I just tried to look up a specific video of a Nick Swardson stand up bit. All I searched was “Nick Swardson loitering”. There were 5 fucking ads before an actual user posted video, then one real human posted video that barely had anything to do with Nick, then 5 more fucking ads.

I knew they were forcing ads into videos but clogging the entire search feed with ads is unfuckingbelievable.

Is this really what it’s come to? Ads are more important than what I’m actually looking for? Are people really okay with this?

  • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
    330·
    2 months ago

    i tried to find a clip of that olympics break dancing thing a week or two ago.

    It was fucking impossible. I literally couldn’t find shit, it was all AI generated videos.

    • eletesEnglish
      250·
      2 months ago

      That one is a Olympic copyright issue. Either NBC since they pay so much for the rights or the IOC flag videos immediately so all your left with is low quality videos.

      It genuinely ruins trying to find Olympics content if NBC doesn’t cover that specific event

      • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
        60·
        2 months ago

        why would you ever copyright video clips of the olympics though, nobody fucking pays for cable or has time to watch streams. And we’re also only talking about like 2 minutes worth of content, I’m pretty certain that would be fair use.

        • demizerone
          30·
          2 months ago2 months ago

          The Olympics are less and less about the athletes and what the human body and mind can achieve and more an more about the sponsorship deals. These corps pay big bucks for exclusivity deals.

          • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
            30·
            2 months ago

            yeah but that’s all pre broadcast shit, it’s irrelevant to some 3 minute clip being uploaded to youtube containing that segment of footage.

            If you want people to care about it, it has to be accessible, and clearly, it’s not very accessible.

      • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
        80·
        2 months ago

        thank god for piracy, finally i know what people were fucking talking about

      • laughterlaughter
        40·
        2 months ago

        Thank you for this. I watched the whole thing. It’s undeniable that Raygun can do a lot of things I can’t, but her performance paled in comparison with the other competitors. Three four times I got the goosebumps when the other competitors did truly amazing moves!

    • FadesEnglish
      70·
      2 months ago

      This is to be expected, Google does the same thing with their search engine; delay providing the most accurate and related results in order to get users to see more ads per search.

    • marx2k
      40·
      2 months ago

      I tried that yesterday to show some dinner guests. 20 videos later, I gave up

      • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
        30·
        2 months ago

        this is why i keep a local archive, only my stupidity and inability to find shit in my horde make me look like a dumbass.

    • demizerone
      30·
      2 months ago2 months ago

      Raygun is the best, but I also failed to find it and I have YouTube Red (or whatever Google calls it now). The Olympics was on that feed like hoss on some slop.

      • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
        20·
        2 months ago

        yeah idk i thought some of what she did was pretty good, she demonstrates good control, i think she mainly needs to work on fluidity and transitions though, some of them were awful.