YouTube Jewels look like they were ripped straight out of the Reddit Gold playbook

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Enshittification (alternately, crapification and platform decay) is a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

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• njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can you imagine being paid for your work in digital jewels and rubies? It’s not there yet, but were getting closer and closer to being a modern day Tennessee Ernie Ford, paid in scrip and buying everything at the company store.

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• OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think this is probably more a copy of various East Asian social media services than anything Reddit-like. Pretty sure TikTok and a bunch of Chinese video streaming services already do this. I think the whole Money -> Gifts -> Rubies -> Money chain is intended to dance around money laundering legislation. The same way that Pachinko machines aren’t technically considered gambling in Japan.

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• Vanth@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Vertical live streams? As in camera orientation? Vert videos will have this feature and horizontal won’t? Not knowing the intricacies of the content creator world, I don’t get why vertical vs horizontal should make any difference.

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  • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    YouTube pushes whatever format feels popular to them at the time, like when they started giving absurd weight to shorts.

    Even content creators that pretty much only do long, focussed videos started to hack useless bits of them to put in shorts as an aside, just because the algorithm would make their channel basically invisible without a few of them.

    If youtube starts the same kind of shit with vertical streaming, you can be sure they’re going to pop everywhere, no matter how fitting the format is.

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  • shani66@ani.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s new. That’s all. YouTube is just a Google skinsuit and Google prioritizes new over everything else.

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  • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I’m a painter, let’s say, and I’m live streaming myself painting a literal portrait one day, and a literal landscape the next day, I have to stream in portrait regardless in order to have access to certain aspects of the platform?

    That’s garbage.

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  • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Streaming community Is completely unknowable to me. I would hazard a guess that vertical streaming is for smartphones and horizontal for TV/computer?

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• sleepydragn1@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like this headline and article are way off. This is clearly aping off of TikTok Live’s Gifts system, which works in basically the exact same way. It’s crazy to me that the article doesn’t mention them at all.

  Just like YouTube started supercharging Shorts after TikTok took off, they’re chasing that same train again.

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