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> YouTube channels that show this kind of futuristic content, but views are in the 100K never millions. Do people have lost hope? Do people want to just watch n

> YouTube channels that show this kind of futuristic content, but views are in the 100K never millions. Do people have lost hope? Do people want to just watch negative content? Wait you’re drawing a conclusion where there isn’t. The content on Youtube isn’t what people want to see, but what Youtube wants you to see. There are hundreds of thousands of Youtubers with 20k-people channels of extremely good quality, but you’ll never discover them organically, and the search for “futuristic content” (or anything really) will only return pre-approved channels, generally BBC or bad quality journalism which rehash other videos and slap a commentary and big text on top. Assuming that Youtube returns the videos with the most clicks is a projection onto Youtube of your assumption that they are optimizing for clicks. Maybe they optimize for sleepiness, maybe they optimize for a certain political leaning, you do not know.

newman8r 5y ago
>There are hundreds of thousands of Youtubers with 20k-people channels of extremely good quality, but you’ll never discover them organically would you mind sharing some of these channels? I agree that it's hard to find them organically, so I tend to ask people whenever I can.
dehrmann 5y ago
> The content on Youtube isn’t what people want to see, but what Youtube wants you to see. You're suggesting more intent than Youtube actually has. Youtube wants you to see more monetizable Youtube. Same as CNN. Its main bias it to get you to watch more CNN.
- bsdetector 5y ago
  Tech companies and studios are determining what's presented to the masses and it's not entirely if even primarily concerned with what makes money. For example, PewDiePie trended ~40x more in Canada and even non-English countries than he did in the US - a difference that was not always the case, and resulted from a choice made by YouTube for whatever reason. PewDiePie makes YouTube a lot of money. Although I'm not entirely convinced Google's reason is pushing their ideology. They may simply be planning for a time when 230 is reformed and they are held responsible for content or cannot censor based on ideology, in either case resulting in them purging most user-generated content and leaving only mainstream, company-backed content.
krapp 5y ago
>The content on Youtube isn’t what people want to see, but what Youtube wants you to see (...) Not in my experience. I don't know how you're curating your subscriptions, but I stumble across good quality content all the time.

newman8r 5y ago

>There are hundreds of thousands of Youtubers with 20k-people channels of extremely good quality, but you’ll never discover them organically would you mind sharing some of these channels? I agree that it's hard to find them organically, so I tend to ask people whenever I can.

dehrmann 5y ago

> The content on Youtube isn’t what people want to see, but what Youtube wants you to see. You're suggesting more intent than Youtube actually has. Youtube wants you to see more monetizable Youtube. Same as CNN. Its main bias it to get you to watch more CNN.

bsdetector 5y ago
Tech companies and studios are determining what's presented to the masses and it's not entirely if even primarily concerned with what makes money. For example, PewDiePie trended ~40x more in Canada and even non-English countries than he did in the US - a difference that was not always the case, and resulted from a choice made by YouTube for whatever reason. PewDiePie makes YouTube a lot of money. Although I'm not entirely convinced Google's reason is pushing their ideology. They may simply be planning for a time when 230 is reformed and they are held responsible for content or cannot censor based on ideology, in either case resulting in them purging most user-generated content and leaving only mainstream, company-backed content.

krapp 5y ago

>The content on Youtube isn’t what people want to see, but what Youtube wants you to see (...) Not in my experience. I don't know how you're curating your subscriptions, but I stumble across good quality content all the time.