Do you ever feel like travel vloggers have become a cliché? From their titles and thumbnails to the content of their videos, it’s all the same. Titles like “Is this Saudi Arabia????”, “is this Latvia?”, “I did not expect this!!!”, “SHOCKING first experience!”, and “our first time in Brunei (we did not like it)”; it all becomes very repetitive. Not to mention the thumbnails usually feature a face with the mouth open. It’s like they all copied each other and now they’re just part of the same cycle.
Sure, it’s cool when they say “This is my 70th country!” or “This is the 150th city I have visited”, but why not say something more meaningful like “This is the 28th museum or zoo I’ve been to”, which is much more interesting. Also, it seems like 75% of the video is the vlogger brushing their teeth, or going “wooow” or “waa that is the most beautiful beach ever!! Also mandatory “wooow the locals here are so friendly guys!!!” – it’s become so boring.
And then there’s the drone shots that come with the same modern millennial music. When I travel to a place, that’s not the view I’m going to get, so why should I be interested in seeing it through someone else’s camera?
Finally, there are those vloggers who just regurgitate whatever they just read or heard in 5 to 10 minutes. If I wanted to know about the history of the place, I’d rather read an encyclopaedia than listen to some obscure vlogger. And it’s annoying how some of them only spend 5 days in the country, and yet they act like experts on the place.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way – travel vlogging has become so repetitive and boring, and there’s nothing new or exciting about it. It’s like they’ve all become part of the same cycle. So why watch them when you can explore the world yourself?