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Youtube appear to have forgotten about the creators. I miss the wild west days of Youtube when it was growing and anything went. Now we don't have a dislike but
by bArray 5y ago
Youtube appear to have forgotten about the creators. I miss the wild west days of Youtube when it was growing and anything went. Now we don't have a dislike button, comments get randomly deleted, everything is decided by a random opaque AI and small creators don't get paid. Who now gets to the front page? The highly-polished advertiser friendly mainstream content I went to Youtube to escape from.
I don't agree with some of Naomi Wu's comments about her being specifically targeted for some characteristic, I really suspect she is just an unfortunate victim of the same dumb "human review" everybody is. Some low paid person working for Youtube has X seconds to discern between 'porn' and 'not porn' - they see large breasts and think 'porn'.
The main problem here is they optimized all humanity out of their system. There's no empathy, there's no justice, there's no room for change. It's not a platform I have enjoyed using for a long time now, and it's only because of people like Naomi Wu or EEVBlog that I even interact with it at all. I think most people are looking for a compelling reason to leave.