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Content on YouTube is shaped by the incentives Google sets on the platform. So what we get, mostly, is junk that best sells ads, best gets clicks, eyes, attenti
by Triphibian 3y ago
Content on YouTube is shaped by the incentives Google sets on the platform. So what we get, mostly, is junk that best sells ads, best gets clicks, eyes, attention etc. etc. Just like TV was before pay cable came along. Notice how TV got better when you just paid HBO to show you good shows? Paying Google to watch YouTube without ads is like paying ABC to watch The Bachelor without ads. The content is still trash.
- gs17 3y agoI think they used to (or maybe still do?) have Premium-only content. But it's no one's motivation to pay up.
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoIf the only content you find on YouTube is trash that sounds like a you problem. My feed is filled with high effort content.
- Triphibian 3y agoI have found quality content. Notice how the people who work hard to make content outside YouTube's incentives need an external Patreon to fund their work? Why should I pay to fund the Mr. Beasts while the quality creators have to find funding outside the system? Also: I am sure you've seen it -- a creator you like or admire starts succumbing to the incentives, making sillier and sillier thumbnails or "experimenting" with shorter content. Of course there's great stuff on YouTube, but they exist on YouTube despite Google's best efforts to coarsen them.
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoThe money you pay for premium goes directly to the people you watch. Don't watch Mr. Beast and he won't get your money.