Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature

TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Idk what to tell you, a lot of youtubers talk pretty fuckin slow

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Listening to people talk faster gives me anxiety. It’s the closest thing (I guess) to feeling like I have ADHD. Like I’ve done a bunch of speed but without any of the dopaminergic effects.

    I don’t know how anybody does it to be quite honest. Even putting a podcast on 1.25x is too much.

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I watch basically everything that isn’t music or advanced mathematics at 2x speed. YouTubers talk so slowly.

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s what I wanted to know. Until I realised I don’t care how people watch YouTube and that it’s more annoying to me that Google is paywalling something that costs them nothing to implement.

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I watch most IT/Technical videos at 1.5-2x speed. Especially tutorial style videos. Most creators use a very long and drawn out way of speaking in order to keep the viewer on the same page, but most of the time I know the core concepts already, so I don’t need the super detailed parts only the barebones.

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• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This was a video of a machine treating pomegranate seeds 🤷 don’t ask

  But it was filmed in a lot of detail and there was no need to watch the whole thing. The creators should probably have made a highlights video instead.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t know what YouTube does when you increase playback speed, but a lot of people who listen to podcast-type material or lectures will use software that has the ability to time-stretch the playback without changing the pitch. That is, we can often understand people perfectly well speaking more quickly than they actually do.

  I imagine that some people are most-likely looking at content of that sort on YouTube.

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  • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s interesting they can keep the pitch. Thanks

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s for people who want to skim but not to read.

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  • underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would give anything to skim an article rather than sit through a 10 minute video for the one thing I need to know.

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    • Koarnine@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Use the transcript and skip/read through

      It’s on every youtube video at the bottom of the description!

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Work shit.

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  • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That i can see

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