Comment on Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube

• admiralteal@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That should mean engagement. It serves up such bad videos that I disengage.

  Once in a while I'll realize I just spent 20, 30 minutes looking at a streak of pretty decent stuff. Rare enough to be remarkable. Usually after just 3 or 4 consecutive crap clips I'll close it down and get back to work.

  I doubt anything disengages a user faster than low-quality content. I bet it does it even faster than the authoritarian politics and bigotry YouTube seems to inexorable serve you.

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If that were true, it wouldn't be the way it is.

    Just because it causes your disengagement, doesn't mean it causes disengagement with the vast majority of their userbase.

    They're also more concerned with ad views and clicks, so if you're not the kind of person who gives a crap about ads... they don't really care that much about you.

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    • admiralteal@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is predicated on the belief that Google/YouTube is run in a 100% hyper-competent way. I don't buy that.

      Google does things the easiest way possible to make tons of money. They make unforced errors all the damn time.

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      • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And yours is predicated on the belief that they're all super-incompetent and have no capability of doing anything right ever... which is confusing considering they're a multi-billion dollar company and not just some guy in a shack banging rocks together to see how they sound.

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