Background music in YouTube videos is great. Music has such important emotional power. It can be used to emphasize a joke, sell an emotional beat in a story, empower the viewer or a number of other things (but this introduction is getting a bit long; let me get to my point.) You know how people like to draw with YouTube videos in the background? Yeah, hi, that's me. Except I'm trying to compose background music for my video game and, as a result, a half-hour commentary video turns into a 45-to-60-minute-long "commentary broken up by silence" listening experience so I can pause it to focus on the output from my DAW to check if what I just made actually sounds good. It's annoying to me at times, when I want to hear a YouTuber I really enjoy talk about a bunch of subjects at a time while I (someone who struggles enough already) try my damnedest to figure out how the hell to compose a good and fitting song for the cutscene the song is for.
BTW: Just so we're clear, this is just me complaining about a very specific problem that, as far as I know, only I have. Could I put on a podcast? Sure. What about ASMR? That's already half of my YouTube recommended because of this issue. Like I said, this is, in no way, a call-to-action for any YouTubers reading to stop scoring their videos; music has a very important role in the medium of video, I'm just trying to work and binge at the same time.
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June 1st, 2024 - 04:36 EST