Case where I hope to be wrong: the dawn of Tally Ho cruising videos.
Most of the rebuilding work is finished now, and Leo plans to sail and cruise to exotic places. I have an uninvited grandfatherly concern, and that is that the YouTube audience is finicky about content. By which I mean, audience loss occurs when the topical matter shifts, in this case from carpentry and restoration challenges told in rare detail, to cruising saga.
There is already a great deal of that, crews groveling for Patreon money, each determined to transform routine experience into reality drama, all with exclamation-point headlines, drone shots and absurd enthusiasm and beaming optimism which seems to have supplanted even the bikinis.
Into this boiling pot Tally Ho is now dropped, like a green lobster. Leo must please the crowd or lose his funding. I suppose that's fair, or at least the real reality of any reality show. Personally, I find my interest drifting away.
YouTube I consider an underappreciated revolution, equal perhaps to generative AI. It is now the encyclopedia of the world, with real-time coverage of drone warfare, lectures on Aristotle, and how to fix a dripping refrigerator (today's project in my house). Having spent a lifetime trying to answer my own questions, YouTube is the Faustian shortcut to all knowledge, and the price you pay to the devil is zero (unless you pay $15 a month, as I do now, for no advertisements).
Can Tally Ho transition from the ancient arts of boatbuilding to which its 500 thousand subscribers were eager apprentices, to the lifestyle revelations of crossing seas and then cooking dinner at anchorage?
Well, my taste is dated and my departure will not be missed. But what marvelous years they were, rebuilding the old girl!
Most of the rebuilding work is finished now, and Leo plans to sail and cruise to exotic places. I have an uninvited grandfatherly concern, and that is that the YouTube audience is finicky about content. By which I mean, audience loss occurs when the topical matter shifts, in this case from carpentry and restoration challenges told in rare detail, to cruising saga.
There is already a great deal of that, crews groveling for Patreon money, each determined to transform routine experience into reality drama, all with exclamation-point headlines, drone shots and absurd enthusiasm and beaming optimism which seems to have supplanted even the bikinis.
Into this boiling pot Tally Ho is now dropped, like a green lobster. Leo must please the crowd or lose his funding. I suppose that's fair, or at least the real reality of any reality show. Personally, I find my interest drifting away.
YouTube I consider an underappreciated revolution, equal perhaps to generative AI. It is now the encyclopedia of the world, with real-time coverage of drone warfare, lectures on Aristotle, and how to fix a dripping refrigerator (today's project in my house). Having spent a lifetime trying to answer my own questions, YouTube is the Faustian shortcut to all knowledge, and the price you pay to the devil is zero (unless you pay $15 a month, as I do now, for no advertisements).
Can Tally Ho transition from the ancient arts of boatbuilding to which its 500 thousand subscribers were eager apprentices, to the lifestyle revelations of crossing seas and then cooking dinner at anchorage?
Well, my taste is dated and my departure will not be missed. But what marvelous years they were, rebuilding the old girl!
