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>Why is this a bad thing? Because it's a systematic force affecting any and all content creators on YouTube. Both the first person, and the person replacing t

>Why is this a bad thing? Because it's a systematic force affecting any and all content creators on YouTube. Both the first person, and the person replacing them, would be under the same pressures. The incentive is for frequently released bites low effort content at the expense of high quality content. >You're ascribing a lot of malice to Google, but you're literally just describing market competition. Sometimes the product of market competition is a race to the bottom, which is great if we're talking solar panels, but less so if we're talking viability of a job and quality of a work product. I think the more charitable way of understanding the person you are responding to is that ought to be ways of rendering the model sustainable even for those not interested in racing to the bottom. Google is constantly in the process of restructuring the contours of the experience, the relationship between the audience and the creators, and we're calling everything that happens within those strictures "the market" even though they're a product of Google's discretion.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> Because it's a systematic force affecting any and all content creators on YouTube. It’s a systematic force for creators across all platforms, with or without YouTube. People make content on the internet and compete for attention. Google didn’t invent market competition. It doesn’t make sense for you to blame Google for new creators making new videos. > Both the first person, and the person replacing them, would be under the same pressures. To compete for viewers? Again, how is this Google’s fault? I have no idea what you actually expect Google to do. Limit new creators so the old creators don’t feel competitive pressure? Hide content from new creators so old creators don’t have to compete with it? I think you’re angry at the fact that competition exists in the free market, but you’re laying the blame at Google’s feet instead.
- BeFlatXIII 5y ago
  It turns out competition can lower overall market quality.
  - eggy 5y ago
    Popularity and quality do not necessarily equate either, but I think there are many people not competing in this arena that would boost the overall quality. I remember the old commercials on TV about Slim Whitman claiming to have sold more albums than Elvis and The Beatles combined. Can anyone here name more than one song, if that, from Slim Whitman? I am in my late 50s and when I take a glance at the most popular Tik Tok or Instagram or YouTube accounts, it makes me think that a culture with lots of time and luxuries on its hands produces mainly garbage watched by people with seemingly nothing better to do, a lot of narcissism; I get guilty reading HN more than 20 min. per day, but I find the discussions thought-provoking, and having programmed since 1978 on a Commodore PET 2001, among familiar folks and subjects.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago

> Because it's a systematic force affecting any and all content creators on YouTube. It’s a systematic force for creators across all platforms, with or without YouTube. People make content on the internet and compete for attention. Google didn’t invent market competition. It doesn’t make sense for you to blame Google for new creators making new videos. > Both the first person, and the person replacing them, would be under the same pressures. To compete for viewers? Again, how is this Google’s fault? I have no idea what you actually expect Google to do. Limit new creators so the old creators don’t feel competitive pressure? Hide content from new creators so old creators don’t have to compete with it? I think you’re angry at the fact that competition exists in the free market, but you’re laying the blame at Google’s feet instead.

BeFlatXIII 5y ago
It turns out competition can lower overall market quality.
- eggy 5y ago
  Popularity and quality do not necessarily equate either, but I think there are many people not competing in this arena that would boost the overall quality. I remember the old commercials on TV about Slim Whitman claiming to have sold more albums than Elvis and The Beatles combined. Can anyone here name more than one song, if that, from Slim Whitman? I am in my late 50s and when I take a glance at the most popular Tik Tok or Instagram or YouTube accounts, it makes me think that a culture with lots of time and luxuries on its hands produces mainly garbage watched by people with seemingly nothing better to do, a lot of narcissism; I get guilty reading HN more than 20 min. per day, but I find the discussions thought-provoking, and having programmed since 1978 on a Commodore PET 2001, among familiar folks and subjects.