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Why Negativity Thrives on YouTube
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3,514 Views • Apr 13, 2023 • Click to toggle off description
In this video, I talk about how YouTube incentivizes commentary channels to exaggerate their real opinions, and why this skews toward negativity rather than positivity.

I'd noticed this with Halo Infinite, and I use it as an example a ton. What pushed me to actually make it was the clickbait surrounding the new Mario movie.

This video is different than usual obviously, so let me know what you think!
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@AngryAardvarkGaming

1 year ago

Can confirm this is true

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@MrWaifuTaker

1 year ago

It gets so fucking draining seeing negativity most of the time on YouTube, real talk.

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@crypticcomms

1 year ago

Mr.Plinkett's Reviews are HIGH ART, good sir. Rich Evans was once kicked out of an all-you-can-eat buffet and I've been striving to achieve similar greatness ever since.

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@NiMaGre

1 year ago

I noticed how much i've been feeding into that negativity bias recently and started to try and work against it. Mainly by avoiding negative videos in general and more focusing on positive videos about stuff i enjoy. For example challange videos, like a Halo Wars 0 Death Challenge, or hour long reviews of the games i love. It's hard going against that bias, but it's also nice to just have a genuine smile on my face, while i listen to people gush about how they love Fallout New Vegas.

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@lamborghininess

1 year ago

I think the youtube channel Crowbcat is a really good example of what you're saying. They exclusively compare/expose the shortcomings of video games. You would never see them post a video where they're solely praising a game and showing why its so good.

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@davethefreshmaker

1 year ago

Most people live in the "middle of a chart" so only way of glance at extreme is through social media and platforms like youtube. Great video as always my frog...man..

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@IanThatMetalBassist

1 year ago

Omg I haven't thought about Kingdom for Keflings in years

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@BlazenWrath

1 year ago

Good video. I could make a lot of “negative” content on Halo Infinite but I’m choosing not to because that’s already been done to death and 343 takes forever to respond to feedback. So far I’m just making fun videos that I feel like making.

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@ashhabimran239

8 months ago

These negative video essays are a serious disease on YT. What you said about influence, I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel that these videos can cause people the mindlessly agree and start hating on something. It's so fucking tiring to see negativity like this everywhere on YT and spread like cancer. People often go on about how YT isn't as toxic as Twitter, TikTok or Reddit, but YT's toxicity lies in these 5-hour long negative video essays and feeling superior in hating popular things. Seems to be toxic Internet culture that's existed since the 2000s

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@Beavcoon

1 year ago

I completely forgot Kingdom for Keflings existed until you brought it up, also I think it works well with your point. I played the hell out of it 10 years ago, and I can't think of a better example of a game you can absolutely love but hardly think about. Meanwhile I can think of 10 games/movies off the top of my head that I hate despite having never tried them because I watched a youtuber talk about it.

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@Chimpywashere

1 year ago

This video ain't negative enough, I hope it does well.

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@victorvatari8333

1 year ago

I can't click 99% of thumbnails, they are all the same

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@zafelrede4884

1 year ago

Wow, this is a really good essay and it really resonanted with me. Thanks for making this!

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@PhluppeHimself

1 year ago

tbh, the last years I'm kinda fed up with all these negative vids I've seen and came to the same conclusion. Not saying everything is perfect and some things don't need sugarcoating if they're indeed bad (like a sloppy game or series with a lazy unoriginal story), but seeing a lot of youtubers going "this sucks because lol" is getting a bit exhausting. Sometimes after work and I just wanna check some new content on yt and just chill and have a laugh. Glad to see someone adress this or at least make people aware of it.

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@dylanherron3963

1 year ago

If ya think about it, it's just micro-focused dynamics that cable television and their ratings system already figured out: Controversy sells. At the end of the day, creators need to drive traffic, and that is easily done if you can constantly find things to get people miffed. People would rather watch Bum Fights and a montage of "people getting served" than watch a docu-series about a breakthrough technology that could revolutionize water filtration for impoverished places like Congo and India.

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@MrAbgeBrandt

2 months ago

Unexpected video on a halo channel, but really good one! What you say is simply correct, not much to add.

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@Salty-ji1pb

1 year ago

Yanno, I've been using youtube as my main source of entertainment ever since 2016 (in case you're wondering, no, by some miracle I don't currently have depression) and I've always known about how youtubers often exaggerate, but I love how this video goes into detail about the extent of it and why people are motivated to do it in the first place which is something I've never really seen before. Great video!

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@wolfthegreat87

1 year ago

Dude I remember playing Kingdom for Keflings on the XBoX Live Arcade back in the early 2010s, I completely forgot about it until right now

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@majesticglass

1 year ago

The "everything great about" series from cinemawins is one of my favorites. The rampant negativity on YouTube is annoying, I usually stick to informational or comedy channels

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@skippydw1228

1 year ago

I love it when youtube recommends hate videos of movies/games/subjects that I've never even experienced thus have no opinions on. Recently I got a TON of "Jurassic World Dominion is THE WORST THING IMAGINABLE" type videos which is a movie I've never seen and so my impression at all these hateful videos was just "damn people, it's just a movie, calm down." Everything's so insanely vitriolic you sometimes wonder if their family was killed by a movie or something. I didn't like the previous JW movies so I just... didn't watch the new one because I knew I wouldn't care for it lol.

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