Is travel vlogging coming to an end? It seems like none of the original good ones do content anymore and no one new is stepping in that actually makes good vids. Seems like now is better time than ever to fill a gap and become famous honestly.
>>2865176there is no gap. all the videos have been made and there are no new places so it's just boring now, both for the content creator and the viewer.
What else is there to do? Maybe the really obscure parts of the world but even that has mostly been done.Youtube is so fucking saturated that it almost makes my brain hurt.
I think people are in general tired of 'boring 35+ year old white dudes trying to have a good time and failing' type of content.
>>2865218There's also youtuber fatigue on the part of the locals in these places who are not excited or interested in these camera-toting visitors anymore. You can see it in their faces now, which also kills the vibe of a video that's supposed to be fun and upbeat.
>>2865221This is definitely a thing. Nobody wants to see yet another fucking clown with a pindle mounted camera poking his nose into everything.If you want to be a content creator you actually need to create content, not just walk around complaining and filming annoyed locals.
>wow it sucks here>look at these people they are so poor ugly and miserable >wow look at this building (feigning interest)>so yeah here I am in (shithole) isn't it great? >I'm so glad I skipped having a family and actual professional career for this>always something new around every corner>can't wait to see the next dingey overpriced shithole full of glassy eyed brown weirdos>wowee I love this>look at this! Bad local beer and some sort of rotten slop prepared by a guy who cleans his asshole with his finger after he takes a shit>Oh this is so good>ok we done filming for the day?>GREAT finally! Now where are the teen prostitutes and drugs?!
Travel vlogs will always exist. The only reason I seldom watch them is because they're either boring, or I'm trying to avoid spoilers (because I travel too).
Their style of vlogging is played out but there's no reason someone couldn't figure out a new angle to keep things fresh or create content at a higher standard.
>>2865176Because everyone travels these days and the mystery of it is gone. Why the fuck would I watch some old dude wander about somewhere I can visit myself? Plus it's obnoxious as fuck to film strangers. It's hard to have a chill experience especially if you're trying to drink a few cans when you have some dude constantly filming your shit.Its like why watch a lets play of a game when you can do it yourself lolBald's best content was always going to obscure places in ex-USSR because it's an interesting niche.
I also tried. As someone with adhd I only enjoy short high paced authentic vlogs without over editing, misleading drone shots etc. which became rare over time so that s what I tried. Unfortunately my adhd produces chaotic vlogs which only make sense to people who already know me and my travel history. Close to monitization after posting about 40 long form videos but I guess it will have to be one good hit since most followers came from only a few videos that did well. I think however, many normies follow vloggers just for the fact they're famous. So i think once you have a decent following, even your crappiest new videos will be watched by normies and without losing those normies because the video is crap. That s what s going on with the pioneer travel vloggers right now.
>>2865308People watch vloggers for their personalities, not so much for the places they visit. They can make a routine place full of normal people appear "OMG so exciting, I wish I could go there!" by hyping it for the camera. So yeah, it doesn't matter if there's hardly anything to be learned by watching the video. It's a cult of personality.>>2865296>>2865221The world is full of cameras now; they are not a novelty anymore. People in every country have developed an aversion to being photographed or filmed by strangers. Even pointing a cell phone camera in someone's general direction elicits a negative response, particularly from females - and we all know that the biggest clickbait vlogs were those featuring friendly young girls.
>>2865312I think it depends per viewer. If someone is constantly in frame yapping I can get annoyed and start thinking shut up a while and just show the place. On the other extreme you have the faceless and or voiceless vlogs which can also get boring. That's why I took the middle road. I often hear I should show myself and interactions more often but let's be honest. Most interactions of many famous vloggers are lame, forced, disrespectful or superficial. I like to stay respectful and only include qualitative interactions. That's basically my 'weakness' in modern day vlogging. Most vloggers do or say anything to go viral, whether it's good or bad, smart or stupid. Hard to compete with that if you have certain values and principles. But it's fine. I'll take the long run.
>>2865248>or I'm trying to avoid spoilerslol I have the same mindset lately. But on the other hand, after already booking a trip I often start doubting if I made the right choice, so I watch some vids about my place to hype myself up.
opinion: there was more mystique and desire to travel when people still had web 1.0 blogs. i'm burnt out of travel slop
>>2865176The internet's dead. All 'content' has been more or less done, and if it hasn't, AI is coming for it. >>2865390This. getting just a small glimpse of adventure was far better than seeing it in 4k. Was quite fun trying to build a picture from random blogs. Also, travel in general is a much different beast. Venture capital has sucked the life out of it, with slop like airbnb, and made it '''''''accessible''''''''.
>>2865176They're all vacuous morons with little to add to the video they are showing you beyond reading the wikipedia page. Nobody who is intelligent enough to add anything meaningful or insightful to the video has the time off from their actual career or family to make videos like this nor the narcissism to do it or the lack of self awareness to wander around with a camera on a stick.
>>2865427Giving everyone a video camera and a voice online was a mistake for humanity.
a famous travel youtuber just posted a youtube video of his friend punched a poor guy in the face.A guy they said was "scamming people"It was a sucker punch and then they ran away.This won't end well.They'll probably get arrested tomorrow.Video is almost at 500k views.
>>2865463>poor guy
>>2865463i fucking cringed so hard at them sprinting out of there. Why did they do that? Also the punch wasn't justified, maybe if they baited him a bit longer. But the run makes them look guilty and faggy
Not a single good travel vlog series on Africa still or the Middle East.
>>2865489I want the anon who spent years there across multiple countries to make some vids, he has had the best stories on this board for a long time now.He's almost convinced me to buy a ticket to Rwanda or Kenya in a few sentences its amazing.
>>2865489there's the chinese guy with this tanzanian girlfriend
>>2865463>>2865465well who was it?
>>2865176I wonder why Bald and Bankrupt doesn't just erase his India videos from 2018. These make him look disingenuous as fuck when he shits all over India in his new content.I know he's some kind of narcissist/sociopath and these people don't give a fuck, but his new videos still have over million views and with such following some basic consistency should be expected.
>>2865600>these people don't give a fuckthese people actively enjoy peoples irritated responses to their obvious contradictions
>>2865602It also benefits them, it's engagement bait. He doesn't care about looking disingenuous, it makes him money.
nothing is stopping you from booking a flight to south africa and walking around in the most dangerous hoods of johannesburg as a white monkey with a camera
>>2865608SA was actually pretty good pre durban riots. It's only gone downhill since tho
