I think you may be asking to the wrong demographic... I doubt Lemmy's userbase overlaps much with the following these youtubers have.
But, I might be wrong and/or you may get a reply from someone who knows one of these viewers personally
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What are unnecessary jokes? Are there such things as necessary jokes? Have you ever been in a situation where you need a joke? What happened if you didn't get it?
I think they mean unnecessary in relation to the content of the video. They could also be talking about bad jokes in general.
Bad jokes makes sense. Obviously if a youtuber is telling unfunny jokes you wouldnβt want to watch them.
I donβt really understand unnecessary in relation to the content though, like all jokes are unnecessary, maybe off topic is better?
I feel like a lot of content creators have in jokes though that their normal audience would get that a new person would find random.
To be honest the only reason I watch moist critical is because his content makes me feel like Iβm hanging out with a friend. Itβs like when your friend is showing you something funny or stupid.
It helps people relax and feel good, basically. In a similar vein, there's no informational content in a sitcom and yet they continue to be made. Some people enjoy crocheting or playing guitar hero, even though they might not be learning much from them. Personally I like a good blend of entertainment and education, but I also don't really try to justify to myself why I might enjoy one person's videos over another's, it might even come down to the voice or some other entirely subjective factor really.
The only ones I really follow are Game Grumps, but only sometimes and I like how they put it when they addressed some criticism - "We're comedians playing video games, not gamers doing comedy."
I completely agree. I get the most generic version of the homepage most of the time (logged out + clearing cookies often). And I am always wondering with at least half the stuff on the front page: Why did someone put time/effort into this? Why all the low-effort acting out of humor-free skits and pranks? Why tell people about their relationship to some other creator falling apart? Why create excessively long "podcasts" where people just ramble about either nothing or about topics that they did not research?
There are obviously "creators" who have actual topics and a script. I mostly enjoy watching them. They usually still stretch out their content more than necessary and I am still not enjoying the obligatory "and so we banded together to create Nebula!" ad.
I am guilty of occasionally watching phone reviews. The topic is low-brow consumerism and their content can usually be condensed to "black slab now with better camera". But they are at least shot and scripted pretty well and are not excessively long.
And that's not the same for regular TV. The signal/noise level there seems a lot better.
I wonder that about quite many things. I feel like I'm not in the target audience for almost anything new.
I mean there's not even anything particularly wrong about that stuff. It's just that I only have so many hours in a day, and there's plenty interesting content out there for my niche interests, so I don't want to spend it watching some braind numbing entertainment that's mostly directed at the "masses"
You can't get Alan Becker and his team content anywhere else other than his channel. Also, I've followed his works ever since the first Animation vs Animator came out.
I don't - I'm from the time when YouTube was just videos of idiots doing idiot things...