Your Attention Sucks

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This is a video on attention grabbing (particularly on KZbin) and how it harms what would we consider "high quality content."
I have no dogs, so I'm not saying that I'm right on this topic by any means, but I have seen a lot more discussion surrounding social media platforms manipulating our attention more than I've seen discussions on the content that is on those social media platforms.
From TikTok to Mr. Beast, to the channels that try to emulate him, what we see time and time again is that the content we consume is incredibly attention grabbing, and there are some tricks that are constantly being used, like rapid cutting or rapidly revealing text.
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[@hoogyoutube]

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[@ibranmlr6139]

Dame

[@PHX1989]

The video quality is fine.

[@uydagcusdgfughfgsfggsifg753]

Longer videos are good, and the quality already is top tier

[@MartinDerTolle]

You will definitely earn my respect when you make longer videos. Exchanging quantity for quality really isn't bad when you can be subscribed to multiple people

[@Name_cannot_be_blank]

the algorythim may have selected you

[@fever040]

"A good speaker is one who can carry their audience through a story without breaking their focus" -> "This video is sponsored by NordVPN" Welp... there goes my focus.

[@cakeisyummy5755]

Your Focus wouldn't've gotten away if the Sponsorship was at the Beginning and or the End.

[@kartick9]

Than I skip

[@giaco7572]

@@lokingbob I think it is so obviously bad that it has to be on purpose. Or just for the joke, idk

[@hoogyoutube]

@@giaco7572 it was purely for the joke. Was written in the script before any editing took place

[@Justicky]

@@hoogyoutube lol I knew you put that in there on purpose, that shit was funny lol

[@RoderickEvers]

“Dutch people will always click on content about themselves.” Oof, thats true

[@yui8201]

true xD

[@ibranmlr6139]

Hmm

[@ibranmlr6139]

@@yui8201 indeed

[@Scurr_]

Yeah it's the same with Germans 😅

[@hobbiefox-pastrycat4568]

so it goes with all minor nationalities

[@Eliaassss69420]

For the last 6 months I’ve manipulated my KZbin feed to only contain scientific subjects. This has been great for me because I watch KZbin less than before and every time I do I learn something and thereby after after watching 2-3 videos I feel like I’ve accomplished something and I’m ready to do something else. This has had a direct effect on my grades in school because I study more and at the same time I learn things that I have use of. Thx for the great video! It made me take the last step which was deleting Tik Tok.

[@Joost2510]

Im doing the same thing man you got your own timeline in your hands. Kinda cool to see the effects of that every time you come on

[@ShekharKumar-jh3uc]

Poggers

[@arthurclery5731]

Took me a few months of deleting and reinstalling tiktok before I was able to stop using it fully. If you do end up relapsing, remember that it gets easier to delete every time.

[@vod1165]

Every now and then I find myself having to do some large scale feed culling, whenever I become aware that what is appearing is too attention grabbing.

[@paixnidiatab5230]

Shouldn't have even downloaded it in the first place lmao

[@overlisted]

Instead of getting my frustration towards the world sorted out, I'll take my anger out at random people on the internet who are just as clueless as I am. But I'll keep being cynical towards everything because that's more comforting than truly letting go to the insanity of being anything at all. But forget that. I can't even write that without cringing because platitudes that actually carry fundamental and important truths are just too scary for me to fully accept.

[@joshuahector634]

did you type the fake comment from 5:17 or ????

[@overlisted]

@@joshuahector634 i did

[@kittikulsupupkul]

@@joshuahector634 someone has to do it

[@arv7539]

the current state of the youtube comment section

[@arv7539]

@@malithaw nigga we're talking about people like you

[@Cyclops0000]

I remember reading about very old studies showing that long distance runners are more motivated and achieve faster times if there are more corners in their run. Short sight lines with clear goals you can reach allow you to handle things one part at a time while long stretches can seem daunting. Maybe the fact that a lot of things online had trained people to want things instantly but I think the desire to break things down into manageable chunks has always been there.

[@futuure]

I had to say it, that is such a refreshing comment, interesting perspective!

[@blakksheep736]

I suspect so as well. The human brain cam only hold so much at once, so it makes sense that it would naturally want to break a task into pieces it can handle.

[@xwing52]

This raises the interesting point about how if videos keep adding more and more cuts what will our attention span look like in 10 years especially if each video keeps gaining more and more cuts

[@harrylane4]

There’s an upper limit to how many cuts we can include before people just give up. It’s not a new phenomenon, we’ve seen this exact thing before in children’s television through the 80s and 90s.

[@MikeTheEntei]

Cut cut cut cut

[@dracula7779]

We nurture adhd untill we can keep up with really fast cuts and become superhumans for a few minutes each day, afterwards our brains fry out

[@resethel3843]

My little cousins have such a low attention span that they need to watch a movie or even a video in fast motion, like x1.5 or x2, sometimes higher. I fear it’s just gonna get worse

[@kikc]

@@resethel3843 "I fear" be happy stupid

[@SpookeyGael]

this is interesting to me because personally I tend to avoid shorter videos as I associate them with low quality content. I'd rather watch a 30-minute video on something I'm interested in than a 5-minute video on something I'm not.

[@timschulz9563]

Depends. If I want to have information fast, I choose shorter videos (and would choose them based on the like/dislike ratio...) but if I watch something in my free time, I choose more detailed content.

[@kairon5249]

@@timschulz9563 like-dislike? i can't even remember the days back when that was a thing.

[@matejpapler4146]

Me too, but often i find that it's just 3-minute info, but rehashed and retold several times to make it to 15 minutes.

[@Stadtschwimmer1]

@@matejpapler4146 True. 10 minutes seems to be the sweet spot for me where there is not too much repetition/padding but still room to explore things in some depth. Of course this depends on each of the content creators.

[@cakeisyummy5755]

Why would anyone watch a video about something that they literally do not care about.

[@DigitalSwirls]

I loved the fact that this video was relatively slow paced while explaining how fast paced videos with a lot of transitions have better watch times. "Please do not click off while the animation is transitioning", 😂

[@Scurr_]

Already almost at 100k. Damn this channel grew quick but its deserved in my opinion 🙌

[@ibranmlr6139]

Indeed

[@pifopifo1000]

Funny how his views are much more higher than his subs on most videos. People should just subscribe if they are coming back for more.

[@MotivationMadness]

The most underrated channel on KZbin. See you at 100k, 1mill, and more!

[@ibranmlr6139]

Hmm

[@gingerharm]

that

[@sigh.sy.s]

he’s at one of those already now

[@vasundhara136]

Already at 100k now!

[@lukky6648]

These types of comments now flood every youtuber i see , its fake.... doesn't feel geniune. Not everyone needs to be at 1M or 100M to be appreciated for what they do , those are literally just numbers

[@uydagcusdgfughfgsfggsifg753]

You’re on the precipice of success on this platform, you’re just in that lull experienced by channels just before they pop off. What happens is you’ll keep plugging away for a while, could be months, could be a year or 2, and then once one video pops, your whole backlog will start being recommended. Because your backlog is so high quality already, it’ll captivate the viewers who trigger the algorithm, leading to the algorithm identifying your channel as a high quality one, further boosting the recommendations in a virtuous cycle. You’ll come out the other side in the low millions for subs, and 1mm+ views on each video. This will be a massive windfall, as the bigger the backlog before the blowup, the more ad revenue you’ll get flooded with. Think of it as a prosperity timebomb you’re building, and the longer it ticks before blowing, the bigger the explosion. Just keep churning out high quality content like this, and you’ll be sitting pretty.

[@caam0000]

He has 1.2 m views on one video. He already have success.

[@interesting7215]

@@caam0000 that's not success yet

[@Vivacomunismo]

100%

[@vasundhara136]

I really hope that happens! Real good stuff here

[@67hutch]

^^

[@tokoloshgolem]

“Getting a VPN is as much as a sign of responsible adulthood as year by year physical degeneration is” Wow, what a salesman 🤣🤣🤣

[@0utOfSkill]

0:28 45 cuts per minute on average?! That sounds like I would get cardiac arrest from watching it.

[@thenickdiamond]

wow - I counted 50 in the first minute kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnWUiqejgL2BmJY

[@fever040]

Cuts can be as small as cutting out half a second of silence. Not all cuts jump between scenes and framing.

[@kenos911]

@@fever040 yeah. I edit a bit and I do that a ton

[@cakeisyummy5755]

Some People have truly Bizarre tastes in Internet Content.

[@KamepinUA]

Monke sees good animation Monke assumes high quality Monke distributes high force over the like button

[@trueberryless]

It's not easy to make a KZbin video judging the algorithm without making a low-turnover KZbin video... Respect, dude!

[@inspiredjoke]

Ur videos are just excellent quality all round. Not only is your VFX and editing on point for such a new and unrecognised channel. Your audio man. I use hearing aids. Modern hearing aids act as basically Bluetooth headphones. Thing is, when a creator adds stereoscopic sound or something close to it. When listening I genuinely have to pause the video and check there isn't someone speaking behind me a like a yard over. The attention to detail goes noticed my man. Even if it is by a small number of viewers. Keep it up and ur goanna be one of the major go toos for educational content.🎉🎉🎉

[@swiftflight7927]

Don't worry Hoog, you'll always have my attention

[@FillyTheRed]

I was enjoying this dark-theme video while in bed, loving it, until... -the 2:06 flashbang incident

[@hoogyoutube]

Sorry Francesco :(

[@FillyTheRed]

@@hoogyoutube no worries XD, nice job with the channel! is doing great and the content is high quality

[@jessegee179]

I’m always on the lookout for videos to fall asleep to. They need to be long, calm and interesting. Then I can listen to the same one regularly.

[@Scorialimit]

"I can be wrong and I will be wrong" sounds like my new favorite threat tbh

[@BigslattYSL]

This channel is disgustingly underrated, not even kidding, how are you not at 10mil already? Regardless, things take time, and I hope time makes the best out of you and your channel.

[@hoogyoutube]

Thank you Landfall :)

[@thebob6399]

I laughed when you said video creators fight not to break viewers focus and then it was the Nord VPN add lmao

[@jorgeramirez57]

"I can be wrong, and I will be wrong". Loved that.

[@Sfrags01]

This is what I've been thinking about for a while... It seems people are just going for quick cuts, having as much stuff on screen as possible, and making sure you DON'T take your eyes off. Not even for a split second. I get it, it works for them and gets them a higher Average View Duration but I can't help but feel that we'll be seeing more and more of these videos. My problem with it is that in the near future, taking your time to develop a story, and experimenting with different aesthetic choices won't be rewarded. Allowing less room for creativity.

[@dangunning7996]

Facts

[@laurensdesmet70]

I'm wondering, it's always framed as us having "bad attention", but really we're figuring out that we are capable of consuming more information a second than we previously were able to with older media forms. Sure, when we go back to older forms of media, we're seemingly unable to concentrate. Same would be the case for the previous generations if we drastically slowed down the storytelling in books and movies. It's just a matter of comparison and that's why I have my phone or computer turn text to speech, turn up the speech by 200% and then read along as it is being narrated to be, flying through (non-fiction) books way faster than if I had to read them without assistance. The lack of pauses keep my attention and I'm perfectly capable of understanding what is being read to me while I'm browsing over the same text with my eyes. I'm even experimenting right now with having the text appear in the center of my screen, word for word, at the same time. I remove the physical barriers and allow my brain to go as fast as it actually is capable of going. Not a recommendation, just me using technology to my advantage after realizing by brain is super fast and capable of so much more. Now, there might be a counter argument when it comes to things you can't speed up and sure, you can make an argument for the anxiousness people feel when they put away the screen. But from my experience, these are separate issues. If you can't enjoy the slower paced things and you get anxious not consuming streams of content, you're most likely doing that in the first place because you're not comfortable with your own thoughts and the confrontation with reality and all its challenges. I personally realized this after getting my business in order and setting up good habits, as well as clear goals. Now I race through handpicked content when possible, but because I am in line with my purpose and reality, I can also accept the quiet moments and enjoy them without music, podcasts, social media or random videos. All because I'm not ignoring my personal responsibilities and even getting them done a lot faster, giving me room for more breaks. Our attention span is, I think, doing fine. Better yet, it's finally being tested to its limits and I'm amazed at how little training we need to adapt to the consuming of all this high speed information. But if you don't actively choose what you consume and you don't actively have an expressive output in the form of a (creative) hobby or project or... then you're just consuming to fill the time and logically you'll get anxious, depressed and dependent on it. Its like any other drug, combine it with a way of expressing yourself and do it purposefully and in the right amounts, and you'll be able to enhance and enlighten your understanding and how to communicate your deeper thoughts and feelings. Do it just for the sake of doing it and in high doses and you'll end up dependent on it and/or broken by it. Moreover, you'll end up confused, because you don't have a way of linking it to anything. You didn't start with a question or concept, you started with consuming. Of course you'll end up wondering how to process it and feeling overwhelmed. You have no manual output related to personal growth or expression. How to get anxiety 101. So yeah, personally I truly belief that it is the individual that needs to take up the responsibility. And I personally also belief it's the job of the educational system to integrate in their curriculum advanced techniques on how to properly ask questions and form answers, how to consume information and process it and how to translate your inner ideas and thoughts by expressing yourself one way or another. This is so extremely important for any human living in this modern society and it applies to everything you consume, not just online content. That's where we'll make a difference, not online by pushing for more limitations and restrictions and premade, invisible filters that "protect" us from our stupid selves, but in reality limit our search results to what the algorithms think we want. It's the whole "teach a man how to fish" concept. But the educational system is currently focusing on comparing students to standards and with others through a grading system, as well as teaching them to mindlessly consume, regurgitate and vomit out the same content as presented as if retaining information you don't readily need and spewing it out on commend is equal to intelligence. So yeah, we're basically being taught to consume the wrong way and it shows. If you want your attention back, don't detach from the system, but make the system work for you.

[@user-dc9zo7ek5j]

Teachers really need to learn from youtube a thing or two on keeping the audience engaged, you can't say the kids have short attention span when they are 10 years old and you read them a book filled with terminology.

[@itsohaya4096]

My attention span and ASD allowed me to read 3 sentences before not reading the rest of what you said

[@laurensdesmet70]

@@itsohaya4096 Cute. But I have also been diagnosed with ADHD and ASD as well. The difference between us must lie elsewhere, maybe it's that I don't let those things define me, yet figured out and still continue to figure out (with a lot of effort and struggling) how to make it all work for me. Also, if you don't read full comments, yet still reply, you probably are the perfect example of my previous statement that some people don't even know why they are online, but just are because they avoid responsibilities or refuse to translate what they learn to improve their work or themselves. It's also hard to belief that you aren't capable of more, seeing my initial comment had 16 likes and I highly doubt you didn't read a lot of other comments before you arrived at mine. You might think you're smart, but you're just a smartass. Weaponizing your challenges to make yourself belief you can't overcome them is not a trait of ASD, I figured that out by working hard. It takes one to recognize one. Maybe don't hide behind ASD and lie to others online, making other people with ASD look bad. But more importantly, stop lying to yourself. I can see you're lying to yourself, because I've been there. But do you still notice the difference? Or did you start believing it? Wake up. Take control.

[@john3260]

Original poster, you really did not need to recount your stories nor did you have to self-indulge with your fascination because the main point of your comment is contained with the last two sentences. Such self-indulgence is rather egotistic; if you want to tell other people something, avoid being verbose and be succinct. Most of the time, we are verbose not because we cannot communicate directly but because we are being vain.

[@laurensdesmet70]

​@@john3260 I agree. I'm too verbose. I try to notice this, especially coming back to comments on later dates and you're right that my conclusion and point can be found in those last sentences. Seeing that time is precious and my goal is to give people my two cents, I should consider scrapping the part that leads to my conclusion or make (answer) videos myself where I go more in depth. It's not because I'm vain, though. At least, I don't think it is if I'm trying to be honest with myself. I don't care too much for praise of any sort, I truly get my satisfaction from sharing insights in the hopes these offer some value to others. I just tend to write my thoughts down as I think, a habit I have from personal journaling. But you're right that it would be good practice to learn to be more succinct on online platforms so that I don't waste peoples time for something that could be said with a lot less words. Thanks for the honest feedback, much appreciated.

[@CrocketX]

Well my attention dropped between 3:40 - 4:40 and I was not even looking away. My mind just wandered away. It's interesting, when you're being conscious about it.

[@Lucifer_png]

Attention: "I am speed."

[@Stadtschwimmer1]

Hey! I am really enjoying your content, you touch on a lot of interesting topics and convey them in a very dense yet comprehensible way. I would like to just give one feedback regarding the visualization: (At least for me) It is very hard to grasp the connection between a good portion of the graphs and what you are actually trying to convey. E.g., you talk about reduced attention span across Twitter/Reddit every year but the graphs shows longer bars year after year. A nice step in the right direction for clear communication was the legend for the retention graph while explaining cutting videos into smaller segments (even though I think it could have been more prominent rather than just being some kind of foot note). I definitely like the style of your visualizations so I would be very happy if you'll aim for even more clear imagery in the future!

[@hoogyoutube]

Noted :)

[@masondicroce917]

I think you're ignoring a major element to all this, that being that children make up a large part of KZbin's audience, and that that percentage of overall people grows everyday. This is just simply due to the fact that kids have far more free time, and therefore far more hours of overall watch time for people to try and cater to. It's very obvious when watching some of the biggest channels that this is who they cater to, even Mr. Beast himself has made it clear that that's his strategy. Therefore, it's inevitable that this would get to this point, kids have the attention spans of goldfish. This isn't to say that this content doesn't do any harm to their attention spans at all, but it's also probably not far off to how their brains are anyways. It's important to not be too alarmist about this, I'm doubtful that many full grown adults are being corrupted to this extent.

[@hoogyoutube]

Oh this has so, so much to do with it

[@jaytb5815]

I live with my cousins and it’s so funny to see how easily babies get distracted. It’s much easier to distract a 1 year old from an disappointed than a 5-6 year old. This progresses until adulthood where humans are (it seems) generally more focused. Sidenote: I am SICK of schools giving 5 year olds iPads. They literally have less regulation than a high school device. My cousin is addicted to Ryan Toys Review and I’ve seen him playing Friday Night Funkin’, which if you’ve seen anything Newgrounds related…

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Dutch cycling channels are a great recommendation.

[@JimmyDots]

Thanks for the cut to the Ad - the continuity of the story and the irony of the cut is brilliant!

[@mphelps3000]

2:07 without breaking their focus.... You are a genius!

[@Lunarbun2]

I think the key is getting an audience that comes together around a certain topic they're interested in; when watching videos regarding a topic I like, I will watch for a very long time because I love learning about things I like.

[@SergioEduP]

I fully agree with you, and I would like to add that, in my opinion, most people love to learn about things they like but just don't know what that thing is because they've only seen whatever the algorithms thought they wanted to see, in turn making them see more of the same kinds of content.

[@cakeisyummy5755]

Specialization is how the Modern Economy works. Applying it on the Internet makes a lot of Sense.

[@computerfan1079]

Case and point: technology connections. He has a fair amount of views with long form content on very specific topics but is just a really good speaker

[@filipDcve]

I don't know what you said for most of the video, I wasn't paying attention, but I like that one sentence about how a measure stops being good once it become a target (at 3:32)

[@cybernakulum]

Europa Cinemas and Creative Europe logos are a hallmark that you're in for some good stuff.

[@sdziscool]

comfy video I expect a big burnout though, quick editing is of course attention grabbing, but after a certain amount of time the bad long term effects will come around. Let's just hope the bad effects are clear-cut before everyone watches themselves into a depression or something.

[@OhSoGamer]

Looking at the videos in question from a certain succesful youtuber, the cuts are that frequent that there are often a dozen different sets/locations filmed for what is frequently only a 10 minute video. Whilst people might prefer this type of content, surely at some point recording all those different locations won't be worth it..

[@dannykusuma2431]

As long as ads is the business model, attention is the measure, not quality

[@elismart13]

😂5:15 not me, but that was halarious

[@planetsec9]

Noticed this in action when channels started making quick 30 sec videos sometimes with a sudden ending at the end (War Thunder for example) and then channels including 30 second clips which tell you to watch the full video if the shorter one had you interested.... KZbin shorts of course, KZbin is going the way of TikTok

[@JustWojtek]

I was just thinking lately: I really miss quality content... - thank you for creating some!

[@joostiscool100]

haha very meta

[@perkunas1242]

Another high quality, interesting, and visually appealing video as always. You're probably my favorite new channel on KZbin! And ouch, you really called me out at 5:11 right as I was typing this.

[@Dewaxel]

He has one of the best and realistically fitting jokes

[@sanchaysahay5208]

"Survival of the clippest" ... Ok Subscribed!

[@3u-n3ma_r1-c0]

i love how when you flashed the clips of random content my brain immediately crashed and was like "what" for a solid moment

[@ezra6094]

Then I wonder why people continue to watch stuff like Twitch, where there are no cuts, and funny/interesting moments can be sparse. Is it because we prioritize live engagement over rapid cuts like on KZbin?

[@petraeus6390]

I've been wondering the same thing.

[@cakeisyummy5755]

Not all People have the same Taste im Internet content.

[@maartenkeus8627]

Dude how are you videos so fcking good?? You're gonna be massive, or at least i hope, seeing as your visuals, research, and your storytelling is absolutely incredible

[@rr.studios]

"Survival of the Clippiest" 😂

[@emman100]

The monkey 🐵🙉🐒 bit had me rolling on the floor laughing. 🤣🤣🤣I was thinking the entire time: I AM NOT A MONKEY!! But then again... 😏( ͡• ͜ʖ ͡• )😏 Maybe you are on to something. 😏😏 Excellent video. 👍

[@Although...]

Obvously thumbnails are also crucial to grab viewers' attention. For that reaason I think you should change yours, it's much darker compared even to your previous thumbnails and has very little contrast. It is stylish and tells a lot about the content but it does not grab attention I think. Besides that AWESOME video as always, I enjoyed the analysis and the beautiful animations, thanks for the hard work

[@Although...]

I looked at the thumbnail again and I don't know if it was changed or I was wrong. As it is right now it is completely fine and intelligible I think it is a new one but don't know for sure xd

[@Jupa]

I had to watch this video like 4 times to fully 'engage' with it pretty depressing but as a content creator myself this elucidates something very important for me

[@pavelgaranin426]

Making content rewatchable is a like making the song not so clear on the radio, so you have to relisten to it over and over. This, carefully used, could further anchor loyal viewers.

[@abrammills1005]

Maybe the most genius ad timing I’ve ever seen

[@armindude5309]

My god this is one of the most underrated channels i've seen so far your content is so good

[@cabin4999]

ive recommended your channel to all of my friend groups. I truly believe that this kind of content is some of the best. Your animations are smooth, visually pleasing, and extremely satisfying, and your scripts are informative while integrating a lot of humor. I’ll see you at 500k, man, seriously, you deserve it

[@danibot3000]

Feedback: 7:30 It would help for the ease of access (readability) to make the text more thicker, larger or maybe use a color that gives more contrast. But my theory is that it's simply not enough pixels to be easily readable. I am watching through a 40" 4K TV. Video was OK, maybe a little thin information wise. But yeah, maybe that was also your intention - playing game with monke brain.

[@paakjis]

Yeah, i also watched on TV. This hurt my eyes, the colors were deep fried.

[@jamesliu5910]

That's likely because online video everywhere is encoded in YUV420 pixel format (probably YCbCr420 actually, but the 420 is the important part), which means that the color information is at half the resolution of the actual video resolution. This makes stark red or blue text especially blurry and difficult to see, even if it looked great for Hoog in the video editor. The only thing Hoog can do about it is stop using stark red text, which he should.

[@danibot3000]

@@jamesliu5910 Would uploading the vid in 4K help to compensate the "missing" color information that results in a hard to read text?

[@bennyblubman9476]

"Survival of Clippyest" is hilarious

[@trueberryless]

Great video, but some words, especially the red font, was hardly readable... I don't know if this was intended or not...

[@puzzLEGO]

if major video platforms stuck to promoting longer form content, I think we could have gotten to a position where the rise in video quality driven by competition would actually increase viewer's attention spans. sadly, I think now that the decline has started it will only get worse from here

[@johan_r59]

long video's can be bad for someone's attention span too. Just look at video's like those from mrbeast, where every 20 seconds the stakes are risen and challenges are changing, just to keep someone's attention. I also don't see how social media is increasing their focus on shorter content. KZbin made the switch from views to watchtime years ago, and we are seeing more and more multiple hour long video's being successful. Instagram is increasing their focus on video content compared to pictures. Tiktok increased their video length cap to 3 minutes, and is currently extending it to 8 minutes. On top of that, more people are binge-watching shows on Netflix or competitors than ever, and most Netflix originals are shows instead of movies.

[@cakeisyummy5755]

@@johan_r59 I guess that people only refuse to pay attention to Stuff they don't have a good Reason to care about, Like School Lectures.

[@teamjackedsolutions8465]

Ik vind je video's leuk! I've not found another creator whose style, sense of humour, views, expression, and artistic choices align so close with what I think is ideal. Good job mate. PS: Romulus Europe is also a delight!

[@someoneinexistence1939]

That Sponsor Transition 😂😂😂

[@Getyourwishh]

"i wouldn't take anyone who takes themselves too seriously seriously" well.. too bad for you

[@startoleft3569]

Quality content as usual!

[@fanta-cool7532]

How tf do you know the content is qaulity the second it drops

[@ibranmlr6139]

Hmm

[@ibranmlr6139]

@@fanta-cool7532 indeed how?

[@startoleft3569]

@@ibranmlr6139 indeed how?

[@fanta-cool7532]

@@startoleft3569 Indeed how?

[@charlesinglis517]

You may recall me from the last video trying to offer some constructive feedback. I’m glad to say that you nailed the script, tone, and production on this video. Keep up the great work.

[@thomasf915]

1 minute in, instant subscribe, underrated channel. Time to watch every video youve ever made!

[@pillager6441]

He's gonna call me a monkey again isn't he

[@LiveType]

Quick feedback: Why so desaturated/dark/lowish contrast? I typically watch in 480p so that the 3x speed I watch at is easier to process, and found I had to crank the quality quite a bit more than usual. Could also be that my monitor just has crap contrast which is true, but very very few "professionally" produced videos have this problem. My suggestion, increase the brightness and saturation of your videos. You can keep the clean black background aesthetic, but just increase the brightness/contrast of your visuals. Edit: Just went through and while my contrast/brightness complain still stands, the overall low resolution of font/images is actually to blame. Not exactly sure what the issue is. Watched some of your other videos and 480p was fine. Maybe increase font size by ~10%?

[@wepsar]

I second this. I can see the pixelation/blocky texture in the black background

[@Amonimus]

Love the videos (not the sponsors), so I do watch them fully because I'm interested in what they say.

[@hoogyoutube]

Videos (from now on) with a sponsor will be much longer

[@Penguinnoly]

Got blindsided by that ad break

[@adamwilding9520]

Fantastic video, keep at it man! Have you considered trying to get into nebula? Your content and style feels like it could really breathe there, and you could afford to focus more on the scripts.

[@tuams]

I feel there is another metric to consider - video length. I have started to watch (some) videos at 1.25 or 1.5 depending on the speed at which the person is speaking. And that is because most videos are 10+ minutes to favour the youtube algorithm which sometimes requires the creator to put a lot of b-roll of "fluff" in the middle. I value my time but I also want to hear the message of the video. I guess that is also a symptom of a lowered attention span? Though, don't notice it in other areas of life. Anyway. Please, monkey. Keep doing what you are doing.

[@md-xe8uf]

It's can become a problem in real life, because people can't speak 1.5x or 2x faster in real life, so we become impatient. That's my theory.

[@Joost2510]

Bro i first saw your video pop up on my desktop where i every now and then gather a few vids i like to watch based on titles, subjects and ofcourse an interesting thumbnail. I like things that stand out and so does your thumbail (minimalistic if i may say so) and i liked it i wanted to watch more and saw that you only had like 8 other videos to watch. Seen everyone since then and i like to share them with friends and my parents because the subjects are interesting. I sould just like to let you know that there are a lot of people who prefer subject/content above flashy videos. Please do not change into that direction. Im really enjoying watching your kind of educational videos!

[@verdaderoken]

this video has so many quotes. I can see you put a lot of effort in making these kind of videos. Thank you

[@BanterEdits]

Cool visuals but I don't really see what you've brought to the table with this one. Monkey click on flashy video, okay - I think most people know that already. Above that, you didn't really talk about anything new or interesting. Looking forward to more videos and the recognition you deserve, cheers!

[@hoogyoutube]

I think this video was more like a journal entry for myself, honestly. I'm not sure how many videos I'll make like this one honestly, but consistency is one of my main goals atm

[@MasterofRoflness]

Honestly, this is essentially why I upload 20-60 sec videos.

[@hoogyoutube]

I get it. I mean honestly, it's a bit messed up to waste people's time as well. This video could get to the point much, much quicker

[@null6209]

5:14, Wrong, I love this video's editing, your soothing voice, I hadn't even looked at the lenght of the video until you mentioned it lol

[@casperdewith]

3:52 Has this been generated by a robot? It made me think it is, because of the loop at the end.

[@Henrix1998]

KZbin is not "hate the game, not the players". Just the opposite. The players make the game. If most weren't in for cash, the problem wouldn't exist

[@kenos911]

This guy is in for cash?

[@krishcshah]

We definitely appreciate more of these important topics being covered on this channel even though they're non European. Keep them coming.

[@megaoptamas759]

2:12 what a fucking segway. take my sub

[@schnitzelsemmel]

KZbin's algorithm has been shifted to value most "long time user satisfaction" and not just retention time now. this means how many people come back to watch other videos, similar videos, the same video later etc.

[@Sam-bn5bb]

MrBeast claims that his success is purely a result of his hard work and knowledge of the platform, but I disagree since I know there are thousands upon thousands of creators who put out videos that are just as “quality.” I do believe there’s a certain aspect of luck in getting picked up by the algorithm and becoming huge like that, like on any social media platform. In my opinion, it’s along the same lines of billionaires believing they got where they did purely through hard work as well, and not connections, preexisting wealth, or pure luck. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure billionaires and MrBeast did work very hard, but so do a lot of people. What are your thoughts on this?

[@pifopifo1000]

Doing KZbin literally means pleasing the algorithm if you aim to get popular. That means: Catch titles & thumbnails, fast short paced videos with enough attention grabbing and so on...

[@480darkshadow]

Mr Beat also invests a lot of money into his videos, there's only so much production quality can do, but considering most youtubers are of limited means it allows him to do things others cannot. I think there's an issue of saturation, there's ton of channels like Hoog's with good graphics and content, but there are fewer like Mr. Beast who can cover topics and make sets because of his money. I'm sure if Hoog was able to purchase another editor he would be able to make more/faster videos or improve quality through more specialization of labor. You can say luck accounts for everything, but as the saying goes, fate tends to favor the better prepared army.

[@heyNoraNora]

No my attention doesn't suck. My patience has matured. We as a society are getting smarter and we're starting to realize an 8 minute video by some random dude explaining information we already know does literally NOTHING for us and we've come to understand that. My life was not made better from clicking this video, the same can be said for the myriad of content on the internet. The correlation between video cuts and attention spans is curious but doesn't mean what you want it to mean.

[@navodar5174]

It actually has a lot of truth to it. Why you so mad about it lol

[@massiveidiot77]

this. People forget that youtubers are just random people uploading videos, not scientists with something interesting to say. More often then not people who upload on this platform have no idea what they're talking about. It's perfectly reasonable that the average person doesn't want to watch a stretched out 10 minute video with slow commentary that takes ages to get to a minor point

[@trxsh_oc]

attar is a perfect example of hyper visuals meet meaningful dialogue

[@Thijs.]

Not going to hide it, this is the best Nord VPN advertisement I have ever seen so far

[@bedeviere]

oh my god, I had never heard of Goodhart's law before this. I can't fucking believe that we still do shit like standardized testing despite this being such a well documented and understood phenomenon

[@moosh3825]

"Attention of the clippiest"

[@spaceniceguy]

So... a twomad video is in theory the best videos for youtube

[@emk1126]

These videos are unbelievable in quality. one of the best channels ive found recently. Keep it up

[@MangoTalksTech]

18 seconds in and I’m BLOWN AWAY by the editing

[@DarkIzo]

>sees two pictures >skips ahead

[@ponker._.999]

fuckin jumpscare at 6:00 goddamn lmao

[@hermmansorejuela9936]

Do you really talk that slow or do you slow your videos down, just asking cause it sounds more natural at 1.5x speeds lol Great video though!!! Loved it

[@_dot_]

I was so ahead of my time when I used to watch videos on 2x speed back in the day

[@itzsleazy6903]

Congrats on 100k and I've noticed I can't watch any vid(except fps games) at 1x speed anymore

[@Iggle_Piggle_Giga_Chad]

I SAW THAT CUT AT THE END! Well played good Sir, Well played.

[@HiItsJoshuaa]

I can honestly say you make the best motion graphics I've ever seen on KZbin.

[@tkrzyzanek]

5:05 I feel called out

[@nicknorris3982]

"One monkeys trash is another monkeys treasure"

[@Manuel-gk3rv]

Congrats on 100k! It's almost surprising how high quality your videos are when your subcount is still 'relatively' low

[@misosalmonfromthecheesecak3387]

The mythical hoog hand reveal cutscene

[@zirokl]

I enjoy your content, great job. What software do you use for your animations?