web What irrates you about YouTube?

[Reecejackox 397]

I would say ad breaks 10

Edited October 9, 2022 by The Wife of Levi

[Splashee 28,563]

Faces on every thumbnail. The quest to get attention. The "don't forget to like share and subscribe" line that shouldn't be needed. YouTube not helping its community. Ads. Automatic copyright strikes. No dislike counter.

 

That's all? No. I'll find more later.

[Flying Pencil 3,024]

False copyright takedowns, favoritism, scammers, and the lack of communication.

[Balt 109]

Copyright bs, COPPA, Horse fame.

[Brony Number 42 10,069]

Click bait titles and images. I also don't like how the videos start to play on the app before you click them.

[EpicEnergy 23,218]

- Like, subscribe, and/or ring the bell (notifications)

- Clickbait thumbnails and titles

- Illogical copystrikes and copyright claims

- 2 ads and/or ads that are 10 seconds or more and un-skippable

That's what I can think of right now, as I'm sure there are much more things about YouTube that bothers me.

[Pentium100 2,122]

I use adblocker, but once I watched a YT video on a STB (no adblocker), the ads annoyed me to no end. If there was no other way to avoid ads, I would probably record the Youtube videos I want to watch to a VHS tape just so that I could fast forward tough the ads.

"Don't forget to like, share and subscribe, and also turn on the notifications" - no thank you, I don't want to get bombarded by emails or other forms of notification just because a video is posted. Most of them are not time sensitive anyway, there is no difference is I watch today or in a week.

Videos getting taken down for whatever reason. This does not happen too frequently, but that means that I get complacent and do not download every video I watch, then I get annoyed when I find out that some video I want to rewatch got taken down.

The way comments are sorted which makes it rather difficult to have a meaningful discussion. 

Age restricting videos. Thankfully the download script can bypass the restriction. I am not providing Youtube with my ID.

The fact that Youtube tries to hide demonetized (by choice of the uploader or not) videos.

The reasons for why some videos get demonetized.

[Splashee 28,563]

That most "YouTube Reactors" live on Patreon support but just watches things without doing anything.

[Sparklefan1234 170,325]

The thing that irritates me the most is when you have to scroll through the Youtubers stupid beginning or mid-video advertisements. 

"I know you want to keep watching this video but let me take a moment to tell you about..." SO irritating! 

[J.J 923]

You guys already covered most of it, just left out that videos made for YouTube kids can't be added to a playlist, I also respect the people that put their ads at the end of the video...

[zerox 1,110]

I really don't watch YouTube that much that anything would bother me. If I watch something 95% of the time it's about tech.

[Clawdeen 12,191]

The ads are annoying. I play music at work so I have to stop what I’m doing to go skip a 10 minute ad. 

[Cash In 22,289]

The site isn't functional half the time. Of course, bugs and stuff are a given, but it happens way too often.

[ChrysalisM 290]

The freaking algorithm.

 

'Nuff said.

[Fluttershutter 2,451]

Most everything.

Get an ad blocker and don't watch the ads.

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

COPPA

Literally killed dozens of comment sections because of faulty AI systems that should be human reviewed. YouTube is making us creators pay for their huge mistake. 
 

I'm glad YouTube is trying to make it a clean platform since I have a zero tolerance for profanity. 
 

Yes, ads are a huge pain, especially when I'm on mobile. 

[Hat988 108]

For a while I was reading the comments on every video I watched and I noticed a lot of them sound the same. That's OK, people have similar thoughts on similar topics. Then I encounter a comment that I have certainly read before. It has a whole life story to it (it isn't a meme copy-pasted). It seems authentic the first time it is read but when I see it months later on a different video, and this phenomenon happens at least three times with different comments and commenters, I lose trust that the whole section isn't just bots angling to persuade me.

[Splashee 28,563]

The constant reminders to subscribe. Even the subtle little icons, animations, that are thrown in your face, to make you, do the only right choice.

You get this animation of a hand with a thumbs up, a mouse cursor, and it clicks the hand, and then moves over to the red subscribe button. It tells you, how to like and subscribe to this very video you are watching, because you are going to do it, right? Right??

 

Spoiler

 

[azbat 305]

Comment sections being turned off. Especially when the uploader says, "comment down below." How?

[LassAmy 38]

Mostly the drama, including any that stems from YouTube themselves. It seems content creators are mad at them every day for something different than the last. 

[Fritzy 1,691]

Ads ads ads. Even the short ones that are only a few seconds long. Like fr I’m watching a few mins long video not like an hour or so. Leave me alone. 

[Megas 27,618]

- Obnoxious thumbnails really fucks with the algorithm promoting clickbait

- Autoflagging channels. Either it's flagging videos for adult content when there is none, or marking videos as for children just because it's animation. Really obvious no human being actually looks at them

- Algorithm promoting just the absolute worst people. Can't watch a video about Star Wars without getting bombarded by some loser screaming about TLJ

Edited October 18, 2022 by Megas

[Splashee 28,563]

The last couple of videos I watched yesterday were trying to be clever with the “like share and subscribe” and was absolutely insane with Patreon supporter names over the entire screen.

This is YouTube right now. 

[BritishBrony2012 803]

Adverts, negative comments, copyright for little things, Burps, annoying voice (shouldn't judge but sometimes it's annoying, that why I don't vlog cos I can't stand my voice), most people

Edited March 4 by BritishBrony2012

[ggg-2 3,552]

On 2022-10-08 at 11:14 PM, Sparklefan1234 said:

The thing that irritates me the most is when you have to scroll through the Youtubers stupid beginning or mid-video advertisements. 

"I know you want to keep watching this video but let me take a moment to tell you about..." SO irritating! 

Agreed. I came here for a video not an ad for NordVPN or Stamp.com.