By taking YouTube's present zeitgeist of content creation as reference, this leaves out a big element of early YT: Broadcasting Yourself -- that social networki

By taking YouTube's present zeitgeist of content creation as reference, this leaves out a big element of early YT: Broadcasting Yourself -- that social networking through informal short-form videos, spoofs, and replies that YouTube relinquished to other platforms over the years and is now hastily attempting to recapture. You can still get a glance, starting at the Internet Archive...or by finding a subculture so niche and so dead that the algorithm can't even find anything recent and irrelevant to suggest (must be incognito to avoid personalized results): https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=suche+emo+fruende https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=suche+emo+fruen... From video responses to annotations to community captions, my, what a boon to user expression design-by-analytics has been!