General Discussion

If the internet has taught me anything, it's that no one is the only person who thinks anything. You could love eating expired cereal out of a traffic cone with raccoon piss instead of milk and somebody, somewhere will see that on a forum and be like "dude no way, me too!" And there will be like 57 replies saying "I thought it was just me" lol

I'm not really seeing the same thing. I see what you're describing on twitch, sure, because I'm watching streams directly, it's a different form of content not directly comparable to recorded videos in terms of convention. If I'm watching video of a recorded stream it is almost without exception edited to abridge the content in the way you described you wanted. They do rely on 3rd party editors for that though

I still see tons and tons of excellent processed quality video content of all genres. What are you looking for that you only see streams?

There's still tons of pre-edited video creators. I don't think that's decreased in output at all. It's just that streams are now ALSO being produced.

Nowadays I find it hard to find videos that are not just reuploaded streams. Hours and hours of unedited video

I hate this. The creators that I follow on YT all made their names on edited videos full of actual content but once they have followings, it’s nonstop streams where they collect micro tips and stroke the egos of Patreon people. There’s no way in hell I can set time aside in my schedule to be there for one of these live, and they’re boring as hell to watch recorded.

Gotta say this hasn't been my experience at all, I watch a ton of normal video content and very rarely am recommended streams. Unless I'm on Twitch obviously but if you're on Twitch you know what to expect.

If you're talking about YouTube, you might want to consider interacting with those uncut stream uploads less otherwise the algorithm is just gonna think that's what you're into.

I don't really mind streams, as I mostly just...Don't watch them. Very rarely I'll watch the odd stream with small streamers that I kind of enjoy hearing their live commentary, and afterward they typically edit them into separate parts if they do upload them.

More than streaming overtaking a lot of online stuff, I find myself more bothered by the move to video over written essays/blogs. I've watched a number of video essays and enjoyed them, but I've rarely gone away from many of them thinking, "You know, this really was better being a video." Instead I tend to think, "I feel like I could have read this faster than the time it took to watch/listen to."

It's possible I'm overestimating my reading speed, admittedly, but it doesn't change my sense that many video essays don't do enough with the visual component to justify being video essays.

I resonate with most people here, there is still a lot of normal videos and the ones taken from streams are usually edited to fit into a theme (see DarkViperAU).

I also find streams pretty boring but generally streamers are doing YT content to get both audiences and the discoverability you cannot find in Twitch is compensated in YT (YTL would technically be a solution but it's rarely pushed into the homepage and only found on the tiny sidebar)

I'm not too bothered about it, most of the creators I follow haven't dropped their edited content for streams, but I still find the concept of watching a Twitch stream weird. From quick looks, most of them have so much downtime where nothing is happening at all. I guess they would make good background noise though