>>3054Podcasts can be organized and informative. I doubt you can blame them.
Sometimes, people are not so much talking to exchange information as to feel connected, and somehow, in a tragic way, this phenomenon got imported to the internet. People try to touch base with others in the digital world. But no matter how much people socialize on facebook, their need for human contact will never be satisfied - which is why early (non-political) facebook was already so addictive.
Many youtubers are the same thing, fundamentally, a seeming quenching of the said basic need, but ultimately not satisfactory.
And this goes for both sides of the youtuber scene. Both the creators as well as the audience are convinced that they have something that they are still desperately in want of.
So when you ask "why did you make a seven hours video to meander around a message that could have been conveyed in thirty minutes?"
The correct answer is: "I was lonely".
Same reason as why anyone would watch it.