Why Featured Levels Are Generally Trash (and harassing lemons) 

You know i dont think there is a solution, even more, i dont think there SHOULD be a solution. I know it sounds sad, but geometry dash and its community actually need bad generic shit. Let's go through the scenario 'only viable solution': lets stop featuring the generic shit That might seem nice at first, however it would backfire quite fast. You see, geometry dash has never been extremely relevant, its only known and actively played by very few people (if you compare it to way more important stuff, like the music industry, which is fucking huge, it has an effect on almost everybody around the world). So, what robtop has to do is keeping the game relevant, that's his job basically, otherwise his brand would fall and he would have to do something else or he might go broke. And in order to keep the game relevant, he has to maintain an entertained community. Sadly, this community is full of children, as it is supposed to be, however those little brats dont care and you know, why should they? Also it is still mainly a phone game so good levels cant really be anticipated for the majority of players anyways. And to avoid all these issues, robtop has to give zero fucks about us, the minority, and only care about those who keep his money rolling (tbh i would do the same if i was rob). With this kind of genericness he even established a real system which is actually comparable to the music industry. Creators create levels, get paid in cp and the kids love it, its a never ending cycle which keeps the community active and growing. Take away the bad music, noone's gonna listen to music anymore. So what would happen if robtop stopped supporting generic shit? Pretty straight forward, kids would quit faster than anyone could imagine. There is no content anymore to enjoy. Sure, its the time to shine for the good levels, but amongst what competition? Just a few months later gd would be a thing of the past, sure it would have way less cancer in its community, but the community would almost not exist anymore! At some point it would be so done, rob would completely stop doing anything to the game and simply move on with life, and i dont know what would be left of the community at that point... So all in all, sure it would be awesome if this generic trash wouldnt exist, but without it the game cannot survive, it is a game made for kids, and kids are basically the whole community (look at guitars sub count, 90% of that is 2005ers upwards), so robtop has to listen to them rather than us, the minority. Have a fucking terrible day italic you cuntface i hope you appreciate this motherfucking comment i've written on my fucking ipad whoch took me way too fucking long to write, fuck off, fuck all of you

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Generic levels are like the pop music of GD.

"Try not to overdecorate your levels" *core creators T R I G G E R E D*

Ok so I have a few things to say. I would like to point out the the tutorial is for people who are starting out in the game and have absolutely no experience, if you hadn't noticed I told them to start simple and generic and move up to bigger and better things with more creating knowledge. I will admit I am a horribly generic creator but you know what? I pretty much created the generic style. After I started getting publicity, plenty of other creators have adopted the once unique design now known as generic levels that I was originally a pioneer of. I am trying to improve my style currently and have moved away from conventional trends. I'm pretty disgusted at the comment section so I'll just leave now.

Here is an example of overdecoration : Stereo Madness

I laughed a lot with this one. I can’t believe I’ve never come across your channel before lmao

"We don't want this trash, we want THIS!" ~WHErwin Make way for 10 billion more Spacelocked sequels XD

Utopian Delusions is a great level though. It's one of the best unrated levels actually. At least in my opinion.

4:45 if this is overdecoration... I just pass the limits (i am a tech-core creator xd) And i already broke all those tips. Since i started creating with tech

I wanna see someone say "WeLl YoU MaKe a RaTeD LeVel"

I like how everyone used to be all hopeless about this and think that there's no way you could ever get better and then won't you know it, it got better. At this point we're actually starting to enter an arrow where standards are almost too high for the average creator, but it's funny because there's still people today who think this is still a problem.

consistent*

Lemons: “I’m not great at block design, or air deco. I’m not trying to say I am. I just wanna give you the basics.” WHErwin: “YOU’RE A FAKE AND A FRAUD!!!” Chill bro people like building levels that hey find fun.

OMG the Lego racers build music MY CHILDHOOD

0:45 anyone know what the level is called??

The main problem: quantity over quality

0:14 omg I had to my earbuds off

DAMN IT I HAD MY HEADPHONES ALL THE WAY UP

I honestly agree a lot more on this than I did your extreme demon rankings, but I have quite a bit to say. First off it is by no suggestion easy to make a good level. No matter how much skill you have at creating levels will take dozens of hours to make good. I think the expectations of the community are slightly higher than they should be. I think the community has mislabeled "lacking" as "generic" and if anything many unique levels are getting on the featured page, however for some reason or another, generally just the gameplay, people call it generic. That's something I can say because people have called some layouts generic and others are considered original and of quality, despite their bare bone nature. If people started making better gameplay, I think most generic levels would feel less generic, or at the very least, much more tolerable. Back to the difficulty of decorating, it is very easy to make the block design either bad or too repetitive. The effects are even harder to do. It's really easy for people to view the hours spent on one level, either defeating or creating, as easy in this community for some reason, but it's important to consider it as a real building skill. It's a mistake this community just keeps making and it's certainly a problem with creators and players a like

Lemons has a unique style It's not the prettiest, but it's unique, and differs from every other generic level I respect that

I can't decorate and use the triggers, so I find this impressive by itself. But that doesn't mean the featured levels are flawless.

There should be more levels that are just star rated and not featured. Like a lot of levels deserve rewards for completion but are not good enough to be featured.

what if i want to make my first proper level? if by some miracle it gets featured, and it’s generic cos i’m not used to creating, then people will say it’s garbage and shit and i put no effort in when in reality i put a lot of effort in because i had never done this before.

Also, that was one of Lemons older videos, made right after 2.0 and, he’s a creator, not a RU-vidr, he mostly just makes tutorials.

What I think that is ruining Geometry Dash is these type of people that are salty and are just stating facts of other creators that are hate statements and that are hurting other creators feelings. I think what people should do is STOP ranting on this stuff and keep it in their head. Then creators will be more happy and the GD community will be okay. GD is supposed to be a fun game for everyone. If creators want to make generic levels, then let them be and let them have fun with creating them.

That better intro ascended me above the mortal plane

worst than river civer's insert obnoxious intro

Looking back on these, they’re much better than the glowy crap we have today. Many of those generic levels I loved, though I will say my favorites were the bigger levels of that time.

I LITERALLY WATCHED THIS AND WAS HAVING IT ON IN THE BACKGROUND, AND WHEN I HEARD THE INTRO MY HEADPHONES LITERALLY DIED INCLUDING MY EARS WTF

I want to die instantly

One massive problem is that my main inspiration is Adiale, and he's pretty generic right? I used to love his and Danolex's levels, so I actually liked generic levels. I know it sounds strange that Danolex's is one of my favourite creators. Also, a lot of newbies love the generic style, they get inspired by it (writing from memory) so it is a great starting point.

Finally someone actually understands. No Gaming YT would want to do featured.

the intro legit killed my ears and made me jump

4:41 lemons had an example of over declaration that's not over decoration I can name a ton of levels WAY more decorated aka bloodlust god eater fusion z woodkid etc seriously lemons what the hell

Ctrl C + Ctrl V

R.I.P Earphone user.

TRY not to copy other levels COMPLETELY. He didn't say just copy them.

"Get the entire player base to start downvoting these empty husks of levels." Oh.. I've started doing that after a 3 weeks of playing GD.

5:30 but new creators cant make stuff that has the quality of Spacelocked II or TOE IV

0:15 epic intro

IS THAT LEGO RACERS MUSIC? Ahem yeah good video

i love lemons levels devastation is a colab with 42 people and the part you talked about lemons didn´t make, and he makes nice game play, at least for demons, i play demons 95% of the time, and hyperflux is my favorite easy demon and second favorite level i have beaten, i have beaten almost 30 demons and have 1000 stars

Imo 2.1 created rating problem, even most fun levels won't be rated because they aren't decorated, even 10k objs/min of level isn't enough, players must work on levels hundreads of hours to make it featured. In 2.0 and earlier it was easier to get rated level, 2.1 made it extremaly hard, also there's icon that requires at least 1 rated level. But getting that is currently nearly impossible in

Dude your content is cool

i love how i can hear every cut in your audio thats a joke so you dont take it too seriously

Opinion time: you can't hate an entire style. I actually like a lot of "generic" levels. Obviously there are bad ones, but you play it off as if the entire style is bad. The "this bad this good" mentality is an awful mentality to have. There are bad generic levels, there are good generic levels. Honestly, I don't even know why GD needs to be so elitest. It's a mobile 2d platformer for everyone. Here's what I think featured levels need to do: 1. Have good and fun gameplay that matches the difficulty you want. 2. Look pleasing to the eyes. That's it. Not every featured level needs to be the best ever, but as long as I don't want to rip out my eyes, or want to throw my PC/phone. Idc if it's featured. I love how a lot of the people who hate generic style entirely are the same ones who preferred updates where all levels used similar blocks because robtop programmed them for us to use. Robtops job is to rate any level that's worthy, if he only rates the best of the best, the game would seriously be lacking in content, and people wouldn't even bother making levels because they dont have the patience to spend years on a perfect level. Also, I don't understand why people think it's effortless. With a lot of the examples you gave, The style wasnt effortless, the gameplay was. when someone uses varied "generic" block design and good air deco with non-repetitive gameplay, it's still generic, but it's not effortless. I hope you understand where I'm coming from and that this isn't a personal attack, but me explaining why I disagree with this video. Thank you.

I completely died at the monsters inc intro

There are so many "long comments" in this comment section xd

The thing is, the vocal minority is not the ones playing featured levels. As long as the silent majority is happy, i don't care

I want to say something really complicated, but I don’t have the time so I’ll just say I’m okay with generic levels, it’s just the fact that RubRub rates certain bad levels but not good ones.

5:29 ur “bias” is literally just common sense like anyone with a brain knows that a well detailed and very neat and intense Bossfight is a million times better than some random generic 4star level that looks like literal poop

I actually like Utopian Delusions, and I'm a huge fan of core style

generic levels are better for mobile players, people who just play the game.

The disclaimer at the start makes you want to say god damn

subbed cuz of this 11/10 editing

Damn bro! This is the quality of RU-vid I’ve been looking for!! Eyyooo subscribes! :)

dude you are funny as fuck. im dying over here

Is astronium dimensha over decorated? Cause it looks amazing

Lemons is a bad creator

Featured levels are mostly trash either way. They're nothing else but the same use of glow effect along with decent gameplay. It's all about the glow. If you don't make everything shiny as fuck *cough* God Eater *cough* you're not going to get a featured level.

Lemons is great lvls

3:36 to try AND overdevorate your level. so either a grammar mistake my lemons or he's trying to tell us not to try

A pop every time a new clip of audio starts

hey you misunderstood that repetition thing. he meant that if for example you keep repeating to someone that the meme theyre saying id dead, they will enventually not find it funny anymore. pretty much brainwashing

Stop ranting about this. RobTop purposely epic features generic levels because the amazing levels might lag on mobile. If there weren't any simple levels or levels with under 30k objects the game would become too hard to play because of lag. Edit: I look back on this 2 years later and realize I was extremely cringe. Sorry.

I wonder what the worst one is... Perhaps... Cosmos? 8)

Luckly there are less levels like these. Bad thing though, everyone is using darwin style. I like how darwin style looks but theres too many levels using it.

The best daily level is flavoured

One question regarding messages saying jump, can you use it for off screen gameplay so it's not obvious?

I can't even make a generic level.

Dude, Don’t You Know How Hard It Is To Get The CP UFO??? You Can’t Just Force Creators To Advance Themselves, They Will Get Frustrated!!!

0:14 Scared the shit out of me

Volume set to 1

WHErwin is like Foekoe but for GD

Hey! It's lego racers 1 build theme! :D

Monochrome is a low effort piece of garbage maybe that's why it isnt rated :(

The Binding of Isaac

that intro made me jump out of my seat what the fuck wherwin

now my ears are bleeding

As a community let's stop this.

“The smartest show in exterminating the Jews” Oh. Oh god. Oh lord.

I’m making my *FIRST* actually good level. (or at least I’m trying) And I -know- think it will look better than current featured levels.

oh sit 0:15 broke my headphones and ears now im deaf

4:47 ohmagawd...you have wave gameplay...what do you want when not the slopes???

0:14 I like this intro

the intro literally killed me

when i see this vidéo now i am very confuse for some really good level from unnoticed creator like Hhyper why his level surgeragon is not rated after 6 months ? seriously this level is perfect in everything, smooth, original, very detailed asfuck and story level ( my english sucks sorry )

I'm sure you actually can create a core level that will look good, but since i'm a garbage creator and i don't have enough time to become better at that i will just leave this comment.

The trending page of gd

This is quality content

what is the level at 1:16 just out of interest

MMMMMMMMMhhhhhhhhh i had my volume on max and then incomes the new "sick intro"

What's wrong with gd youtubers using earrape in most of their videos damn

You hate the featured Level by the way The decorations are so good way better than mine

Geometry *trash*

You're actually right... these generic levels are trash....

0:13 I was using headphones, rip

You are one of the smartest GD youtubers I've met to this date. I agree with you in every way. Keep doing what you do well! :)

Am i the only one who has weird noises all over the Video? It feels Like with every Cut (in the audio) in the Video there ist the sound