@sothawo @bbbhltz @davidd @nixCraft if this were tv, where the commercial break and ad lengths are strictly defined and writers and editors are specially trained to pace things to smoothly transition in and out of the commercials, i might not mind (that the ads themselves are bad is a completely separate issue)

the way youtube does it it's like someone's nostalgic for early 2000s jumpscare pranks but doesn't know (or maybe knows a little *too* well) what their appeal was