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YouTube now vs then

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨sag@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨memes@sopuli.xyz⁩

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  • Tall_Chilchuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What irks me most is the kids content. That should have been a separate site altogether and it’s ridiculous that ‘non-kids’ content gets more strictly regulated for fear they might hear a swear word. Especially considering how much weird shit gets pushed at kids intentionally that youtube doesn’t appear to care about (looking at you elsa-gate).

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Elsa gate is why stuff gets restricted so aggressively nowadays.

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      • CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What is Elsa gate?

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    • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The regulation is never meant to “protect” kids. It’s the advertisers, it’s always and only the advertisers.

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    • HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also that weren’t intended for kids but superficially looked like they were got involuntarily flagged as such and had their comments removed.

      A separate site would have been a much better solution.

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      • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        fucking hate that shit, i came to this episode of a tv show i used to watch so i could TALK ABOUT IT IN THE COMMENTS

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No demonetisation? The REAL old YouTube didn’t have monetization to begin with!

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    • RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Even then they posted videos online to show otherrs

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    • humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wish we had YouTube alternatives other than just political ones (rumble)

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      • Nito@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I recently heard of odysee and was surprised to find out that some big channels like Veritasium or Fireship seem to already be on there

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      • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Floatplane?

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      • fu@libranet.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
        @humble_pete_digger @Tja #Peertube
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  • whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I weirdly get some videos recommended to my by very small channels (like 30-60 views per video. I asked several people around me but none of them seem to be getting that kind of recommendations.

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    • yourgodlucifer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I kind of like getting those recommendations its usually either a fairly normal person or the most unhinged shit.

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    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A while back YT rejigged it’s algorithm to give weight to channels with with small subscriber amounts

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    • knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I get the same for like half a year, recently I get live streams with about 5 viewers recommended.

      While I feel like recommendations got a bit better in the last two years they are still nowhere near where they’ve been 10 years ago.

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    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same, on desktop at least, even though I often klick the no fuck you button

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Been catching a LOT of those watching shorts, been digging it.

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    • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do, but have set ReVanced to filter those suggestions out.

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    • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I get them too. It’s quitr refreshing to see some low subscriber ytbers

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  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    it recommends things that you’d watch, here’s some videos from my recommendations:

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    are you only looking for videos via the trending tab?

    though most of the other points are mostly valid, I just wanted to point this one out because it seems obviously wrong, I remember that I used to never see low-view videos when I first used youtube

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  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My only problem with this is that YT Shorts aren’t a shitty TikTok clone because TikTok was the worst possible version of Vines.

    TikTok was malice incarnate. It was made to be a weapon.

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    • TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Was it?

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      • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Why else would the Chinese government want to run a US social media site?

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  • x4740N@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Youtube has been recommending me some videos with small amounts of views lately so that might have changed something with the algorithm

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I keep seeing recomended vids with under 1000 views

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  • daniyeg@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    if this meme didn’t mention tiktok i would guess it was from 2017. who even talks about elsagate anymore?

    also anecdotal but personally i would say the visibility of small channels have gone way up these past few years. the amount of videos with very low view counts i see in my feed has gone from basically non existent to half of my recommendations.

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    • Saracha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean I talk about it every now and then, my kid was being shown those videos when they were young. I keep YouTube off any TV’s or the kids tablets because YouTube was so irresponsible. For all Disney’s and Netflix’s faults I’d much rather the kids watch something that’s been at least better curated than whatever the hell YouTube kids is.

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  • fu@libranet.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The YouTube kids app is so incredibly useless in order to comply with government regulations that all our kids use our accounts. Which also sucks.
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    • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How do you monitor your kids online? 😥 /genq

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      • fu@libranet.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
        @P4ulin_Kbana I'm a good parent. The kids are with us all the time, if they were doing something they weren't supposed to I'd know. Honestly, I tink I'd rather they be doing something nuferious than watching annoying kids videos, alas they prefer to watch the later too often watching other kids play scream and play with toys that we already bought that they never play with.
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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t forget that half of old youtube was rickrolling

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I like that LLMs are now rick rolling people.

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When being a youtuber became a job rather than a hobby

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  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lololol the videos are slop.

    👌👍 Meanwhile screeching because of ads and I have to pay.

    If that ain’t a deep rooted addiction I don’t know what one is lololol

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  • 10_0@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Makes shitty tiktok clone” its the other way round

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  • Driveway4964@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tobuscus

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  • VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Guessing by kids we’re talking about young children and not teenagers because old YouTube was practically made for teenagers. The more popular layouts people used back then often had the same aesthetic as myspace pages. There was more gaming content on the site than anything else, followed by viral vids (=3).

    There’s a lot to dislike about the modern structure of the platform but as a grown adult I appreciate that there’s a much larger variety of content now which was essentially what the shift in design was supposed to achieve.

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