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Unlike [[YTPMV]], much of the main [[Youtube Poop]] community does not regard YTP/Video tennis with much, if any serious regard or respect regarding its contributions to the overall spectrum of work created within this collective idiom over its history. Tennis is often ignored or devalued in comparison -- seen as an inaccessible, disposable obscurity owing to its tendency to explore styles and methods of video craft that are far outside of the comedy that tends to define YTP, or the music/organized sound structures that define YTPMV. Common criticisms often point the to the lack of conventional humor in tennis, the extremities and loudness of its sound design, as well as the abstract visual/colorful material that often obscures the baseline sources that were used to eventually arrive at that result, leaving many viewers little in the way to relate to in the same way that they would normal YTP. Some have viewed common tennis styles and techniques as a "lazy" way to make videos under the pretext of viewing the subversion of media as working in tandem with an understanding and a utilization of the media's exploitable material; Tennis often ignores this in favor of different, more sub-textural angles of editing approach, in which combinations and peculiarities of a source's sound, or the energy of a specific visual moment, can often play a part. Conversely, when exploitation of material for comedic purposes is the common point of focus for a player in a tennis context, this usually becomes focused on above the match at hand, and many response opportunities to a previous round have often gotten missed or large swaths of the previous round are ignored outright as a result.

View counts for videos created in a tennis context compared to standard YTP are almost always universally low, with many taking years to eventually accumulate view counts that surpass 1,000. Tennis rounds often accumulated counts of a few thousand or more in its early years, usually depending on the following ~~and~~ the status of the player/creator within the community itself. The most popular tennis matches have almost always happened between popular YTPers themselves who have the following to allow their work, and sometimes the work of their opponent if this opponent is more obscure, to be seen with uncommonly high attention.

View counts for videos created in a tennis context compared to standard YTP are almost always universally low, with many taking years to eventually accumulate view counts that surpass 1,000. Tennis rounds often accumulated counts of a few thousand or more in its early years, usually depending on the following, the status of the player/creator within the community itself, and in a pre-algorithm age, how the video was tagged so as to be discovered in search results. The most popular tennis matches have almost always happened between popular YTPers themselves who have the following to allow their work, and sometimes the work of their opponent if this opponent is more obscure, to be seen with uncommonly high attention.

Tennis has also become known in recent years for having a very large, much-younger base of creators usually operating on the fringes of the community (generally intersecting from "logo-editing" and "Object Show" focused spaces), actively making large volumes of work that tend to capture and magnify the base impressions of tennis in the form of loud, amateurishly made works using a small and repetitive pool of the same shared sources that offer little to no variation of execution. The ways in which this defines the overall impression of tennis as a medium altogether tends to vary depending, but has usually served to emphasize a perceived lack of collective creativity.

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 Unlike [[YTPMV]], much of the main [[Youtube Poop]] community does not regard YTP/Video tennis with much, if any serious regard or respect regarding its contributions to the overall spectrum of work created within this collective idiom over its history. Tennis is often ignored or devalued in comparison -- seen as an inaccessible, disposable obscurity owing to its tendency to explore styles and methods of video craft that are far outside of the comedy that tends to define YTP, or the music/organized sound structures that define YTPMV. Common criticisms often point the to the lack of conventional humor in tennis, the extremities and loudness of its sound design, as well as the abstract visual/colorful material that often obscures the baseline sources that were used to eventually arrive at that result, leaving many viewers little in the way to relate to in the same way that they would normal YTP. Some have viewed common tennis styles and techniques as a "lazy" way to make videos under the pretext of viewing the subversion of media as working in tandem with an understanding and a utilization of the media's exploitable material; Tennis often ignores this in favor of different, more sub-textural angles of editing approach, in which combinations and peculiarities of a source's sound, or the energy of a specific visual moment, can often play a part. Conversely, when exploitation of material for comedic purposes is the common point of focus for a player in a tennis context, this usually becomes focused on above the match at hand, and many response opportunities to a previous round have often gotten missed or large swaths of the previous round are ignored outright as a result.
-View counts for videos created in a tennis context compared to standard YTP are almost always universally low, with many taking years to eventually accumulate view counts that surpass 1,000. Tennis rounds often accumulated counts of a few thousand or more in its early years, usually depending on the following and the status of the player/creator within the community itself. The most popular tennis matches have almost always happened between popular YTPers themselves who have the following to allow their work, and sometimes the work of their opponent if this opponent is more obscure, to be seen with uncommonly high attention.
+View counts for videos created in a tennis context compared to standard YTP are almost always universally low, with many taking years to eventually accumulate view counts that surpass 1,000. Tennis rounds often accumulated counts of a few thousand or more in its early years, usually depending on the following, the status of the player/creator within the community itself, and in a pre-algorithm age, how the video was tagged so as to be discovered in search results. The most popular tennis matches have almost always happened between popular YTPers themselves who have the following to allow their work, and sometimes the work of their opponent if this opponent is more obscure, to be seen with uncommonly high attention.
 Tennis has also become known in recent years for having a very large, much-younger base of creators usually operating on the fringes of the community (generally intersecting from "logo-editing" and "Object Show" focused spaces), actively making large volumes of work that tend to capture and magnify the base impressions of tennis in the form of loud, amateurishly made works using a small and repetitive pool of the same shared sources that offer little to no variation of execution. The ways in which this defines the overall impression of tennis as a medium altogether tends to vary depending, but has usually served to emphasize a perceived lack of collective creativity.