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What 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 yea
by weird-eye-issue 8mo ago
What 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
- whycombigator 8mo agoVideo sensors are continuously getting cheaper, better and more more prevalent over time. The trend is towards capturing all angles of everything, everywhere, at increasingly higher resolutions.
- UltraSane 8mo agoYes. a video no one watches is a waste of storage.
- dotancohen 8mo agoMaybe not. Maybe it could be used to train a neutral network. Maybe it contains dirt on a teenager, who might become a politician two decades from now. Maybe it contains an otherwise lost historical event.
- weird-eye-issue 8mo agoOr it just helps to cement YouTube as the go-to place for uploading and sharing videos for almost any purpose which has a long-term positive effect for user engagement and retention