Matthew Villani
This is my original account that I created in March 2006, I have the distinction of having joined YouTube before even lonelygirl15 was around and quite awhile before Google bought YouTube. The reason I signed up was so that I could like and comment on a video depicting a no damage clear in Very Hard Mode of Super Smash Bros Melee. I need a purpose, a reason to sign up for something, I don't do it just to do it. Then in July 2012, I started posting to a music channel I made called AltoonaYourPiano. I posted homemade instrumental and classical sounding music.
I don't post videos to this channel, this is more of a viewership channel, this is so if I use this channel, it's because of issues related to my other channel. It's because if YouTube ruins this channel, it won't be as much of a loss.
On a funny side note, it's fascinating how my account is older than some of today's YouTubers. And not only that, but I was already older than they are now when I created this. Holy crap, I'm old...
Matthew Villani
Top 10 YouTube trends I wish would go away
10. "Hey, it's me from the future' edits to pad runtime instead of a text footnote.
9. Sponsor segments that are an obvious cash-grab for the creator.
8. Annoying sound effects ("bruh", "yay", "ungh", fart noises)
7. Changing the pitch of random words and distorting the video
6. Padding every video with irrelevant junk while burying the lede deep
5. Clickbait thumbnails with a shocked-face expression
4. Clickbait titles with "you won't believe this"
3. AI slop flooding the site with low quality content
2. A search engine that makes Alta Vista circa 1995 look good in comparison
And the number one YouTube trend I wish would go away
1. Useless updates nobody wanted
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Matthew Villani
The PC version of the YouTube homepage resembles the mobile version of it now. Extra large thumbnails that are as big as the old video player was before they make that extra large. I don't know why YouTube feels the need to make the PC version a clone of the mobile version when they already have the mobile app version of YouTube.
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Matthew Villani
This is the video that really put AltoonaYourPiano on the map, going viral with over 1 1/2 million views.
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Matthew Villani
YouTube is still unusable for my music channel. comments remain hidden by YouTube for unknown reason (and they refuse to tell me why). 13K subscribers, 13 1/2 years of busting my rear end, all for nothing. I will use this channel to comment from now on and slowly throughout the rest of September be phasing out my AltoonaYourPiano channel as a commenting channel and slowly switching to this one. However, I will NOT be continuing my channel or "picking up where I left off" with this channel as far as posting new music goes. I don't want to attach anything to this channel so if it's also ruined by YouTube, I don't lose anything. Honestly, the only reason I still even want to comment on YouTube is because of the people here, my friends (although with YouTube becoming AI-generated channel saturated, that's quickly changing). So if you get a comment from this account, it's me.
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Matthew Villani
So apparently AltoonaYourPiano (my music channel) is running into issues where none of the comments posted there appear visible to anyone except for myself and the channel uploader, unless Newest First is selected. No idea why. I leave nice comments and never spam. Meanwhile, spammers, trolls, low quality bot comments, they get through just fine.
It might all be a symptom of YouTube just being a sinking ship.
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Matthew Villani
Okay, so recently I noticed a disturbing trend on YouTube that nobody's talking about. Comments are being filtered WAY worse than ever before. Comments over a few months old, even highly liked comments with many replies that were hearted by the creator, are often hidden under Top Comments, the default, and now visible only if you select Newest First, while YouTube has been filtering comments for awhile, it was never this egregious and without any reason. In the past, it was comments that could be seen as problematic or inappropriate, even if you don't agree with the decision to hide these comments (I sure didn't), at least you understood the logic behind it. This? I don't get it. So many innocent comments are now hidden under the default setting, highly decreasing their visibility.
Why is YouTube doing this? Bandwidth? Just looking to make the comment section even more hostile to the user experience? I suspect YouTube will deny this and hide behind "inappropriate comments" unless enough people raise a stink, then they'll try to pass it off as a glitch and promise to fix it, which they never will.
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Matthew Villani
Okay, so apparently I have a community tab now. Great!
Okay, so my entire discussion tab history is gone, too. Not great!
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