when a tutorial youtuber is so desperate specifically for views, rather than teaching and helping people, that they misrepresent the contents of their video to an absurd degree and you get whiplash from the disparity, probably safe to assume the tutorial is shit.
tutorial youtubers: show a screenshot of the editor as the thumbnail. if what you're showcasing is so amazing, then it should look amazing in the editor. show me what it actually looks like, and I'll be interested to watch how you achieved it.
this has quickly become a pet peeve of mine while learning blender , 15 to 30 minute videos with only 3 or 5 minutes of actually useful information , and the more you learn , the more difficult it becomes to find a niche video explaining what you need help with
The old adage holds true here with some words twisted around, “if you use genAI to showcase something then I’ll assume you’re too cheap to actually hire an artist”
At the very least the nature of Unreal tutorials sort of forces them to show an end product. There are plenty of coding tutorials out there that just show you a wall of code then tell you to compile with no "here's what it will look like." I don't know why people are like this.
Yeah it's one thing if someones content is no longer to my taste or I just grow away from their channel, but when they're outright harming myself and my peers by using genAI when they could quite easily make a thumbnail themselves or hire someone... No bueno.
Yeah, blunt AI usage oozes low effort low quality. And not only in the space of YouTube. A few days ago I bought a chocolate advent calendar on discount, it had a deer, santa and snowy house on it, generated by ai. The chocolate was tasty, but whole experience felt lacking, like they didn't care.
I never click thumbnails with genAI in them and hit don't recommend channel everytime the algo tries to serve me one. Hate that there's no way to filter them out of searches though.
The second I see any AI-gen stuff in a video I'm noping out. Apart from anything else, it just plants that seed of "I don't know how far this goes, did they AI-gen the script as well? Is everything they're talking about complete bullshit?" and I just give up and do something else
that's exactly it, the whole thing could be bullshit and just click farming. giving them any amount of watch time will ensure they keep trying this grift
It drives me bonkers trying to sift through which video tutorial to pick when people do this lol
I still wish there were more high quality written tutorials for UE; I think I've been finding more and more but they're exclusively for C++ related stuff.
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1) Thumbnail is just a screenshot with text over it
2) Descriptive title
3) Thick foreign accent
Need I say more?
https://youtu.be/WGWgYnLHrlQ?si=Kl6uAQ3kAEGETTr3
I still wish there were more high quality written tutorials for UE; I think I've been finding more and more but they're exclusively for C++ related stuff.