7mo ago

This will be YouTube in 2025

(this is not real obviously) artist: Soren Iverson

182 comments

People with ADHD will never make it through an ad.
- This comment hit me like a gut punch of dread.
  And now I'll think about it for years.
- *Ad 1 of 3.

“Let’s work together and put an end to attention theft.”
- The term "attention theft" is some dystopian shit, and just probable enough to make me vomit in my mouth.
  
  Attention theft is an existing term, though it's used to describe bad practices by marketers. I suppose it's bad that the term has had to come into existence, but it is good that it exists as a way to talk about bad practices more easily.
- There are no victimless crimes
  
  Privately peeing on a grave.
  
  piracy
  
  What about baby eating ? I'm saving the planet kilotons of co2 emissions each one I gulp down. I should get a medal.
- Some insurance group put up a billboard on the route I use to go to work telling us how we all suffer from insurance fraud.
  Each and every time I went past it I would try to imagine how much I would have to hate a person in order to side with the enemy against them. No saint and I never pretended to be one but I still wouldn't do that.

I remember a time before YouTube...it sounds like I will be living that time again
- When Vanced went down, and before ReVanced came out, I had stopped using YT. The ads are unbearable.
  So I know what I'd do.
- Oh youtube was great. It went downhill super fast when people made money on youtube.
  
  That's why I watch YouTube with NewPipe on my phone and Firefox + uBlock origin on my laptop.
  Btw NewPipe recently got an update that fixed all bugs I've ever noticed
- Yup. What YouTube doesn't understand is that we've got ** other stuff to do.** I've got books to read, games to play, music to listen to. None of which requires YouTube.
  
  I've found myself repatronizing half priced books lately. I've gone through five books since mid May.
  I was a voracious reader before mobile devices existed.
  I'd forgotten just how much more satisfying it is to let yourself go in a good story rather than bicker about minutiae with countless strangers all day every day.
  (Sidenote: I've been looking up reviews for the books I've read and am surprised to find indignation at sexual scenes in novels. Like, if you've ever read a John Irving novel in your life, and you're surprised and offended that the next one has sex in it, you should maybe reconsider your chosen career path)

How many people would be unable to use youtube because they have a broken camera or dont want youtube to access their camera
- They can always buy Premium for 299.95 per month.
- YouTube requires these permissions, please enable them to continue
- it would just completely fail to recognize certain facial features, and there'd be jack shit people could do about it.
  
  Finally, all those years of under investing in the ability to detect darker skin tone pays off
- People with broken cameras have no money and their data isn't worth selling.
  
  To the tech ghetto you go.

Why not give credit to the artist?
Soren Iverson https://www.instagram.com/soren.iverson?igsh=eGd3d3N5dzc0ZDYy
- I found this on Twitter and didn't know who made it, but thanks! They're credited now :)
- Credit where it's due indeed. This also reminds me of Black Mirror, I think it was season 1 with the talent show auditions.
  
  15 Million Merits
- They may have had it past on through a billion people before they posted it here... Is the most likely answer.
  Thanks for sourcing it though!
  
  Maybe, Soren only posted it for the first time 13 hours ago tho...

Why track you when they can make you be unable to look away?
- RESUME VIEWING RESUME VIEWING RESUME VIEWING
  
  Please drink a confirmation sip.
- The image won't load, but based on the replies, I think it's a weeping angel, and now I don't want the image to load.
  
  Its a part of first episode of black mirror s1
- This is what I thought too and it makes me anxious.
- vr goggles have entered the chat
  for those that don't know, in vr most apps to avoid motion sickness keeps player in it's own "space". Users can look away from virtual screen displaying content or text, just by turning their heads around. But, for example in games, when content is important (ex. story dialogue subtitles) the content is programmed to try to move in front of player's view at all times, even if it's obstructing rest of the virtual world

"There will now be a short questionnaire on the ad you watched to see if you actually listened to it. If you get below 90%, we will show two minutes of ads."
- A Russian video hosting Rutube (which was totally dead until the govt decided to detract Russians from using YouTube, which made the platform semi-dead) actually tried to do that, having a quiz after each ad break, asking questions such as "what TV channel has been advertised in this ad?" and repeating the ad video if answered wrong
  
  And I bet they've been wondering why people don't use that platform
- Don't give them even more ideas...
  
  Accelrate to the end for something better after the fall ?
- "Why are you leaving? Fill out this survey and let us know what you didn't like. Please enter your email. Before you go, 50% of YouTube Plus Ultimate!"

Please don’t give them any ideas
- Sony literally has a patent on something very similar to this already lol
  
  The ADstation 1

Drink verification can
- "WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card"

I remember there being some Android phone (some generation of Samsung Galaxy S series probably) with a "feature" where it pauses video playback if you look away from it. Good thing it didn't catch on.
- S10+ here. I'll have to check and see what my older phones still have, my current one still has "keep screen on while viewing", I don't think I had one that paused videos, but I remember one offering "smart scrolling" based on eye movement
- I swear my Samsung tv did that to me when I walked away from YT last week.
- I remember a Galaxy TV ad where they showed off how useful it was featuring some dude waiting for an airplane
  edit found it it was the S4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnPK2TvtJ9Y

See, I have no doubt they would if they could, but i doubt such things are actually feasible.
Like right now I just refresh the page to skip ads on my phone.
- Camera eye-trackers exist
  
  Hell, phones have them built in. Your iPhone literally knows not to dim the screen if it can see that your eyes are looking at it.
  
  Them existing and Google being able to enforce people turn them on, and consistently blocking everyone who doesn’t, is a whole other problem that is a lot more complex.
  
  I think some vr headsets have them so it’s not like you need a huge package either cus it’s 95% screen
- It's entirely feasible.
  Amazon had full head tracking, including gaze, in the Fire Phone a decade ago.
  
  I mean, it’s technically feasible, just not practically feasible, like flying cars.
- They could.
  Default is 60s ad block. However, enabling 'Regular User' feature will bring this down to a more convenient 15s block so you get your content faster every time. To enable this feature, tap Allow when prompted for camera permissions.
- I remember playing with a similar feature on my Galaxy S3 back in the day. Eye scrolling. The phone would scroll for you when it sensed you looking at the bottom of the screen. That was the S3. It was not perfect but very usable. My hands always felt faster so I never kept it on but it was a fun thing to play with. I'm sure the only thing stopping them is the fear of backlash. We'll get there in time I'm sure :/
  
  The tech exist but enforcing that people use it is another matter. They cannot even properly paywall Picture in Picture and background play on IOS.

How to make me lose interest in whatever I was about to watch 101

I can't be arsed to modify a gravestone with youtube logo on it, but that's what it would look like to me if they pulled that off.
Just bye, good luck.
I'm already surprised how people fell into the short content trap/addiction loop. That in itself was a eye opener for me to take a step back.
- That's why I use Revanced. I can hide the shorts and news shelves. The former is disgustingly addictive and a massive waste of time, while the latter is plain Nazi propaganda at times.
- uBlock Origin has spoiled me by allowing me to erase the shorts listings. So I don’t even know how bad it is for shorts.
- Yeah it's a bit confronting to look at the alternative front ends like invidious or something and realise that there's much less dopamine produced while looking for your stuff.

This will be the death of YouTube for me. I pay for YouTube premium so this day may never come for me.
- That didn't keep Amazon from adding ads to the paid version of Prime and making a higher paid tier. How much easier is it for Google to implement the same?
  
  And when that happened I stoped watching prime and just put on my eye patch & tricorn 🏴‍☠️…
  Though I’m still paying for the content I just watch it differently than intended 🤷‍♂️
  
  How much easier is it for Google to implement the same?
  The correct question is actually "when will Google implement the same?" Because this is a "when will it happen" question, not a "will it happen" question.
- I pay for YouTube premium
  Not as bad as paying for Twitter, but close.
  
  The biggest reason I pay for it is supposedly creators I watch get paid significantly more than someone who sits through ads without skipping. I also don't really watch regular TV.
- There's dozens of us. Dozens!

Unrelated, but seeing "2025," my first thought was "haha that's so far in the future". Jesus, for something that's six months away, that's a futuristic ass sounding date
- In the year 2025
  if man is still alive
  if woman can survive...
  
  Great movie.

Black Mirrorverse
- Time to pedal harder!

Just stick a photo of yourself on the camera
- Our machine learning model found out that you were not actually listening to the ad. The ad will now repeat until you click it and buy the product.
  
  Please drink Verification Can.
- They just use face ID tech
  
  Wouldnt they have to support most cameras so people can use youtube? Is there any way to detect a face in a good way on a bad camera?

People still running content blockers and piping video links in 2025: "You guys are still watching ads?"

Here's how this is going to happen:
Someone rolls out this technology, everyone of course, fucking hates it, especially since a lot of people have Youtube videos on for background noise.
Someone else uses this tech for shock value, perhaps a company putting something horrific that people can't look away from as a misguided way to get the ad in people's heads.
These incidents lead to either the US, EU or China getting up in arms and banning the tech.
- These incidents lead to either the US, EU or China getting up in arms and banning the tech.
  You were doing good then you completely lost any sense of realism.
- While we are on the subject of using yourube for background noise... why the fuck are they serving me ads for mobile games with an obnoxious narrative? If you know I am just listening, why not just serve a normal radio type ad. I am never going to download a mobile game while using YouTube for music.
- Won't happen.
- These incidents lead to either the US, EU or China
  Excited to read the "China won't let you look at this picture of a puppy because their country lacks freedom" Op-Eds when the technology is released.
- Good plan, I wonder how expensive it is to insert an horrible ad, that doesn't advertise anything, just be the most horrible thing you can watch like war suicides, gore and the grossest porn. I suspect google never imagined their advertising content as an hostile vector. Probably has not even content ID running on it.
  
  I mean if you're going to force people to watch your ads, literally replaying it if they look away, then some sick cunt with money to burn is going to be like "I can use this to force people to watch my sick shit".

Seems like what we're moving towards
- I just won't be using whatever that is. I'm finding more and more that I don't need shit on the Internet.

Funny stuff, but in reality I hope they realize that if all the free users leave, that could get a lot of content creators to branch out, and they could also take the paid users with them.
I pay for premium because I watch YouTube all the time, multiple people in my house watch it on multiple devices, and we even get use out of YouTube music. It’s worth more to me than all other streaming services combined. But I’m there for all the creators and the content they put out, not for anything else unique about the YouTube experience. All they have on their side is install base, infrastructure cost, and inertia. Those are big things to overcome, but if they drive enough people away things could definitely change.
- Just wait until the enshitification of premium because they've fleeced the free users as much as they can.
  
  Yeeeeah… I guess I’d respond to that with basically the same thing. They are good enough today, but they aren’t guaranteed anything beyond that.

not real in 2025. 2040? not so sure
- We have the technology for this today. Enabling gaze tracking is why you cannot find a budget phone without a front facing camera. I suspect our phone's OS occasionnally do gaze tracking without telling us already.
  
  no this is the time it will take to slowly ease people into this mentality, but I may be overestimating people
- For then legislation will have catch up.

This will be me using YouTube in 2025.
- I use it via browser. Just delete/disable it. Works great.

They won't do this. They can't even force you to watch every ad. Reloading the video after the first ad plays will skip the rest of the ads.

I love otamatones.

Donates to peertube in agreement

\o/ McDonald's!
- drink verification can

User experience approaching something like the Clockwork Orange - Movie Theatre Scene, with eyes forced open to watch horror with Beethoven music in the back ground.
- Just cranking up the volume so loud you can't hear yourself think.

Hahaha watching an Otomatone cover of Take On Me. Worth watching the ads!

SmartTube + Invidious
And chill

YouTube is too big. I've been trying to use Rumble when I can. It has a lot of right wingers that were banned from YT, which sucks, but I hope to see any alternatives to YT thrive and grow.
- As you're already on the Fediverse, you might like to check out PeerTube.

Sadly it will, and I'll ahve to stop using it since I mostly use it to listen to stuff while I'm at work

I like how much the design resembles YouTube's design. I would believe it if I didn't know about the state of mobile phones.

I'm just gonna watch YouTube on a computer without a webcam. Now this will prevent them from doing shit like this.
- "We didn't detect a Webcam on your device. You can only watch videos on devices with a Webcam. Do you want Premium*? Click here for only 29,99 per month.
  *With Premium you also only can watch videos on devices with a Webcam"
  This is only 2025, a year later they also want a list of the people you love the most so they can kidnap one to demand you buy Premium, which will mean they will get you premium looking ads instead of shitty looking ads.
  
  "Looks like you're masturbating. Get a bonus month of premium if you climax during an ad."
  
  Premium lets you watch ads with up to 4 blinks per ad without pause or a total of .4 seconds of looking away from the ad without pause.
  
  I need the dude in the video to talk with me if I want a webcam.
  Oh, let me guess, I also have to have a microphone as well so that I can't be allowed to express discontent over an ad?
  
  Someone will find a way to take a looped video of them watching their computer intently and feed it through their webcam. The ad battle will never end.
  
  alternatively: Please wait 2 days for the new GoogleCamPro we have shipped to arrive. Please note that without a Google Premium subscription your webcam feed will have ads in it

What about if it's a sexy lady with an eye that's lazy, a girl that's fly with a wonky eye, who's smoking with an eye that's broken?
- I think it’s hot, that she looks left a lot