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The demise of Flash only deserves half the blame. There are a lot of brilliant animators out there, but YouTube has become the discoverability channel of record
by btown 7y ago
The demise of Flash only deserves half the blame. There are a lot of brilliant animators out there, but YouTube has become the discoverability channel of record, and it penalizes content that doesn’t release rapidly and often. Flash could have been open source this whole time, and still the next Homestar Runner never would have beaten the ease with which Pewdiepie can churn out low-effort content.
- dhduwjwhh 7y agoRapid and often is a little irrelavent in my opinion. YouTube provided a degree of centralization that has allowed certain kinds of creatives to flourish but it could never recreate the old flash games and cartoons for the simple reason that centralization enables easy censorship and progressive/tolerance culture is 100% censorship culture these days. Tons of flash games were violent satire, YouTube knee jerk banned gun related content. Lots of flashes were anti-pc teen humor, YouTube is aggressively pro lgbt. The old flash sites were less practical for tolerance tyrants to take down because they were too small and quickly replaced to be worth the effort, but YouTube is now the only real game in town for content creators with ambition and Google has no interest in anything besides pandering. The modern platform environment simply doesn't facilitate the kind of free creativity that existed before.