Why Modern Minecraft Videos are Damaging to the Community.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Clickbaity title aside, I do seriously think some modern Minecraft content takes away from the Minecraft community as a whole. So many videos are just made to generate the most revenue from advertisers and kids. They all do the same editing techniques, the same type of thumbnails... it all feels... stale. That's because it's been this way for the past 3 years. Something needs to change. We can be that change.
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I feel like there's a cycle of the Minecraft community self destructing due to overproduction of content, and rebuilding every few years
more like the video type meta tbh
na just the community seeking to destroy the game every year with content we dont actually need in the game that the community begs for and OP broken items that shouldnt even exsist in the game and the still remaining exploits of farms and bugs and intentionally breaking vanilla game mechanics which are being premoted even by mojang. im all for creativity in minecraft and having the options to get more creative sure but if it means by doing so they have to exploit the game and break the game and ruin what the core of minecraft and ecspecially survival minecraft is, then whats the point in anyone playing. like how is it fun to speedrun the vanilla experience and use progression skips and exploits to make the game easier for you at all fun. ur the same type of people who cry a river and say its too easy. just stop exploiting, get a backbone and grow up and actually make it harder for ur self. restrict ur self and play and improve naturally that way. actually play the vanilla minecraft experience. i play minecraft where i dont break blocks and can only build on top of them. only time ill break a block is if im replacing a block i accidently broke and im putting it back or when i need to mine a block ive placed. i also only use the inland puddles of water, lakes and ponds to create farms dedicated to their biomes, with different shapes and sizes. to make eating less of a hassel, i make slabs to walk up blocks instead of jumping up a block each time which doubles up as sectioning of areas which i see in my head to build things in.
its the natural cycle of life
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bro doesnt know that speedrunning takes skill, exploitation of bugs is fun and also you don't know that people have different opinions then you @@unboxing_legend7708
This is why I've been really enjoying Secret Life, that new series by a couple MC TH-camrs (Grian, MumboJumbo, etc). Its just them mucking around playing Minecraft, but with a gimmick that they have a little task to do. But it's not big super builds like Hermitcraft. It's just goofy stuff like "pretend you have an imaginary friend for the session" or "move people's doors without getting caught"
Been loving that series
Third life was the original and still to me the best i still Remember PIZZA
Oh yea its great. That group of youtubers typically does great stuff. Very much the other side of the spectrum lol.
Everything involving "the hermits" is awsome! Very talanted creators!
The Life Series is insanely fun. A new one should be coming out pretty soon.
super great video and amazingly put. i also feel that the slower paced content (doesnt necessarily have to be as slow as the OG days tho) is more inspirational & relatable when people are actually wanting to jump in game and play. the more relaxed content is probably healthier for the community as a whole. no hate to the crazy projects like theyre cool but i just want to build a house and vibe
Exactly. I think these modern videos take a lot of work, and I don’t want to diminish that. They take a ton of effort to be made, but after years of this and it seemingly being the only thing viable, it’s quite sad. To be clear, I don’t want to go back to old content. I just think more variety would be really cool. There’s so much personality in the Minecraft community, and so much of it feels lost with this “Mr. Beast” style content
I opened this account and the first thing I see is "100 Days But I Can't Leave THIS CHUNK (#1)"
@@TheGeekFactor mrbeast has changed the youtube landscape forever in a pretty insane way, for the better and for the worst all at the same time, their are elements of mrbeast in all the creators that have popped off or are popping off from what ive noticed. super in your face LOOK HERE type of editing
You guys are honestly the only Minecraft content I watch
I miss muse farms by the minecraft muse from the old days. So relaxing yet enticing
I've always focused on trying to be as unique as possible it's what made my channel go viral to begin with, but nowadays everything is oversaturated, most people have sacrificed uniqueness over a corporate formula, not to mention the amount of copying going around. it's getting even more challenging to stand out from the crowd especially in an environment where everyone is trying to one up each other.
I love the excitement that comes from you uploading, I'll probably always be around
Bro you’re like one of the only Minecraft TH-camrs that stands out to me and i frequently find myself watching your vids
Your videos are the perfect example of what these "modern" content creators should strive for. Sure, your videos are fast-paced and flashy sometimes, but they have a unique style. These content creators, as you said, follow a corporate formula, which I dislike. It makes modern minecraft videos feel unreal or unpersonal.
Tho I also want to learn more about you. Your projects are awesome and I will always support you for that. But I think your videos lack a bit of YOU. You got your own character and no other channel is like yours, but still I have the idea that I don't know you as a person. (Which is logical because I don't know you IRL. I hope you get the point). Maybe I am wrong. Idk...
At this point its just a flex fest of nobodies trying to get 5 minutes of fame... I miss the old days where I came home and watched Block By Block or Keralis... Its just not the same...
I definitely miss slower-paced, “old-school” style Minecraft videos, and though they are really hard to find, I’ve realized that it’s often the smaller, more slow-growing channels who tend to make that style of content. They’re very hard to find and it takes a bit more searching, but they’re still out there and it’s always a delight to stumble upon them!
This 100%! Everything is so fast paced now, and that content is pushed to the top over the slower or more genuine feeling content. It makes it incredibly difficult for newer creators to be seen when they are going against that method.
Hello, if you're interested, some time ago I made a video of me upgrading my diamond armor and tools to netherite. It's my only Minecraft video so far, since I'm still developing my brand and deciding my channel's main type of content.
watch vinesauce vinny's minecraft playthrough, super cozy and is basically what u said
Yep. I've realized this. This is the reason I get burnt out making videos. The algorithm wants me to make highly edited videos, so I'm constantly trying to get better editing skills. I'm just going to make slower videos.
After all these years, I’m still a big fan of Ethoslab. He’s consistently managed to remain, in my opinion, the staple for minecraft content and lets plays. He’s not there to propose you some whacky idea, or some sort of mastodontic challenge: he’s just a guy who’s playing Minecraft and he’s fun to watch. This is the reason I also watch hermitcraft, and with the “recent” release of Decked Out 2 by TangoTek, I’ve been having a blast.
Him, and Hermitcraft as a whole really.
Direwolf20 is a good example too.
All of the hermitcraft youtubers are just really solid creators honestly
Also the Hermitcraft adjacent ones, like Pixlriffs, the rest of the Empires SMP group, Pythonator, etc.
The fact that I scrolled down a bit and saw 3 different people mention Ethoslab says more than enough. He is similar to how he was 10 years ago. Not the same, but you can tell he is real, and he makes his viewers think and actually puts effort into teaching a little bit here and there.
Actually, just scrolled down all the way and 18 people mentioned him, not including replies.
Yea exactly. I love that group. I've watched hermitcraft for a while now and have been loving the life series grian came up with. Its really interesting and fun to see an inverse of hermitcraft where dying actually has consequences beyond inconvenience, and they're ENCOURAGED to do random violent stuff lol. Plus the little twists obviously. Its just a bunch of great people and creators having fun and it is a winning formula. Hell I think there was a whole video essay on why hermitcraft is great.
You are so right about your comments section, it if difficult to find a modern video without the majority of comments being something like "give this man an Oscar" or "we gettin out of the ___ with this one" having real conversation in the comments is super cool to have.
Although the "Beastification" is real, it is not new, someone like Skeppy has been doing that for years.
The mix of the video essay and consistent view video I love is Hermitcraft. they still have some clickbait and action, but there is still lots of personality and genuine effort put into the Hermitcraft group.
I think a large part of the problem with current Minecraft content is that instead of coming up with new ideas, a lot of creators try to just up the scale of a preexisting idea. So instead of having a new idea that can change the way you think of something in Minecraft the video just tries to make you watch because of the wow factor
yeah uve hit the nail in the coffin but not the way ik ur explaining it. people play minecraft these days to speedrun the game, cheat progression and skip progression and use exploits to play the vanilla game which isnt playing the vanilla game nor is it truely fun and those who say it is, are the people who are influenced by sneaky content creators making it out to all be fine and acceptable. creativity in minecraft isnt the problem its the people using exploits to ruin it. farms these days are not ur typical pen where ur limited to the amount of mobs u can breed and farm for food or other recources. these days a mob farm exploits the number of mobs that can spawn within 1 or multiple areas and boost the chances to gain loot quick and easy without the added challenge and tapping mobs in a 2 by 2 space where a mobs limitations of what they can do is limited and also exploited.
getting high tier loot now thanks to youtube influencers and the community ruining the progression of the game, getting what is meant to be late game items is now wayy too easy to obtain with little to no effort and yet again, exploits. enchanted books like mendi g are easy to obtain by resetting village workers for a new loot trade pool of items to trade you, u can get iron from making farms to kill iron golems, u can make farms for any mobs to get all the recouces it can drop from it. there isnt any skill anymore and people seek to ruin the game.
i think that to fix at least the enchanted book issue to make it harder to obtain is to make very situational and not as great enchants such as bane of arthropods fairly easy to obtain but not in the way that it can be exploited. thru trading a high price which the villager trades cant be reset, from a very low drops while fishing and average drops while looting structures like the typical mob spawner and other set structures. when it comes to something like mending, have it as a end game item similar to the elytra or warden and deep dark with a very low chance or just get rid of mending so durability is actually used again and ups the difficulty and makes people actually be more careful with the recources they gather to use it on.
I think this problem can stem from the base game having terrible progression. It hasn't been fundamentally changed in many years. People will eventually become bored and try to make challenge videos with a lot of "wow factor" to make modern minecraft content watchable
bruh why do you type like a 1st grader lol.
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@rpstephen I disagree with the idea that the issue is rooted in Minecraft's progression. The spread of MrBeast-ified content spreads all across both this platform and others, and it's certainly not isolated to Minecraft. If it's a genre that can be targeted to children, it **will** be effected.
@@apollounknowndev if not Mrbeast, then youtubers like Ali-A for example will spread the same type of content. Minecraft along with other games will go down this rabbit hole regardless of youtuber era.
There was a Minecraft creator (I don’t remember) who recently made a survival video as a classic video, and a dopamine rush style version to test views etc. it was pretty interesting.
If you ever find who it was then please reply with the name since that sounds like a video I would want to check out
Yo. I am also interested, raised a hand 🙋♂🙋♀ try searching in your History, in PC and mobile, you can have a special search bar for History/Watched videos specifically. At least I have it...
Happy searching!
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@@gratermccheesy9650yeah, your never getting the video name unless you’ve found the video
@@thisisyouraverageperson I know, but still sucks
I like the more grounded older mod reviews, and let's plays. I'm a huge stampy fan and have been watching him for over 8 years now. And I loved the race to the moon series and stampys lovely world. I miss that Era of minecraft videos. I also like forge labs version of 100 days videos but other than that I normally don't like 100 days videos.
Yeah I’d say forge is one of the few who follows this trend but gives his own twist on it that makes it feel like his. I don’t think. I want to go back to the old style… I just want more variety in content being viable.
i miss the mod reviews bro. they were a core part of minecraft including parody songs. when was the last time u heard of a well known content creator doing a mod review on crazycraft or a seasonal lets play? when was the last time uve seen minecraft videos of people literally just playing the vanilla minecraft game for fun on the pure vanilla non exploitive experience? u dont anymore. its all because of these greedy content influencers making content ruining games and ruining social media through awful videos on youtube and other platforms.
I grew up watching and loving Stampy’s lovely world, custom mod adventures, think’s lab etc. and it’s really sad to see what the popular Minecraft videos have become I even tried to start two of my own Minecraft let’s play series including my own continuation of stampy’s lovely world(not for views, just because I wanted to and I thought people would enjoy it) but I only got around 10-20 views and no feedback, I will however keep making videos even if not a lot of people watch them at least a few people enjoy watching my content and I enjoy making the videos and that’s all that matters😊
For mod reviews in that older style I would recommend Mice of Men, he is super underrated and his tutorials are very clean and understandable
OMG I NEED TO REWATCH RACE TO THE MOON
My favourite MC series thing on YT had to have been DanTDM’s modded MC adventures. These kinds of role-playing style adventure videos were pretty common back in the day but the difference with Dan’s series was it was mostly him doing the talking. The adventures were always weird and unique, u never really knew what next week’s episode would be, it was basically my version of the Saturday morning cartoon.
It really did feel unique on YT and I don’t recall many others like it.
I remember watching plenty of Dan's videos. Those were good times.
God damn I missed those. I also liked his diamond dimensions play through.
The Diamond Dimensions was one of the best series on youtube.
Honestly socksfor1 Minecraft all the mods videos were really good
you're right on the money with this. You look at some of the videos that are pumped out today & it's super hard to distinguish one MC TH-camr from another. It's the same wacky editing style, the same subtitling of every sentence, the same basic ideas for videos & the same type of personality behind the camera.
They remind me of family channels in a way. They make their thumbnails look super flashy, the snappy in-your-face editing & acting like they're living their best lives imaginable. When in reality, you can tell that most of these people are putting on an act. But like you said, it's what the YT algorhythm pushes out most.
Same. I remember this show called "The worst/most strict parents in the world" and at some point, especially Season 2 onwards, it was visible that these Borrowed parents were doing more akin to an act. Not just the parent but also the Teenager in question!!
As someone who's engaging with fast-paced grand Minecraft videos quite often, I agree with your words that it's all made only for reacting to something, and not thinking. I didn't think I'd enjoy a slow and calm video, but this one proved me wrong. It felt nice not to be bombarded by flashing images and screaming voices while watching. Definitely will be coming here to relax
You should check Giran , Smallishbeans , Mogswamp , loony they are pretty good Minecraft content
Hey man i never comment but you feel like a real human being. This type of self discussion content talking about thing you notice leave really satisfied. Its easy listening, like chatting late at night with a friend. Keep it up !!!
For real! Finally someone with a platform is talking about stuff like this
Off topic but "you feel like a real human being" is such an ominous sentence
i fell down this "minecraft myth" youtube rabbit hole recently. a lot of it is this exact type of content with a horror twist of "stuff that is actually in the game!1!!!" when its clearly mods, datapacks, or literally just someones friend in a multiplayer server. this kind of stuff makes me so sad because it doesn't feel nearly as authentic as old minecraft rumors did. it just feels like a clickfarm for children.
I deliberately don't edit my videos. I was almost a voice actor, and people like how chill I am. I am quite comfortable to just build my world, tell a story, and sometimes learn new redstone things.
Someone said I'm "the bob ross of minecraft" once on stream and that's become my new sort of frame, goal, thing.
Etho is my biggest inspiration so that helps
Etho is the goat
@Americanbadashh yeah etho is brilliant. I have a pretty exciting life off screen so I like being chill on Minecraft 😂
It’s crazy how I saw Matpat’s video in Game Theory about this issue on TH-cam as a whole just 2 days ago. Im not a fan of it either to be honest. I love older TH-cam videos that I used to watch when I was younger. Not because due to nostalgia, but overall each video was made with character and passion. The issue with people trying to one up each other, or trying to make the idea bigger is that there will be a point where they’ll hit a power creep. These ideas will only get bigger and more insane, and I’m scared as a viewer. I definitely don’t want this trend to continue.
I didn't even know matpat made a video about it. I'll have to watch it.
I don’t want to get political, but isn’t there one, red, white and blue, Stars and Stripes, government that this sounds like???🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
(Is joke)
Yeah I agree. Being a new content new content creator for me is difficult because I want to stand out and be different but what's different isn't popular so doesn't get seen. The only things that get seen are, "I Survived 100 Days In.....blah.....blah....blah...."
Funniest part is that MatPat is a content farm himself.
@@SioxerNikita No he isn’t. Just because he has a team doesn’t mean there isn’t sometimes genuine effort and thought in some of his vids, on his multiple channels. I’m not a fan but calling matpat a content farm is bs
This is exactly why I search for Minecraft Roleplay videos occasionally. Like, even though the Minecraft Roleplay community has been dying these past couple years, each and every content creator in the space has some sort of meaningful story to tell. They can take it slow to build everything up and that's what I love about it
See I will agree heavily.
When I was younger I (funnily now) enjoyed the Little Club. They always did RPs and I mostly enjoyed how they tried making their own stories even with the more copied formula of say, The Crafting Dead and stuff. I still enjoyed them because they liked making stories, but now these days the group's disbanded and tried doing the clickbait I know of now, which is sad.
Ah the days of Aphmau and the little club
My thoughts exactly. My kids watch Minecraft videos that are completely different to the style I make, let alone the content I wish I could make.
Then again, I'm not making videos to make money, it's just a hobby - and will remain so unless the current meta changes drastically!
There are so many videos that just feel to me like "empty content" these days. It's just fast-food for the eyes. Nobody needs broccoli every day, but McDonald's for ever meal will ruin anybody's taste.
I totally agree. I recently deleted instagram from my phone, the last app that had me scrolling endlessly. I’ve now startet going back to older Minecraft let’s plays because it gave me joy and a sense of nostalgia. I highly recommend Vintage beef’s life in the woods series. I have no idea how many times I’ve rewatched it since it came out! It will always have a special standing to me.
I can 100% remember times in my content creation journey thinking about changing to a style that "works" for the algorithm but in the end changing to a style to shows off my personality was the good way to go. I will say part of the issue to me is the market is flooded not just the hype videos but the standard let's play and SMP world there is just so much competition out there.
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What kind of Minecraft content do you enjoy? What trends in modern content do you dislike? What trends do you like? I'd love to hear it all! Also, today is my birthday! :D
Edit: I want to be extra clear on one point: I blame TH-cam for this issue more than the creators. The creators are just doing what works for them. TH-cam as a platform has been pushing this content more and more. I have a feeling we’re going to see it burst at some point. There’s only so much crazy stuff you can do before people quit on it
'Hardcore let's plays', at some point once the creator gets totems, it is just plain old survival without worrying about dying, and the dying is just there to end the series abruptly once it gets boring or the view fall off, and then the creator moves onto another season or series.
Don't get me wrong, most of the hardcore series are enjoyable, but the community is just so over saturated that it is like having Fast Food, sure a hamburger tastes great once in a while, but once you're having it everyday it becomes dull and boring.
Anything that gives me the feels of LDshadowlady’s 1st season of One Life or certain challenge video that one player plays Minecraft with a few conditions like super flat only or one chunk only
I actually have my own youtube channel, literally only 80 subscribers (not this account) with hardly any views on anything. For the most part it is just long form content that is either lightly edited or not edited at all because I decide to livestream it, so I completely understand the want to make long form content. I honestly think my content is rather terrible but I do it just because I feel like doing it at that time. I find technical aspects of minecraft interesting and most of the videos I watch on minecraft are the people who do redstone stuff or cover what came out in a minecraft snapshot since someone can figure something interesting out with a new feature that came out that wasn't in the changelog.
a youtube creator called Calvin (@Calvin9000) recently made a horror modpack let's play series called "From the Fog". it's an exciting series but it feels so much like older minecraft videos, its just a casual survival world, where we get to discover with him the horror creatures that roam the new world. it's kept so exciting but so minimal and for modern videos they feel so.. fresh? i love it. i've been enjoying Mogswamp's videos too, because while his projects are all modern and somewhat grand, he has kept the same world from 11 years ago, so there's still an element of watching something new grow that old minecraft videos used to have, while still having that "grand insane crazy" aspect to it that is all over today's community. a great way of scaling content while having some originality in his videos.
i'm all for watching people do really crazy stuff or build HUGE things in the game, but i miss the old style of editing where it was edited slowly and you could binge a series for hours. i don't want to see this giant project completed in one video only, it means i run out of videos to watch SO quickly. if its a summary video alongside a longer series of actually building this project, great, that's cool. but i miss being able to relax and sit down and watch less screamy minecraft content
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I'm happy that someone is finally able to talk about this and put words on things that are easy to feel but not that easy to comprehend. I don't think that the "beastification" of the Minecraft content on TH-cam is an isolated case and it seems that TH-cam in general is converging to a more fast pace format that restrict most of the accessibility of the chiller and longer format content. It feels like TH-cam is not a place to chill and listen to shared story anymore or even learn new things as content creators are trading their originality and wishes to share their creations for a more corporationnal and money making styles of content.
But like you said, this type of video does belong on the platform and exciting huge concepts are not worse than other videos they are just different. However there is no balance anymore between the different video styles and it's really sad to see this part of most of people childhood ( including myself ) to disappear from the platform.
I hope this trend will reverse itself and eventually make the platform come back to a more diverse and fun place to hang out.
Anyway, I wish the Minecraft community will stay strong as they did in the past and keep its love for this wonderful game.
Skeppy has always been doing challenge videos tbh. The quality in his videos fluctuates but he definitely pioneered the genre of these Minecraft challenge videos. I agree with you for the most part about how saturated and cooperate a lot of this content feels- and i think skeppy is not in the wrong for staying with his brand :)
For anyone who's looking for an underrated channel, I would highly recommend the Minecraft content of Troubled Boys. They mostly play modded content, but their style just feels so natural like friends just hanging out and having a good time (often chaotically), and it's honestly such a refreshing thing to see in today's climate of Minecraft TH-cam content.
MogSwamp is a good youtuber check him
I'm so happy that people such as yourself feel this way, as it makes me optimistic towards youtube's future as well as making me feel like I have more freedom in the way I can make videos. Thanks so much for the inspiring and thought-provoking commentary!
I remember in 2012, I used to watch a youtube channel that did alot of different gaming videos, including minecraft adventure maps or survival seasons. If I look back at them at full length there are alot of mundane or outright boring parts where nothing really happened, but when something did happen those parts were the best and I would still remember them even after all these years.
With these 100 days in hardcore... I don't really remember alot when they end, mostly because they aren't as unique as I would want, it is always a mega build or challenge but there is not alot of personality because of the cuts and the voice overs, something that didn't happen alot back then and it was mostly just a person playing the game and commentating, talking about the most random shit imaginable that came to mind and that was the time where we would get an insight about the person commentating and their opinions. That lead us to making a connection with them.
The 100 Days challenges are a great example. In 2012 that would be a series of 10-20 videos. Now its all that compressed into usually one, maybe two highly edited videos.
"You are not supposed to think, you are supposed to react". Very succinct description
This is why I like Hermitcraft. Most of the Hermits have rather slow paced videos that are just simple plain _Minecraft._ People playing the game together and just having fun, making cool builds because they enjoy doing so.
I agree alot on this. Ive been recently been disintrested in a lot of content because of fast pace to the point where ive just started making my own videos with a pace good enough for me that I can just play it in the background. there are still a lot of good paced minecraft youtubers, such as ethoslabs or dallasmed65 but I still think there is not enough to balance out the fast pace youtubers😅
these are the exact things that have been going through my mind for a really, really long time. im glad that others are also noticing whats going on and making something big out of it, like this. it deserves to be known
My introduction to Minecraft was Captainsparklez's very first hunger games. The slow pacing and exploration was what really got me hooked.
Now, I barely watch any minecraft, much less play it. It's become as you say, hooked on short attention span. And so it loses me, along with most likely others.
I agree, especially from being a fan of very small MC yters with less than 100 subscribers, who are struggling to find their footing. I'm currently watching this circle of creators trying to hit something with minecraft but really struggling. There's this one creator doing a 7 day challenge and posting each day seperately, and trying to find their unique editing style, telling a story that flows through the seven videos. But I'm watching as their friends succumb to more high-energy fructose style videos, one by one, in a desperate attempt to try and catch some new subscribers
thank you for talking about this. a lot of single player minecraft lets plays leave me completely overstimulated by the end of the video. the builds are cool but i barely have time to process them! i've heard content creators i like talk about it and i get the impression they feel trapped to keep making the fast paced content if they want to keep growing their channels. i feel like it's less of a problem with smps, maybe because they attract a different audience. like even hermitcraft which is known for having crazy megabuilds usually has slower videos than a lot of hardcore youtubers
I completely feel you on that, many of the people I used to enjoy watching have sped up their editing style to the point where the videos are not quite as interesting as they used to be. I want to see a bit of the grind, I want to experience multitasking like a real player would instead of this hyper focus on the single goal and just cutting out all the waiting... I love watching skyblock modpack playthroughs so if you know of a good channel that does these please let me know.
yeahh thats what ive been doing, i only watch these modern mc vid from channels like ish,speedsilver and some others but i enjoy commentaries from chill youtubers, ibxtoycat, ecko, wattles, xisuma, mumbo and so much more. including you too, its very nice to sit down and consider the things these youtubers have to say instead of just be bombarded with zoom and sound effects... yes we need more of this but hey, like you mentioned, youtubers are only doing their work.
now, i know this js unlikely but it stems from the root itself, youtube algorithm, we really need a new video streaming platform that promotes their vids differently from youtube since youtube doesnt have a competition therefore refuses to improve.
eitherway really appreciate this video from you, in the long run, you might not get as much views as those children oriented content but, you gave a good influence to the ones watching and thats more than money can get you, never stop!
This is why I love hermit craft. It’s not overstimulating or trying to be clickbaity. It’s genuinely impressive because of the things they achieve in game, not because of some crazy idea or overstimulating edit.
Idk, for me, after Season 7 HC lost a bit of it's magic. The forced roleplay and the dozens of resource packs, over-the-top builds and palettes and custom items (look at decked out 2 jesus christ) just started to feel non-vanilla to me. The newer seasons also seem to be catered towards a younger, kid-pre-teen audience. Maybe I have just grown out of it, but I just don't feel like the series is as good as it was from season 1-7. Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate the hermits putting hundreds of hours into making episodes, it's just not for me anymore.
@@ihatehandleupdateI actually don't see the "pre-teen audience" thing aside from them being PG. I mean "kids friendly" doesn't mean "made for kids". I feel the opposite - they're mostly adult people who make videos for all ages. It's like a movie that you can watch with your kid and you both can enjoy it. Maybe it depends on who you watch though.
@@ihatehandleupdateI think a lot of the HC audience is older. I run into a lot of fans my age, and I’m in my 40s
I think you could apply this videos message to almost every popular game on TH-cam or even just any topic on TH-cam. I’m not the first to say this by far but TH-cam is becoming more like TV than a platform for average people sharing their interests. That plus the slow death of long form content makes me worry about how things will look in a few years for now
OH MY GOD ! Wow, i have never been that speechless, you have described to the exact word what i feel about minecraft videos. I have noticed this shift and got progressively more and more displeased by it like it irritates me. I hate that it is so difficult to find real minecraft videos that convey the minecraft atmosphere and not just the minecraft visual, and hate even more that even when you find these videos they are highly overshadowed by the "popular" ones. I have seen countless small youtubers lauching their minecraft channels with these flashy edited mc content and people in the comment are like wow amazing editing but i can't disagree more to that, it is a litteral factory that produces un-personal and brain damaging content. I hope we will see the reverse change some time in the future...
If you want some high quality minecraft content that conveys emotions almost like if you were playing minecraft yourself, watch Dallasmed65 or PyreMarten. I can't describe how great they are, and they need all strength they can get;
After reading the community post Mumbo put out about 2 months ago about all the eager marketeers painting a picture of the "content creation of the future (heavily reliant on AI)" , the conveyor belt styled content is only bound to get worse from here..
Meanwhile, somewhere in Canada... Etho still doesn't make thumbnails
This is on my mind CONSTANTLY. Minecraft content will die out if nothing changes soon.
I love Minecraft, I don't want to see 2016-2018 repeated.
you have a lot of good points in here about how minecraft content is just kinda all the same lately and like people are always trying to make ideas more and more large scale and always having more and more dopamine. hence why at least with the videos i make, i try to tell a really cool story in them without focusing so much on making an over the top build or crazy large idea; i just like to tell a story in my own way while keeping it interesting to the viewer with personality of course.
LukeTheNotable, the creator of the 100 Days format makes his videos very enjoyable, funny, and worth the wait. But I dont like 100 days videos (Other than people who keep it interesting like Forge Labs or Mogswamp)
2:11
normal TH-camr: I trapped 100 kids in ikea, last one alive wins(in Minecraft)
mrbeast: I trapped 100 kids in Ikea, last one alive wins (in real life)
I’d pay to watch
Thank you for making this video. I feel it's important for people to realize this, and want to seek out more inspirational, more important feeling content. I watch the occasional "Mr. Beast" style MC video once in a blue moon, but I mostly try to find content that seems more meaningful to me. It's hard to find many videos like that nowadays...I just wish that more people could make a decent living off of better, more relaxed content, so we'd have more thought-provoking videos to watch where we get to experience the person, not the product. Recently, I've been seeing these types of videos all over TH-cam, and thought that...maybe I should start making my own videos more like them, so more people can even get a chance to see the story I'm creating with my videos (because the algorithm wants what the algorithm wants). Thank you for changing my mind, and showing me that we need more personal and true-to-self creators like you.
The only Minecraft youtubers I currently still watch are Python and smaller creators that make Minecraft Better Than Adventure or Magical Let's plays......it's just more chill and old-school feeling.
man i love these videos, you make the types of videos i really love to watch. i hope you make it big out here one day
I hope so too! Thank you for the kind words!
Theres an eb and flow to these things. I felt this same feeling of overstimulation and desperation for engagement about youtubers now deemed "classics" by others of my generation like popular MMO, Dan TDM and stampy. I hated these growing up because they refused to shut up, constantly talking incessantly in these child friendly patronising personas. The audible and visual equivalent to jingling keys. And if youve seen their content outside of MC and youll see theyre way more intelligent and chill and give more space for that down time and those moments of silence. Its that their minecraft content was designed to keep kids watching, keep them engaged, keep them listening even if its inane drivel.
So how do you keep enjoying the content... well, just dont watch that 100 days, 100 players crap. Watch the old hands that understand the space (hermitcraft, the traffic life series, pirates/rats smp ect)
Wow, you're definitely hitting what content I'm looking forward for. Finally a video I can really agree with. After like 2018 minecraft videos felt different but I always thought it was because I got older. The content has definitely changed. I've kept trying to branch out to other minecraft youtubers and the same content is the same. I'm losing my point, regardless thank you for the video. It's actually perfect.
It's like a funke video but in the real early days.
I miss when minecraft content was just about playing the game.
I really miss the minigame era of minecraft videos.
what you said is pretty applicable to most of youtube content now, the mrbeast-ification of youtube was inevitable ever since the adpocalypse. But it’s pretty interesting to see that the old, minimally edited, personal style of videos is slowly making a resurgence. Sam sulek does this and has become unbelievably successful, ironically enough. Anyways, great video dude, and the points really resonated with me
I find my favorite videos to be the more introspective and structured videos where the creator expresses his/her POV to the audience to convince a point. More like persuasive, or history related. Hearing someone else's feelings towards stuff I like, like this block game. :)
I did enjoy hearing what you said and I agree.
I 100% agree. I've been watching minecraft content for around a decade now (oh god), and the one time I full on stopped was when Dream's manhunt became a trend. I enjoyed some "Minecraft Manhunt but ", but for the most part they were the same. My personal favorite minecraft youtubers are the Lifesteal youtubers, as they put genuine effort into their content and make every video entertaining, regardless of the topic. My two favorites are Parrot and Rekrap2. Parrot made a video about a *diamond being stolen*. And it was super well done and I was entertained the whole time. Rekrap has stepped a bit away from Lifesteal itself but he does his own stuff, with commentary of his life over a video of him speedrunning, and it's also spectacular. I also have been enjoying DoctorR4t, but that's because I'm a programmer and modder and it's fun to watch.
Let's hope we get some more unique stuff in the future.
I hope for unique content too ☺☺ but have you seen lately what's happening on Planet Minecraft and it's Bedrock equivalent: The Bedrock Marketplace?? It is as if there is something for Everyone! There is almost every player/character skin imaginable in Planet Minecraft... and Bedrock Marketplace is sloooooooowly adopting... WHich begs the question:
Since you saw Minecraft videos for 10 years (and me too, I started in October, 2013, like you did)... What would you like to see? Is there something Unique that has not been done before?
I honestly just started to re-watch old sunnde Minecraft playthroughs like 6 to 3 year old ones
i thoroughly agree with all of your points especially the one about tiktok and how content feels so corporate. It all feels so washed out and fake. Tiktok is such a harmful app for the youth and the app is spying on you. Thank you for making this video more people need to speak on this.
"I don't use tiktok, it's a harmfull platform"
Trully based.
This is so valid, I honestly miss SO bad the slower paced videos and more story/theme focused. When I do still manage to find either older or new content in this style I can't binge it fast enough.
thanks garrett, you inspired me to try to watch more long-paced videos (maybe like from 10 minutes to an hour)
I can't relate enough to this video. I've been using TH-cam since 2007 and only recently have I started wondering If it was time to leave.
There are a few creators that do make meaningful content but, alot of it does feel like time wasters.
Earned a sub!
Same
It feels like every other social medi a now
Content just feels pumped out now, I had a lot more fun watching Beta LPs than I did watching these weird challenges.
The sad part is that it isn't just Minecraft, but other content as well. Most creators as a whole lean more into fast paced editing with obnoxious zoom-in's and each creator I noticed keeps using the same exact music for their videos without experimenting with their content. I really hope to see more content creators with passion put into their work instead of the same content over & over.
I think the really good large minecraft channel is forge labs. he turns the 100 days hardcore idea into his own by adding his own personality into it. I would really recommend watching his stuff
i 100% agree with what you're saying, me personally i just like the classic storytime template mixed with real time gameplay (you know technoblade style) i think an other part thats not touched on enough is how some video that do mix gameplay in the video go WAY to hard on it and make their whole brand being good and eventually they're not really much of creator but more of a gladiator who will eventually burn out. i think thats the main problem with some smps, they focus too much on the "grrr i gotta prove my pvp abilities and take over the whole sever RAHHH" and theres really never a calm moment where they interact with the viewer. and i think thats what the problem is, they dont see a community that supports them but instead a product they have to appeal to
also i wouldn't dog to much on skeppy, he made those types of video before the beast
i just want to say i came across this video while brosing youtube, and as an audio only viewer this channel is great, keep it up man
This also applies to the MC animation scene as well
The brainrots (e.g. newer monster school vids) always get more views than the actual good stuff to the point where you only has a fighting chance if you already built a big fan base (like Squared Media, Rainimator, Captain Sparklez, etc.)
And since Mine-Imator is very easy to use, a lot of creators are getting into this, making the competition *very* tight
To prove this, my 16:9 Blue Archive videos perform better than all of my (currently public) 16:9 MC Animation videos *COMBINED*
While my (now privated) Toothless Ender Dragon video (the first one, not the remake) got 111k views, it got carried by the trend *so hard* at that time, when i'm not trend-jacking, the video doesn't perform too well
- EDIT -
after writing all of this, i realized that the video is 5 months old already, is he gonna read it, who knows
And i can't really blame Mine-Imator though, because it's the software that got me into 3D Art in the first place
I read it. I have no stake in the Minecraft animation game but it sucks that it’s going down the same path as TH-cam in general
This is a great video and i absolutely agree with you on it. Sometimes I'll go back to watching videos from 2013-era because they are more personalized and stuff. Other times I'll watch livestream vods. Anything to get away from that horrible hyperediting trend.
I’m with you the whole way. I’m one of the OG Minecrafters in Sweden and I have seen this happened slowly since I started in 2012 and more fast the last 3 years or so.
My views have been falling down so hard since I don’t want to MrBeast myself. I have no interest in those kind of videos and think they are too much of everything.
Who remembers the epic proportions seasons? That us how you make good interesting minecraft
i’d think it’s more of an issue with youtube’s algorithm than minecraft youtubers
it's both. youtube and it's algorithm because you wouldn't find these videos without it (and the algorithm just loves to recommend these videos to kids), and mc youtubers themselves due to the fact that they're making these cringy flashy hyper-edited videos, which in turn is recommended to people by the algorithm.
but it's actually more on the mc youtubers, they're the ones making those videos.
A great video! There are still those of us out here who are trying to do what you are talking about. I don't like shorts, but I make them because that is how you reach people these days on TH-cam. I don't edit any faster than I have to, to make the video flow and have it make sense. My videos are all cut from my live streams though, so there is a natural openness to them and I don't really plan out things beyond having a goal to try and accomplish something during that stream. I've also focused on having a combination of gameplay stuff and more commentary type stuff because I want people to stick around for me and my personality rather than the game. Gaming connects us all, but it isn't the games that drive us to play or watch. It's the moments, the personalities, the presentation and the sense of community that many people are longing for, and these more modern "100 days" "I trapped x people in y" videos don't give community as much as they give a few minutes of fast paced, brainless "content".
Imo this isn’t just a TH-cam problem. There’s an entire generation coming online that has only known social media, the new internet, and corporate-created content. They are used to being spoon-fed everything through an algorithm, especially from TikTok. As a result, they never nurtured any creativity, and, need constant mental stimulation and dopamine hits.
Sadly, there’s nothing you can do, other than not selling your soul. The days of TH-cam videos feeling less overproduced, corporate, and flashy are over.
I miss the early days of TH-cam, tbh.
I also think that this "Bigger and Better" content style is damaging the game itself, have you heard of the "One Week Minecraft Phase"? It's where people get a sudden burst of motivation to play Minecraft, but only about a week later they hit a wall of overwhelming apathy and stop playing. With this style of content being as popular as it is, I think it makes a lot of people believe that rushing through the game as fast as possible so you can build some absurd mega structure is the way the game is supposed to be played, and a lot of people aren't up for that so they just quit.
I think the best minecraft content creators are people like SeaWatt, Grox, and Evbo. They just use Minecraft to tell stories and that's pretty much all I want to do as well. I too fell into the trap of "omg following a trend gets views" and, it does, and following a trend isn't bad. But it got really stale for me you know? I wanna try making something unique and different, even if I still follow a trend somewhat.
This is a really well put together video, and I totally feel the same way about Minecraft content these days.
God you're so right.
A thing i loved but now hate as everyone is trying to be the exact same with no unique twist.. Is the "Sandiction edits".
He started a trend of VEEERY fast paced editing but also sprinkled his personality into the videos a lot. They were quite fun to watch! He had a very mellow vibe and it was just a chill time to watch...
Then when his videos popped off, there where THOUSANDS of copies that edited videos the EXACT same way, tried to copy his personality and mellow vibe without a single sprinkle of uniqueness. Search up any hardcore video within the last 2 years and they're all the same.
The reason i love hermitcraft is well....1)etho approves 2)the content isn't super clickbait thumbnail with red arrows 3)it's paced well it's not super high editing...(technically yes but that's because the full videos are hours long so obviously they have to cut that) 4) it's for everyone over the age of 7 litterally 5)it's original 6).......all this to say that hermitcraft didn't just follow trends for views...
I don't really play Minecraft anymore, and I only watch a couple of videos here and there, but I definitely see the shift.
I ended up switching to vintage story, and I find a lot of the videos are slower paced, mostly by necessity.
Kurazarrh (hard to spell..) had his vintage story guide start off just like that. A playthrough and slow guide through mechanics.
His season 2 is a bit more jump -cutty, but I can still breathe with those, if that makes any sense.
Well, if anything, I feel more emboldened to make those more chill videos especially since I now know I'm not crazy for wanting them.
Ngl, every time i go in one of these videos, i watch it like for 1 minute before my brain gets overdosed on dopamine and i start dying from inside
I agree with this sentiment, kinda around all content creation in general as well not just MC?
Whenever I see a flash title that I've seen before, a '100 days' or the most recent hit trendy thing thats going on, I very rarely click on those videos because its not what I personally want.
I'm sure if I watched those videos, I'd enjoy them, I'd want to watch more of them, but I fear that if I watch something because I saw a flashy title or fast paced editing, then I might never watch anything else. That whole thing with deteriorating attention spans. Its the same reason I've avoided sites like tiktok, twitter or instagram. I want to watch what I find interesting, not what someone else thinks I'll watch the most of. Or worse, what someone else things I'll get the most addicted to.
I tend to stay loyal to people that I know I like, and I trust that whenever they put out a video, that I can find enjoyment from their content, in the way that they make it. Not necessarily because of what they are doing, but because of the person behind the screen who I can relate to, or in some cases like this one, talk about.
You just earned yourself a new subscriber. I appreciate this being brought up.
whats fucking weird, is ive been thinking the same thing the last few weeks, yet never said anything to anyone about it. suddenly i have a few videos with a similar topic as yours. lots of good points, and its good to know that others feel the same about mc videos. i love longform chill minecraft videos the most. very relaxing to listen to as i do my own thing in minecraft
7:06 just about had me rolling on the ground it caught me so off guard XD
But to the video, its fantastic and it hits it right on the nail....In the film world, writers have to include moments of down town, time for not only the character to process what just happened, but also for the audience to do the same as well. It allows for emotions to sink in, pressure to build, bonds and connections to be formed...that dead time is good, even if TH-cam doesn't necessarily support that stuff all the time.
The audience that's looking for it, will find it, and those who want the fast paced content will have it too. We just gotta dig a bit more sometimes lol
this isnt a bash on fast paced stuff though, I love it just as much as the next, but when its all that seems to be thrown in our face, I really just want anything but that!
Good stuff though good sir!
in a way, this video explains anti-instant gratification very well.
This is exactly what I have thought about Minecraft videos, and just videos on TH-cam in general for a long time. I'm even guilty of doing this sort of content, but I felt the burnout really quickly, it just isn't fun to make for me, neither is it fun for me to watch. I mostly stepped back from TH-cam (both content creation and consumption) a couple months ago, I've been thinking about how to make this work, how do I made content that I enjoy making, but still is good, and honestly your video just completely validates what I've been thinking here, just knowing that I'm not the only one who feels this way makes me feel a lot better about the whole thing. I have been feeling the urge to get back into making videos, and this time round I'm just gonna do it for the fun of playing the game and making a video and interacting with my community, instead of just chasing views and channel growth because I know that I will eventually grow from this content. I did a little trial run of a few videos made in a more simple style a few months back and was honestly just amazed at how many people are actually watching, and watching me not just the game.
Now I don't mean to hate on anyone who does do the "mrbeast" type video, or build some crazy project, I mean if that's what you enjoy doing, then go for it, but it's just not what I enjoy. That sort of content is not easy to make, I know that because I have tried. There is a place for that sort of content on this platform, but I just hate that it is the only viable content if you ever want to make this a career or just grow in general.
Now you have made an awesome video on this topic, it may just be commentary with gameplay in the background, but it is everything this video needs to be, it's the sort of content that makes you think about what you're watching without overwhelming the viewer. The editing is simple for sure, the audio quality may not be the best I've ever heard, but you know what, that doesn't matter, I can tell that you're passionate about making this sort of discussion video and that's just a great thing. You may have also just helped a lot of smaller aspiring content creators that have fell into the trap of expectations, so for that thank you, I am one of those people, and I've been doing this TH-cam thing for over 9 years now (I had a channel before this one btw).
Slow paced content doesn't just need to mean the old unedited lets play style of 2010-2014ish (being stuck in the past may be good in some aspects, but not good in others, we need a new future of content), some editing is good, but it has to be meaningful and not overwhelming. If you're not passionate about what you're making, then it simply isn't going to be a good video, it will feel forced. I just hope that more people will have the courage to just create the sort of video that they want to make, the ones that they are passionate about, instead of trying to conform to the expectations that exist in this community. A transition over to more relaxed content would be way more healthy for the community, less pressure to one up yourself and everyone else you're competing with. I just hope more people can let their personalities shine, and their real creativity be the driving force for their content going forward, instead of what will just get them views.
-whitebear, a content creator and moderator of r/GoldenAgeMinecraft
I don't understand the problem. Are the videos you want to watch not there? Watch the videos you want to watch, find creators online outside of the TH-cam recommendations and you won't have the problem.
I see those thumbnails once in a while, very rare. They are obvious in what they are. I don't watch them and TH-cam doesn't show me those videos. Simple.
Great video, and I loved hearing your thoughts on the matter. There are tons of 100, 1000, Hardcore, etc content out there. As a creator, I thought that was something people wanted to see. I put up polls on my channel to see what they preferred, and they wanted to see full plays... not 100 day summaries. It was an eye-opener. My videos only draw in a few viewers, but those few viewers appreciate it. They invest their time with it and come back for more, because it doesn't try to appeal to the masses and copycat everything else. My flight simulator audience is the same way. They love watching the full flights or have it on in the background while doing something else.
I found your video inspiring.
I'm quite late to this video, but I just wanna put in my own two cents here. Slowly there's been a shift in TH-cam content where more and more people are making content with a personal touch, as an antithesis to the Mr Beastification. One of those formats you might know is "person holding microphone in front of greenscreen".(I know, very descriptive name I came up with). Say, NakeyJakey or Internet Pitstop. And I'm also seeing this shift in the Minecraft community.
As someone one who's on the older side of the Minecraft community(Played it first when I was like 10, remember the site Minecraft For Free?), I find myself watching more and more of these kind of Minecraft channels. Hell, you're one of them. And I know there are a bunch more like me. And as a lot of the younger audience grows older, they're gonna grow out of those Mr Beast type of videos.
And trust me, your channel has a LOT of potential. I get that working on a project like this can cause a lot of insecurities - especially when one of your vids shows up as a 10/10 in TH-cam Studio - but seriously, I think there's a chance you'll have more than 200k subs by the end of the year.
Anyway, that's all I wanted to say. Things like this will solve themselves most of the time. Trends change, and so do people.
Something I feel like pointing out is that putting unrelated gameplay in the background while talking is just another form of the issue you're trying to address
the video in the background is supposed to keep people's eyes and minds focused on something as you talk, so that we don't get "bored" of listening to you, which is just another symptom of recent generations' fear of boredom. It's like all those videos on TikTok with the subway surfers or whatever in the background.
I can't blame you for doing that since editing is hard and takes time, but I thought I might as well point it out.
My favorite minecraft videos have and always will be the Let's Plays such as Coe'sQuest, Paulsoaresjr, and more recently, Pixlriffs, having them playing in the background while just enjoying a building project or something else in game and it's very relaxing. I've never enjoyed ANY game's screaming channels like Bodhi for Rainbow Six Siege or the countless shills of EA sports games. That statement also goes for the spoken about channel types in this video, though I do enjoy sometimes having the "1,000 people create civilization", because I love history and those videos kind of remind me of 2B2T, which I used to play on for a while because of the history,
It's actually crazy cause after watching your end video last night I wanted to watch more minecraft videos with that vibe but I couldn't find it cause everything that came up is exactly what you are talking about, so I just gave up, really sucks cause I feel the same way with pokemon content, every video and playthrough is to just summaries everything that happens and get through the story in the smallest amount of time, not to experience everything the game has to offer, this is why I really like everygameever's content, and little tid bit or random feature he talks about and explains its mechanics, its not about the end goal, it's the journey, that's exactly what happened to me last night cause the one video I did watch the guy beat the ender dragon in the first 3rd of his 40min long video, like I may as well have watched a speed run
this video sums up my feelings about the subject spot-on, and brings up points i didn't realize existed (such as the point of these videos being not to think, but to consume). it sucks as a viewer of minecraft content because i can't trust anything on my recommended to not be all mr-beast-ified. it's even worse as a creator because you sort of develop an unhealthy feeling of "everyone else is building huge things and i need to do that too in order to stand a chance" but that sort of content isn't what i enjoy making or necessarily watching, so my motivation to make content ends up declining and it's a whole spiral. it's pretty much the only reason my upload frequency is this bad. i have found a youtuber named waxfraud that makes content that's more my speed and has actually really motivated me for my new survival world so maybe that'll help in the content process.
TH-cam Shorts are kind of a weird thing to me..
I hate them, yet I keep getting pulled in, when I lay in bed I just mindlessly scroll through the shorts, getting ragefits, screaming at annoying spammy videos.
I keep hitting "Do not recommend this channel" on like 90% of those videos, yet TH-cam keeps recommending me videos of the same style, while TH-cam seems to stop recommending me shorts of channels I actually do watch some of the times..
I think you nailed what I have been trying to understand about TH-cam videos. The idea of the creator having a personality and the reason you come back is because of that personality wasn't something I thought much about. I guess I took it for granted when I initially was watching content on TH-cam. There was a lot of content like that, and now it's much harder to find it. I usually try to find longer form content because I enjoy it more than the short stuff more often. In reality, I'm not just looking for long form content, I'm looking for content with real personality.
And you, good sir, have got that personality in your videos. I like the format you have and the way you want these videos to be a platform for discussion. I've watched multiple videos and found that it isn't a fluke and that this is the style of content you generate. Dunno if you go back to old videos and read the more recent comments, but in case you do, I love your stuff and I'm subbing!
Something similar happens with the building content. I´ve seen the same reuploaded/copied tutorials on Tiktok or Instagram for the last 2-3 years. A lot of accounts are dedicated to steal content from small creators and then upload it mixed with other people's content, causing these creators to stop publishing things because someone else is going to take credit for their work.
i mostly just watch people i found years ago. i think the only people i'm still subscribed to are mumbo and grian, though i occasionally watch some other people. And indeed, I do like those mostly because they're on the cozy side. Being excited when something exciting happens is fun, but the feeling I'm after is closer to "hanging out and listening to a friend talk about what they've found interesting".
I'm so glad this has been brought up, your also hitting on a larger point for me as well.
I miss when (I hate that phrase but here we go)
I miss when TH-cam as an all round site was a source of niche and folk content.
You could search for anything and there was an example of someone just like you, doing the thing.
It wasn't literal millionares stroking ego and selling shitty own brand coffee.
I admire those who have fought for a place on the platform, but I admire more, those who have done so and not forgotten about the point (as I see it) of the platform.
People wouldn't have to keep playing this one up game with eachother, the scale of everything would be so much more interesting, were we not inundated with the kind of videos you gave examples of.
By scaling down you scale up when it comes to focused, hand made stories.
The way in which sole people are breaking themselves over their own knees just to try and get clicks is painful to watch.
The og's of this platform did it all out of bedrooms ,on shit gaming pc's with terrible quality vent calls. It didn't matter, because that person was a person and not an incorporated group of just barely shared interests, the key one being money.
I'm not trying to say that people shouldn't make buisness out of this platform, but I just wish there was more consideration as to why they feel they need that buisness, and what it's purpose is.
Some people are too busy panning for gold to even look up at the hills imo.
I can't belive this i was editing one of my own video and i realized that i needed to make time to prepare for the next scene and you made a way better of saying that thank you for making videos like theese it makes small youtbers who watch it realize to not just copy whats out there but to have personality i really like theese videos because it shows me what i can do better i dont really get feedback from My viewers so i have to go with a video style that i would watch and i think you have to be able to like and watch your videos to be a good youtuber you cant just put out something that you dont like there will be no personality.
I've had this same sort of thought about minecraft videos on TH-cam recently. I really don't like the fast paced stuff. I also create minecraft content and I try to keep it like OG Let's Play style videos so I love to just stream and interact with chat and play the game.
You have a Let's Play as well? Cool. I don't like fast-paced stuff either (except for fight scenes in MC animations, but that's different; I also make those). The whole Hardcore and 100 days trends are just plain annoying to come across. The thumbnails alone are an eyesore.
@TheUltimateEnderling yeah. I have like an 18 episode let's play but now I stream a hardcore world like 2-4 times a week and then I edit those streams down into shorter videos. I try to make my videos similar to older let's play videos. Those were the Golden Era of minecraft youtube
@@TeeJ1602 My LP is at like Episode 58. I play on Bedrock Edition on Hard Mode and try to have some lore behind certain builds. I don't fake my emotions either. If I'm irritated, it'll show. My thumbnails are just in-game screenshots with text (except for one that I made in Mine-Imator as an experiment).
@TheUltimateEnderling yeah. Another thing I really really want to make sure of is that I enjoy the content I make. If I don't enjoy it, I'm not going to make it or do it. The whole reason I even started making videos was to just enjoy my hobbies and share it with other people. If I catch myself not enjoying it I just stop, take a step back and reevaluate. I used to do lego reviews cause I enjoyed it, but I moved away from them cause I just didn't enjoy it anymore.
@@TeeJ1602 Same. I started making MC animations for the fun of it. I moved from MI to Blender a few months ago and really enjoy making animations.
I like to create paintings or real life chainmaille while watching Minecraft relaxing long plays. No commentary. Just playing and building a story.
Waxfraud is a great youtuber for this. I was starting to make longplays but had my computer fry.
I’m 56, and I get issues with tracking fast paced hardcore games now. The style of screaming, flashing fast paced Minecraft videos are not a lot of fun to me. I like watching building styles and storytelling. Welsknight is a favorite for that.
As you said though, content aimed at kids is huge. It’s the money maker. But I feel it’s squeezing out the enjoyment of the game on TH-cam for us older players.
A lot of the solutions will mainly start at the consumer base, yes, but it also will start at the platforms and companies that warehouse this content. Mainly TH-cam, TikTok, Instagram, etc, their algorithms incentivize staying on their apps, and short form content is the best way they’ve found to do such a thing. Now that people are seeing ways to create content like this as a job too, it’s more inundated with samey yet different content premises that honestly, would’ve ensnared me in as a child.
I hate short form content, but a lot of good jokes and quips come from it too, so it’s hard to look away when communities are being formed and people are socializing over these inside jokes…
I 100% agree with your opinion. That fast-paced content is very overwhelming to me. When some youtuber builds a grandiose build, I would like to have the time to actually see the build, enjoy the build, be amazed at the scale and details... But they make like ten cuts per second so I don't enjoy anything, I get frustrated and leave feeling sad. It is good to just pause and enjoy the view for a little while.
I recently made a video close to my heart. Celebrating my ten years playing on a private server where everyone left except for the owner and I. I speak quickly because I'm nervous, but otherwise I aimed to make the video contemplative, nostalgic, slow paced and meaningful. The total opposite of what's trending now.
Thankfully, I got blessed by the algorithm so I got a whopping 3k views. I've never seen that before and I feel really happy that my story touched the heart of so many people.
The video is in French though, but you can watch it. I really should add subtitles at some point.
Have a nice day, take care !
Rose.
so the answer is more Hermitcraft and Life Serries? sounds good to me
The opening 5 minutes to this video speaks to the whole "you in TH-cam" thing in such a great way. Its crazy how these thoughts in this video are exactly what I've thought about for a long time. And funny enough someone asked where I'd been for so long not making videos. I made a similar analogy with the chef thing. TH-cam has become a platform where there are so many chefs and the kitchen is running out of space and now people have a mr beast feastables addiction. Mr beast is doing his thing but his content is effectively an Instagram model. 10m people might turn their head as the content crosses their eye line but it isn't enriching the soul. Its effectively making you more shallow. Absolutely loved this video so much!