I am so tired of these videos that sometimes pop up in my recommended feed. I don't know what it is exactly about them, but I've grown disdain towards them. https://www.youtube.com/@noodlefunny, https://www.youtube.com/@johnnyharris and other such creators. For Noodle, it's all the unfunny, immature and terminally online jokes, screaming, padding with completely unrelated distracting rants, and things of that nature. It's the perfect example for most YouTube essay videos these days. With Johnny Harris, it's the endless quipping and moralizing that detract from the video, and him forcing his appearance and his opinion at every opportunity instead of just presenting the topic matter. His videos are OK, mediocre, even with the high budget editing and journalism they do. Somehow, they still miss being authentic even with all that effort.

It's clearly not just the overediting. There are creators that create very edited high-production videos, but they are extremely good in their totality, like https://www.youtube.com/@LEMMiNO. How do they achieve that perfect balance? I couldn't tell you.

These days, I like to relax watching https://www.youtube.com/@ashens, https://www.youtube.com/@FredrikKnudsen, https://www.youtube.com/@Pseudiom, along with 90's and 2000's documentaries. They feel so much more substantial and authentic.

What is it that makes most of these modern videos such a dreadful experience? I can't really pinpoint it myself. Help me understand.

>>3835
brainwashing

The discomfort is cognitive dissonance from knowing it's bad and also something you don't want to acknowledge is bad being related to it.
If you had a clear vision of what is bad in life, you could easily throw it away.