videos to listen to his scary stories sometimes, and this error comes up. Ugh. And when I watch The Backyardigans on a VPN, I HATE IT!
YouTube is not censoring the extremely suggestive cartoon thumbnails.
Yeah, I get this a lot. Every time I go on YouTube, I see a bunch of videos that are irrelevant to what I like to watch getting recommended to me. Then I have to constantly press "not interested" to get rid of them. So annoying.
In my recommendations, one time I saw a Monster High Anaconda Music Video, and I was like, lol, it's in my recommendations.
Update: Today, when I was browsing YouTube, I saw Barney videos in my recommendations, and I was like, omg, really?
Another Update: I saw Puppy Dog Pals videos in my recommendations, and I was like, oh great, this PAW Patrol ripoff is in my recommendations.
Ugh, I hate it! It drives me insane.
My friend once got a copyright claim on a song he made on GarageBand. The song didn't even match the claimant's song one bit.
I hate Viacom. I have a whole bunch of old Nickelodeon shows that I want to upload, but I can't because of stupid Viacom.
They feel the need to constantly make the layout look "modern," but they just keep making the layout worse. Growing up during the "Golden Era" of YouTube (2008-2012) meant the layout was nice and creative with tons of customization. Now, they've gotten rid of all that, and the layout is dull and an eyesore.
I wish they made you change back to the old layout...
Oh wait, they did, but I never knew, and in March of 2018, they removed it!
I feel like they're getting worse every time. Please decide on one layout, for the love of Trump.
It's so annoying when you're watching a TV episode, and it's cut into parts because of this stupid rule. Then you have to switch to the next part.
One time I tried to post a 20-minute video to YouTube, but it said that I couldn't upload a video longer than 15 minutes.
So… a video can only be 10 minutes? This isn't going to be good for my YouTube channel in a couple of days.
Especially when a video sponsors Samsung.
That's when it buffers. You can also play the snake game with it!
That stupid dotted circle drives me insane!
This is really annoying when it happens during a video. It drives me nuts.
...and if you don't have a billion views and subscribers, you're not getting your channel back.
If YouTube could care less about your son's 10th birthday party or knitting videos, they would. I would go so far as to say if YouTube knew they wouldn't make any money from your videos, they wouldn't allow them on their site.
I've never gotten terminated myself, but I've seen so many people who have gotten terminated, and all they did was upload some songs.
I've seen a lot of these on YouTube.
That's more frustrating than it is annoying. There aren't too many of these videos, but it's absolutely maddening trying to find them.
Sometimes they delete the video altogether, so you can never watch it again. That makes me so angry when you love a video and they totally take it off!
No, I don't want to see thirst traps.