Comment on Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube

• admiralteal@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yours, on the other hand, is predicated on the belief that they're all super-incompetent and have no capability of doing anything right ever

  Nope. It's only this specific thing that I necessarily think they're doing a bad job of. And I'm right; they are. Their algorithm is a struggling baby compared to TikTok and YouTube at large is not a major profit center (and indeed may not be profitable at all -- but they maintain it because abandoning it would be too costly for them).

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  • Jumper775@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What specific thing? The entirety of YouTube? Just the algorithm? Either way their algorithm may not be designed to do promote videos you want to watch, in reality it’s most likely designed to promote stuff that will draw them the most ad revenue and not promote really good stuff all the time. If your content is always great people will expect that and there will never be a great video, on the contrary if there is a great video among mediocre ones at best people will engage more in those (especially if they are longer and even if they have more ads), and additionally will engage more in your platform. This means that even if they aren’t making as much per video they are still making more in the long-term. And that’s really all they care about, your experience means nothing to them.

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    • admiralteal@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is a threat about YouTube shorts and its bad algorithm, dude.

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      • Jumper775@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What’s a YouTube short?

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