Rapid 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

Rapid 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.