It’s very normal to feel this way. Luckily we can block it and browse somewhat freely without some YouTuber’s trying to sell something.
The frustration for me also reaches a boiling point when I search for piece of gear and I have to scroll through 20 bad youtuber ‘reviews’ to get to a demonstration made by a user that actually put effort into it.
Unfortunately there are some that also use this forum to spam their content/products. So you have to manually block them. There doesn’t seem to be a forum policy in regards to individuals using Elektronauts as a means to sell stuff, rather than participate.
It literally says this at the top of the facts:
“Please treat this discussion forum with the same respect you would a public park. We, too, are a shared community resource — a place to share skills, knowledge and interests through ongoing conversation.”
Those are still out there, just buried by the algorithm and totally not sponsored videos.
Exactly. I’m having this issue every time I want to learn something new on a synth. It’s like flipping over a stone to find the interesting little creatures underneath. Pages of thinly disguised adverts, then finally the fun jams where some excited person at their kitchen table is showing the bleeps.
I agree and I follow a lot of those type of channels. Just people jamming without any talking or anything like that.
Part of that “algorithm” is also the massive ad campaigns. People think that they come up top just because of views. In reality when a company sends 50 units for “review” they also have a massive budget for behind the scenes ad campaigns, SEO, digital marketing companies, chain of websites linking each other (like repost chains) etc.
Easy solution: Just click on that one by Sarah Belle Reid, for sure the only one of those that will contain inspiring sounds no matter if one never wants to buy that thing
Yeah it’s quite annoying, most ‘tips’ videos will have maybe one or two decent ideas padded out by 20 minutes of vacuous rubbish that you already know if you spent more than a day with the machine.
Kind of you to say that! The whole point is not about who makes better music or videos though. It’s about being fatigued by being marketed by synthfluencers everywhere.
It’s so fucking tiresome to be targeted by this. Yes I like synths, but when I want to watch a video on a Roland System 100m, I shouldn’t have to scroll through thumbnails of synthfluencers.
It becomes so annoying to a point where it feels invasive. Especially when it happens outside of YT or other social media.
Unless I’m blind or oblivious, I’ve barely seen any examples of people selling themselves or their stuff here. Occasionally someone will share a video they made playing with gear or their own songs or maybe even samples? But even then it never stood out as anything other than sharing something unobtrusively, like they might in a park.
Oh yeah, I’m also totally ok with that! And thankfully the spam doesn’t happen that often. It’s more that when I’m a park I would not want to be bothered by salesmen targeting me without considering my space.
my fav part of gear review videos are the demos and jams! i usually skip right to that hehe
other than that, can we give some appreciation to @Dataline and Elektron team for their demos, videos, and tutorials
Absolutely top class, i think most companies can only dream of having someone like Cenk around. I would say the closest thing currently is Andy Mac from Akai, that guy absolutely rips on the mpc machines too.
Andy is really amazing. I just left a comment here a few days ago, it’s still the best and most accessible MPC Beats/Software tutorial for beginners. I wish he made 50 of them though. It took me full two years two totally figure out MPC Software.
I sat up straight at the end when she casually opened up her GBStudio project and briefly mentioned the analogue pocket device. Now that would be awesome if she made tutorials and explored GBStudio, both the music and the game design aspects. I downloaded it months ago but lost my motivation and deleted it because it seemed too complex for me, but I still love the idea of it and may try it out again eventually.
I’ve noticed people who only post links to their own videos and don’t engage in any other way. I’ve also noticed people whose post history is all in the sell/trade marketplace. Fortunately, these appear to be very much in the minority. Too much of that would be unhealthy.
This is interesting. I agree with the general sentiment, which also applies to the internet as a whole these days. It’s become borderline impossible to get good results via Google if you’re not looking for something that can be bought but just need actual information or help. It’s just geared towards getting you to buy things.
However, my Youtube feed is also always full of people jamming with mostly Elektrons. And most of these videos are videos who only have below 1.000 views. And I‘m sure I‘ve watched a lot more synthfluencer/buy gear content over the last years than I‘ve watched jams by people with no audience.
Curious to hear if this is true for other people as well and why this might be the case.
I think it’s about “engagement”. YouTube for sure tracks it. I watched a lot of production tutorials, mostly people jamming and rarely gear reviews. But am not subscribed to any reviewer channels and I use “do not recommend channel” very often if i see things i dont care. My feed is pretty clean. But I rarely use homepage. I usually go to my Subscriptions and hang out there if i am not searching anything. If you continuously scroll the homepage and stop and “engage” on videos, my assumption is that YouTube thinks you want that content.
Thanks, that might explain it! If so, I have an easy recipe for @Zijnvolt: Just like a few jam videos you’ve enjoyed and maybe also some user comments. Haven’t done that much more. I still get some Synthtuber stuffing my feed, but I‘m also following some of these channels. You could block that content from your feed. It won’t solve your problem of actively finding good demos or insights for specific gear. I was only referring to my feed.
