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Has YouTube even done anything to improve the platform in the last 8 year? The only thing that I’ve seen change is the search turning to trash with “recommended content” after 4 real search results.
They removed the dislike button. That improved the platform right?
And they did it in a way so half-ass that if you have the right plug in the dislike button is back. I think the most pathetic is when I see that the dislike button is turned off by the owner of the video.
I understand why they did it, they were tired of major corporations having PR nightmares when trailers for unpopular products get downloaded into Oblivion, but protecting shareholders of other companies should not be their job. Their priority should be to content creators, sadly however this is how ethics works, not capitalism.
But, being able to turn off the dislike button all together...
Imagine every other job getting to do that, I am a janitor, imagine if one day I was allowed to have people just not be able to look at the dirt on whatever floor I didn't mop. I would basically never mop again.
I understand that YouTube is a hobby for most, at least it was in the beginning, but it is now a business. And if I were the Better Business Bureau I would give them a big fat F on their report card
To be clear, the plugin doesn’t make the button come back, the button never went away. The dislike counter went away, and the plugin doesn’t “bring it back” it simply approximates the number of dislikes (unless the channel operator opts in to having the info shared directly from their API, which comes with some security risks.)
No.
In fact they've made it objectively worse by restricting what you're allowed to make videos about.
The state of True Crime is abysmal.. it has gotten to the point where censorship is stricter than Cable TV, as the names of various felonies have to be bleeped out in order to not catch youtube's wrath.
Yet Far Right Political Channels are free to drop whatever slurs against transfolk they like.. and openly accuse whatever drag performer they want of being a kiddie diddler even though true crime channels get a content strike for saying "pedophile" even though it's in the context of someone literally tried and convicted as one.
Ever wonder why the kids are saying "Unalive" so much? It started as a cute 4th wall leaning cover for death in a Deadpool/Spider-Man crossover...
Now it has regular usage because direct references to death (Again, Regardless of context) is against Youtube Terms of Service.
It's so bad that a close friend of mine who is a streamer, despite not posting to youtube, has had to train himself to exclusively say Unalived so that clips of his streams can be safely posted to youtube, his livelihood cannot risk him using the "d" or "k" words.
It's absurd because a reason web content became so popular is that it wasn't restricted to the same kind of censorship the FCC puts on Cable TV.. We can have an Angry Nerd drop as many F Bombs as he wants while talking about something as innocuous as Super Mario 3...
But thanks to Youtube.. not anymore
They want to look like they're against bigotry, but don't actually wanna be....
Shit just watch SML, it gets censored by Youtube all the time for incredibly minor shit (Like a parody of Momo, or showing blood), but the blatant transphobia and racism? Perfectly fine... I mean it's comedy and nothing's meant by it (Unlike the Starfield video)
God, now I'm remembering all the people who used Kung Jin as a Fatality Dummy in MKX, which became a trend when the writer revealed Kung Jin was gay.. (The game said he had a "forbidden romance", but he's a monk, so that could have easily been a woman since monk's are celibate, which is why a writer had to clarify)
What really sucks is all the "fans" whining that this was shoving Kung Jin's sexuality in the face of the fans....
This is the same game where Shinnok, the MK Devil, is threatening to end all existence, and right when his right hand man Quan Chi is in custody so that he can potentially bring the cast of the previous game back to life... but wait, can't talk about that now, because Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade have to bring the whole game to a halt to scream at each other about their failed marriage....
But it's KUNG JIN's sexuality that fucks up the game right? Strangely it's never the straight people bringing the show to a halt to talk about how "Penis will touch vagina in a big and exciting way" who get accused of "Shoving their sexuality in people's faces", even though that shit happens all the time.
Look Hollywood, your action movies don't need a forced romance, especially if it's a woman who will be competent in the first fucking scene and be a dumbass every other scene.
Not really a problem MK has (Female Representation is in a pretty good place), but a beef I had in general.
Probably a lot on the backend. Honestly fewer changes on the front is probably for the better at this point.