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[Alter_Fridge]

Arguing about the state of YouTube is possibly the only bigger waste of time than consuming YouTube (unless for a specific, practical purpose)

Yes, I am aware of the irony of this post

 

[Rest]

Fuck no, its awful, almost no one puts passion or care into their videos anymore, its all about cheap clicks and money.

Have you seen Alec Steele? Dude made an engagement ring for his wife. He went to jewelers conventions and classes to learn to engrave and set stones.

 

[YCoCg]

Not even the content creators like how YouTube is right now, YouTubes goal seems to be finding ways to demonitise everything so they can keep as much money as possible without realising they pushed people to keep content on a constant stream.

 

[64bitmodels]

Youtube sucks.

Their demonetization policy gets more retarded by the minute, where even saying anything that isn't literally ad friendly can get you demonetized, which wouldn't be bad if it also didn't fuck with the video's visibility. I have a feeling thanks to that 8/30 second rule people are gonna start bringing intros back to their YT videos
Their priority and bias towards established creators and big corpos is fucking scummy. You could get demonetized for saying heck in the first 25 seconds of a video but a 10+ million subscriber channel can show softcore porn and get away with it
They continually remove useful features from the site and dumb down the site design every day, Compare how feature complete it was from 2010-2016 to now. It's a fucking insane downgrade in every single aspect and i have no idea why they fucked everything up

but FUCKKK dude... the creators are so awesome despite all of this. I like seeing YTers like Mickeybeam75 who archive all the best Jungle/rave tracks from the 90s. or Mutahar who's an expert on OPSEC and are also just a charismatic person in general. If you're some moron who keeps clicking on clickbait terrible tiktok tier youtube channels that's on you for not being able to find good content