Why is Indian YouTube so mediocre?

Short answer: Indians are a silly immature and intellectually uncurious people.

Long answer:

Even the videos by smart people such as say professors or professionals who wish to impart their knowledge in the sciences, engineering, economics , accountings or other fields are poorly communicated and produced compared to those in say U.S.

It is not a matter of language skills. The Indian English skills are acceptable. What matters is conveying the information in an effective, clear and concise manner. In general Indians fail at this. Which is why the Indian education system is generally terrible? It is as if it is intended to incomprehensible and inaccessible to students.

In mainstream Youtube, there are documentaries by non professional vloggers about say cathedrals, classical music, Christian iconography, economics of 17th century Holland, Neitzche and his effects on Nazism, the pecularities of various European and non European languages, film reviews and analysis of Kubrick, Kurasawa, Scorsese, Fincher among various other cerebral topics. Many of these have millions of views.

Where is the equivalent in India? Where is the analysis of Hindustani vs Carnatic . Why this raga is superior to the other. What does this kirtana mean? Why were Dravida style architectures on temples come to be the way they are. How did Shaivism affect Buddhism. What do various yantras mean and how do they map to dieties? Why are certain Vedic verses used for marriage and other for death, what is their significance and what are they intended to do? What were the commonality of the aesthetics of Vijayanagar and the Cholas? Why was Harsha able to acquire such as large empire in such as short amount on time? What was the extant of Mesopotamian culture and motifs on the Mauryas?

Ok, granted . I have eclectic interests and tastes . But so many, many Western peoples who are interested in knowledge for the sake of it. Indians claim to be very interested in their heritage but I see absolutely zero evidence on this on YouTube but certainly I will see the copy paste quotes from Mark Twain, Schopenhauer, Goethe et al about how wonderful India is. Back scratching and self masturbatory patriotism is what passes for intellectual advancement in India.

Also let us discuss the abysmal quality of amateur entertainment. It is just awful. Whether on facebook or youtube it is as if an overzealous and earnest 12 year has written and produced these videos .They go along the lines of- rich people bad poor people good, pretty girl spoiled ugly girl loyal, boyfriend who wants sex is a villain ,celibate boyfriend honorable.

I cant believe these are actual adults producing this tripe. Goes to show how infantile and completely shallow our thinking really is.

I am not going into the YouTube comments where any criticism of India by a foreigner is met with hysterical defensiveness bordering on insanity.

Quora used to attract a lot of intelligent and knowledgable people but it has got overrun by fanboys who worship IIT and lonely weirdos who dream of just talking to pretty girls. There is a popular sub reddit dedicated just to this sorry lot which provides much amusement.

I am sorry to say all this is actually a reflection of Indians in real life. Most Indians are not really interested in any that does not indulge their jaded appetites or their thirst for money or career advancement. Even in school those who read novels by Agathie Christie or other pulp writers just wanted everyone to know they were reading these rather than enjoying them for their own merits. I remember kids (including myself) memorizing arcane trivia such as the Prime Minister of Sweden in 1978 for the sole purpose of winning a quiz contest rather than a genuine interest in any particular topic. This disease has infected even Indian Americans where are they disproportionately represented in useless contests such as the Spelling Bee. Their time would be better served in the Boy or Girl Scouts assuming those also havent gone the trans route.

Life is too short to watch and promote such rubbish out of a misguided sense of patrotism. By all means the current government can consider me an anti national though unlike I am pro cultural. Unlike most in the administration I care about the heritage of India and can actually answer many of the YouTube video suggested titles. I am pretty sure Modi ,Shah, Irani and most people in the RSS and VHP cannot.