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YouTube is not going to be the source for breaking news like this. There's too much liability and not much money to be made. The fact is - less than 2% of cont
by onlyrealcuzzo 5y ago
YouTube is not going to be the source for breaking news like this. There's too much liability and not much money to be made.
The fact is - less than 2% of content watched is stuff like this.
People are mostly watching work out videos and game streams and sports commentary and so on. Not live streams of wars.
- ok123456 5y agoI was watching live streams from Ukraine on TikTok last night. No problems.
- ravenstine 5y agoWell yeah, if you examine YouTube in isolation and disregard how its algorithm surfaces content, then sure, most people watching YouTube are watching workout videos and game streams. And maybe that's how YouTube is defining itself, and that's fine, but that's not how you create cultural phenomena. Likewise, millions of people drink Coca-Cola every day, but no one really gives a shit about Coca-Cola even though nearly 2 billion servings are drunk every day worldwide. But people still write actual articles about coffee for some reason, and that probably has to do with its relative lack of homogeneity and safety (from a taste standpoint). YouTube wants to sell fizzy sugar water, and that's the sort of relevance they will get. The only reason I point this out as a bad thing is that YouTube long ago represented something else that I think mattered more than cat videos, no matter how small the audience was or is.