Has Complacency Killed the Internet?

[@jakesethsnake1]

It's fun to be right on the heels of a digi video right off of work, makes your day a bit better.

[@ganmensmasher4091]

10 years ago when I was 10 years old, I used to google for sonic pictures and anything related to sonic.

[@jiado6893]

Actually, towards the end of High School, about 5 years ago, I did actually dive back into reading, thanks to fan fiction. But I think that still correlates with what you're saying; so many people have gotten into these stories because they grow out of a visual/audio format. I expect that scene will keep growing. Towards the end of 2016, I've been doing more reading in the form of nervously checking the news. It's become like a bodily twitch.

[@dacis2]

You reminded me of something our Prime Minister said in an interview recently: "When the Internet came, people thought it was marvelous. Now, everybody can speak. But the actual result is to the extent that everybody can speak, you get a lot of strange stuff on the Internet. Yet, on the other hand, to a great extent, people go on the Internet to access half a dozen major services. Google, Facebook, news sites, I suppose entertainment, porn. That is about it. It is not as if there a million different masterpieces in a library and you explore a new treasure every day. It did not turn out like that. Human societies are not like that."

[@ZerogunRivale]

The one thing i'll disagree with is that human societies ARE like that. People want the maximum amount of comfort, the maximum amount of ease, and all done through the least amount of work possible. Let's be real here: the impetus is on the people and what they choose. People aren't reading today even though tons of masterpieces are available because reading is hard for them. People are not watching classic movies because you can't simply let go, you have to engage those movies. People chose to watch awful news shows on TV, watch trashy entertainment shows, and do the lowest common denominator things, all of which have had high sales and ratings for years. If the human race wanted to, it could destroy Google, give competition to KZbin, become literary masters, make small mom and pop shops thrive over Walmart, and then some. But they don't. Because that's too hard.

[@ZerogunRivale]

First off, my/us watching this video means very little in the grand scheme of things. We, as much as I hate to admit it, are an echo chamber. By the end of the week, this video will max out at about 20,000 views, if that many. I've seen too many examples of people who think there are more of them than anyone else only to realize how little they are. Totalbiscuit is probably the biggest gaming KZbinr (who isn't a PewDiePie clone) with over 2 million subs, and yet, much of the great ideas he speaks of still don't penetrate the mainstream. Secondly, what you're saying sounds like a lack of human responsibility. You can blame the "system" all you want, the fault is always with free will. There are always opportunities for people to break out and be more. How about the thousands of anime fans who watch Digi's videos and say, "durr, how can you lik k-on you pedo" without engaging him, even if he's explained himself multiple times. That's willful ignorance in the face of intelligent dialogue. How about the intellectually stimulating books that are introduced to kids in high school like 1984? I've met plenty of people who have ahd an opportunity to watch a film classic, and many oft them find them boring, slow, and dislike the black and white ones. Many come out of Citizen Kane outright hating it. How about the hundreds if not thousands of mainstream movies that talk about becoming more, doing more, and being "different", yet people fall into their comfortability. People more than any other time in history have exposure to be so much more. This is one of the many reasons I can't take, "It's the system holding us down, man!" mentality seriously. It's an excuse to learn what is essentially basic economics: if you want to tear anything down or build anything up, change your shopping habbits. As for the possibility of me being a hypocrite since i'm on KZbin . .. well, i'm here to support Digi and the ones I like. And wherever they go, i'll pretty much go as well, even if it means leaving KZbin.

[@ZerogunRivale]

I admit I may have gone off on a tangent in some of my list point and I may have understood some of yous. My point with the classic films, books, etc. stuff was a general point. It's not that people should specifically go into those areas. It's a more general point about how most of humantiy acts in willful ignorance. Perhaps in some level the system is promoting a certain way of doing things, but the existence of systems is usually dependent on how much humanity is willing to put up with to begin with. To give an example, the idea of people having short attention spans and wanting shorter videos with a certain kind of content always starts with their demand. I get what you were saying about being a light in darkness. I admit I was kind of stretching the term "echo chamber" to fit my needs for my argument. My point, in simplest terms, is that there are very few of us willing to engage and do something other than simply be propagators of bad systems, even if sometimes we may not have a choice in the moment (ie. I like Digi's content, therefore, I watch KZbin).

[@TheLonelyLuneon]

I complain about this all the time to be honest. Glad someone with more followers/subscribers than me thinks the exact same thing. If I complain it's me "being salty" because I "don't have a million subscribers". You're the big fish here so I'm glad since more people will listen to you if you say it. So yeah, thanks for making the video. I appreciate it.

[@LZRDWZRD]

It's funny that you bring up the difficulty with reviewing books, since that's actually what I've transitioned into doing here on KZbin (mainly focusing on analyzing one book series) and have been able to get a fairly big audience from it - but it's really challenging to edit engaging videos compared to ones for movies and shows. I typically lean on official art and fan art (with occasional art donations of specific scenes and characters from fans) and do the whole Ken Burns panning style along with using a character with poses like you used to. Despite all of that, I've found it to be a really fun medium to work with, since it does force me to be somewhat thoughtful and creative with my presentation. I'd like to see more people willing to give book analysis/review videos a try since I think it's a really undersaturated field (that has a lot of potential given the right people!)

[@OutlawsGraveyardShift]

At one point I had wanted to start up a channel analyzing Warriors (and other books when done with that series), but I had no idea someone already was! Subbed.

[@christianmancino1672]

You describing breaking down videos between the plus-30-minutes and the less-than-10s and which videos you need to watch as well as listen to describes me eerily well.

[@starcrossedother]

- Wikipedia for news and random knowledge. - KZbin for general entertainment and insight. - Xvids for carnal pleasure. - Also the pirate bay cuz I'm entitled.

[@DanielAvelan]

Don't forget Buzzfeed for Grandma's forwards.

[@andleepfarooqui7874]

Wikipedia is a wellkept site. It's very reliable for mathematics and science and fairly reliable for other stuff.

[@TheMaplestrip]

Wikipedia editor here. Seems like some people here don't know how Wikipedia works? Two points: The front page news box is excellent for if you want to keep track of international news without having to dig through all the bullshit that surrounds it. "Bulgaria got a new prime minister" "ten people died in a terrorist attack" etc. it has strict quality control and editorial oversight, unlike many other websites. Wikipedia articles are a collection of sources. You read Wikipedia to see the sources summed up. If you don't trust what you read, you check the source. It's baffeling to me that this stuff isn't common knowledge. Wikipedia is the most useful and amazing tool of our generation and some people don't want to use it?

[@DanielAvelan]

What? Check sources? Next you're gonna tell me to look the discussion page! What do you think we are, literate people?

[@Ninjahankin]

I try to read articles on other websites but my god those pages are flooded with ads. And they do a top 10 article about something, they have the nerve to put each point on a separate slide so you have to click every time so see the next point. During the windows XP era, I was paranoid to go on websites that I don't know because getting spyware and viruses was much easier to get back then. If I stay on KZbin, I know i'm safe and the only risk is getting my account hacked. I think it was a collection of events throughout the life of the internet that led us to the current state of social media.

[@HxH2011DRA]

Ninjahankin Kill those sites with fire fucking every point it's own page and it's 2 sentences fuck that XD

[@SurprisinglyDynamicAnimeSideC]

Ninjahankin (Clicks on article titled"Top 75 Reasons to Love Spagettio's!") ( *it's 75 pages long* ) And people wonder why KZbin hasn't died-off yet despite 99.99 percent of users hating everything about it

[@HxH2011DRA]

^This

[@monx84]

Congratulations, you've been selected to win a ipod nano.

[@DanielAvelan]

It is a vicious cycle, the more people get desperate to make the money they used to make, the more they annoy the remaining users into leaving. Every content creator is having to go to youtube, which actually pays even after all the hassle, and Google can keep that war of attrition because it never fucking runs out of money. That said, I do think google will end up giving up on youtube when it's proven that even thought they still have the money to keep their cultural monopoly afloat, it isn't and won't ever be worth. What I do worry is what and how much will be lost until that day. I miss 4 hour long analysis were every inch of the movie is looked at; I miss interactive blog posts, and remixes and movie edits, dumb mini games;and yes, even newspapers. It's good to read the news from someone that's actually a journalist.

[@rahmansani92]

meanwhile in KZbin HQ, *All according to keikaku*

[@DeeRhoe]

No joke, Digi lives in my dream room, a tight space full of posters and anime films.

[@fros333]

The death of forums really limited interaction.

[@ringorokii913]

Your channel always makes me so nostalgic and sad for the mid-2000s... I miss the exploration and discovery of the internet, now it's so monotonous. Everything feels mass-produced.

[@Michirin9801]

The only things I do other than watch youtube on the internet is occasionally watch anime and/or cartoons and hang out on a couple of forums...

[@brainnim9935]

Damn, this video made me open my eyes to how much everything in the net is just streamlined and homogenized. Everything is funneled into little feeds. The exception to that I've found is when go hunting for old stuff, mostly in the form of old software or games. I revisit absolutely broken sites with dead links and ancient html. There's sometimes shit that you have to revive via Internet Archive or some translated mirror that is hosted on someone's pathetic web shrine. There's a real nostalgia looking at that kinda stuff and an insane payoff if you finally find a working link to what you're looking for. Fuck, this video made me miss flash games and even the shitty flash videos. The bazillion forums that everyone and their mom made just a decade ago. The random little web pages with shitty UI design that absolutely lacked any sort of professionalism but had this amazing PERSONALITY. If you went on a web space, it had someone's name on it and a real sense of ownership. Dammit, the mystery of it all is gone. I can't imagine how much worse it is for guys that grew up on IRC and BBS. The subsystems that people might have frequented than before are just fucking gone. I might complain about how I can't bug xdanond to make Starwish 2 since he's vanished off the face of the web but that's fucking nothing compared to how much of the net has just fucking vanished. Digital work in general is so fucking volatile and can just evaporate in a matter of months.

[@auntgroaker9039]

Brain Nim God you're comment made me feel a little sense of loss and nostalgia, and I've only been online since 2007 or so. I've never felt it before but things really have changed

[@DanielAvelan]

Brain Nim Nothing sadder than remembering a great blog posts and never finding them again.

[@AlienFetus]

Digi's out of control. Totally on a roll, keep going

[@Vexillifer]

Getting constantly interrupted. Each time I pause Digi makes a derp face :P

[@NotCreativeEver]

The fact most people only check five or so sites these days is depressing, especially considering how much of a Wild West the Internet was back in the early 2000s. It's also worse now that these few sites are just bombarded with click bait. It's really hard to be excited using the Internet when I'm just refreshing the same few sites over and over.

[@stealthmissionpath]

KZbin was always a shit business model. Having your work being controlled by someone else and have it risk being taken down for bullshit copyright or false flags is always a bad idea. I also hate how stale KZbin has gotten. The passion for the site as a whole has vanished. People used to post videos about their cats and stuff, but now people only give a fuck about making money and trend hopping to stay relevant. Not much people are experimenting anymore. People are doing what's trending cuz it's easy money, but all that does is promote a lot of derivative trash such as Pewdiepie clones and Drama Alert wannabees. Like you said, making your own site to do your own business is very hard considering that KZbin monopolizes so much, but it looks like it's the only way to do so.

[@WalkingGirlKoi]

Damn, I remember when Blip was still alive and anime blogs were normal. Yeah, everyone kept posting their videos to Blip and advertising them on YT through previews and links. Anime bloggers actually writing and me finding random people was typical. And really, I wouldn't have mind anime blogging for the hell of it back then, but the audience for that is dead because everything has shifted to KZbin, Reddit, etc.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

I have about 50 tabs on chrome, 90% of them are written articles. I'll read them.. some day...

[@hemangchauhan2864]

When my Chrome is about to crash, I bookmark them. And I still haven't touch those. ;_;

[@unaliveeveryonenow]

That must be how Internet Archive started.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

WikiJippo Thanks man, but I use a similar extension called "The Great Suspender"

[@TheoneandonlyDrops]

mine are all tvtropes...

[@huzzah3234]

Rather than not wanting anything spoon fed, I think it's more like, there's just so much stuff we want to do nowadays, that the ones that require more effort get pushed back in favor of other stuff on the same priority level that is easier to consume. I've still spent ages on obscure indie video game sites because that's the only thing at my highest priority level. I'm sure other people have their own thing that's their top priority as well.

[@xycubed]

"Maybe think about trying to expand your horizons and going out into the Internet more..." And do it through this one neat exploration app that everyone uses! (Stumbleupon etc.)

[@gaagleboss6449]

You talking about commentary channels with gameplay background?

[@DebonairDylan]

I'm stuck inside and playing a lot of your "After Dark" content as background as I write. It's kind of funny that now you write books and post them as audio books on KZbin.

[@MechanizedGamer]

So I'm only 18 so when I watched KZbin back when I was 11 years old in 2009, it was a different website. You went to raywilliamjohnson for highlights. Anyone with a channel did what they wanted, not what the norm was. I basically caught the beginning of the shithole that followed. 2012 and onward, shit got too fast paced. And at this point, you're 100% correct, it's 5 fuckin sites. Reddit, KZbin, twitter, and twitch. That's all I use! 4chan once in awhile but it's super chaotic itself. There's no way to know what you're getting when you open an app. Like a slot machine. But what your title expresses is another level. And the most fucked up thing, is it's true. The internet HAS gotten too complacent. There's too much fuckin shit. No where near enough time to consume it all. And it wasn't like that back then. You could consume all of what you wanted to in one day. Music is free. Everything is right there and comes right to us. Good content (like yours) is so rare it's unreal. Everything is fuckin generic so now you're spending 40% of time sifting through the USELESS shit. KZbin is so fucked now. Use it how you want to it doesn't matter at this point. Ads are so fuckin useless that's actually amazing how you said that because I've never heard another person say that. It's been a joke since before 2012, nowadays it's a literal shitshow. Adblock is life at this point. Reddit is still my favorite but like you said it's a lot of filters to get to where you want. At least you get unique shit though. Who cares the internet will get to a point to where everything is generic. You will end up endlessly digging only to strike gold once a month. Capitalism is part of the problem but it's bigger than that. The problem has a solution, but I certainly don't have it and not enough care about it tbh.

[@Nat_Blasphemous]

As someone who recently got accepted into a tight nit (20 people per year) animation program, all the professors keep saying how it'll be a small industry. During a lot of my prerequisite courses we've had assignments sort of like the undertale thing you came up with that are highly experimental. The thing is, I notice a lot of peers try and complete them on a base level by essentially checking off the required points for a grade and not taking it further; however, everyone in my program had to submit a portfolio that was rigorous to compile and I have a feeling a lot of my new peers will have taken the assignments further as I did to get in. All those minds have now delved into a locked box so to speak and I feel a lot of what'll come out will be passed around inside and networked through alumni but will not need to make it outside because these things pay well and it will just stay an "indie thing". I guess my point is, there is stuff out there but sometimes it may not be reaching the mass audience because it doesn't need to to exist. I would love to challenge that though.

[@JLCL01]

I had like tears in my eye while just having this blank slate face. Not cause you said anything groundbreaking or motivational but just amuse Ike been aware of this shit for years. Thought I could get by without Twitter or Facebook. Nope! Also doesn't help I lost motivation to do art tonight. If I were you talking about this topic, I would have been fuckin raging. Eh, whatever, guess I'll start making some top 10 video shit.

[@DJvolli]

You perfectly captured my experience with the internet

[@MikaelaSzekely]

I definitely want to see that Undertale analysis now.

[@reNINTENDO]

6:06 I see you, spit drop. Don't you dare think I didn't.

[@sageemerald7685]

The holy trinity of "I don't belong anywhere and it's my own fault" 4chan, Reddit, Funnyjunk.

[@volbla]

All this made me think of is that i've seen a lot of illustrators with patreons.

[@KitKat_293]

I put this on while I was making dinner so..true lol. I get around some of these problems using tumblr. But it is still just another platform people are forced to use to get seen, but it has more variety than KZbin or Twitter. I mean that's a place im constantly reading book reviews, looking at art, seeing some interesting new art forms pop up, and there's some nice customization with your home page. But if you use it for a while, get a following, you can pretty much link people to all your original content so it is useful in that specific way Reddit is not. It also encourages more originality than Reddit since the vote system is so hemogenous. Tumblr had a good tagging system where they promote content with a small amount of feedback to get it views. So like I know plenty of artists, reviewers, creators who could literally program a unique website experience, link all their hundreds of tumblr friends, and get a following going. It also attracts a hipster ish crowd, people who like feeling like they discovered the new/original/unique/sophisticated thing, so smaller stranger creators can get a real following. There's some hope there. Before tumblr I used stumbleupon a lot, around 2009-2011 era, and that was probably the most original Internet content I've ever seen. Very experimental projects and pages, really nice. We should start migrating back there lol

[@cmc107]

Anyone remember in the early 2010's that alot of minecraft exploded on youtube. That was a weird time back then. I was eating pretzel bagels and cheese during videos and now I can't find any more pretzel bagels at any store.

[@caldera11]

yeah, i feel it as well, I really miss the days when youtube wasn't a place people needed to harass for patreon, subscriptions, etc. and instead was mainly a site for hobbyists to make interesting content

[@torctorctorc]

I've actually been slowing down and reading a lot more articles since i started using twitter and a smartphone. The fact that you can only look at one thing at one thing at a time really helps. And having a centralized platform that redirects to other places is convenient. KZbin is poison tho.

[@NamhadiNdemufayo]

Social media may be an evolutionary dead end. At least in the creative sense.

[@daltonriser1125]

i'll admit that when you made that video about the videos that were up on other sites over on the main channel my thought was well it will be on youtube at some point

[@persononline123]

There's a giant booktube community! If there's a guy reviewing mcnuggets than there are people reviewing books...

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

I'm still active.

[@Trixiethegoldenwitch]

Well dang, I prolly shoulda checked back haha

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

It's fine. We haven't talked in ages, but I still watch a lot of your videos because I genuinely find them very insightful.

[@mrpernickety3]

CloudCuckooCountry oof them feels

[@SomeGermanNerd]

There are most certainly plenty book reviewers on youtube, as well as a bunch of book-club inspired video series and video podcasts. I don't believe any of them are hugely successful, but they're out there. Usually focusing on one niche or another. I think it's harder to create audiovisual content about purely textual media, but it's definitely possible and has been done.

[@ДмитрийКончаков-п5ы]

KZbin (basically for intertainment but I watch science videos) Vkontakte (it's basically Russian Facebook only there're many movies and music available) KissAnime ('cuz I'm a pirate, yo ho.) MAL and Shikimori (Shikimori is Russian MAL) These are my top sites I use a lot. Of course I google something to find interesting information if I'm interested in a particular topic, and just remember dozens of other sites but I don't use them THAT regularly. Your video made me realize something. I have to somehow use my time proficiently.

[@Punisher9419]

forgotten weapons has book reviews on KZbin. but that's really niche. they are very successful as well

[@JuliesFailLog]

Honestly the only thing I seek out anymore is web comics, though a lot do come through the hub of smackjeeves, which is just part of the problem you discussed.

[@souls9184]

Creators have to move first. If a couple hundred notable youtubers got together, choose a different site, told everyone about it, and stuck to JUST that site, it could cause a domino affect. But I imagine most won't want to do that because it's a risk, but they're the only ones who can do it, the viewers can't move first.

[@StupidTreyarch]

Stay woke, digi.

[@Zyxenfryx777]

Podcasts are the new wave. IDEOTV. A podcast about bad books.

[@pleasesubscribedad]

Has anyone ever laughed so hard at a CGI crowd shot that they pooped the bed? I sure have. Tried showing it to my dad and mom and they pooped themselves too. Never gonna try showing anime to ANYONE again after that embarrassment. I guess it's just Big Bang Theory and Ready Player One from now ON. LOVE ur content.

[@pleasesubscribedad]

you probably liked death note the movie and not the magma

[@VividBagels]

:D

[@VividBagels]

:(

[@VividBagels]

if you ain't got nothin nice to say then don't say nothin at all, buddy

[@tammy-0]

With paypal you can do payments at regular intervals. Ross scott (of accursed farms) does this instead of patreon. (he's great btw)

[@Theyungcity23]

As a person who loves books: books are hard to share and will probably never reach popularity like other mediums because they are designed to be exclusionary. People used to hide info in books, giant books that you couldn't run with books with locks on them. And only a relative few were literate for a long time. Even fewer were deeply literate and able to analyze and talk symbolism which is where you would put the real information. Right now, there are more books than people. It just makes the chances of you and I having read the same book very slim and the chances that both of us actually understood and finished the book is an even slimmer chance. I'd be hard pressed to find someone irl who has read the fucking Harry Potters books.

[@BronzeApparathus]

mind elaborate more on why the chan is dying?

[@unaliveeveryonenow]

4chan monthly visits 95 million, youtube visits 20 000 million, reddit visits 1 100 million. Not enough users to be relevant is one thing.

[@aginpro]

Don't PayPal take more money than patreon when you send money? it also seem that webcomics are the last bastion of having your own creative space.

[@CGoody564]

filmcut no,they don't.

[@uiluj13]

I think everyone knows we have become complacent consumers (which is ironic since many people consider the internet to be the perfect free market). No one wants to change though because people remember there was myspace before facebook. Someday, the invisible hand of the market will spontaneously create a new youtube or twitter or reddit when they stop appealing to their customers. This argument convinced me when I first heard it, and you can't really debunk something that's unfalsifiable. Years later, and I'm still waiting for that invisible hand to fricking jerk everyone off! I personally don't go to random ass websites anymore because I know absolute shit about computers. It's sad for someone who grew up with the internet and uses it everyday, but I don't want to take the risk by going to shady and obscure websites that gives my computer aids.

[@BinaryDood]

Everyone go to webtoons.com so the comics medium doesn't die plz. Maybe with enough traffic decent stuff will actually appear in there

[@se-n-fly-er]

I do check out your videos on other websites when you post redirects here but I see your point.

[@danielrauch643]

Better Than Food Book Reviews can do book reviews successfully, because Clifford Lee Seargent is a fucking god.

[@lachlanmclean6322]

I followed since your early my little pony videos to now and even see your videos on your website, vid me, dailymotion and your alt youtube channels I'm still with you also whens PLEEB AND WEEB SEASON 2 coming out its been awhile or are you waiting till more anime comes out for better episodes

[@TheSamuraiXX011]

03:15, Same here and it's not surprising. There's too much information out there. If the 90's was about getting online and the 00's were about connecting online, then the 10's is about aggregating and sorting ALL the content, making it searchable and user friendly. I got it from a Ted Talk or another YT video somewhere. I don't know where. There's a lot of talk about data, SEO, and UX. Great channels and content goes unnoticed because it doesn't come up in an algorithm somewhere. 05:24, I disagree. I think people can go niche and probably should go niche. It's about making the content searchable. I don't know how to do that. I'm figuring that out myself. It's part the marketing process.

[@bayluNO]

KZbin has fucked my ways of media consumption. And I don't know if I am gonna change that. It is true that the content that KZbin alone gives me, could fill out my day. And I am glad that many of those, I only need to listen to so I can do someone else, like, play a video game. Wait. Should I be glad about that? Should I be glad about trying to mix medias together just to "save" time? Sometimes I just look at my subscription box, desperately trying to unsubscribe some channels just so I have a bit more air in my life, because the more channels I am subscribed to, the more I put myself into this misery of having to watch new ideas and thoughts every day. Ideas and thoughts aren't supposed to give me misery, but here they do. Because when am I gonna watch some Anime again? I love doing it, but I barely do it because all the KZbin content is just easier to digest and it is very often context-sensitive to the moment it was uploaded. When I don't watch a certain KZbin video RIGHT NOW, I feel like I am missing out on something that is happening RIGHT NOW. IN THE MOMENT. WHERE EVERYONE ELSE IS WATCHING TOO. While an anime just sits there, waiting to be watched. Some time. Maybe. Somewhere in the future. Nah, I'll guess, I'll take that off my Plan to Watch list on MAL because when do I have the time, eh? I probably should change a lot about my ways of media consumption. But I guess I am just too lazy to change anything...

[@johnmraz4332]

To me the content surge is helpful. I work quietly in an office and I can consume youtube through audio while I work. It makes my workday, which is very monotonous, pass by easily. That and a couple podcasts. I'm huge in audio content.

[@ggwp638BC]

You know what I miss? Forums, message boards and image boards, this is where discussion and stuff on the internet happened. Now the closest we have to it is Reddit, which due to it's nature ends up creating echo chambers on it's subreddits, and the dying 4Chan with it's small sons.

[@exoplanet1100]

i miss 2003-2007 internet

[@cloudmaan4035]

I get this. I'm gonna have to branch out more, especially since I now realize how far I've actually gone off the front porch (front yard).

[@Kuudere-Kun]

Not everyone on Blip came back to KZbin, SFDebris still doesn't consider KZbin worth the hassle. SFDebris talked about Issac Asimov's Foundation series on KZbin, things where he doesn't need video clips are all he uses KZbin for. And those are pretty good. Also Pulp Crazy talks about Books. I think this not using the rest of the Internet thing is just you. Blogs i have follow have some pretty decent communities. Some days I come to KZbin the least of any website. What's really Ironic is, I got crap for Self Promotion on your Reddit.

[@daltonriser1125]

i haven't heard anybody outside of the PCP talk about 4chan lately

[@ew275x]

I feel the Internet has become more about the people rather than the content. Even fucking Wikias have like Featured contributors on the main page. People like to gawk at others and hell it's why some people prefer your After Dark channel rather than your main one. I do visit a variety of websites, but I go for the cheaper one like Crunchyroll/MyAnimelList news gets me up to date on anime news but is there a cool interesting way to digest anime news? I just want, hey they released these PVs. cool.

[@ぬんぬんビム]

IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE 41ST MILLENNIUM, THERE IS ONLY KZbin

[@McDudes]

All the writers need their own you-book-cloud-tube

[@Spyderist]

Something like Newgrounds was a portal site that maintained a sense of (abeit aggressive) community where most of the creators were talking to and forming work competing with other creators. Not sure if you were too young to experience it in its heyday or not .

[@MinecraftDecoders]

You forgot about two VERY important websites that we all use on a daily basis.

[@milesseawind]

I remember when I used to go on 20+ sites a day... good times...

[@zachabel805]

Remember having the time of my life checking out forbidden websites by my parents such as newgrounds, the old 9gag or blogspot when I was 8 or 9 years old, even if I didn't understand that much english back then. But I think this is a problem relating more to english speaking individuals, because the youtube anime community of my homeland is a bigger shithole than here in the states, so much of the interesting analysis here can be just found in wordspress and on independent websites via written articles.

[@TheBellman]

I've been doing book reviews for the Metro 2033 series for a while, but I'm able to cheat and use visuals from the video games to get by. And my videos are garbage regardless(I'm not very happy with the one I'm putting up tomorrow).

[@Deifendorf]

Digi, I never realized you had such beautiful, steely eyes.

[@nexusomega8454]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it but the website medium.com is just articels randoms write

[@taylortierney6542]

KZbin, a bunch of forums (well, only five really), a few manga sites, SoundCloud, a bunch of webcomics, occasionally torrenting/filesharing sites, DeviantArt and tumblr to look at pretty pictures/share my shitty pictures, one or two browser games/flash games. I'm still pretty complacent, but I spend a decent amount of time off of KZbin.

[@papabungle]

Yeah. I've noticed this too. I remember when the internet was taking off at the end of the 90's everyone thought it would be this great democratize of information and that anyone can start up any sort of business and be successful. But more and more it's clear that what the internet really does is create monopolies with everything it touches. KZbin has become a monopoly for internet videos. Amazon has become a monopoly for web store. Google has become a monopoly for internet search. The infrastructure needed to even hope to compete with any of these platforms is impossibly large and no company would ever try to take that risk. I wonder if in the future we're actually going to need to figure out a way to apply anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws to internet platforms like this.

[@pavelmeyer9197]

Can you (or someone else) also upload all your videos on vidme or another site? If my favorite creators would also upload somewhere else I'd watch them somewhere else. Make *insert name of streaming site* great again!

[@scaratlas3347]

Quora?

[@ObsessiveReaderfan]

There is also Crash Course Literature and a bunch of people who focus pretty much exclusively on Young Adult literature :( Because YA is the most widely read genre these days *sigh*

[@muxperience]

yo didn't realize you had those pretty af blue eyes

[@darmandez]

The problem is not really complacency, it's hopelessness. Like you said, what's the point on posting a video on other site if my primary concern is money?

[@TheVacuuminator]

I don't know if I even see it as that bad of a thing that everything online is becoming so homogenized and centralized these days. Considering the internet used to be referred to as the new wild west, it almost seems like the natural order of things in terms of paralleling the real world. Though that's not to say I don't think there could be a better version of this, As you pointed out in this video KZbin isn't even close to doing everything right in service of both of the types of users it has, and Patreon could at the very least use someone who actually knows they are running a banking service at the helm. But I don't see them being full on replaced by or getting really good competitions from other sites any time soon, they're the biggest titans of the industry and it will take a lot to change them, let alone topple them. But I do hope it happens someday, because if this 5 site system you've pointed out that all of us are on is the future, I hope the sites themselves don't stagnate and keep trying to improve themselves.

[@daltonriser1125]

well youtube may be fucking up pretty damn bad with all the advertisers leaving adsense is going down fast

[@dm-develop]

I mean to to say, that perhaps in the inconvenience we can find something of convenience, haha...hopefully that's clearer...

[@sphoon114]

got a call to action?

[@LuizAlleman]

any more "how to write gooder" videos?

[@9123498765]

You have pretty eyes man. Also this situation sucks... sorry about that.

[@jasonhealy8117]

Hey Digi if your following is large enough why not make your own website, where you could regulate your own content. You could still use KZbin but only so people can be introduced to your persona. Then at the end of your video's all you've got to do is link your site where you can have the content unfit for KZbin. Hell you could even charge people for some videos on said website. Just a suggestion, keep up the good work man.

[@hitachicordoba]

Sad to see my favorite youtubers doing Top 10, "Reaction" and unboxing videos just to maintain viewcounts... Lord Karnage was right.

[@kymox9945]

I know right!? Like fuck, KZbinrs have so much potential but they just get stuck chasing viewership and growth.

[@TheMaplestrip]

Oh boy am I glad no service has gotten a monopoly on webcomics. These services, like Bandcamp and KZbin, definitely makes it easy for new people to join, and webcomics has those too, but they compete with eachother. a Line webtoon is nothing like a Hiveworks webcomic which is nothing like a Tapastic webcomic which is nothing like what you may find on Tumblr. Competition between these kinds of services keep the barrier of entry low while also keeping a huge amount of variety around. Not to mention the independents.

[@dm-develop]

KZbin is mainstream....main way to find new stuff is either reddit like you mentioned or through people and the works that they create that doesn't involve a third party like KZbin, twitter, Facebook or instagram, for example....comments...opinions ??

[@TheoneandonlyDrops]

how about you make a bot (or a friend makes one) that logs who sent you money via paypal and then sends those people the rewards they would have gotten for that month. That would be a still very convenient way. those people could just set up an autopayment (or whatever it's called in english) to send you money monthly, so it wouldn't really be that much more effort. maybe at the start it'd be a lot of effort, but after that it's the same 'no effort' Patreon offers now.

[@AntiNihilist]

basically the internet is trying to make independent creators into an organized business, at least when it comes to the top internet sites

[@Grayheart]

I wouldn't say KZbin is my primary information provider. I usually link many RSS feeds to a single website (Feedly) and scroll through lots of articles.

[@eejdmrj3hw]

Poparena is a guy who reviews a lot of books

[@Japanimepop]

dude watching your videos is making me want to make my own content...

[@druid_thelegendary1246]

I actually read many articles and visit a bunch of different sites. Also although Twitter good for news I avoid it. I don't really like Twitter but on average I have at least 15 tabs open at once

[@gabrielwright-dunn9355]

If you want a channel that talks about books and literature, I would recommend looking at a channel called Overly Sarcastic Productions. They're pretty great.

[@classysheep6163]

KZbin is the new "TV".