I’m so happy that the quality of video being streamed is of much higher quality than it once used to be when I first started watching videos online. Back whenever that started to be a cool new idea, I remember that even stuff that was DVD quality before it was thrown on the web somehow manage to turn into three or four color squares that covered 90% of the play window.
Now on youtube, you can see stuff in HD!? I know this happened a while ago, but I’m just starting to recognize its worth to me.
Now, whenever I’m flipping through the millions upon millions of useless videos, I can easily spot the crap and avoid it. That has always been my problem…
Sometimes you wont know it is crap until it stops and starts suggesting more videos of the same kind to watch – NO!! I don’t want to watch any more like this because they apparently decided it was a good idea to not make “shitty video” one of the tags. So I waste hours of (arguably) valuable time to get maybe 10 minutes of entertainment.
I’m also glad that when I get on youtube and want to listen to a song, it is usually really easy to find and there are some good options for the official and live videos of the artists’ performances.
I still run into the usual garbage like some guy putting a chopped video of his cat playing with a ball of yarn put to the soothing sounds of cannibal corpse. But it is becoming rarer to see that sort of thing. I don’t think I ever see those crappy cell phone videos of some band that an idiot apparently felt was worth sharing with millions of people that don’t care.
To celebrate, I shall link to a video of Paramore performing a song called “Careful” from their album brand new eyes through the youtube channel of their label, Fueled By Ramen.
Just want to make a comment on the video itself, it reminds me of that old random saying that fads repeat themselves, simply by the presence of skin tight animal print pants. But I have a feeling musicians have been and always will be huge fans of animal print tights.
One final word: Custom picks are in!
RJ Ellsworth 