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YouTube is constantly reencoding videos to save space at the expense of older content looking like mud, so arguably even they're having their struggles.
by Chaosvex 6mo ago
YouTube is constantly reencoding videos to save space at the expense of older content looking like mud, so arguably even they're having their struggles.
- UltraSane 6mo agoYouTube shorts are incredibly highly compressed.
- bombcar 6mo agoWe all know the "nobody has watched this video in ten years, login at least once or it'll be yeeted" email is coming, someday.
- computably 6mo agoYT would have to start declining in growth pretty substantially for that to be the case. All the 360p video from 2010-2015 probably doesn't take up even 1% of the storage new videos added in 2025.
- bombcar 6mo agoTrue, it's more likely to be aimed at stemming the tide of 4k video that nobody watches - but luckily they're worth more than Disney right now so we don't have to confront that ... yet.