<story><title>Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video</title><url>https://www.you-tldr.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mathfailure</author><text>It looks like making videos became your profession, since you expect monetization of your video views.&lt;p&gt;And I, as a viewer, simply don&amp;#x27;t want... professional content.&lt;p&gt;I want to watch videos made by hobbyists for the sake of fun and to inform&amp;#x2F;debate&amp;#x2F;educate.&lt;p&gt;So by installing adblockers and shill-skipping scripts I simply vote for my interests.</text></item><item><author>AkBKukU</author><text>I am a person who produces videos to publish on Youtube, and I want to add a different perspective to this.&lt;p&gt;Here is where we are currently at:
 - Everyone complains about the ads, so they install adblock.
 - Ads become worthless on Youtube for smaller creators, so they start taking sponsorships.
 - Everyone complains about the sponsors, they call creators shills and sponsorblock is gaining traction to block them.
 - Smaller creators shift to being dependent on direct support (Patreon, etc.)&lt;p&gt;Here is where we are going:
 - People complain a video is too long, so they extract the data directly avoiding youtube.
 - The creators don&amp;#x27;t get ads, don&amp;#x27;t get people to understand the effort put in and support directly, and don&amp;#x27;t get views. The videos just don&amp;#x27;t get watched.&lt;p&gt;A feedback loop is happening here where every possible method that allows making quality Youtube content sustainable is becoming impossible. The fact that anyone here is willing to pay for this service that will destroy the last shreds of this is extremely disheartening.&lt;p&gt;If you stop watching videos, there will be no reason to make the videos.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gcanyon</author><text>Then don&amp;#x27;t watch professional content. But remember that a &lt;i&gt;ton&lt;/i&gt; of the content on YouTube that might seem to be non-professional, or that started out non-professional, now is generated by a large group of people, because it requires a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; more work to produce good quality content than one hobbyist can devote to the cause.&lt;p&gt;Kurzgesagt started with a small group, but now numbers 64.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure how many people are on the Answers with Joe team, but it&amp;#x27;s more than a few.&lt;p&gt;The first Crash Course video from 11 years ago lists 13 people in the credits.&lt;p&gt;So my guess is that there is much more &amp;quot;professional&amp;quot; content than might be obvious.</text></comment>
<story><title>Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video</title><url>https://www.you-tldr.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mathfailure</author><text>It looks like making videos became your profession, since you expect monetization of your video views.&lt;p&gt;And I, as a viewer, simply don&amp;#x27;t want... professional content.&lt;p&gt;I want to watch videos made by hobbyists for the sake of fun and to inform&amp;#x2F;debate&amp;#x2F;educate.&lt;p&gt;So by installing adblockers and shill-skipping scripts I simply vote for my interests.</text></item><item><author>AkBKukU</author><text>I am a person who produces videos to publish on Youtube, and I want to add a different perspective to this.&lt;p&gt;Here is where we are currently at:
 - Everyone complains about the ads, so they install adblock.
 - Ads become worthless on Youtube for smaller creators, so they start taking sponsorships.
 - Everyone complains about the sponsors, they call creators shills and sponsorblock is gaining traction to block them.
 - Smaller creators shift to being dependent on direct support (Patreon, etc.)&lt;p&gt;Here is where we are going:
 - People complain a video is too long, so they extract the data directly avoiding youtube.
 - The creators don&amp;#x27;t get ads, don&amp;#x27;t get people to understand the effort put in and support directly, and don&amp;#x27;t get views. The videos just don&amp;#x27;t get watched.&lt;p&gt;A feedback loop is happening here where every possible method that allows making quality Youtube content sustainable is becoming impossible. The fact that anyone here is willing to pay for this service that will destroy the last shreds of this is extremely disheartening.&lt;p&gt;If you stop watching videos, there will be no reason to make the videos.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AkBKukU</author><text>&amp;gt; So by installing adblockers and shill-skipping scripts I simply vote for my interests.&lt;p&gt;By not watching the video you would be voting for your interests.&lt;p&gt;By watching the video with adblock and etc. you are just &amp;quot;stealing&amp;quot; content and trying to excuse yourself for it by wishing it was something it isn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;The videos aren&amp;#x27;t put out for free, they are put out with a contract with Youtube to advertise on it. Youtube pays to host and you split the ad revenue when the creator is paid. Your hypothetical successful &amp;quot;hobbiest for the sake of fun&amp;quot; would either not enter the partner program and let Youtube keep all of the ad revenue they will run anyway, or enter the partner program and disable monetization and abuse Youtube for content hosting without delivering anything back to them. Obviously, neither of these happens in practice and if the latter started becoming common the ability to do it would be taken away or other penalties like making the creator pay to host imposed.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;There&amp;#x27;s no such thing as a free lunch.&amp;quot;</text></comment>