I agree with your last line, but it’s not just Destin. It’s all of YouTube.
The incentive system is driving creators to create longer videos filled with an insane amount of filler content.
It makes long videos much shorter by cutting out all the filler content (~30% of most videos), and has an option to skip just to the highlight of the video.
For this video, it skips you to 6:52, and within 1 minute you have learned that hydrolysis directly doesn't work due to the salt in salt water, it produces chlorine, and you need to do reverse osmosis first then electrolysis.
It isn't AI... it's just other humans who have tagged and marked the videos - and they have done a pretty good job IMO.
What I'd love (and even pay money for) would be the same thing for Spotify podcasts - especially for kids stories which are a constant feature of my car journeys at the moment. 5 minutes of junk surrounding 4 minutes of actual story is madness.
(I already have Spotify Premium - I'm not talking about ads; the actual content of podcasts is mostly fluff, and it's almost as bad as YT)
I immediately knew this was just going to be a plumbing tour and checked out. Little bit funny to call it a tour of a nuclear submarine but skip anything nuclear.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/us-navy-sail...
> Kristian Saucier, of Arlington, Vermont, appeared in federal court in Bridgeport, where a judge also ordered him to serve six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring during a three-year period of supervised release after the prison time. He pleaded guilty in May to unauthorized detention of defense information and had faced five to six years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.
> Saucier admitted to taking six photos of classified areas inside the USS Alexandria in 2009 when it was in Groton and he was a 22-year-old machinist mate on the submarine. The photos showed the nuclear reactor compartment, the auxiliary steam propulsion panel and the maneuvering compartment, prosecutors said.
> Saucier took the photos knowing they were classified, but did so only to be able to show his family and future children what he did while he was in the Navy, his lawyers said. He denied sharing the photos with any unauthorized recipient.
In 1960 you had a good argument for classifying reactors, but it's ridiculous to pretend the US still has a nuclear monopoly sixty years later. This is declining-empire stuff, a fading power trying to keep up a pretense that has long since grown thin.
That being said, there’s not really a lot of filler in hit stuff.
For example here's him telling his viewers, who are most certainly car enthusiasts, what a lift button does: https://youtu.be/BGUqC7QbUDo?t=548
I generally think he does a good job of keeping things moving, with little filler. It just seems that he always ends up around that 25 minute mark.
I have almost only videos 10+ minutes on my homepage and in my recommendations because I almost only watch longer videos.
I basically only watch people I’m subscribed to (which I rarely find via YouTube). Those videos are getting increasingly longer because the payouts are higher.