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I don't know about youtube. There's a lot of really interesting, useful stuff from people who just want to share a bit of what they know about some niche topic.

I don't know about youtube. There's a lot of really interesting, useful stuff from people who just want to share a bit of what they know about some niche topic. If you know what you're looking for youtube is a great resources. But if you're just trying to browse to find fun stuff in your free time, then I guess it's not as useful. I agree that a lot of the bigger channels get worse as they make videos primarily to get views. Although I think this is true of most content producers: You only have so much good material, but it's hard to quit when there's still money to be made at the margins.

dalbasal 9y ago
I don't disagree, but I think we might be talking past eachother. Youtube definitely does have a lot of really interesting, useful stuff. There's some stuff that's fantastic. That's the stuff I want them (youtube) to value more highly. Some (most) of it is interesting and useful to people who aren't me. I'm not even commenting on youtubers disingenuously leaning into controversy or whatnot to get views. What I'm saying is that there is a lot of stuff that isn't. Youtube does not seem to have an opinion about what is good or bad, at least not beyond view count. Have a look at their homepage. Is it good? Does it give a special place to the things youtube does uniquely well? To me, it just looks like a random collection of videos and a lowest common denominator theme. Structuring youtube as a video db, with search... that's great. I like that. It means you can narrow down to the point where the lowest common denominator is relatively high, but I feel like youtube would prefer me to just watch some scandal outrage news clip or a show clip or something.