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Why are most sci fi stories on youtube... like that?
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Look, in case you didn't notice by my name, I'm Brazilian and I was recently introduced to this style of stories on YouTube.

I like these sci-fi stories but I have trouble finding good ones... because... sometimes they're either exaggerated... or they're simply not humans in space.

I've seen several good ones that I really saw as if they were humans in space, but I've seen several that were just exaggerations to exalt humans or, worse, to make the US bigger.

Like, I like to see the bombing, cruelty, history or human culture in space and even how aliens come to us, but without too much exaggeration because if humans can wipe out entire galaxies and universes... what's the plot? Just aliens talking and telling stories that can be summed up with the Napoleon meme: "There's nothing we can do."

make it at least fun, the different perspective, their story and interaction with the narrator/announcer and some scary or fascinating atmosphere and something like that... not just "they are amazing and we can't do anything."

And also the kind of stories that I call: "America fock yea, space edition" that are not much more than just a retelling of American history, military or not.

like, nothing against liking your own country, (I like mine because it's a good place, the problem is who's in charge and aspects of the culture.) but man, there are stories that as I listen/read I only see the soldier from the meme "WTF IS A KILOMETER."

And honestly I'm still learning and practicing English and sometimes the audio is all buggy because they put the narrator from Google to narrate.

but I like sci-fi stories, but I'm new to this and I also like to use videos to practice English comprehension, I just find these problems annoying.

PS-I used a translator in this post so I may have gotten something wrong.

pps-I'm new to reddit and here so excuse any jokes or amateurism, I just want to comment on this somewhere.

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I just bitched about this somewhere else like an hour ago.

The reason is threefold.

  1. They're short self-contained slop you can easily throw out in one video
  2. Prior to this genre (Humanity, Fuck Yeah or HFY) becoming popular sci-fi was basically just fan readings of big IPs as well as archives of old recordings or sci-fi horror
  3. These two taken together have made YT kind of The Place for this type of content

It's eventually going away, I think, but right now both culture and algorithm are massively reinforcing each other.

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