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6mo ago

Ice cream sandwich has some funny ad reads

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me using SponsorBlock: what ad?
- I have no idea what I've missed.... Till I go to someone's house and watch raw YouTube and it's unbearable.
  
  REAL
- TIL about SponsorBlock and DeArrow, just wow!
  This line from the website made my day: There are currently 452.934 users who have submitted 17.125.673 skip segments, which have saved a total of 4185 years and 4.84 days of people's lives.
  
  I forgot that periods are used in some places instead of commas for thousands and was wondering how you could get 0.934 of a person
  For some reason though its written as 4.84 instead which I thought should be written as 4,84?
  
  And what do I do with all of that time? Watch more YouTube videos, of course.
  
  What is dearrow ?
- Ditto

I do appreciate when they put actual effot in but with Sponsorblock i rarely see them. This meme still applies for when they get passed sponsorblock though lol
- Sponsorblock
  How have I never heard of this?! I just installed it, trialled it on a YouTube video, and it's instantly one of my favorites.
  Thank you!!
   
  For anyone in a similar boat:
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
  
  After Ublock, its easily my favourite addon
  
  On that note... Also take a look at DeArrow
  https://dearrow.ajay.app/
  Same dev as SponsorBlock, same concept, just for YT Titles and thumbnails.
  Users can submit titles that better describe the contents and pick a neutral thumbnail.
  
  Don't forget to upvote good segments and downvote bad ones. Segments that are downvoted enough get hidden or removed. That's a pretty big part of how they prevent malicious people (possibly with outside instances) from trying to sabotage the network

Did you guys know if you VPN through Albania, you don’t see YouTube adverts?
I sure as hell didn’t until a few weeks ago.
Anyway, do whatever you want to with this information :)
- Any idea of why is that?
  
  YouTube does not have any customers in Albania
  
  I've read they aren't legally allowed to show ads in some countries.

Personally, nope. I'm still annoyed. But yes, thanks for trying to make the ads amusing or whatever, YTers.
- Imagine being soy for adverts.

StyroPyro: “btw this table I’ve been using for the video? It’s great, they sent it to me free. Watch me try to light it on fire!!”
How can you skip that?!
PS: big F U to US health insurance industry: I'm sick in a bizarre and horrifying way
- Insurance company : Oh you paid for insurance but we won't cover your costs
  Finally claims insurance after months of waiting
  Hospital : You have an insurance so the bill is 8x higher but no you don't need to pay all of them half is paid by insurance not you only have to pay 4x the money without insurance
  
  but you have to pay the full amount anyway and go through insurance because you have a deductible that needs to be met because your annual physical isn't supposed to happen until November when you get time off around Thanksgiving but you don't want to have to pay the full non-insured price of this and not count it to your deductible when you KNOW that you'll have to pay the full cost of that primary care visit and your 45-year-old colonoscopy coming up and everything is terrible.

Ryan George honestly does good stuff with his advertisements
- I'm surprised I haven't seen the "Adstronaut in Ad Space" joke anywhere else.
- They are so genuinely funny and I watch them both because of that and because I'm happy he's able to make a living from his material!

Map Men's ads are honestly worth watching
- "I'd like a subscription to Skillshare (Skillshare!), a subscription to Skillshare is what I need..."
  
  When I say "Skillsh", you say "Air"!
  Skillsh!

The sponsor ads work when they're neatly aligned aligned with the video's concept. It wouldn't budge me to see a manufacturer sponsor a PC build video where one of their products are being used. Or channels like GradeA where they advertise the sponsors in a similar way to their vids.
What breaks it is when you can feel the ad clearly feels like a last minute insert (which it feels like almost all the time). Even the bigger creators out there do this.
- Ad is an ad. Fuck them.

Me whenever I watch SomeMoreNews and Cody has something for Ground News or he chokes down his favorite drink.
- I'm happy ground.news is spreading... I got it on app release and haven't regretted my sub years later.
  
  Yep I’m a few months deep and still loving the features.

Big Money Salvia on Internet Comment Etiquette makes full on short films for his ad reads. They are pretty great.
- Nobbleberry is my favorite show.
- I was going to post Erik, if no one else did. His ads are so good.
- He should be paid double for the amount of work he puts into those ads

Ice Cream Sandwich, Martincitopants and NakeyJakey have me going back after sponsorblock skips it, it's just so entertaining i'll take the ad at this point
- you can whitelist channels in sponsorblock
- Danny Gonzalez definitely makes them pretty good too. But I feel like the original ones to make ads entertaining were MBMBAM in the early years. Griffin’s songs, their stupid ass bits? The money zone had me cracking the fuck up. That takes something special for me.
  
  Seriously, I still think about the stack soap song.
  Modern money zone isn’t nearly as good, but I still don’t skip it.
- I do this for tomatoanus skits as well, those are usually pretty off the wall. My man has an entire storyline saga going on in his ad read sections.

Love seeing on the timeline where right after the ad is the 'most played'

this is Drew Gooden and The Yard for me. i have whitelisted them on sponsorblock because their ad reads are so fucking funny. also obligatory shoutout to Internet Comment Etiquette

Nope still an ad
- Yes. But at the same time I'm actually okay with ads for products that are legitimately good and are relevant to me, so long as I know they're an advertisement.
  Products need marketing. It's reality. I'd rather get my marketing in the form of a recommendation or review from a trusted source than a random video shoved down my throat.
  A easy example of a good source for me is MKBHD. He gets free stuff and sponsorships, but is selective regarding what he'll accept sponsorships from, is very clear when a segment is sponsored, and will absolutely say a product is bad or overpriced even if he got it for free.
  
  Exploiting trust is worse. That parasocial z-list celebrity isn't recommending something - they were paid to read corporate propaganda.
  The most painful version of this is Lindsey Ellis's video on "Manufacturing Authenticity." It ends with a deep sigh and an ad read. The brand knew she was doing a video about how brands pay the popular kids to shill their whatever, and they did not care, because all that matters is getting a known face to say the words.
  
  You’re part of the problem

For Internet Historian it's a highlight.
- Yeah too bad his videos are plagiarisms of other people's work
  
  Yeah I was really bummed to find this out along with all the nazi signposting that slipped past me because I couldn't hear the dog whistle, he might be the only creator I've ever actually gone and unsubscribed to. Shame, too, because some of those videos were actually really good, credit where it's due (even if that credit isn't due to IH himself).
- The only creator I'll disable SponsorBlock for

I whitelist tomatoanus in sponsorblock just to follow his ad-read lore. Thats peak advertising.

Ordinary Sausage occasionally makes the ads amusing.

The sponsor segments in GrayStillPlays' videos are the only ones I remember, mostly because he ran the sponsor merch over with a lawnmower.

MapMen. I still rewatch some of their ad skits just because they were catchy and fun.

SomeMoreNews often gets me
- Watching Cody chug a bottle of that green shit is often the highlight of the video

'TomSka and Friends' has good enjoyable ads. They generally only have the one sponsor (Surfshark VPN) but they've done a lot for pushing for more enjoyable ads. Their off the rails skits are ones I don't skip
- I loved his video complaining about his search for surfshark's limit on ads, going insane in the process, not finding it, and then just doing a deadpan delivery of surfshark at the end.

Bringus Studios had a video yesterday on the alpha I Dec kit for the original devkit. Not only was the segway pretty slick but it had his signature humor included which actually made me watch through half the ad. First time I didn't skip the sponsor which I think says something about his writing and delivery
- Oh, sick, new Bringus post? I'll be in my bunk.

MiniMinuteMan did a bit where he just juggled while talking about the sponsor and you know what, it fucking worked on me. Jangle those keys for me.

I barely watched any of them, but Sampson Boat Co (the people rebuilding Tally Ho) put together some moderately high-effort sponsor segments, with a melodramatic plot and hammy acting and costumes made out of construction materials and such.
- YES
- Internet Historian's ads are also hilarious and worth watching.
  
  Ironic, considering those ad segments are the only original content...

I like Steve Mould's ad reads. He does science content and seems to only advertise products and services he uses, so his ads are mostly straight "this is what I like about the product, what makes it different to alternatives, this is why I use it, this is the stuff they told me to say"
He's one of the few YouTubers I actually believe when he says a product is good

Even though he reuses a particular gag format in his ad segments, I do like TheWhyFiles ads

Honestly, Grim Kleapers ads are almost a highlight to me. Such a memelord, wacky and entertaining.

Advertising shits in your brain.

For me it's calebcity

Squire's ads are better than the actual vids of some other YTers...

maven is great even on the sponser parts
- Sampson boat co sponsor skits get me every time

I don’t mind these when they’re done right!!
- "Hi, I'm the Adstronaght..."
  I like him because his ads are funny (like his skits) AND after his skits so you don't have to watch.

Acerola has cat videos on the side while he talks about his sponsor. I have sat thru it to watch the kitty.

savagegeese are great at this.

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