> This kind of terrible thinking is particularly damaging on video serivces like > YouTube through videos made by people who don't know what they're doing, their > viewers who then believe it's ok because "everyone else is doing it", and the > continued propagation of such nonsense.
Yeah. The current operative theory is that the widespread prefererence for the look that the default 0.172 HLSL and BGFX-HLSL shaders have is that it comes from YouTube videos of CRT arcade machines in e.g. Akihabara and elsewhere. The exaggerated blooming caused by cheap CCDs, the funny distortion (because the camera isn't on-axis), the hum bars from the frame rates not in sync, it all makes sense.
The fact that someone made a moderately funny YouTube video slamming those presets is not lost on MAMEdev