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I love GN for what they do, but I just can't get into the video format for tech hardware news or reviews.
For some topics, I totally understand the strength of the video format, but for others it just doesn't make sense to me. A review is much quicker to process with commentary text and relevant charts for benchmarking. I would argue the same for less in-depth news and analysis.
I also wish GN had a peetrube channel!
The best reason to watch his very long videos is if you like his specific kinda sarcasm and energy. Which, I do, but it is very whiny.
What's up fellow video hater?
Let me make a wild guess - you are over the age of 35, am I correct?
How did you guess? :)
They also have a website with a written report for most videos, like this one for the Linux benchmarking video: https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/rip-windows-linux-gpu-gaming-benchmarks-bazzite
I know, most of their content isn't published in text form though.
Used to be the other way around, their more detailed reviews were on the website, again Steve doing the writing, YT being more of a complimentary channel. But I guess once the YT channel started to take off, he saw the hard cold truth that it just gathers way more attention and gradually focused less on the text reviews.
Tbh I preferred their website more, gave me the option to read it at my own pace, and focus on the parts I care most about, not fiddle with forward and rewind on YT, and having to pause to look at the charts in more detail and peace from the cosntant commentary track.
That's exactly why I prefer written articles, they are more concise and quicker to process. That being said, when I do watch GN videos I do find their sarcastic style to be entertaining.
Yeah I agree. I love GN for what they do but I never watch their videos because I find the formats quite bad. Too long, boring, and designed so you can’t just skip to the end like HUB for example.
Is there an actual incentive for any for-profit channel to have a peertube channel? It seems like it would just reduce engagement that they actually get paid for.
You could still do sponsorships and Patreon, which for quite a few YouTubers are the main revenue sources. But of course if viewers don't demand it there is no incentive to switch either.
Couldn't they do both YouTube and another means of distribution?
It would most likely still mean less engagement overall. YouTube recommendations are strongly based on interactions and momentum. If part of your core fanbase watches & interacts on other platforms, you're recommended to fewer people outside your fanbase, so over time your viewership shrinks.
Unless they're getting paid directly, like through something like Nebula or their own service like a Dropout or Viva sort of thing, why wouldn't they want their views to be somewhere that drives more meaningful numbers? Peertube isn't going to bring them new users, and from what I've seen a lot of what's on peertube seems to just be unauthorized reposts that pull away views.
Like, if I enjoy a creator who's on YouTube, I'm not going to watch their stuff somewhere that doesn't give them any meaningful recognition. Something like Patreon is great, but driving up their numbers on Peertube isn't going to bring them to a wider audience the way driving up their engagement on YouTube would, and those numbers bring more people to their Patreon.
Why do work for free. Are you willing to pay for it? Or do you work for free?
FWIW, I do subscribe/scheduled donate to media sources (news/tech) and some YT content (not GN, because of the aforementioned preference for text, I only watch some of their videos).
Should GN move to PeerTube, I would consider a scheduled donation subscription purely to help kickstart the ecosystem.
I strongly believe that subscriptions/scheduled donation are the best way forward for media. Simple focus on sources that one uses regularly (more than once a week).