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I wonder if that still holds true? The volume of videos increases exponentially especially with AI slop, I wonder if at some point they will have to limit the s
by wasmainiac 8mo ago
I wonder if that still holds true? The volume of videos increases exponentially especially with AI slop, I wonder if at some point they will have to limit the storage per user, with a paid model if you surpass that limit. Many people who upload many videos I guess some form of income off YouTube so it wouldn’t that be that big of a deal.
- pogue 8mo agoI assume it's an economics issue. As long as they continue making money off the uploads to a higher extent than it costs for storage, it works out for them.
- throw_await 8mo agoDo they make a profit nowadays
- rezonant 8mo agoLikely yes, with a margin of perhaps 38% https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34268536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34268536
- ranger_danger 8mo agoI wonder if anyone has ever compiled a list of channels with abnormally large numbers of videos? For example this guy has over 14,000: https://www.youtube.com/@lylehsaxon https://www.youtube.com/@lylehsaxon
- HeliumHydride 8mo agoThere is a channel with 2 million videos: https://www.youtube.com/@RoelVandePaar/videos https://www.youtube.com/@RoelVandePaar/videos One with 4 million videos: https://www.youtube.com/@NameLook https://www.youtube.com/@NameLook
- wellf 8mo agoFirst one has transcribed stack overflow to YT by the look of it
- buenzlikoder 8mo agoNameLook puts a whole new meaning to "low effort videos"
- qingcharles 8mo agoLord above. This is the worst garbage I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mrOXqgShzI0 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mrOXqgShzI0 This shit is the reason I can't afford a new HDD.
- ranger_danger 8mo agoI guess I should have mentioned I wasn't looking for automated/AI-generated videos.
- b00ty4breakfast 8mo agoAH! I've stumbled on that first fellas videos before! The videos aren't crazy complex but the sheer volume is impressive in a perverse kind of way.
- weird-eye-issue 8mo agoWhat they said only holds true because the growth continues so that the old volume of videos doesn't matter as much since there's so many more new ones each year compared to the previous year. So the question is more about whether or not it will hold true in the long term, not today
- raincole 8mo agoThe framing here is really weird. The volume of videos increasing isn't 'growth.' Videos are inventory for Youtube. They're only good when people (without adblocks!) actually watch them.
- amelius 8mo ago^ This.
- weird-eye-issue 8mo agoGrowth in this context is that there are a larger volume of videos each year. So each year a single video is exponentially a smaller and smaller percentage of the total.
- raincole 8mo agoYeah and the math doesn't check out. For example, if in year N youtube has f(N) new video. Let assume f(N) = cN^2. It's a crazy rate of growth. It's far better than the real world Youtube, which grew rather linearly. But the rate of "videos that are older than 5 years" is still faster than that, because it would be cubic instead of quadratic. Unless the it's really exponential (it isn't), "videos that are older than 5 years" will always surpass "new videos this year" eventually.
- weird-eye-issue 8mo ago> Unless the it's really exponential (it isn't), "videos that are older than 5 years" will always surpass "new videos this year" eventually. Such a weird strawman argument that you are making up. You've over thought this so much that you are missing the forest from the trees
- pwdisswordfishy 8mo ago> The volume of videos increases exponentially Source?