Exactly why I refuse to upload anything to YouTube. I mean, I'll still watch videos on YouTube, but I don't use it for uploading my films.

I don't know if people will want you opening up a seperate thread, though. I think they would like for members to post any YouTube-related stuff in the YouTube thread.

I think it's dumb because video responses are meant for sending a message to the creator of a video, so of course the rate was going to be low.

It's not like they've left us without an alternative though. You can #hashtag your videos so they show up when you search for that subject. Not ideal, but it's not bad.

Vimeo might have less options than youTube, but at least they're not pushing ads into your face all the time. That's got to be worth something.

People complain that Vimeo isn't as good because the comment section isn't as prominent - to which I respond "Thats why its better!" I hate audience participation. I like criticism and feedback, but I hardly get that on YouTube...and I don't even get that many comments/views. The only intelligent comments I get are from other people from BiM (BTW: Thanks guys! Your basically my entire audience right now)

I'm not a misanthrope, but I generally dislike people on the internet - because the internet basically brings out the worst in everyone. I love online games like Team Fortress 2 and Guild Wars 2 because you collaborate with other players whilst keeping interaction to a bare minimum, but anything where you actually have to talk to people just annoys me. The reason why I still hang out here is because its pretty much the only place online where I can have an intelligent conversation.

I blame YouTube's encouragement for ordinary people to upload stuff. I remember back in 2007-2008ish when YouTube was either a place where content creators gathered (granted there were a lot of bad content creators, but they were actually trying), or where you watched copyrighted material (in the days when you could find anything on YouTube, albeit in crappy quality). Somewhere along the line, YouTube turned into a place where idiots could upload a video of their family reunion, their babies first words, and their pets doing stupid stuff. I blame the rise of Facebook - when suddenly nothing could be private anymore so people needed to record every aspect of their lives and upload it for us to not watch.

My only problem with YouTube is not the ad for me(Which I alway get politic ad, when I try to watch movie or video game trailer), but that YouTube is fill up of Let Play videos.

Good point on the vlogs.

I honestly don't see the problem with this.

Youtube is a video sharing platform. From day one, it was made to be a place where someone could share a greatly produced short film, or a family video. And I'd say that about 95% of the people who upload to YouTube, to this day, use it for the latter purpose. It's just that, because of the low spectrum of people a video of that kind would interest, they don't get very popular and aren't seen as much as the former.

Youtube just makes it easy for people at any skill to upload a video and share with anyone they want to see, be it people all over the world, or a couple of friends.

I'm not saying I agree with everything they do. While the subtraction of responses has little to zero impact on me, other things has. That being said, I feel that YouTube can be a place for both aspiring filmmakers and "a bunch of nobodies with a camera-phone."

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Hence the name, "YOUtube".

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