The End of YouTube

[BleedingRed]

This is a long video, but its a great example of how Google is going to kill itself.

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Thought it would be a great conversation starter

[notorious]

Youtube is brilliant. They just need to sort out a few things.

[Mennonite]

We need the government to take control of all these social media sites so I can have a place to post my anti socialism videos for free.

[Buehler445]

In honesty, I think the political bias thing is a pretty big deal for the company. I wouldn’t do it. My position as a company would be similar to the one Jordan took back when. I may mess up the quote, but I think it was, “Republicans buy shoes too.”

It doesn’t make much sense to me to run customers off but whatever. Not my company to run.

That being said, I’m not feeling the outrage. I don’t tune into YouTube for the political shit. Closest I get is some Rogan Podcast videos. So while I have a pretty strong opinion on what they’re doing, it doesn’t affect my patronage so I’m probably good.

[DaFace]

Is this like "the end of Microsoft" in the 90s?

[Nickhead]

all i heard was 'everyone is leaving youtube'? ammirite?

[Setsuna]

YouTube will never die. If pewdiepie and his ilk left, there'd be a whole other generation of creators to follow YT's policies to the letter and they won't miss a beat. These people overestimate their worth to a multi-billion dollar monopoly.

[wazu]

Managed to make it to about 1:45 of listening to people I don’t know whine before turning off. And I still have no idea what they’re even complaining about.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Is this like "the end of Microsoft" in the 90s?

Very rarely do monopolies end by themselves.

The "END" is more about it no longer representing what it once did. Youtube is no longer about everyone having their own platform - the small content creator.

Youtube has killed free speech and pandering to large media companies...

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Youtube has killed free speech

[ModSocks]

I could only make it 3 minutes through that hyperbole swamp. A bunch of people who would be nobodies if not for YouTube making broad, general complaints about the platform that gave them a voice in the first place.

[chiefzilla1501]

I think people are mistaking how much YouTube relies on content creators who pull in millions of subscribers. Even without them, they'd take in a huge chunk of change for advertising alone. They're probably the best most successful of any social media outlet monetizing their advertising platform.

[notorious]

I don't understand how Youtube can get away with playing copyrighted music. Whenever my friends and I get into that "let's listen to that old song!" mood we go straight to youtube. It never fails.

[underEJ]

"content creator" is a terrible description of what most people do on youtube. nearly everything is "created" on top of the hard work of actual artists, authors, entertainers, and journalists, and the "creator" makes money by doing a very low value shtick over stolen footage, feeding off of the hard work of others, collecting followers, and somehow missing the compounded parasitic nature of this reverse pyramid scheme.

i love the people who make original content, how to videos and weird stuff that would have been on public access tv a generation or two ago, but the stuff that makes real money is nearly always a barnacle on the ass of an actual creator and I don't feel much sympathy for anything google might do to them. I call them video scrap bookers or uploaders. That is all they really are.

[Setsuna]

Originally Posted by underEJ

"content creator" is a terrible description of what most people do on youtube. nearly everything is "created" on top of the hard work of actual artists, authors, entertainers, and journalists, and the "creator" makes money by doing a very low value shtick over stolen footage, feeding off of the hard work of others, collecting followers, and somehow missing the compounded parasitic nature of this reverse pyramid scheme.

i love the people who make original content, how to videos and weird stuff that would have been on public access tv a generation or two ago, but the stuff that makes real money is nearly always a barnacle on the ass of an actual creator and I don't feel much sympathy for anything google might do to them. I call them video scrap bookers or uploaders. That is all they really are.

[mcknzAlex]

Another platform should be made if they want to take down youtube for good.