Jerry Seinfeld slams YouTube

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A little old, but still 2015
http://www.tvguide.com/news/jerry-s...-giant-garbage-can-of-user-generated-content/

Ironic coming from a guy who makes stupid videos about people getting coffee and is making millions from online revenue. That's definitely sophisticated.

Anyways, I do agree that 90% of YouTube is crap and only a select few are legitimately good. Part of me thinks he's jealous since people can get famous for making subpar vids while he had to actually be "funny" and "talented"

I never liked Seinfeld as a person and never watched the hit sitcom,so I have no reverence for him.
 
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I completely forgot about archival value. I've personally found things on Youtube that I never expected to see again and couldn't find anywhere else.

So yeah, Youtube has enormous value, just like public-access television did back in the day. But just like public-access, that value is in information rather than entertainment.
 
c-no said:
Considering instructional, that can be attested with the likes of YouTubers that made videos on how to build your own computer or even what sort of build they came up with.
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Also, for almost any consumer product, if there's a common way it breaks, some guy has done a video on how to repair it. Sometimes, these even work.
 
It's easy to be bitter about Youtube, because there's no way to predict why people get famous off of it. There are a lot of "comedians" who make it through Youtube, from the comfort of their home, never having to stand in front of an audience for weeks, months, and years, never making headway and suffering from failure. I could see why someone like Senfield, who worked hard to make it, would resent a get-rich-quick kind of service like Youtube.
 
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I could see why someone like Senfield, who worked hard to make it, would resent a get-rich-quick kind of service like Youtube.
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I don't think someone with $820 million is bitter about YouTube. I think he just thinks the content is shit. Also, nobody gets rich off YouTube. Maybe they get lower middle class at most. If they started upper middle class.
 
I don't care about Seinfeld or his show (good as I hear it is and how it holds up even today and all that other BS...) - too bad he is right. YouTube is only good for so much anymore when everyone is trying to be famous and not actually working at it like real professionals like Seinfeld did for most of their lives. Sometimes, you need to get booed at and told you suck before you can truly be anything, especially an actor. Just about too much of YouTube and other hugboxes just don;t get that anymore and it's making humanity in general not just look exceptionally stupid, but like bunch of butt-hurt wimps as well.
 
If the Web is like giving everyone connected to the Internet their own printing press, then YouTube is just basically giving every person connected to the Internet their own personal TV station.

There's no gate keeper like there is for TV so inevitably the vast majority of the content is garbage. So Seinfeld is right on that point.

What he's wrong about is saying that it's all garbage; the content has scaled up to the point where the diamonds in the rough are so numerous and sharable and rankable that a viewer of the site could easily have the impression that it usually has good content if they didn't dig too much past the sawdust into the shit.
 
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Holdek said:
If the Web is like giving everyone connected to the Internet their own printing press, then YouTube is just basically giving every person connected to the Internet their own personal TV station.

There's no gate keeper like there is for TV so inevitably the vast majority of the content is garbage. So Seinfeld is right on that point.

What he's wrong about is saying that it's all garbage; the content has scaled up to the point where the diamonds in the rough are so numerous and sharable and rankable that a viewer of the site could easily have the impression that it usually has good content if they didn't dig too much past the sawdust into the shit.
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Oh definitely.

It's something of a different topic, but I'm saying the same thing about craft beer in the US. Now that every hipster and their grandma are making their own beer, there's tons of new breweries out there. Is a lot of the hipster beer out there mediocre? Yeah. My roommate did some homebrewing. It was mediocre.

Democratizing indulgences like entertainment and beer isn't amazing because of the average or mediocre things it produces. It's amazing because of all the really awesome stuff it produces.

Nobody goes on youtube to watch some nobody's let's play video. They go on youtube to watch superstars like Chris Chan make an ass of himself. (Well, replace "Chris Chan" with whatever normal people watch.)
 
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