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Why do i feel that its history was far more incremental? It started off with piracy, jokes and pranks. It becaome serious because it could leverage google's ad
by seydor 4y ago
Why do i feel that its history was far more incremental? It started off with piracy, jokes and pranks. It becaome serious because it could leverage google's advertising monolith to pay for videos, which turned users to creators.
And now they are again trying to dominate "shorts" by silently encouraging users to copy-paste videos from tiktok indiscriminately. There are hundreds of channels that have grown millions of followers by doing just that.
> Clearly, YouTubers never would have existed without YouTube.
Youtube is just convenient and technically superior for uploading stuff. There are many platforms with more engaged followers, from twitch to onlyfans. And tbh i don't think "youtubers" is such an important cultural force as are e.g. redditors. They are just random people
- luckylion 4y agoShorts is extremely weird to me. It really looks like a super cheap clone with a scraper that downloads the top500 tiktok videos and inserts them on youtube. I check it occasionally. It really never has variety (for me, who knows what anyone else sees), it has no recommendation tuning, it's just terrible. It's even made worse, every twenty or so videos, it hangs for a few seconds. Trillion dollar company. Can't even copy paste from a competitor. It's amazing.
- silvestrov 4y agoAnybody else feeling that the selection of shorts has dropped a lot the past month? Before there were a lot of good shorts. Now all I get is bad junk. It feels like i has one theme selected every day, so a large fraction of shorts that day is for that theme no matter how much I downvote or block channels. The next day all shorts for that theme is gone, and it is now something else.