Before I begin, I do not want to put my stance against Youtube's (and for that matter, ALL flash player websites) existence. I love the ease of availability of some rare clips on the site, and the fact that it has made spreading videos far easier. It is a quick and easy way to see what is necessary, but nothing more.
But what has this done? By far, the worst thing youtube has accomplished is making people so god damn lazy. This is particularly notable with anime fansubs, which have largely degenerated from increasingly high quality fansubs, to shitty looking flash videos with almost illegibly small subtitles.
And people love it.
WHY?! Why settle for utter shit, when you can settle for this (click to enlarge):
This is from a high definition encode of Gundam 00. Not only is the animation itself razor sharp (and this is only 720p), but notice how legible even the HUD readouts are. You would never be able to read that in Youtube's meager 320x240.
Now yes, I understand that for practical reasons, Youtube cannot supply the bandwidth and space for that many HD videos, but THAT'S WHY YOU SHOULD FUCKING DOWNLOAD YOUR VIDEOS! The real problem at hand is that Youtube has ruined the standards by which encoders such as myself live by. People have come to accept such crappy quality, which should have been abandoned in the days of RealPlayer (buffering, lol), nearly 10 years ago. Jesus Christ, people, are you that blind?
In relation though, the other problem that has arisen out of this is that no one knows HOW to obtain higher quality encodes, because they have become that much harder to find. I'm not here to advocate piracy, but if you're going to pirate, at least do it right. I can't stand walking by my college campus' computers only to find 4 people watching 320x240 Naruto episodes off Youtube... Kill me.
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