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Video Annotations were frequently used to update mistakes made within a video, such as when the producer simply got a date or statistic incorrect, as well as fo
by stencil25 8y ago
Video Annotations were frequently used to update mistakes made within a video, such as when the producer simply got a date or statistic incorrect, as well as for providing a future citation or update regarding the content of the video.
I think it would be nice to see a middleground feature, to facilitate these cases, whilst not being as easy to abuse as video annotations were.
- jakobegger 8y agoAnnotations are a quick and dirty fix that isn't really a fix at all. It's really confusing if the voice in the video says one thing, and an annotation is displayed that says "this is not actually correct ..." It would be much better if the video creator spent five minutes to actually fix the video and reupload it.
- Double_a_92 8y agoThat would reset the views and comments.
- jerrre 8y agoThen you loose/cut off all previous comments/views/likes
- saurik 8y agoThey would have to upload it to a new URL and so none of the links to the old video would see it anyway, which is kind of useless.
- pinum 8y agoCreators are strongly disincentivised from doing that since deleting the old version would throw away their views etc for that video. It would also delete comments, and while this is often no great loss, I do run across useful or interesting YouTube comments sometimes.
- jakobegger 8y agoThey don't need to delete the old version, they can link between new/old version in the description.
- solarkraft 8y agoThis still fragments your audience.
- tastroder 8y agoThat sounds like a solution I'd personally never even notice. Most of the devices I consume youtube videos on either do not show the video description at all (TV) or actively disencourage reading it (the official Android app currently requires one or two clicks to even see it). In addition to that, re-uploads are annoying enough as is because content creators constantly need to upload old content due to changes in Youtubes policies or enforcement. New revisions for any minor mistake instead of an overlay would properly ruin the subscription page imho.
- anjc 8y agoThis would be far more confusing than an annotation.
- djaychela 8y agoAside from the other comments (which are all relevant), it's often not 'five minutes' to make a change like that - some of my (fairly simple) videos take longer than that just to render, aside from actually making the edit in the first place. Annotations offered a quick, easy and universal way to put on screen corrections in place,without loads of work and without losing view count, comments or fragmentation. That's no longer available.
- buboard 8y agoso google prefers to throw that content away? that is entirely disrespectful of their content creators. I bet a massive number of youtubers can no longer edit their videos because they no longer have them.
- Angostura 8y ago> It's really confusing if the voice in the video says one thing, and an annotation is displayed that says "this is not actually correct ..." I think you would have to try quite hard to be confused about something like this. Also, frequently used for self deprecation comedy.
- chapium 8y agoI always found this satisfying in a strange way, especially on technical videos. Perhaps it raises my confidence even more on a video if time is taken to correct a statement inline with the time it is being said.
- AnaniasAnanas 8y agoThey could use the video description.
- duiker101 8y agoI'm going to take this number out of my ass but I'd say that only 1% of the people that watch a video will go read the full description unless there is a specific resource they are looking for(usually links)
- morganvachon 8y agoYou're probably not too far off in that assessment. I find myself going to the description only if the video says there are links to follow in it, or if I really like the music and I want to see if they are credited (which is how I discovered the band Foreign Fields, watching the John Neeman Tools blacksmithing videos).
- kerbalspacepro 8y agoWatching YT videos on Xbox or Chromecast makes looking at the descriptions impossible
- Shank 8y agoYou also can't view annotations on Xbox or Chromecast.
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- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoI either watch YouTube videos using the app on my phone or on my TV using my NVIDIA Shield. I don't see descriptions either way (or annotations, for that matter).
- falcolas 8y agoOn the phone app, the description is dynamically loaded below the comments. I'm sure there's a less discoverable location, but I'd be hard pressed to identify it.