I think you may have rose tinted glasses on historical Youtube. Youtube used to be a wasteland of horrible insulting comments closer to 4chan in politeness and

I think you may have rose tinted glasses on historical Youtube. Youtube used to be a wasteland of horrible insulting comments closer to 4chan in politeness and quality. Near constant spammy meanness. Youtube has issues, yet when the Baltimore bridge collapsed, the live view on the bridge was almost constantly polite, curious, and respectful commentary. The text summaries are actually a nice change so that if you don't want to sit through some annoying drawn out video, that often ends up using a robot voice anyways, you can just read the text summary. A feature that I was personally interested in a long time ago when almost every article became a video instead. Same reason https://neuters.de/ https://neuters.de/ is one of the best ways to read Reuters News. Part of the issue with Youtube is not Youtube specifically, it's humanity. A lot of the 90% is annoying spammy BS, and it's difficult to filter away the constant "first post", "you so hot girl", "me too", "like like", "rofl wtf bbq" nonsense. Part of what ended up making FB almost unreadable. Even small town groups are deluges of spammy, copypasta, upvote trolling. Scrolled through Youtube front page to find a "random" video and landed on a Half Life 2 documentary. Comments were either polite, informative, or opinion without being especially flamebait. There's a lot of the world wide web that's not nearly such high quality these days. The others issues would probably be multiple pages of commentary, having tried to be an Android developer. "The function you're searching for is deprecated, move to ... a function that is also deprecated."