Top 10 Worst Types of YouTube Videos

Click Bait

YouTube once changed its algorithm to promote videos depending on watch time. It was intended to address the issue of "Reply girls," but I am astonished by the amount of clickbait that still exists and how YouTube continues to promote it. I'm tired of watching the likes of Jake Paul and Logan Paul, the biggest YouTubers, create clickbait videos and earn thousands, even millions, from it.
If you're someone who relies on clickbait or misleading tactics to entice people to click, I urge you to stop and instead focus on creating original content for once.

They make these surprised faces for their thumbnails just to attract views (and possibly get likes, subscribers, and laughs). I think this is the reason why so many people press dislike on reaction videos. It's stealing another person's content just for recognition. And why would a reaction video want recognition anyway?

Reactions

I definitely see the pros and cons of reaction videos. The pros to me are that you actually have people laughing along with what's funny or they share the same opinions and feelings towards what they're reacting to as you do.
The cons of reaction videos are that they basically lack originality. They clickbait their videos, and half of what they clickbait isn't even in the actual video. You could just sit there and find them doing absolutely nothing the whole time. Or you have those people who react to themselves and pretend they don't even know what's going on. I don't know. Maybe it's to keep their viewers interested?

Minecraft Videos

Seriously, no one wants to watch a boring 15-minute video of someone playing Minecraft. Minecraft isn't even that cool. Also, the people that make these videos are mostly annoying 9-year-olds with terrible audio and ear-bleeding voices, who scream every time they die.
Why do the people who make these videos think they're so cool? Just because you built an automatic door or something isn't that big of a deal. To all the people who make videos of them playing Call of Duty, Minecraft, or any game, no one wants to hear you constantly call yourself a badass, because anyone can do what you just did.
I really wish videos of people playing video games would just disappear from YouTube.

Spiderman and Elsa

I understand trolls are sometimes really bad, but surely anyone would agree that tricking children into watching porn is too far. I guess not - Unnamed Google User Remade

These are Elsagate videos. That means a video that tricks a kid into watching it by using family-friendly characters like Elsa but contains horrible, disgusting stuff.

I remember watching those videos as a kid. Now I can never look at Frozen and Spiderman the same way again.

Toy Collectors

My 9-year-old cousin watches these all the time! I hate these! They're just pre-teen or 10-year-old kids unboxing toys, reviewing, and playing with them.
Sometimes they're even making Disney and Marvel characters such as Spiderman and Elsa change a Baby Alive doll's poopy diapers. That is just so wrong on so many levels!

The worst of these things is the surprise egg videos. I swear, they're everywhere. Like, "Spider-Man Play-Doh Mega Egg Surprise!" or "Elsa surprise eggs with Frozen fun toys!" It never ends.

My playmate is obsessed with these. He even forces me to give him my laptop time just so he can watch Ryan Toys Review when his iPhone has a low battery in the worst-case scenario!

Unboxing

Mundane tasks are funny when sarcastic. Music videos are mostly bad, but some can be good (e.g., Starbomb). Makeup tutorials at the very least have a point. But what is the point of unboxing?

What would you rather do? Feel the satisfaction of opening something yourself or watching someone else do it? Yeah, I thought so.

Is unboxing even a word? Anyway, it's boring watching spoiled people getting free things and bragging about it.

Fortnite Videos

I am so tired of everyone making Fortnite videos. I hate that game so much.

I hate Fortnite and its players.

I don't get the point of this game.

Fetish Videos

I really don't know what to say about these videos. I don't feel disgusted. I just feel odd and a bit weirded out by them.

Mundane tasks

Do I need to explain?

How to pick up a controller:
1. Pick it up with your feet.
2. Handstand towards the window.
3. Put it down.
4. Throw it out the window with your hands.

GoAnimate

Caillou pulls the fire alarm and gets grounded, Caillou fails school and gets grounded... that's about it. Oh, and to all you GoAnimate kids, please, for the love of God, learn to animate properly while you're thinking of a more original story.

GoAnimate vs. Actual Talent. Well, GoAnimate wins because they have more views than actually good videos.

Very lazy garbage. For hire, assaults, grounded videos, and whatever else just needs to go away.

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AI Slop

As awful as a lot of the other types of videos on this list are, at least they're made with the human intellect. AI "videos" on the other hand are just lazy, soulless garbage. It doesn't help that they've been littering YouTube lately. For example, if you've seen any video with a title like "Every [x] explained in [y] minutes", it's AI. I just don't understand how so many channels can get away with posting this trash.

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Data Ranking Video

Most of these videos present false information and fake data, yet people always take them so seriously.

Music Videos

Unlike a lot of these on here, you can make these right. The biggest issue is that you'll see the worst songs on your recommended list for no reason!

Fanrage

Let's face it: these kids are dumb.

Anime Reviewers

Vine Compilations

Vlogs

How is this so low on the list? I mean, where the heck is the creativity with these vlog channels?
First off, all they do is film themselves doing everyday things like going to the store or going to a restaurant! But what I hate the most about vloggers is how dang popular they are. Some of the most popular videos on YouTube are stinking vlogs!
So, the way I see it, you have to work really hard and have to get your channel out there if you want to be a good content creator. But if you film yourself in your living room, you get millions of views in 30 minutes? God, YouTube is like socialism nowadays.

Video titles: Walking in a forest, finding a dead deer!
Runtime: 34:29
Thumbnail appearance: A cheesy picture of the YouTuber's face with a scared expression and a "dead deer" laying in the grass with a puddle of blood under it. There are no actual wounds to be found on the deer's corpse.
30:12 of the video is just the YouTuber going into a store and walking around his house.
4:17 minutes is walking in the forest with the camera pointed at the YouTuber's face. Finds a dead deer but doesn't even show it on camera.

Challenge Videos

It sucks like the Tide Pods challenge and other challenges. It sucks.

You Laugh You Lose Videos

Rename it to "Try Not to Get Bored." Then it will be an actual challenge.

Scary Pop-Ups/Screamers

These guys need to be at the top rather than Spot 12.
They are misleading pranks and rely on clickbait. The only reason these are done is for reactions.
What is a screamer, you ask? A screamer is a video with a clickbait title such as Where's Waldo?, What's wrong with this picture?, or talking puppy! Often, they have low volume at first, causing you to turn up your volume and/or small text to make you go fullscreen. They also try to get you to focus on the screen. Around the midway point in the video, or around the end, after all the soothing music and the aforementioned tactics, an ear-splitting scream will suddenly play, often accompanied by a scary picture, such as a zombie or a possessed woman.
There are literally WikiHow tutorials on how to identify and avoid screamers. All they are is cheap jump scares designed to frighten you. If you have certain conditions or are easily scared, these can have lasting effects on you.
In short, look up the WikiHow tutorials on how to avoid these, and don't post them. Vote for them as well, as they are easily the worst type of video out there.

Gaming

When you can play a game, why watch someone else play it and hear their ear-bleeding voices? You will not even learn anything (even those related to the game) from these videos.

All you do is watch someone playing a game for 10 minutes and listen to someone saying random things. You can't react to them or learn something from these videos. So what is the point?

Nightcore

A nightcore edit (also known as a sped-up song, sped-up version, sped-up remix, or simply sped-up) is a version of a music track that increases the pitch and speeds up its source material by approximately 35%. This effect is almost identical to playing a 33⅓ RPM vinyl record at 45 RPM.... read more

Setting the track speed to 1.25 - a feature made readily available by YouTube at the push of a button - is considered amazing by thousands. It's clickbait, low-effort, and over-glorified. In many cases, the Nightcore version of a song will receive more praise than the original.
You heard that right: the person who set the track speed to 1.25 (again, a feature made readily available by YouTube at the push of a button) is credited more than the actual original artists. Imagine how they must feel. Then there are the fans who blindly follow this trend, regarding it as amazing and treating anyone who thinks otherwise like trash.

Kids That Try to Make Music Videos

Do these exist? All I knew was channels making quality music from FL Studio. Yeah, even those advertising their channels (I'm looking at you positively, Michael Jan and Damon Empero).
Or I haven't gotten to the worst part of that yet?

These kids all think they can make music videos, but what turns out is a seizure-inducing video with crappy music and quality.

Okay, if they're composing their own music, then I'll appreciate it to some extent, but if it's something like Musical.ly, then no.

Makeup Tutorials

I am no beauty expert, but I know from experience that just because you're a female doesn't mean people should take makeup tips from you. Hell, some videos will make your friends think you got a job at the circus rather than going to prom.

Boring. I want to watch videos about cartoons and anime.

Makeup is boring. I want to see a gaming video!

Fortnite Short Films

Prank Videos

Oh, I did this to so-and-so to see how they'd react, and then I make these stupid and cringe thumbnails just to get views. Get a life.

They are just incredibly mean-spirited.

Most of them are not really funny.