actually i like the lecture analogy.
on a lot of other higher-category social media platforms, it leans a lot into the “parasocial” aspect. on tiktok, it feels a lot more personal than youtube does. like you’re having a conversation with someone, albiet a weirdly mediumed one. on twitch the streamer reads messages from chat all the time
but youtube feels like you’re going to a lecture hall to listen to the weirdest shit possible. or to watch content farms. but even then it feels significantly less like tiktok does. it’s not a dialogue, it’s a monologue. comments exist, yeah, and they do too on tiktok, but youtube comments are like, if we’re going with the lecture analogy, a guy raising his hand to ask a single question, after which he says no more. this is Technically true of tiktok but it feels much different
also all of this is about normal youtube, youtube shorts is just a tiktok copy/paste and im 90% sure most creators only do one or the other mostly
