I hate the new lyrics videos saturating search results.

I know I'm not the only one who has noticed the rise of these soulless, mass-produced, corporate lyric videos on YouTube this past (almost) decade.

Lyrics videos used to have spirit. They were created by real people with passion. There were background colours, font types, powerpoint-style editing, scrolling, credits, fun and joy. It was a reflection of the time that it was uploaded with use of jargon relevant to that era, even featuring features of that era (rip Annotations (there's an add-on available (at least on Mozilla Firefox) that brings it back!! You can take a glimpse back to the past)). Even the resolution (480p or some other) was a sign of the times.

Interestingly, there were also typos by people who probably misheard the lyrics. You might be aware of the "like the legend of the penis" meme from the Daft Punk song, or "it's the cream of the fight" from Survivor's Eye of the Tiger. Was there no official document from the artists of what the lyrics were? I don't recall. But, I appreciate that the kids or teenagers (probably) who were inspired to make those lyric videos followed through with their creativity. It wasn't just words on a screen that changed slides according to a timestamp. It was meant for someone, which garnered a larger audience than anticipated and defined an era.

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Now, it's evil. The onset of these mass-produced lyric videos started around 2017, I believe. It features some variation of a sunset or like super bright colours. The same font on every video, it feels like, which is like this thin, blocky text -- always coloured white. Sometimes, there's that audio visualizer thing with the moving bars. And, Every. Video. Looks. The. Same. There is no life.

It is so irritating to see that even with the classic, existing lyric video from like 2008 or whatever, YouTube will still recommend one of the TRASHY corpo lyric videos before it. And, comparatively, you'd see that the OG maintains its seat at the TOP in terms of views because it MEANS something. "Relevance" filter bullshit. I hate it so much.