Let's Quit YouTube ( But also, let's not )

How do you watch your YouTube? Do you consider it a Streaming Service? How do you feel about Shorts and Vertical Video? And should I be making more 'Documentary' style videos, rather than 'Vlogs' ?? Let's go for a train ride to one of my favourite pieces of infrastructure and discuss ....

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[geofftech]

There's a '$Thanks' button on every video - if you wish to click, slide the donation amount to as well if you wish, that would more than kind of you. Thank You!

EDIT : Woah, that's a LOT of comments to read and catchup on - thanks everyone !!!

[aleksandraroslan]

Best youtube channel about trains. Don't quit youtube.😢

[jengis_i]

The moment we get trains that are higher than they are long is the moment to switch from landscape to portrait mode.

[AdventureJoe]

My wife and I await your video every week and watch it faithfully on a large screen TV powered by Apple TV. Keep the widescreen videos coming, we love them. There is nothing wrong, however, with occasional shorts in vertical format viewed on our iPhones. Quick learnings in vertical format and deep learnings in horizontal format. Next time you’re in New York, give us a ring. Happy to hold your camera while you ride the subway.

[unclenolly]

Tik Tok and Shorts are like a bag of crisps when you’re hungry - a quick fix but not very filling.
With You Tube I can learn, laugh, cry, be amazed or shocked.
Your channel is the best, when I see a notification that you’ve got a new video, I can’t wait to watch it. BUT I have to be in the right place - you have something to tell me and I need to be able to listen to what you have to say.
Thank you for entertaining and teaching me for the past however many years I’ve been following you. Long may it continue. 🙏🙏🙏

[brianwaite]

Please. No Tik Toks. No shorts. Your knowledge and enthusiasm are what I’m/we’re here for.

[j_h_o_n]

You've done excellent work and it's been wonderful to watch your style evolve and grow as you've found yourself as an artist. I look forward to what you do next, whatever form that takes.

I am also in the large screen camp. I watch mostly 15+ minute content as if it were on-demand TV.

[darrenbertram]

Geoff, I'm one of those who line up my subscribers' YouTube videos every evening to watch on my big TV (although I came scurrying to my laptop to send you this.) You have been a breath of fresh air and long may you continue being so. Keep well, and keep travelling 🤩

[Extreme_Rice]

Hard to think of a subject less suited to vertical videos than trains, to be fair.

[petpfu]

Thanks Geoff, another "please not" to shorts and vertical here. If it is still something that you feel good about, please keep up the great work and quality and longer documentaries, I will absolutely watch these. They're great! Thanks a lot 😊

[janausis]

I am not even that interested in trains, but just seeing your excitement about them makes these videos worth to watch (and I also am able to learn a lot of interesting things). Thanks to you I knew my way around the Tube last summer, without every having been on it. I also recognized places from your videos when visiting London during my holidays. You are genuinely such an inspiring human beeing and I'd love to see a lot more videos from you

[MartMcDonald]

Glad to read that you’re not quitting YouTube, Geoff! Having been an avid viewer of your videos for the past 10 years or so, you’ve always made superb, engaging and entertaining content that is not only informative but also genuinely uplifting - your videos have helped me through some dark periods in the past few years, so I’m delighted to be able to pay that back to you a little. In answer to the question posed in the video itself, I’m definitely much more a fan of the long-form, documentary style of video and I am very much looking forward to more of these from you in future - keep up the amazing work.

[gavinmaclean]

You had me on tenterhooks for the whole video, wondering where it was headed! Well played Geoff (and no, please don’t quite YouTube).

[eb_ic]

My opinion on this is very simple: Never change Geoff, never change
Your style videos still have their rightful place on the platform

[ChocoLater]

You just proved that you can be a successful YouTuber without acting like you know how to operate a camera and fancy tricks in post.

[ianhutchison]

Mate, I am a 68 year old Aussie who has watched you since your Secrets of the Canals days. I watch on our TV by Chromecast from my phone. Stay with your current format please. We love your in-depth videos. Stay well and look after yourself!

[Casinosquare]

You helped me realise the thing i loved was not really trains but train *infrastructure* and oddities and the last 7 years i watched you have helped build a real love and appreciation. In a funny way you changed my life a bit. That's cool in my books.

[yatil]

Thank you, Geoff, for your excellent videos over the years. Keep em coming!

[marenello]

Thanks for the long form content! Perfect for watching on the TV!

[daveatlantix]

Geoff, I love the long form video format. Your enthusiasm for the subject matter - whatever it is - has kept me coming back for years. Please keep up the good work!