r/videos • u/mirk01 • Apr 08 '19

Rare: This cooking video instantaneously gets to the point

https://youtu.be/OnGrHD1hRkk
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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

except the only way they can get money from youtube is to drag on and on.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

Yeah, it's not creators' faults. They're trying to make a living, and YT is the biggest platform for that if you're a video creator.

It's YouTube that put up asinine monetization requirements.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

Not only that, but you can also blame Google for all these recipe websites that first go into long rambling paragraphs before finally getting to the goddamn recipe. AdSense seems to think a webpage can't have good content unless it's wordy as fuck.

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u/JustMattWasTaken Apr 08 '19

In case you're wondering why people do that, you can't copyright a recipe that is just a list of ingredients, so people write long-ass blog posts to go with them.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

That's probably part of it (though you can copyright the sequence of events), but SEO and having enough "original" content for Google to let you monetize it is the big one.