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This is basically kind of like a YouTube tips and tricks and hacks video.
Things I do to make my viewing experience more enjoyable.
I'm all about having an enjoyable viewer experience when I watch YouTube videos.
I watch YouTube across a wide variety of platforms.
Sometimes I watch it on my TV.
Most of the time I watch it on my laptop.
Sometimes I watch on my phone.
And on occasion, I watch it on my tablet.
So, one of the things that we did here at home, is we have the Google family plan.
The Google family plan is $15.99 a month.
Included in that $15.99 a month, we get YouTube Red for free.
We also get, I think, Google Play Music.
Basically what that does for us, is that it lets up to five people connect to Google Play
Music, so you have like ... It's basically, I guess, Google's answer to Spotify.
And you get all of this access to music, and you get to watch YouTube Red, which means
you get to watch YouTube without ads.
I love watching things without ads.
That's one of the reasons that I originally had a TiVo.
That's one of the reasons I like Netflix and Hulu, other stuff that's on demand.
So, if you don't want to do a Google Family Plan, which is $15.99 a month, which you can
split between five people, what you can do is get YouTube Red, or you can Google Play
Music, which is $9.99.
And the really cool thing about if you get either of those, you get the other.
So, if you pay for a YouTube Red subscription, you also get Google Play Music included, and
vice versa.
So, the other thing I really like, basically about the whole Google Family Plan, which
gives me the YouTube Red, is that basically, on YouTube Red, if I'm logged in, I don't
have to watch ads on anything.
It doesn't matter what platform.
So I don't have to watch it on my TV.
I don't have to watch it on my phone.
I don't have to have ads anywhere, which is really great.
It also lets you save videos, like on your phone, if you want to watch something later
for whenever you don't have cell reception.
So, like if you say you're going to be commuting on a train, or something, and you have your
headset, and you want to watch something on your phone, which you may not have the best
reception because you're going to go through a tunnel, that would be a time that you might
want to download a video to prep for that.
And then also, they give you access to exclusive content, like stuff from Rooster Teeth and
other big name YouTubers.
So, in my opinion, there's a lot of benefits to getting YouTube Red or the Google Family
Plan, or whatever.
But we have me, Ray, and Dave on our plan.
And then I think we also have one of our friends, Mike, and I think we have Ray's parents.
So, it works out really well for us.
Now, the next thing that I do to make watching YouTube videos more enjoyable, is I typically
watch on my laptop.
And the reason I do that, is because you can, on your laptop, change the speed of the video
you're watching.
So, you don't have to watch it normal speed.
You can speed things up to two times speed, which is hilarious.
I've watched my own videos at two times speed, and just laughed my ass off, because of how
I sound.
But a lot of times when I'm watching videos, I usually watch at like 1.5.
And you can slow them down as well.
So if you don't like ... If something is too fast, like if you're watching somebody who
speaks really, really fast, like Liv Lovers Her Makeup speaks super fast, you can slow
her down.
I really wish that this option was available on our cell phones and tablets, but currently
it's not.
And it drives me crazy, because I'm like, "Why is this not available on my tablet?
It should be on my tablet."
So YouTube really needs to fix that.
the number three thing that I like to do for videos, if I'm having trouble understanding
the person and how they speak because I do have a bit of a hearing problem, is I turn
on closed captioning.
Now, you may notice from my own videos, I do closed captioning for all of my videos.
And reason I do that is because I know what it's like to be unable to understand somebody
because they talk too fast, or I can't hear it through their accent, or they just have
a really shitty mic.
So, I personally do closed captioning for all of my videos to make it easier on people.
So I appreciate when other people have closed captioning as well.
Now, YouTube will do like a default captioning for people on videos, but their default system
really sucks.
And sometimes if it's been like crowd source, people will put really weird things on videos,
like, "Now here comes a MILF."
Cause somebody did that to one of my videos, and I was like, "No.
Oh, ew."
So, that's why I do my own closed captioning rather than just relying on YouTube.
But I really like the fact that if I'm in a situation where I need to watch a video
with no sound, I can just on closed captioning, and kind of get the gist of what's going on.
So if you're somebody who does make videos, I highly recommend that you add your own closed
captioning.
You transcribe your own videos, because it'll make it much more accessible for other people
who are hard of hearing, or for people who are hard of hearing, or are deaf.
It'll really help them out.
So there are a couple keyboard commands that I have found for watching YouTube that I really
like to make it easier to kind of control what you're doing.
If you hit K, it'll pause, or un-pause a video.
If you hit M, it'll mute or unmute a video.
And then if you hit F, it'll full screen, or take off full screen.
So those are three of the keyboard shortcuts that I really like.
And I wish I had known years ago, but I didn't learn until this year.
The last thing that you might be really interested in, is that you can do slow-mo with any YouTube
video by holding down the space bar.
And I don't know why this is a built in command, but it is, so that way if you're watching
something, and you want to see if you saw, like a dog out of the corner of your eye,
you can check it out and say, "Oh, yep.
There was a dog that just ran by."
I find it occasionally useful.
So, anyway.
That completes this video.
Basically, the things that I find really useful for making YouTube more enjoyable are, watching
on my laptop, having YouTube Red so I never had to watch an ad, and the keyboard shortcuts.
So anyway, these are all the different things that I do to make watching YouTube more enjoyable.
if you haven't checked it out, definitely check out YouTube Red or the Google Family
Plan, or Google Play Music, because I think that there's a lot of benefit to having that.
At least we have found a lot of benefit with it.
We really like it.
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