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Algorithms are neither good nor bad they just are. Just don't watch the videos and they won't show up in your feed. "Modern culture is corrupting our children" is an argument as old as time.
Also, I find it hard to believe that 2/3 of people browse the web without adblocking. Block ads and they don't make money. It's as simple as that and far better than traditional interrupt advertisement. If you like them then whitelist them. uBlock is just common sense. You can't control other people but it isn't really that hard to control what you or your children watch.

Any good documentary maker would likely keep on filming too. Many war corespondents will of course tell tales of exactly the same situation, where they couldn't put the camera down but had to pick it up to capture the story even under horrible circumstances (often quite the reverse, as the more horrible it is, the more important it is they report on it!).
Now of course Logan Paul isn't a doco maker, he is a "YouTuber". 
But in a way, that is kinda sort of the "same thing"? As a vlogger he is making a mini documentary, every single day. 

Look on the upside perhaps? He is bringing more attention to Japan's terribly high suicide rates, maybe will do his tiny part in helping open a discussion to do something about it. 

Oh, and as for censorship, I don't believe in any of that. "We don't have free speech to talk about the weather".

I can't come even close to producing work as good as the best DLSR videos from 2015, I think I'd do fine if I was given a D850!

Should check out some fashion films on Vimeo... e.g.
Thing is... at the time of the GH2, normal folks weren't really looking for an 'in' to cinematography, just us enthusiasts and perhaps professionals that would love to either get into it affordably... or just because of the compact factor. And that was pretty close to the 5DmkII and T2i/550D boom that made us focus on these kind of cameras. These days, especially with vloggers using DSLRs and mirrorless cams, we've been seeing everyone doing test videos and that's the thing that get searched for most as well, because people are still looking for their 'in' right now, now that this method of shooting has evolved. Andrew, Caleb, Dave didn't have a GH5 guide out that quick, so then every n3wb had their chance to play important and release reviews and recommendations about stuff they actually hardly know a thing about. And it has become way more accessible as well, so there's just more people getting into it... but nobody really knows what they want to do with it... so you have people with 0 knowledge and 0 experience, but this camera and all they can come up with is shooting test videos, figuring things out. That's not a very good measurement to base anything on however. The GH5 is undoubtedly more capable than the GH2 was and WILL in the right hands, be a much better tool with better results.
Though yeah, when there was this 'pick one camera for the rest of your shooting' or something, the GH2 was the one I picked. Just because you only had the basics to worry about and because it really was my first interchangeable lens camera, which I bonded with and learned from so so much. But nostalgia has little to do with how a camera actually performs or what it is capable of. That's still down to the person operating it.

Edit: Now I got it:) Well, seems like you are not considered to be part of his audience, since you care that much about photography, beautiful lenses and cameras and always awesome five reasons to reconsider some classy older technology. That guy is not vlogging with an X100T after all.:)

We're living in a time where the uncensored, unedited and raw media lives. This is why YouTube is so popular in my opinion. 30 minute vlogs of people rambling and saying what's on their mind. Right now the majority of viewers find this refreshing, more honest, more direct than television for example. I personally hate it. I do think this will pass though. People will get bored by this format and will look for a next development within YouTube. It's all just part of a fad, trend that will die, or transform into something else. You just have to wait it out. 

I used to think the way Andrew thought.  Have I become jaded, misguided, scared of the truth?  I feel the same way, but...
There's amazing content on YouTube now that was impossible to produce/see 10 years ago.  I find it sadder that many people aren't familiar with this amazing content, than the fact of "snuff" types of videos on YT (that's what they called similar stuff in my day).  For example, our own @Mattias Burling videos, @DaveAltizer,ColdFusion, Wendover Productions, Ave, Curious Droid, Sean Tucker, Red Means Recording--I could go on and on.  YT has got it more right, than wrong.
@Chrad makes the point that there IS a problem with suicide in Japan (and the U.S. with vets) which is a problem bigger than the ethical standards of any YouTuber or the Alphabet Corporation.  How does society learn about these problems, or guage their significance or scale?  If YouTube were able to block these kinds of videos would anyone ever get emotional about the problem?  I doubt it, it would just be another statistic.  Keep in mind, I am NOT CONDONING the vlogger's behavior, only pointing out that when you stand back, society works in weird ways.  He may have sent the message to get more viewers, but who ever send a message without some self-interest?  I've met no one.  I used to think I was above it, I'm not.   So I always try to focus on the biggest problem, not any self-interest.  The biggest problem is suicide.  The vlogger was society's weird way of having it put under people's noses.
Think about it, we're all as guilty as the vlogger in doing nothing about the problem--at least I do nothing, but talk.
Until the bigger problems are fixed first, I want information to flow freely, not matter how distasteful it may be.  All sources are biased and society still works in mysterious ways.
 

Are we going to get one thread for every month of the year?
 
I reckon the GH1/AF100/GH2/GH3/GH4/GH5/etc has already done that! (although the EVA1 was a bit of a let down....)

Any good documentary maker would likely keep on filming too. Many war corespondents will of course tell tales of exactly the same situation, where they couldn't put the camera down but had to pick it up to capture the story even under horrible circumstances (often quite the reverse, as the more horrible it is, the more important it is they report on it!).
Now of course Logan Paul isn't a doco maker, he is a "YouTuber". 
But in a way, that is kinda sort of the "same thing"? As a vlogger he is making a mini documentary, every single day. 

Look on the upside perhaps? He is bringing more attention to Japan's terribly high suicide rates, maybe will do his tiny part in helping open a discussion to do something about it. 

Oh, and as for censorship, I don't believe in any of that. "We don't have free speech to talk about the weather".

Hmm, my techniques for avoiding certain social media's content must be working. I've never heard of him before your blog post.

Oh yes, that #2 is very famous in New Zealand! Awwwwkard
#1: phew, was rescued! 

I can't come even close to producing work as good as the best DLSR videos from 2015, I think I'd do fine if I was given a D850!

That's called a tree.
And everybody knows Global Warming was replaced by Climate Change which was replaced with Climate Disruption which was, itself, formally called "weather." 
So the GH5s will be weather sealed. That is all. You're welcome. 

“Thin ice” proves that this is in fact a hint at global warming. 
Luke lives in the US and Trump is President, and he doesn’t believe in global warming. 
This proves that the GH5S will trump all over cameras! What a discovery! 

You forgot the "Is it the 8th yet?", clearly a mention about 8 bits on footage.

Did you mean perhaps a few weeks earlier.... on April the 1st?

Let's ruthlessly dissect and analyze Neumann's first comment of 2018:
First of all, let's look into his first sentence, why did he write "Happy New Years" and not the more common "Happy New Year". Or the more grammatical correct "Happy New Year's Day"?!
What deeper meaning can we mine from this?
& why did he next say "everyone", does this hint at a well rounded GH5s being a camera for "everyone"? Suitable for wedding videographers, news reporters, film students, doco shooters, Bollywood and Hollywood big productions too?

Did you mean perhaps a few weeks earlier.... on April the 1st?

I'd disagree, because all the things that makes a GH4 "better" (such as anamorphic, YAGH, or 10bit external) a budget minded sub $1K buyer is not going to be buying a secondhand GH4 for!

Thus that then leaves instead all the things the Panasonic G85 does better instead, which makes it the better buy in the end. 

Did you mean perhaps a few weeks earlier.... on April the 1st?

@Liam i agree with everyone else lol
fwiw, heres how things have gone with me lately...
i recently got a lot of good feedback in this thread about length regarding a proposed episodic series of short pieces
long story short (pun intended), i decided that id be better off with a short film – under 10 min. i figured that i could boil down my ideas into a shorter piece. so i wrote something, 10 pages, and although it came out ok... i just wasnt in love with it. its not me. my original concept was for a horror thing with verrryyy slow shining like pacing, and trying to turn that piece into something much shorter just didnt work for me. i have to borderline love anything i write in order to try to shoot it, and what i had come up with felt cliched, and at the least, something someone else could write
but doing all that was really good for me. once i saw things clearly i released my grip on that concept, and then was my paw was open to receive new blessings of filmmaking!!!
and somehow all that stuff totally resulted in me coming up with something almost completely different:
• its short as can be, like 5 min or less ( = easier)
• theres no dialogue ( = omg easy)
• theres ~3~ characters instead of like 14
• theres one location instead of many
AANND
• MOST OF ALL, i like it way better. it feels like something id make, as opposed to something thats kinda forced
so, whats the moral of this story, and how does it relate to this thread? i dont know @Liam, i dont know
 

Yeah I drastically disagree with that article, as a medium length one won't help your career much more than making a short would (unlike a feature film), yet is nearly as much effort and cost as to make a feature film!
 
The one exception: if you're making a doco for TV distribution and needs to fit in the standard one hour slot. (Minus adverts!)

Then nix the idea and find another script.
 
The easiest and cheapest cost savings can be done during the script writing phase! Such as abandoning it entirely.
 
40 minutes for a narrative scripted film is smack bang in the middle of no man's land.
 
**OR:**
Turn it into a web series, if it can be easily sliced up into fairly self contained chunks.
This.
 
Haha! Great quote.
It does seem to be a commo  flaw of amateurs/students that they take on far to ambitious projects. When a shorter piece would have come out as much more high quality, & with less pain in the process.

Let's ruthlessly dissect and analyze Neumann's first comment of 2018:
First of all, let's look into his first sentence, why did he write "Happy New Years" and not the more common "Happy New Year". Or the more grammatical correct "Happy New Year's Day"?!
What deeper meaning can we mine from this?
& why did he next say "everyone", does this hint at a well rounded GH5s being a camera for "everyone"? Suitable for wedding videographers, news reporters, film students, doco shooters, Bollywood and Hollywood big productions too?