What happens if you do not independently make the choice of the viewed Internet content on the YouTube service, but entrust it to the "Recommendations" line? I am talking about my personal experience. The first 5 videos with the status “trending” were selected for viewing.
Video 1. Klava Koka, clip "In love with MDK"
Who is this performer anyway? What is known for?
As the opening credits of the video clip - a demonstration of the Black Star label, which, under the guise of creativity, is engaged in yet another advertisement of degrading content - this time of the notorious MDK community. Now it has become much clearer where the "story" originates from.
The clip was filmed as a video call to mom. Although the cutting of frames, their style and construction are more reminiscent of videos from Tik Tok or stories on VKontakte. Girls (celebrities from the YouTube sphere and show business), against the background of different locations, sing about their problem - love for an asshole. Moreover, the "suffering" of the girls from these relationships is clearly transmitted, but at the same time they dutifully confess their feelings and, apparently, are not going to change anything. And I would like to ask the heroines of the video and all the young ladies who agree with them: "Girls, dear, who is it that forces and forces you?" If a man is like that, there is no need to sing about your suffering, run away from him as far as possible. This is not love, but abusive relationships and Stockholm syndrome. And do not write off your desire to suffer on the fact that "love is evil."
Video 2. "An excellent student's mother" sues ", appeal of the video blogger
Some kind of internal showdown in the YouTube community. Someone filmed a video, someone commented on it, the opponent was offended, threw a "strike" to the offender, a wave of reactions and comments arose. I have no idea who Kuzma and the "excellent student's mother" are, the main characters of the video, and there is absolutely no desire to find out. I will only say that I have not learned anything informative or interesting for myself, one negative.
Video 3. D3 "Lambo Huracan Performante EGGS IN THE HORIZON", test drive the car
Test drive Lamborghini Huracan. The video begins with an advertisement for a power engineer, whose jar the blogger, out of excess of feelings, directly kisses on the camera (I think he is paid very well for advertising …).
After the ode to sponsors, the test drive itself begins. Well, as a test drive … The blogger just drives in the car with a crazy look, spewing out streams of admiration and awe for the car. And so for half an hour: footage of driving along the highway, a waterfall of delight, some technical characteristics, again an avalanche of the most laudatory reviews about the car: how fast, cool, just “crazy”, even “beautiful, stylish buttons”. In the final, the blogger says that he and his team tried very hard to review and show all the beauty of the car, and recommends buying it (for those who have money, of course).
What can I say … The number of video views - more than 1,200 million for the period from 28 June. The cost of this machine is about 14-15 million rubles. Question: which of those who have viewed the review can afford such a car? Is the video negative? More likely no than yes. It's just useless. Watch it for fun and entertainment? Maybe. Although a weak argument. Personally, I consider half an hour of my life spent watching this test drive wasted.
Video 4. "He helped the grandmothers from the village - he gave money and food", charity
Blogger Edward Beale buys food (cereals, sugar, butter) and distributes them free of charge to residents of remote villages near Moscow. A positive act? Positive. Then why is there a feeling of pretense of what is happening?
The glance clings to the little things, from which a more or less complete picture is built. For example, how Edward behaves: he grimaces, grimaces, non-stop cursing. It would seem, what's wrong with that? Well, he behaves like that, so what? After all, he is engaged in a good deed, well done. Let's assume.
Finally, all the preparations are over, the long road is behind and we are shown how Edward distributes food and money to the villagers. Basically, these are already elderly people, retirees. Gifts are treated with caution and distrust. Edward convinces the old people that this is his personal initiative and means. One of the residents asks which charitable foundation the help is from. “From the Ebasosinka Charitable Foundation,” Edward replies. Great joke. Very witty and appropriate. It is quite fitting for a person fulfilling such a noble mission.
To dilute the atmosphere of the “everything is bad” mood, the blogger interrupts the video with a commercial. What is advertising? A YouTube channel where stand-ups joke, and for every successful joke, the girls present in the studio must take off one piece of clothing. Strip jokes, in short. What can be said here? Just shrug your hands.
Then the blogger returns to his topic again. The man who has just been handed a bag of food offers Edward a drink. He refuses, explaining that: "We must not drink, bloggers must promote a healthy lifestyle." That is, refusal from alcohol is not Edward's personal conviction, but just playing along with the behavior other people expect from him? Or is it that the shooting is in progress, and without a camera, of course, he would have thrown a glass or two?
Further, as a “road story”, Edward tells how he was beaten in the park in winter by two unknown persons: “Either they recognized me and started kicking me, or they didn’t know and they were just such people. And then, to quiet soulful music, the superhero, without a raincoat, continued to distribute food to the villagers, simultaneously vowing to dissuade them in the disinterestedness of their actions. The young man was again asked who he was and where he came from, to which he replied: “I am Edward Beale - I hammered everyone from the Ebasosinka charity foundation.
Charity in general is an extremely sensitive issue. Because it is naturally perceived as a good deed. And the personality of the benefactor is instantly whitewashed, no matter what he says or does before. But my impression is this: the blogger just decided to catch the hype, as it is now customary to say in the Internet environment. Intuitively, there is some kind of inconsistency, falsehood in this whole situation. Here he is such a fine fellow, he distributes food to grandmothers, but as a worthy content he advertises a YouTube channel of low-grade humor. Here he convinces that there is good in the world, but he spits and chokes on the threshold of the house of a lonely elderly woman (probably from the strong smell of a not very clean room). So I did not experience any sublime and reverent feelings, on the contrary, some kind of muddy sediment remained in my soul,and I wanted to sum up what I saw with the words of the great K. Stanislavsky: "I don't believe!"
Video 5. Tenderlybae playing Chat Out / Pink Sugar
An entertaining show where an invited guest (in this case, a 17-year-old streamer Amina) communicates with participants in a specially created chat and, by answering questions, gradually removes participants from the game.
The girl was also interviewed: she speculated about what love is, how you can offend her and on other topics of approximately the same order.
What's in the bottom line? Emptiness and nonsense. The girl argues like a child, which is understandable due to her young age, her manners of behavior and speech are not for the better; the video does not carry any semantic load. Bottom line: the time spent watching the video was wasted.
Anastasia Belaya-Vetrova