I mean the same is true of Youtube or “content creator” culture as a whole, only the money pile there is too big to have imploded (so far).
The Death of Gaming YouTube: How Money Killed Authenticity
Submitted 3 weeks ago by EgoNo4@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HKyYDUbMTuw&si=w4GUg961X1iPU2vR
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Carighan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
pip@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Ah, I sure do love never being able to find reliable information on games because honest reviews and helpful content is drowned in a sea of AI low-effort slop that can’t even sort videogames into proper categories (no, Overwatch is not an MMORPG) or low-effort undisclosed ads
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 weeks ago
Ever since CGW stopped publishing, I’ve just gone back to going by word of mouth. If a real, actual person is telling me in their own words a thing is good or bad, I generally trust them. Especially if they are someone I actually know personally, or at least have shown themselves to have similar tastes to mine.
And obviously if something becomes super popular, I gotta see what the fuss is about if it also seems like something I would like.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Birth a gaming Peertube.
dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.win 3 weeks ago
This solves nothing if the goal is engagement. And engagement in corporate properties is a form of engagement which promotes the media being presented. A corporate sponsored video is a corporate sponsored video, regardless of the platform.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Why should the goal be engagement? Why not have the person provide the media for free via Peertube and accept that capitalism is bad?
Carighan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How does doing it again under a different URL change anything? Or do you inherently fail to understand that the problem isn’t about a specific site?
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I used to enjoy Gmod/SFM animations, but that content naturally takes months of work for people to put out. That was okay because there were dozens of amateurs always releasing their own things; but now, the trend is for weekly or even more frequent videos, which means animators need to rush to put out trendy 8 second shorts, switch to low-effort mediums like Let’s Plays, or just stop getting visitors entirely.
Every so often, I find a great animator that’s sitting in the last category getting their detailed animations quashed, and I get to see the 3 videos they’ve put out in the last 5 months; still wish YouTube could put them in my recommendations.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They want people to work for free to entertain them?
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I know most people here won’t even know what I’m talking about but going by the title I thought this is about Youtube’s own Gaming platform. You know, one of those side tabs that you never click but is still there. So yeah I’d suggest to edit the title to make it more clear what the video is about. Something like “Game journalism/let’s play culture” would make it more clear.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Worthabuy gives no quarter. He can get a little too political for me sometimes but man are his rants good.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
“Gaming Youtube” is the same as any other form of media.
If you only watch trash reality TV then “Television is dead”. Whereas, if you only watch prestige TV on FX and AMC you’ll complain that “the sitcom is dead”. And if you only watch NBC or whatever the fuck… you’ll wonder why tim allen hasn’t had his legs broken by the dealers he narced on. Err, where was I?
Anyway. It is the same here. If you just watch whoever has the most views you are going to get the bottom of the barrel trash entertainment because it is specifically designed to cater to people who are browsing, watch for five minutes, then leave it on while it is still going.
Whereas you can also put a bit of work in. Find creators you do like. Yes, there is a massive discoverability problem (that gets worse with every major update…) but watching a VOD that appeals to you and maybe googling to find out if they were “cancelled” yet goes a long way. And, in that regard, people like Mortismal and Iron Pineapple are WAY better than anything we saw a decade or two ago.
Which is no different than TV. Nobody expected the TV show about the dad from Malcolm in the Middle becoming a drug dealer to be one of the greatest shows ever made (in that it gave us Better Call Saul but…). But people watched an episode or two and then listened when everyone else on the planet said “the first season is weird but it gets REALLY good by like episode five or six”.
Or… we can just do clickbait “Everything new sucks except for me” content.
Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I take offense to this on behalf of TotalBiscuit, otherwise carry on.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You mean the prick who was one of the biggest voices legitimizing the Gamergate crowd who couldn’t even be bothered to speak against the harassment toward devs and games media? The guy whose entire claim to fame was screaming about “lazy devs” in an era where it was still kind of a miracle to even get a PC port of most games?
Regardless of him being a piece of shit, his content creation style was still very much “yell into a camera” similar to Sterling but with a lot fewer skits. That is still a popular style but plenty of youtubers outright build up scripts because they want to tell a narrative about the game they are playing or reviewing. Mandalore is a great example of that.
Which is similar to the old single camera sitcoms. There is a lot of charm to it but there is a reason the vast majority switched to multi-cam setups. And a lot of that is a mix of budget and just being able to do cooler stuff.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Man, I miss this guy.
ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Major difference is that TV and your examples aren’t a firehose free for all of content. There is at least a minor barrier to entry. Which helps stem some of the tide at least.
other_cat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s a really good discovering website I like called Favoree!