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>Was it "politically motivated" then? It can be politically motivated now, and reputationally motivated then. It can also be both, then and now. We know nothin
by deltarholamda 5y ago
>Was it "politically motivated" then?
It can be politically motivated now, and reputationally motivated then. It can also be both, then and now. We know nothing outside of what YouTube's PR department is telling us, and all PR is nonsense wrapped around bullshit.
It's pretty obvious why they're rolling it out now. YouTube spends a lot of its time suppressing signals it doesn't like.
But, in the end, who cares? Everybody not suffering from brain damage knows that YouTube manipulates the hell out of all of the public metrics; and everybody who isn't clinically dead knows that these things are gamed into uselessness.