#i miss the sincerity and closeness that that time period used to foster (extremely parasocial of me i know!!!!)

[scruffyminds]

i feel like youtube and similar medium form video content (by medium i’m talking those 10-20min videos that creators used to make) has really changed. i feel like the online niches have really changed in terms of the genres of videos now uploaded to the website. i know that obviously there’s my own bias of “whatever kinds of content i watch now” being constantly recommended to me but honestly. i miss when youtube was silly in a way that didn’t feel ….”formulaic youtube silly”. i feel like the current silly lighthearted videos on the platform carry this aura of “We Are Making A Silly Lighthearted Video For YouTube”. and that’s not to say old youtube wasn’t formulaic but there was a sense of sincerity that feels void now.