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Yeah, this leapt out at me and is dumb. People have been building content businesses for well over 20 years. 50 if you don't think that, eg, NBC execs had a d
by x0x0 3y ago
Yeah, this leapt out at me and is dumb.
People have been building content businesses for well over 20 years. 50 if you don't think that, eg, NBC execs had a deep focus on the qualities of a cat loving alien (Alf debuted today, 37 years ago).
If he'd had something interesting to say, it could be that content recommendation systems driving what people see has some downsides. But that ain't new; we've been talking about that for a long time too. And youtube certainly didn't invent that problem. Also, you could cover that in one paragraph instead of dragging it out over 10.
(Content recommendation has upsides too: I never would have found Kenji Lopez Alt or Chef John's cooking videos; or modindustrial's general making videos; or AvE's hilarious teardown videos; or alvin zhou's amazing slow cooking channel; or CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt; etc w/o content recommendation.)