youtube is mostly just fucking filled with console-manchildren fellating their favorite kiddie games made for NES, SNES, PSX etc in the 80s-90s and early 2000s. It has gotten a bit better, especially when it comes to fixing and talking about old computers and computer hardware, but console trash is still so fucking over represented. When I've watched a few of those videos by those consoomer-manchildren, it's pretty clear that they've never grown past their youth.
Yeah, absolutely. I don't mind console games being talked about in general but if the person doing so has absolutely no clue about gaming beyond that...well, no point wasting my time. And I know a lot about gaming in general, so presenting basic knowledge only is worthless.
Majuular, for instance, addresses the "video game crash" of 1983 in one of his Ultima videos, mentioning that it didn't really affect the title. However, everyone with a bit of knowledge knows that it was only really relevant to the North American area, but not Europe or Japan. Also, it was the "VIDEO GAME crash" aka console games. PC games were (and hopefully still are) by definition not video games.
One of the people mentioned above, JoshStrifePlays, in his King's Field (December 1994) review, says: "[...]some would even say the first 3D RPG in the world." Like...wtf?
Ideally, the people who make such videos are old enough to have played them in their time. However, that's often unlikely, as most of those people would have something better to do with their time instead of creating such videos. So younger people need to do proper research on the title as well as have a good amount of knowledge in general. It somewhat reminds me of when I looked up a PC gaming magazine. Back in the first half of the 00s, when I used to read it, the people contributing generally had played games during the whole of the 90s and also often the 80s. So they knew what they were talking about. When I looked it up in 2018, the favorite games of those writers were all newer titles, one citing Diablo III(!) for instance. The guy was probably, at best, a couple of years younger than me. In no way should that have been his favorite title. I also highly doubt he played Diablo I & II. It's probably one reason (internet aside) for the death of those magazines. If the readership knows (way) more about gaming than the writer, why bother reading in the first place? That would also be one explanation why retro magazines are decently popular. The articles are a lot more in-depth and writers and readers are generally on the same wavelength.
I've found some channel about Japanese games from the 80s and 90s which is good. I very often know of them but not necessarily about them. However, then I read a title name like: "The Story of the Takeru Vending Machine: Digital Delivery Decades Before Steam". Now, those vending machines are nothing new to me. When I used to have a CC, I supported the Game Preservation Society (and there are a lot of instances of lost media due to the nature of it) and I have seen it mentioned in normal magazines too. However, the second part bothers me. "Digital Delivery Decades Before Steam". Despite being very good with (using) technology, I pretty much have no theoretical knowledge. However, wouldn't the data sent in the mid to late 80s be analog? And what about the data that was already on an internal HDD and didn't need to be sent? That wouldn't need to be "delivered digitally" akin to Steam. And speaking of Steam...why the hell Steam? Something like DLsite is many years older and has tons and tons of content. Even ignoring that it is available in a lot of languages, it's a primarily Japanese website, so as someone covering older Japanese games, surely that would be a lot more appropriate. Now, one can say that Steam is a lot more known to the target audience but do we really have to contend with the lowest common denominator? Steam, while the biggest nowadays, was just one of many. I don't know but it definitely rubs me the wrong way. And there is another title: "From Golgo to Gundam: A Look at the Earliest Anime Game Adaptations for Japanese Computers". Well, I know a lot about anime too (and necessarily manga, as it's really rather connected). So looking at it, the title makes little sense. "Anime Game Adaptation"...but Golgo 13 is a manga. Sure, that manga had anime adaptations but it's a manga first and foremost. Gundam, on the other hand, was born as an anime series. It had many adaptations in all kinds of media types. One might say that the game(s) adapted the anime series which is certainly possible but still rather unlikely. And even if, surely there would have been a better example than using Golgo (13) in the title name?
Something like this turns me away. Titles that are outright wrong or even just questionable definitely lower any trust one might have had in the person doing these videos. And, of course, said person is advertising a Patreon. So it's not exactly unlikely that it's not about sharing knowledge of something that's awesome with others but simply about finding a niche to make money. The crux here is that while some fan videos have more of an allowance for errors...when you are asking for money/shilling Patreon, you better take your work seriously. In an ideal world, the best would rise to the top and the trash would earn nothing. But, of course, that isn't the case at all. I've seen enough examples where absolute degenerate nitwits earn hundreds, if not thousands, per month.
For some reason, and certainly not just when it comes to Youtube videos, people don't really recognize quality anymore. In any sane world, people would be appalled by "creators" asking for money while they can't even get basic spelling right, at all. As a real world example, my sister recently purchased a local newspaper and apparently it had a lot of spelling errors. Who in their right mind would buy that one more than once? Or, similarly, I looked at a company's website (one of thyssenkrupp's) yesterday. It was absolutely awful. Why would any serious and competent worker ever apply there? Maybe for money if he is desperate. Instead of striving for excellency, everything seems to be heading towards utter degeneracy...and it absolutely disgusts me.
