It's my impression, that Youtube was for a long time presented and thought of as this great new media platform, that allowed individual people to produce and broadcast content without having to deal with the caprice of corporate executives. A platform where a content producer wouldn't be axed just because someone in the hierarchy decided they didn't want to publish it anymore.
Well, to the extent it ever was the case, it certainly doesn't seem to be so now.
Here's a video by a Youtuber whose channel is, judging by Youtube's own analytics, being actively suppressed by Youtube's recommendation system. So we have, again, a corporate system, which for whatever reason may decide to drive down any given content or a channel, at any time.
Youtube is just another media corporation now. The only difference to something like Time Warner is, that they use changes to their algorithms as a means, rather than individually cancelling shows.
In short: corporate algorithm gives the same shitty results as corporate hierarchy.
https://youtu.be/Gx3secKNlS8
(The meat of the thing is within the first 10-11 min)
@sim Oh yeah. That's when the enshittification started.
Much like when Microsoft bought Skype.
But I didn't want to bring Google into this, as they have all kinds of other things going on, and I wanted to talk about just the change within YT.
@sim Basically Google edited their motto thus:
"Don't Be Evil"
@sim Just because it's not surprising, doesn't mean it's not worth commenting upon.
@sim That.
And people should be disabused of any illusion that YT has always been this way and built up its popularity, and frankly monopoly, in its current state.
