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Maybe just me, but I'm not really excited for established YouTubers to sell more stuff and expand their empires. It's already a winner-take-all game of attentio

Maybe just me, but I'm not really excited for established YouTubers to sell more stuff and expand their empires. It's already a winner-take-all game of attention. The beauty of YouTube is finding like a retired professor who puts up their lectures on an account with a couple thousand subscribers. It is not having a click-bait worthy thumbnail, over-produced video, and barely learning anything while being mindlessly entertained. YouTube will kill many services in the process like skillshare, udemy, etc. They will continue to get bigger and bigger or this will fail miraculously.

an1sotropy 4y ago
They might (do that kind of killing), but I'd also like to think that good educators are a segment that will be wary and savvy enough to steer clear of something that doesn't support the learning that they want to foster, so other learning platforms will endure. Basically I don't think that selling education works like selling ads. But I'm not objective (being an educator).
Ayesh 4y ago
I found channels with 10k-100k subscribers to be extremely high in quality and... bespoke. Just these days, I am learning a lot about OpenWRT while I wait for my router to arrive, and there was one channel with near 30k subscribers run by an amazing person, as he shares quite detailed information about routers, even the ones that are less exciting. This was such a fresh breath from Linus Tech Tips style "we upgraded to 100 Gbps network" kind of content, because most of us are just tinkering around with consumer hardware, and geek out on minor details. That, and they don't shove merchandise and minute long sponsored contents to you.
- ornornor 4y ago
  > they don't shove merchandise and minute long sponsored contents to you. I find YouTube unbearable without ublock origin and sponsorblock.
- gtsop 4y ago
  Mind to share that openwrt channel? Thanks!
  - Ayesh 4y ago
    https://www.youtube.com/c/OneMarcFifty https://www.youtube.com/c/OneMarcFifty
- rchaud 4y ago
  Agreed, some of these smaller channels still carry the spirit of public access TV by attempting to be informative first rather than going straight to growth hacking.
viraptor 4y ago
> YouTube will kill many services in the process like skillshare, udemy, etc. Honestly I can't get over a cynical impression that the announcement is basically: "brilliant and skillshare are getting a bit too popular, we need to do something about it".
pilingual 4y ago
What's the last blog.google product launch that didn't fail miraculously?

an1sotropy 4y ago

They might (do that kind of killing), but I'd also like to think that good educators are a segment that will be wary and savvy enough to steer clear of something that doesn't support the learning that they want to foster, so other learning platforms will endure. Basically I don't think that selling education works like selling ads. But I'm not objective (being an educator).

Ayesh 4y ago

I found channels with 10k-100k subscribers to be extremely high in quality and... bespoke. Just these days, I am learning a lot about OpenWRT while I wait for my router to arrive, and there was one channel with near 30k subscribers run by an amazing person, as he shares quite detailed information about routers, even the ones that are less exciting. This was such a fresh breath from Linus Tech Tips style "we upgraded to 100 Gbps network" kind of content, because most of us are just tinkering around with consumer hardware, and geek out on minor details. That, and they don't shove merchandise and minute long sponsored contents to you.

ornornor 4y ago
> they don't shove merchandise and minute long sponsored contents to you. I find YouTube unbearable without ublock origin and sponsorblock.
gtsop 4y ago
Mind to share that openwrt channel? Thanks!
- Ayesh 4y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/c/OneMarcFifty https://www.youtube.com/c/OneMarcFifty
rchaud 4y ago
Agreed, some of these smaller channels still carry the spirit of public access TV by attempting to be informative first rather than going straight to growth hacking.

viraptor 4y ago

> YouTube will kill many services in the process like skillshare, udemy, etc. Honestly I can't get over a cynical impression that the announcement is basically: "brilliant and skillshare are getting a bit too popular, we need to do something about it".

pilingual 4y ago

What's the last blog.google product launch that didn't fail miraculously?