YouTube and what makes you angry about it.

[QuartzQuadreant]

Dislikes. You should either like something, and give it a boost, or leave it alone. There's no need for a third option. That third option is basically "I don't care for this, and because I value my own opinion higher than the silent majority, I'm not going to go watch something else; I'm going to leave a stain on this persons work instead". Are people not content with disagreeing with something, so that they have to leave some sort of record that says "hey look at me, I'm in disagreement with someone, and rather than take the time to create my own work in response, I'm going to lazily press a dislike button towards somebody that's contributed way more than I ever will, and piss them off in the process". I think the whole hostile culture of the comments sections is in part due to that dislike option. Not entirely, of course, but partly. It's also giving a place to those annoying reply-guy people. Rather than just not watching them, and thus destroying any hope of them gaining revenue, you've got people who can't resist watching their shit anyway just to give them a dislike and post a meaningless abusive comment. If you don't like something, stop watching it.

As for content, I'm fine with it. I mean I don't mind all the shitty lets plays. Why? Because I don't watch the fuckers. You should see how easy it is not to watch them. It helps my stress levels immensely not having to hate all these people.

I disagree. Seeing how many dislikes a video has often lets me gauge whether a video is worth my valuable time, especially the longer ones. Besides which, it's rather cathartic to press that button when you haven't enjoyed something.

 

[sethisjimmy]

My only gripe is that I can't subscribe to individual playlists or series of shows. For instance, the amount of content the Machinima channel puts out is massive. I only want to see two shows in particular, Two Best Friends Play, and BroTeam. I am subscribed to their individual personal channels, but they don't upload their Machinima exlusive content to those channels. They are both qualified as "shows" by youtube, with seasons and episode numbers, but I still can't subscribe to just those shows, and have them show up on my homepage, which is annoying.

 

[hazabaza1]

Also: Pewdiepie.

What makes him so... popular? Could someone please explain to me why practically all of his videos have a million views when all he really does it yell profanities at his computer while playing a game?

Didn't you get the memo? We are talking about youtube here.

OT: What this guy said. Also, the fact that any video that gets somewhat popular has a billion fucking retards throwing their shit at one another in the comments.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

So this is gaming discussion now? That's nice.

 

[Palademon]

My only gripe is that I can't subscribe to individual playlists or series of shows. For instance, the amount of content the Machinima channel puts out is massive. I only want to see two shows in particular, Two Best Friends Play, and BroTeam. I am subscribed to their individual personal channels, but they don't upload their Machinima exlusive content to those channels. They are both qualified as "shows" by youtube, with seasons and episode numbers, but I still can't subscribe to just those shows, and have them show up on my homepage, which is annoying.

You can, as I've managed to do that with series on people's channels without subscribing to the channel, but I just looked through Machinima's channel and can't figure out how.

 

[lacktheknack]

There isn't a way to make all the comments invisible.

There really, really, really needs to be one.

I'm well aware that the phrase "losing faith in humanity" is hideously overused on internet forums, but Jesus Fucking Christ, I think I can honestly say that reading Youtube comments makes me like our species just that little bit less.

I have a Chrome Extension on my other computer that replaces all the Youtube comments with permutations of "herp derp derp". When I'm next on it, if I remember, I'll send it to you.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

People ruining otherwise perfectly good clips from movies or television with their shitty taste in music.

If I search "Poltergeist 2" on Youtube, I'm looking for excerpts from the film. I am NOT looking to view 2-3 minutes of poorly synched clips set to your favorite Linkin Park theme.

(For those who are curious, this is the clip I was looking for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n83c1aFWkOs , chilling no?)

This.

Especially if I'm looking for an anime, but instead get some bullshit AMV with Linkin Park playing in the background

QTF This pisses me off so much. I dont mind if the video says "AMV blah blah" in the title, because at least that gives you an idea of what the video is. Its when people post videos like "Naruto vs (Insert Villian) Episode 254" and then the video is a fucking AMV.

 

[Tayh]

The fact that youtube keeps resetting my settings to Small Player at 320p instead of Large Player at 720p.

 

[HalfTangible]

I miss the ability to put up videos on the main page of my channel so i can just click on one of my favorites on watch it in there.

The fact that I can only find Adobe Flash plug-ins and everything i watch is choppy.

Recently, that 'real name' crap. I clicked 'this is a personal channel and i don't wanna use my name' about TWENTY FUCKING TIMES and it STILL kept popping up that SAME GORRAM MENU!! WHAT THE FUCK?!?!

 

[RJ Dalton]

The commenters...literally the worst community I've ever seen.

I also really hate the autotune videos...they're just not funny, and they get way more recognition than they deserve.

Ninjas. Damn.

 

[DeltaEdge]

I honestly haven't had much strife with YouTube as of late. I stopped resisting change, and ever caring a while ago, and as long as everything works, which for me it does, I'm perfectly content. The new video player skin hasn't caused any problems for me at all, and I like how they put the playlist directly onto the video player. I can honestly say that I prefer that to the shitty huge playlist menu that took up like a 4th of the screen before.
My only real issue as of late would have to be that YouTube no longer alerts me when people respond to my comments. I don't understand why they would take that feature away.

 

[BytByte]

The one thing that bugs me is the related videos are just related videos I have watched the most, not necessarily related videos of whatever I'm watching. Makes finding new stuff a little bit more challenging, but whatever.

 

[Therumancer]

Hmm, well I think the problem with Youtube has largely been their willingness to engage in censorship and enforce copyright claims. The internet is supposed to be a bastion of free communication, and a video sharing site like this was a big part of what helped with the information freedom of the internet.

Now you might be saying "But Therumancer, aren't you anti-pirate?" and the answer is yes, but the thing is that on Youtube the copyright claims tend to be enforced on things like someone making videos for their favorite songs using footage from their favorite TV shows and such... pretty much fan activity, of exactly the sort that copyright protections shouldn't apply to. When Youtube nails a music video that was put on on TV for years, or nails someone's video because they decided to combine say "Final Fantasy" with "Nightwish" music, they are representing everything that The Internet is supposed to get away from.

Likewise I don't care for their content standards for things that are sexy/racist/etc... I believe on a site like Youtube you should be able to put anything up that you want to, without any real limitation or regulation. If your afraid of being offended, you don't belong on a video sharing site browing for random things.

Just like the run of humanity you should expect any major internet site to be 99% banality 1% real gems.

Of course understand that I'm one of those "insane idealists" when it comes to these kinds of things. Despite being a conservative in general, I have some fairly liberal/anti-societal views. One of those views is in standing up to society when it goes wrong. See, in my mind when a site like Youtube backs down due to the threat of lawyers it's absolutly pathetic. When dealing with principles like free speech, things like that should be ignored, and the guys running the sites/spreading the information, should force the authorities to come and arrest them, resisting with armed force if nessicary. See, when your willing to go down shooting it draws attention to the overall issue, and causes society to look at the issues and ponder if it was really worth sending the SWAT team into a firefight to kill people in order to set down some internet servers that were broadcasting music freely availible on MTV decades ago (or whatever). When you back down to laweyers it sends a message to society about legitimacy, and just encourages more legal punkhammering.

Some call me insane, but the bottom line is I tend to be judgemental when people don't stand up for certain principles, and back down in places where an issue should be fought to the most extreme levels.

 

[anthony87]

AMV's.

If I'm searching for a cool fight scene from an anime I like it's because I want to watch a cool fight scene from an anime I like. What I don't want to watch is clips from said cool fight scene set to fucking Linkin Park or Avenged Sevenfold or Nickleback.

That's right. I found an AMV set to Nickleback. And it was one of their slow songs.....someone made an AMV and set it to fucking Photograph!

 

[Gitty101]

The YouTube comments are the deep-south backwater swamps of the internet, but I'm pretty sure everybody already knew that one so it doesn't bother me too much.

The only thing that I really dislike is the new layout. Makes keeping up with relevant information about channels you're subscribed to all the more difficult.

 

[M0rp43vs]

With the current layout, relatively minor but removing the recommended videos from the layout and requiring me to actually bloody GOOGLE it to find it. I mean sure, most of the time it was a couple of stupid crap I wouldn't click in a million years, but every so often, I get some good stuff I tend to like

Edit: oh, I was gonna mention how youtube never fully loads a video anymore(Fucking stupid by the way) but someone here said it was just because of a bug with the latest version of flash. Considering more recent versions of flash...Goddammit, we're never gonna get this fixed, are we?

 

[Squilookle]

The most important feature for me is to be able to access my history with a single click from the main page- I can at least still do that. What I don't like about the latest layout is the way it always loads up 'what to watch' recommendations instead of the 'My subscriptions' feed I want it to bring up instead.

I don't need to browse recommended videos- I will find them myself.

 

[shrekfan246]

Snip

Oh, you actually made me think of one that wasn't about Youtube commenters.

360p videos not fully buffering is actually really annoying, I rarely if ever full-screen any of the videos I watch and more often than not, I like to fully buffer one video and then start a second one buffering while I'm watching the first, because I generally watch long videos like the ones from Game Grumps or TotalBiscuit. And even with shorter videos, my internet isn't exactly pushing the next millennium with its speed, and if I'm downloading something else, watching a stream, or by chance buffering a different video I want to watch, then pulling up a music video or something I'll need to swap it up to 480p (if it's even available) and then wait for it to buffer just so I can listen/watch without it stopping halfway through because it needs to finish buffering.