I have to say, I'm not familiar with the speech pattern you describe. Although, I don't often watch Youtube except for music and recorded shows.

My rant: we are having tropical storm conditions today in central NC. Carwash-like rain and gusty wind, and huge puddles on the roads. I had to rescue DH from vehicle trouble. People are driving like it's clear and 75. Driving too fast, pulling out, changing lanes. If you can't drive with caution under these conditions, when DO you drive with caution??? Never, apparently.

Lars, i have a B.A. in Foreign Languages and and M.A. in teaching English as a Second Language, so I "hear ya". However, I also delight in the flexibility of English and its speakers. People may misuse words, but we usually understand each other. And some nouns DO need verbs. My son taught us that it is much easier, and more fun, to say "binoculate" than "look through binoculars".

Yes YouTube is filled with both the good and bad. I can’t be bothered to watch many makeup or hair videos anymore. I keep to a select few people that get to the point and don’t act as if the viewer has nothing else in the world to do but listen to them blabber and giggle about nonsense while constantly fluffing their hair and checking themselves out in the mirror. Blah!!

i also know what you’re taking about with the speech thing.

Instagram. I'm probably late to the party but my kids are on there a lot more than on FB so I can keep up with them on IG. My daughter's IG has such gorgeous photography and I love her stylings. But I was following this one gal who has become a wannabe 'influencer' (whatever in the world that is) and she's gotten sponsors so now her site is just like all the others. And I went down the rabbit hole of her page and if I see one more white room styled over and over and over and the photos of the same.dam.thing from a different angle, and one more white girl with an oversized mug of coffee I'm going to pull my eyes out of my head!

My grandson likes watching a few youtube channels. One is a little kid named Ryan, who is totally adorable and does toy reviews. His parents have parlayed that into a multi-million dollar business (and I'm not sure how I feel about that, but they seem to be great parents otherwise) and are living off of his earnings. They just moved into a "mansion" according to my gs.

Anyway the mother's voice and laugh is like fingernails on a blackboard to me. I realized today (although I've complained to him about how annoying the voices are in the videos) that whenever he has it on, I get super anxious and grumpy. So I told him today, no more watching that at g'ma's. I can't handle it. He watches two other really fun shows Odd 1's out and Jaiden Animation. They are just teenagers doing cartoons and narration about their lives; she about her pet bird, which are hilarious. A few are too old for him so I monitor and make him turn them off (she did one about depression, or bulimia or something that wasn't appropriate for him). Once in a while they kind of play-curse and it's always beeped out, but he thinks that's hilarious. Their voices are not annoying at all.

I like watching You Tube food videos.

I cannot remotely tolerate listening to Food Wishes. Every sentence ends up in an upwards inflection, spoken slow, as if every sentence is some sort of question.

It's not something innate for the guy that he can't help; he cultivated this over time. (I ran into one of his earliest videos when I was hunting down a recipe, and he spoke normally then.) It's horrible, and I won't open up another of his recipes even if the title encourages me. I'm sure I'd hate the recipe by the time I finished listening.

spoken slowly

(sorry that was for Lars! ducking...)

Here is the thing about diction and grammar. The irony is, the things that grate on you because you hear people misspeak them so often ... in a decade they become accepted usage! It's mob rule, just ask the OED.

I use Youtube occasionally for cooking demos, but most often in my capacity as Unpaid Underappreciated 24/7 Tutor to my kids. Aren't sure about the calculation of cross-product elasticity? Youtube. How about a primer on Utilitarianism's founders? Youtube. Need a refresher on drawing a parallel line from a point? Youtube.

There are some great educators out there (don't even get me started on that saint, Sal Khan) and it is great to get a few different takes on a subject. Some videos are very homely and some are slick. Some are made by teens themselves, with a camera and a sheet of notebook paper. Kids today are so lucky. We had like, one page in a book to stare at and if it didn't make sense, you were stuck.

Lars: Does "surveillancize" work???

(Ducking!!!)

I love you tube. The love affair started when I first had to remove, clean, and replace a bicycle chain on an old bike I had bought and the youtube demonstration made it easy.

But Pennydesign has nailed it for a subset of you tubers and to tell the truth I just can't listen, it is fortunate that almost any youtube lesson subject I look for has several from which to choose.

Her description reminds me of the age old debate about educators: do you want one who is brilliant, or do you want one who can easily and pleasantly get the point across and understood by listeners?

Someone who is brilliant in a field should be doing research. Being able to teach effectively is a true brilliance in and of itself. It requires complete competence but not brilliance in the field. If you get both, that is fabulous but not needed.

Perhaps all this points out is there is a reason ACTORS get paid big bucks for commercials and infomercials. You Tube is an amateur show!!! It is designed to give non professionals a platform. YOU CHOSE it if you are bothering to watch these people!!! Speaking "off the cuff";as most You Tubers are, will almost always get one using a lot of pauses and ums as well as off topic straying. I was taught in speech 101 in high school and college words are money. When broadcast or in-front of an audience short, simple, clear is required if you want to come across educated, intelligent and competent. Again not so sure that is the goal of most You Tubers. As far as the use of language and new words emerging..well that has always been the unique thing about English. It isn't a dead language. It is still growing and evolving. Even Websters began updating and each year there are more and more words included. Blatant grammar mistakes do grate on my ears like the old school finger nails on a chalk board example but for me the bottom line is COMMUNICATION. Did the point of the speaker get across and was it understood. Innovation with word usage bothers me not. And I think it is a battle lost YEARS AGO.

I think my biggest complaint with some instructional you tube videos is that the you tuber wants to tell a little story before getting to the point of the video. I find this with most of the cooking blogs I follow. Just get to the recipe please.

" Happy belated birthday" is the misuse of grammar that has me cringe whenever I hear or see it.

Whatsayyou, that is one of my biggest grammar pet peeves! I have even seen greeting cards that put the word “belated” between happy and birthday.

And yet, I'm sure that the birthday person was pleased to be thought of on or shortly after their day. A gift, even of thought, need not be perfect to be appreciated.

Bluebell....Nooooo! Really? Oh, my!!!!

I mostly hate, and tend to click away watching craft, cooking and other instructional videos that seem to drag on & on before getting to the actual directions. Isn't that what's known as a tease in the biz?

Especially origami videos that take overly long, when I could look at a diagram and get the gist in a fraction of the time.

1 more thing I can't stand is what watching lots of YouTube videos seems to be doing to some children - at least the kids I work with. The ones that spend the most time there - and some even have their own YouTube channel - also seem to be the most condescending, rude, and disrespectful to others, even adults, while at the same time supremely confident that they know more than anybody, when they definitely do not. These are not teenagers either, but elementary age kids. Our Middle schoolers are much more polite and respectful.

Of course, I realize this could be the result of a number of factors...

The only time I watch youtube videos is when I need to laugh and smile and I watch the cats ones.