Pop quiz hotshot. How much time, on the really real, are you spending on youtube? Do you pay for it? Subscribe to any channels? Listen to/watch opinion based content?
Anonymous poll, or chime in with opinions and truth-posting. Let’s see the numbers.
Typically only weekends in the morning. Mostly gear-related or technique-related, either music or kayak fishing. I’ve been limiting my exposure in an effort to mitigate GAS.
Watch lots and lots of live music sessions, music videos.
Then a bit of YouTubers like chess superstar Anna Cramling and dressmaking sensation Morgan Donner.
Then lots of pretty electronic music videos partially for what to buy advice and mostly for pretty lights and bloops.
Then finally some education stuff but mostly a reader not a viewer apart from tutorials on Digitakt and a few others. But some of these are long so that increases the viewing time.
Pay for Premium as interrupted concert videos are the worst.
I watch Bad Friends every Monday after work and then music related stuff as necessary. So more than one hour a week but less than one hour a day in total. I have thought of paying for it since it has on many occasions proven to be utterly invaluable. Definitely the only streaming service of any actual value in this world and if I did subscribe it’d be my first digital subscription to anything.
I use YT for background binaural sounds when I’m working from home to help with concentration (this would be around 20h but I’m not watching, just listening), then about 2-3 hrs vids/week on music stuff, then maybe an hour or two on random crap I don’t need to watch
It looks like this topic still has legs, so far it seems like a good cross section is appearing. As it’s 100% in the air who is voting what, all I can say is that some trends are appearing in certain areas and in other areas, stats are more diversely distributed. I wasn’t trying to be tricky in the phrasing of the answers, I was just trying to make it easier to find one that you agree with.
While observing, something occurs to me. I also, for myself, consider any time that I click a youtube video here or elsewhere on the internet for like a product site and they have the youtube video imbedded into it to be time spent on youtube. I know there’s also a blurry line about what’s educational and what’s entertainment, but I think people seem to be aware of their own motivations. To me, bad gear is not educational, although one could make an argument that you can learn from it if that’s your intention.
currently listening to about six hours a day of clips of the synth I just pre-ordered whilst working tbh.
Not looking at the picutres but I guess that counts.
THIS.
using it on all platforms (Linux, Mac, Windoze, iOS, Android).
its only drawback is that it eats more battery – but that’s inevitable because getting rid of ads requires quite some CPU power.
