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[–]VirgilioLegendre 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

The scary thing about youtube to me is it is only recommending Old stream media. I can watch something like timpool and it will always playlist to old media. Yesterday it even started down ranking tim cast when I search for tim pool..... putting a heap of old media before him. To me the old guard is desperate to regain power in society.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

This is what I really don't get. The whole point of youtube was it was for ordinary people to broadcast content, the 'you' in youtube. Why now is it filled with CNN, Fox, and clips from shitty cable shows? Why do they recommend them over content for ordinary people? I can already watch that shit on TV and on their multi-million dollar news website. Google was the worst thing to happen to them.

[–]filbs111 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Partly the people with power in Youtube are politically motivated. And partly because money. The people who pay them money are also politically motivated.

[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't buy the advertiser excuse. Every time they want to do something unscrupulous they first create an excuse for it and it is just so convenient to blame advertiser pressure. People just eat up that excuse without question, and blame corporate greed rather than the decision makers at the offending company.

[–]pyropulse 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Before the Adpocalypse, youtube creators were making way more money... because ads were seen by way more people. YouTube is starving content creators of which they don't want on the platform under the guise of "that isn't advertiser friendly content." Err, what? Advertisers want as many eyes to see something as possible; they don't give a flying fuck, unless it is some seriously fucked up shit. No one associates gamer word with a company just because their ad was on a video.

YouTube literally destroyed their ad revenue under the guise of "only allowing advertiser friendly content have ads" of which is supposed to INCREASE ad revenue by being 'advertiser friendly.' But if the result is a massive decrease in ad money, you know their reason was full of shit. They willingly reduced their ad revenue by large margins, under the guise of increasing ad revenue, because their actual goal is to push an agenda, and various youtubers that went against this agenda were starved via the 'adpocalypse.' That's what its primary goal was; to starve a certain demographic of youtubers.

[–][deleted] 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Youtube is pretty much funded by the government now

[–]pyropulse 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

YouTube literally created the Adpocalypse, of which greatly reduced their ad revenue. Youtube is run at a loss by Google. This can only mean that Google is using YouTube to push an adenga. - Ironically, youtube claimed the 'adpocalypse' was to only allow advertiser friendly content, thereby increasing ad revenue somehow? Err, what? It is like shooting off your kneecap to save your leg from an infected foot. Just doesn't make sense.

[–]hennaojichan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Progress is good, but it's gone on too long now.

[–]pyropulse 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Check out this extension that de-mainstreams youtube: https://www.demainstream.com/

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah, thank you. I spend a lot of time on youtube marking those channels as 'not interested' and 'don't show me again'.

[–]pyropulse 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have an extension that removes all old media from youtube search results and on the various pages, such as recommended. It is called Demainstream YouTube https://www.demainstream.com/

[–][deleted] 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The old guard is funded by the government.