Top 10 Ways YouTube Sucks Now
YouTube was once so great to go on back in the day.
But recently, it has become a piece of bullcrap like nothing else.
Some might agree or disagree with what's said on here, but it's the truth, no harm done.
Here are the reasons why YouTube sucks nowadays.
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Copyright Paranoia
YouTube, what are you doing? The copyright system is flawed to the point where it's just so easy to falsely claim copyright. The claimer, when caught, doesn't even get in trouble for it.
It just takes three flawed claims to ruin an entire channel, or life, depending on what channel is deleted. Do you even know what the word "fair use" means? Legitimate parodies are getting taken down. Are you kidding me? YouTube probably won't see this, but whatever.
Unfortunately, these days YouTube videos don't seem to have any background music or other videos added to explain their point or provide a source. It's probably because of copyright.
Also, I don't think using background music for certain videos is that bad. I also don't like it when people bleep out the cuss words for some reason. If there are kids watching your videos, then don't cuss at all.
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Too Many Advertisements
There are ads that are like an hour long! Yes, you can skip them, but if I'm listening to music or something and just leave my phone playing, I have to go over to my phone just to skip. Then there are the double ads where there are literally two in a row! Or when you have a 5-minute video with an ad before, in the middle, and after! All this does is turn people off.
95% of YouTube I watch on PC so I can run AdBlock. If it wasn't for the ad spam, they would have made more advertising money off me. These are just the problems with the ads, but of course, YouTube has many more problems.
(Censorship of speech, demonetization, false copyright claims, left-wing bias, and the world's worst trending page that consists of 50% LGBTQ makeup tutorials, 40% ads, and 10% music videos.) They claim to be a platform, but they haven't been a platform in years.
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Clickbait
One of my biggest pet peeves. I'm sick of seeing video thumbnails with exposed body parts (if you use the view source feature and search for og:image, you'll see the full-size image) flung all over YouTube.
There are so many videos like this that I am sure children are seeing because I don't sign into YouTube, proving there is no maturity filter present. Thanks, clickbait. Because idiots click that crap in the hopes of actually seeing what is depicted in the picture, more and more clickbait exists.
It's honestly so infuriating seeing those types of YouTube videos. The ones with the effortlessly made fake thumbnails so that the video can get views, only to find out that it didn't have that at all in the video.
That's the exact reason why people dislike reaction videos, because reaction videos nowadays only ever want clout and viewers.
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Susan Wojcicki
Yes! She's one of the worst CEOs of YouTube. My account was successful, then it got terminated because of false flagging. I tried to appeal, but it didn't work. She's also a helpless person. She should be fired forever!
She keeps kicking out small channels trying to be successful but keeps the big YouTubers on YouTube. That's why many people hate her! Good that her videos get a lot of dislikes.
She deserves to be thrown down the Death Star reactor. Many of my favorite channels like Armchair Historian, Dr. Ludwig, among many other history and gaming channels, have suffered because of her.
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Good Videos Get Removed While Bad Videos Don't
It's such a shame that people's favorite channels, including my own personal favorites, get taken down for stupid reasons or no reason at all while YouTube doesn't even bother dealing with idiot jerks and criminals like SSSniperWolf.
Parody channels that make people laugh are often shuttered while channels harassing others stay.
Whoever mentioned the YouTube kids video nonsense and Logan Paul, THANK YOU! Also, the grounded videos are so annoying, and yet they're still on there.
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Buffering
What happened to the commentary? I agree. I found this site because I was unable to find a way to increase the buffer size in video downloads. I have a slow connection and used to buffer a video while I did something else.
Now I have to watch 3 seconds of a video, wait, watch 3 seconds of a video, wait, watch 3 seconds of a video, wait, and so on. It's incredibly frustrating.
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Doesn't Care About Smaller Channels
Why isn't this higher on the list? In my opinion, this is the main reason why YouTube stinks nowadays. YouTube fails to support newer channels, leading to a lack of original content.
YouTube is not giving any opportunities to smaller channels. Several YouTubers have had to quit YouTube to find jobs because YouTube is not supporting them. The new YouTube policy is a huge middle finger to smaller YouTube channels. YouTube clearly does not care about smaller channels, and this is the absolute worst.
Considering how YouTube is more business-oriented and junk, only the big, money-making YouTubers like Pewdiepie get attention. Whenever you go on the homepage and look in your suggested videos, all you find are a bunch of television stuff and videos from larger YouTubers.
Also, people are very picky about the quality of the video these days.
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No More Originality
In 2005 up until maybe 2010-2011, YouTube was a social network site where you could broadcast yourself and watch original videos like Charlie Bit My Finger, Chocolate Rain, Urban Ninja, Evolution of Dance, Smosh (when they were good), and Nigahiga (when he was good).
Now YouTube's basically a low-quality streaming service filled with ads and low-quality YouTubers who make the same reviews, bad gaming videos, and stuff just to make money. It's a shame that YouTube went from an original social network of fun videos to a safe haven for the richest 1%.
YouTube used to be a completely original place to visit, and it was the best as well. But now it's gone.
There's no more originality (other than those memory videos from you-know-who), and that's a major reason why YouTube sucks now.
When you went on YouTube back in the past, you were spellbound by all the awesomeness, especially the originality it had.
There were videos of people doing original things. Think about Numa Numa, Charlie Bit My Finger, Chocolate Rain, The Sneezing Panda, Star Wars Kid, Dramatic Chipmunk, and don't forget Fred.
But if you go on now, and ever since 2014, you see nothing but a lack of originality. People are making videos about almost nothing but unoriginal and even gross stuff, showing off their parts to get more views and make more money. Doing sexual things for money is prostitution, and that's illegal. Those people are going to get sued one day - maybe sooner than we think.
And there are people who make these stupid DIYs about random stuff. Again, zero originality.
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COPPA Update
YouTube is going downhill because many YouTubers can't post the content they want and have to use clean language. YouTube used to be so simple, and now it's like a website that North Korea has made!
A popular YouTuber should start a new website to post videos. They are trying to remove all non-family-friendly channels and delete YouTube Kids so that the normal YouTube will become a kids' site. A YouTuber needs to create a new alternative to take over YouTube because by 2025, YouTube will be a fully functional kids' website.
COPPA is terrible for us. It has destroyed how I use YouTube. Even using my voice sets my channel to Kids Mode, and I can't change it.
I'm ditching YouTube next year. Bring back old YouTube. Here are my thoughts:
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Removal of the Dislikes Count
This is probably the worst thing YouTube has done in recent years. It's worse than the COPPA policy, Adpocalypse, and everything else. Susan Wojcicki just wants to protect herself and big corporations from constructive criticism, so she removed the dislike count and used small creators as an excuse to justify this.
It's pointless because the user still has the option to disable ratings on their videos. The only hope for YouTube to survive is to force them to fire Susan.
I read that the reason the dislike counter was removed was to prevent people from spamming "dislike attacks" on certain creators. Realistically speaking, did we really need this update? Did content creators actually care about these so-called "dislike attacks"? No!
Removing the dislike counter makes it even more difficult to find good videos on this broken site. We might as well remove the dislike button altogether at this point.
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They Sided with a Homophobe During Pride Month
Wow, just wow. Well, get this - if I were the CEO of YouTube, I would make this so much better. Just face it, YouTube is homophobic for siding with a homophobe. Homophobes hate Pride Month. They are literally infamous for hating LGBTQ+ people. I thought pedophiles making their nickname "MAP" just to join the community was bad enough, but oh well, YouTube makes me sick.
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Double Ads
Constantly, the same bad adverts. I am making a habit of not buying anything from an advert on YouTube until there are fewer ads.
Double ads are one of the most annoying things on YouTube. A video needs two ads before it plays. Some of them take 15 seconds and are unskippable.
Not only repetitive ads but the same industry too. And every 10 minutes, it's disgusting.
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Cringe Compilations
It doesn't help the kids who are called "cringy" with their videos. It just shames and bullies innocent kids instead of giving them helpful feedback and constructive criticism.
The videos aren't even cringeworthy. I wish these videos were replaced with ones giving beginners advice.
Why would you want to watch a bunch of videos that are all either disturbing to watch or just complete garbage?
Just let other people be themselves. YouTube should ban these videos.
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No More Entertainment
YouTube was once entertaining to go on, but very recently, it has started to change like nothing else.
Many users have either gone crazy, or YouTube has gained crazy users. They aren't funny at all. They just do stupid and random things that rely too much on shock value and junk, worse than vomit. They discuss the worst parts of their personal lives with others.
People use bad words and talk too much about certain things, like when someone last lost their virginity. It's just stupid. People on YouTube these days are taking things the wrong way. They do this because they're desperate for money. Since YouTube pays them, they've gone way overboard.
Even the best YouTube channels are either gone or ruined by idiots, again because of money.
Now we don't have anything entertaining or original on YouTube because they've contaminated it with junk. That kind of content is something no one should ever watch.
There are still some music videos, but they're awful and contain words like hoe and mf, and they're just as popular as those on VEVO.
Even if some entertainment remains, it is negligible compared to what YouTube used to have. While YouTube is still popular, with the path it's on, it won't stay that way for long.
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Disgusting Jokes
YouTube used to have awesome and funny jokes that made us laugh. Now it has nothing but disgusting jokes from people who have no life or talent, and they joke about gross foods as well as poop and their own body parts.
It's just so awful that people are doing that stuff for fame and money. They don't even care about their fans and will do anything negative they can to get as much as they want.
YouTube sucks now.
I guess all the woke stuff doesn't apply to white women, what with YouTube being a web of rude Karen videos. Hypocrites much?
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No More Creativity
YouTube used to be so creative back then. There were cool videos. Some were funny, and some even helped you learn things.
But sadly, this isn't the case with YouTube nowadays. The videos you see now are nothing but a bunch of crap done for nothing but attention and views. Those people don't even know how to make good videos or be creative. Even the DIY projects aren't creative. They're more like bad builds rather than actual DIY projects. The results are garbage.
Nobody is good at them anymore. I agree with the guy who brought our "favorite character" back for a sequel, but still, we've lost the wide range of creativity we used to have on YouTube.
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Demonetization
How is this not in the top three? I notice people are getting demonetized for really stupid reasons. There are some cases where it happens for no reason. I wish it never existed.
Yeah, this is another beef I have. YouTube demonetizes every time someone uses a short clip to make a point. Where's the Fair Use?
Why isn't this higher? Some YouTubers are starting to cater to 8-year-olds so they don't lose money from swearing.
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Bullying Comments
When you see a video and comment on it, not long afterwards, people start posting mean comments about the videos and other people. Some even say they want to harm or kill others.
Many make fun of other people and their bodies. Some even say "kill it with fire," and that's not even the worst. The worst is, "if you don't like them, don't watch them." It's so mean because they're telling others to go away just because they don't like the videos or people.
Opinions exist, but mean comments are unnecessary and only hurt other people's feelings. They can even cause fights, which can ruin lives. That's bullying, and it's one of the worst things in the world.
It's one of the main things that has ruined YouTube.
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Account Termination for No Apparent Reason
When I said that PETA is the most hypocritical company, YouTube isn't far behind. They terminated Mumkey Jones for making a satirical video about Elliot Rodger, yet both Logan Paul and Peluchin Entertainment only got a slap on the wrist for severely violating the Terms of Service.
Logan Paul laughed at a man who committed suicide in the suicide forest, while Peluchin Entertainment brutally beat his pet cat to death. The number of subscribers is not an excuse since Mumkey Jones had more subscribers prior to his termination than Peluchin Entertainment has today.
My son is now going through this. Unable to communicate with anyone from YouTube to discuss the issue. Seems YouTube is untouchable.
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Kids Cartoons
How to make a YT "kids cartoon":
1. Use Disney princesses and Spider-Man for no reason, or creepy babies with eyes that almost never blink.
2. Include a nursery rhyme that teaches lying to children (Johnny Johnny) or a song that has overstayed its welcome (Baby Shark).
3. Ensure your animation is so bad it gives "Ratatoing" a run for its money.
4. Add at least five stupid "trends" such as fidget spinners or the ice bucket challenge. Congrats! You have made a video that nobody over the age of 2 can figure out the purpose of!
Crazy how some channels nowadays basically use web series or indie games to make FAR more graphic content compared to the originals and supply it to CHILDREN.
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The Fake Dislike Button on Comments
The one that's right next to the thumbs-up button on someone's comment. They're making us think the opinion counts, but they don't actually show how many dislikes a comment has.
When was the last time that dislike button worked? What's the point of having it when you can't use it? Should be a simple fix too. But they are busy.
YouTube actually used to have this feature in 2005 to 2009 of seeing dislikes on comments, but now they're gone.
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YouTubers Not Handling the Slightest Amounts of Criticism
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Trolls Everywhere
The problem is the system of YouTube, which is full of mutants. It's like the Stalker Zone.
This was always on the internet, but I hate those.
Imagine someone hurt themselves because of trolls. Trolls are hurtful narcissists.
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Bad Video System/Quality Controls
Old YouTube: you click the quality you want, you play it, and you can skip back and forward with minimal buffering.
Current YouTube: you click the quality you want, click play, wait 20 minutes to buffer, hope that your quality doesn't drop to 144p, and maybe, if you're lucky after five refreshes, your video plays.
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People are Greedy
That's exactly what YouTube is about these days. People are so greedy that they'll do whatever they can to make money, like take pictures of their bodies, talk about sexually related stuff or jokes, swear, or even play with or eat poop or vomit.
It's just horrible that people choose to do those things because they want money so badly, and they're trying so hard to make it. While YouTube pays them, they're going too far.
Yeah, it's true. Sometimes the only reason people make more videos on YouTube is to get the money they provide when they get verified. Like Pewdiepie, I have no idea why he's popular, but he just screams, cusses, and plays games to make them popular. That's all he does. It takes no effort whatsoever to do that. So this is what's popular today? Well, I'm not shocked since Vine is popular.
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Robots Posting Comments with Links to Porn Sites
These comments are everywhere, and they are so cringe.