This video is a barely disguised nostalgia video with reverse psychology for engagement. I had to switch away tabs to digest the audio only of this empty carb'd meta-critique.
For sure:
- YTubers target impulsive viewers to hit ad money metrics, so do games/everything, the idea is to keep them emotional and impulsive too.
- YTubers today are phoney viewhackers and less passionate or inspirational people
- YT was better when it was less focused on engagement as the expectations where not widely known or set
- Reaction thumbnail baits are out of hand
- Instructionalism or guidance posting "DO THIS, NOT THIS" is out of hand
- "WILL THIS?" or mystery posting is out of hand
- The will to be considered and/or ridiculed at all costs is preferable to no clicks
But the reason for all the bait is that brand is the only defensible power available to the YTuber (read: youtube employee), so videos discreetly bury the lede and redirect expected satisfaction back to the experience of their safe approachable persona.
Who knew, when you try to compel live speech you get shitty speech. The interview exchange is the most contrived medium of exchange ever invented, it actually got a lot of push back when it was first invented or used in news media in the 1850s, presumably for coaxing and normalizing bullshit.
I don't watch grid walks or anything outside of lights out / chequered flag because shoving cameras in faces of people is just a celebrity on celebrity toss off nowadays.