I watch basically everything that isn’t music or advanced mathematics at 2x speed. YouTubers talk so slowly.
Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
Why and what type of videos are you watching at 2x speed?
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day 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.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
tal@lemmy.today 1 day 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.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 hours ago
That’s interesting they can keep the pitch. Thanks
yesman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s for people who want to skim but not to read.
underisk@lemmy.ml 1 day 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.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Work shit.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 hours ago
That i can see
Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Idk what to tell you, a lot of youtubers talk pretty fuckin slow
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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.