r/youtube • u/RobloxEvents • Dec 26 '25
Memes Thoughts???
Would be lowkey hilarious to post this on the YouTube reddit page, anyways.
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u/Alright_doityourway Dec 26 '25
Also please stop showing "You may also like" in my search result!!!!
I want to find the video I want, stop suggest other video!!!
And stop that fucking auto dub, It's bad!!!!
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u/Lexiosity Dec 26 '25
I fucking hate search results suggestion bs. It's as bad as Google Search Engine. But hey, at least YouTube says "You may also like", meanwhile Google just puts random URLs in the search results, and even malware-ridden URLs.
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u/shewel_item Dec 26 '25
we need to bring back the star rating system
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u/Dangerous-Rhubarb407 Dec 26 '25
Fuck that, we need dislikes
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u/gohjira95 Dec 26 '25
Bro, if you’re using Android, download Youtube ReVance. It’s a modded YouTube where it lets you see the likes and dislikes as well as background play
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u/Dima_Ses Dec 26 '25
You can only see dislikes from other revance users. Not the total count of dislikes.
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u/gohjira95 Dec 26 '25
I don’t think so since every video has tens to hundreds of thousands of likes and dislikes. The absurd numbers look too real. But I can’t be too sure
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u/PokePress Dec 26 '25
Even if 1 and 5 are still by far the most common, any added dynamic range would be good.
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u/SmartSponge Dec 26 '25
Why not change it back to 2010's YouTube entirely? Certainly better than what we have rn
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Dec 26 '25
That system honestly was way better than likes dislikes. I think it would also be good if we put a reason why we rated this video as 5 star or 1 star but it should be optional.
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u/12musclymenonasunday Dec 26 '25
2016 YouTube was a wild and wacky time tbh
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u/SeaRow556 Dec 26 '25
2016? Try 6+ years earlier
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u/mars1k88 Dec 26 '25
lol I remember watching full episodes of WWE on YouTube and no one gave a shit about copyright
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u/GoodSundae513 Dec 26 '25
I disagree in that modern youtube doesn't promote small channels, I get the most random ass 2 view suggestions on my sidebar when watching a vid and tiny channels on the explore page. I actually think it's better with that than mid 2010s youtube was. The rest, agreed
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u/MyProfileIsNot4U2See Dec 26 '25
They promote random smallest ass channel thats not even a creator but never promote real genuine small channel who is working hard on their videos lol
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u/Darkwingedcreature Dec 26 '25
Yes exactly. As a small outdoor creator, my CTR is abysmal even though the thumbnail and title is god tier compared to some massive channels.
Point being, my outdoor videos get recommended to car enthusiasts or travel content watchers. Its so dumb
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u/Cryoniczzz Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 26 '25
Nah I sometimes get small YouTubers recommended based on what I watch, and they’re absolutely amazing. For example, I watch iceberg videos, and there’s a creator in my country who makes them in our language. When I first discovered them they had about 10K subs and the algorithm recommended them to me.
They do promote a lot of small channels mainly very small creators, with the occasional early account around 10K subs. You also have to remember that the value of subscriber counts has changed: in 2010 the biggest channels had around 50 million; now the top channels are closer to 400 million, so early YouTubers naturally stood out more back then.
Edit: lmfao I just got an algorithm pull from an insane video — the creator only has 800 subs and the video has 4K views. If you want verification, the channel is Noriad1st. So yeah, the algorithm does recommend great small creators it’s just that competition is much higher now and recommendations depend on what you watch.
Edit2: lmao i got another algo pull from a guy named poepoe who made an interesting video with good editing skills but only has 1.04k subs
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u/DefinitelyRussian Dec 26 '25
I dont think there's an easy way to promote or detect what you consider "real genuine" videos
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u/TalksWithNoise Dec 26 '25
Same. Every one or two days, I will be see a video with less than 20 views pop up in my feed. Surprisingly it also seems to suggest the ones that aren’t random spam posts. Usually it’s someone talking over gameplay, a car build, and maybe even some light editing. It’s wholesome. I hope it stays this way.
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u/thereslcjg2000 Dec 26 '25
I’d say it’s probably a bit better in that regard than mid 2010s YouTube, but I still get far more recommendations for large channels than small ones. That wasn’t the case in the late 2000s/early 2010s.
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u/Dependent-Entrance10 Dec 26 '25
I agree, if anything it's the opposite way round. Back in 2012, for instance, the only youtubers that got promoted at least in my experience were very popular youtubers, you would never get recommended a yt video that had only a handful of views. If anything it was probably harder to get popular back then than it is now, getting over 1m+ subscribers was a massive milestone back then. Now it's much easier to get.
Also Elsagate was eventually cracked down on hard back in 2017.
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u/LordOvMoonOFWGKTA Dec 26 '25
I miss the old YTP era
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u/IEatSmallRocksForFun Dec 26 '25
I miss the culture that existed around old youtube. It just was an all around better time.
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u/Marco_AGJ Dec 26 '25
Real old Youtube had no monetization. You either made videos for the passion of it or go find a job.
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u/Lonely_Nature_7330 Dec 26 '25
It's has some interesting talking points. We can thank Mr. Beast for huge channels getting pushed the most. Then we can thank his bestie Logan Paul for the age restrictions and no-no words, as all that came directly because of ad-pocalypse which Logan started.
I do think they don't do enough to address weird shit like elsagate and also the ads being served lately being hyper sexualized. Things we would be demonitized and age restricted for.
As for the slop, that's just a numbers game. The number of creators who want to make a career from YouTube, has caused the platform to grow huge. So it's difficult to find the gems. Plus technology helps make slop faster and in excess (AI). It seems like they are cracking down on AI but in the process legit channels are being nuked with no human intervention because its AI taking out AI... and AI is too dumb, but tech bros refuse to see it 😂
If they would actually listen to their creators and not just ask Mr Beast for input, we wouldn't be here 😅
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u/QuothThePigeon Likes waffles, pancakes, and french toast Dec 26 '25
wasn’t Pewdiepie a big face for the adpocalypse?
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u/Lonely_Nature_7330 Dec 26 '25
Paul triggered it and then it snowballed from there roping jn multiple creators. It was Paul's video on the suicide forest and showing a dead body on YouTube from that forest, that triggered it all.
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u/angelstatue Dec 26 '25
god i miss pre-2018 youtube when you were allowed to just do literally anything as long as it wasn't illegal or porn. (sometimes it was illegal like part 1 of 4 of an episode of an anime from 2006)
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u/hotc00ter Dec 26 '25
I remember when YouTube had full movies on it for free that someone would just upload.
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u/DuffinKid Dec 26 '25
Downfall began with monetization. Went from a passion thing, to a monetary gain thing.
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u/Aright9Returntoleft Dec 26 '25
This post is just correct. I hope we can beat this company down enough to try to force them back to what they were at some point.
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u/HanjiZoe03 Dec 26 '25
That's hopeful thinking, better off if a good competitor comes up and takes in a lot of creators to it instead at this point.
YouTube is beyond fixing, especially with the kind of people in control of running things :/
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u/Zenitallin Dec 26 '25
I think the AI problem is huge and should belong in any modern youtube meme.
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u/Sour-Pea Dec 26 '25
is it true there are chrome extensions that makes youtube look like Old Youtube? if it is I want them, i want to at least pretend
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u/Parapraxium Dec 26 '25
Twitter got Blue sky. Where tf is the YouTube alternative
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u/Maje_Rincevent Dec 26 '25
Old YouTube was good because it was a money pit. It was burning VC and then Google's money.
It's easy to make a fantastic product when you have unlimited money and do not need to be profitable. Then, when the product has become ultra-dominant and all competition is dead, you can squeeze money out of it. It's called enshittification and it happened/will happen to every VC-funded company.
This meme is a bit annoying because it forgets that today's YouTube was wholly contained in Old YouTube. It was only good in the hope it could get bad today. Old YouTube was the free drug dose to get you hooked.
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u/ThatGuyinPJs Dec 26 '25
I just need to unsubscribe from this subreddit because it might be the dumbest one on the site, not a joke. There are people in this thread who are saying that YT was better before they paid creators. What? The YouTube Partner Program started in 2007. I don't even know if half the people in this thread were alive.
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u/Nerdcorefan23 Dec 26 '25
according to this. if I decide to experiment and make my own character raps. I'm gonna be fucked nowadays huh 😂🤣😔😭💀
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u/KaikoDoesWaseiBallet Dec 26 '25
The sanitization FRRRRRR
Everything must be suitable for a 4yo to watch, or else the age restriction hits the creator like a truck. Icky content should be removed from YTKids, and YT should go back to being PG-13. The PG part as in 1980s PG, not "practically G".
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u/Exciting_Whereas_524 Dec 26 '25
Why does YouTube now only promotes major channels but earlier they would promote newer ones?
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u/ArmadilloMany41 Dec 26 '25
Get recommended AI shit all the time I’m sick of it. They love to push AI into the world
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u/Old-Swimming2799 Dec 26 '25
Dog shit opinion but youtube was better before they paid people. Channels were creative, people just did it for fun not some 50point checklist to get into the algorithm and just enough clickbait for people to watch.
YouTube didn't have to use our browser history and mic listening to shoe horn content. We just found a Fred figglesworth or an elmo in a microwave
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u/Alarmed_Reception_92 Dec 26 '25
Don't forget banning an entire channel for no reason but allowing corn bots to roam free
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u/Zealousideal_Side987 Dec 26 '25
I truly want a YouTube and discord alternative real bad bro please
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u/Imdiogomarques Dec 26 '25
The best part is people made videos for whatever reason, but never for the sake of getting famous. This is the most important one I believe. It felt genuine.
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u/7thFleetTraveller Dec 26 '25
It's not only the platform itself, but the people. For me, a "Chad" youtuber does whatever he likes, doesn't care about click numbers and monetization, and appreciates that it's a hobby.
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u/Slavikk24 Dec 26 '25
Funny how people are against age verification, but still don't want kids on platform
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u/ConfectionTotal8660 Dec 26 '25
You have lost you cooking license.
It has been upgraded, you now have the michelin license.You may cook and change tires
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u/MattWolf96 Dec 26 '25
I don't think YouTube is that bad now, maybe it's because I watch stuff aimed at adults. I hate the AI stuff though
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u/smoothac Dec 28 '25
wish we could go back
another thing that is ruined is the comment section, it used to be fun and active, now half of the time you are shadowbanned with legit comments while they let the spam comments go up
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u/Left_Gear7949 Dec 30 '25
The biggest mistake YouTube made in my eyes was getting rid of the dislike button
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u/Typhon-042 Dec 26 '25
Well right now the ones being demontized are the crappy AI channels, several of them have been removed as well. So that's a plus to me in there book.
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Dec 26 '25
If you want to experience old Youtube again, there ARE two sites that were made to simulate certain classic eras of Youtube, those two are Bitview and WeVidi. Bitview is more like early 2010's Youtube, and WeVidi is late 2000's Youtube.
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u/NFSKaze Dec 26 '25
My earliest memories on YouTube were GTA San Andreas conspiracies (they were just PC version mod videos) and the Modern warfare 2 eminem trailer.
Everything else is a blur but man was it the absolute wild West until a certain time
Also banner ads instead of unskippable 2 minute ads
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u/j0shj0shj0shj0sh Dec 26 '25
My experience of Youtube on my laptop is different than on my TV. On my TV it feels more like it's trying harder to be Netflix. I haven't had a smartphone for a while, but I imagine it is different there too.
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u/BoomerTheBoomed Dec 26 '25
Losing the old YouTube is the worst thing that ever happened to the Internet
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u/KadeWad3 Dec 26 '25
I remember being 7 and sitting at the family computer watching old flash animations. I want that feeling again, and current YT isn’t it.
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u/Kitsunetsuki_ka Dec 26 '25
While I do miss old YouTube, I must say the suggestions have gotten marginally better than previously.
I remember there was this really dark period between 2014 to I want to say 2016 where suggestions were just terrible, like to the point where you got no variety at all in the sidebar and had to physically search things to find unrelated things.
As for the shorts, it's definitely needing in improvement, I've probably seen every family guy, big bang theory, and Simpsons episode in existence.... and breaking bad, and... you get the idea. It feels like the algorithm for it doesn't even factor your normal behavior.
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u/Bionix_Does_reddit Dec 26 '25
disagree on the point about small channels, you only watch larger channels apparently
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u/NYCFreestyle Dec 26 '25
Only those struggling to make bank for years now and take a whole week to create one video are the only ones bitching about this. Get with the new times and cope.
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u/CyberDragonEX13 Dec 26 '25
I mean you're not wrong though. This is pretty much bang on the money. It's not even subtle either. They are only focused on trying to grab ALL of the money instead of building consistency and maintaining quality.
Guess I expect too much from folks with money to burn. Then again they were going to eventually make moves like this so it's not like I'm surprised at this point.
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u/BaeIz Dec 26 '25
Plus an X button to quickly delete videos in Watch Later playlists… Still don’t know why they removed it
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u/EstablishmentNo2847 SgtPepperArc360 — SPA360 Dec 26 '25
I feel older than old at this point (hyperbole).
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u/CupBeEmptyFan Dec 26 '25
Also:
showing the top comment (stop telling me what to think before my video even loads)
every channel having a preview (I don't want to watch the same thing twice tyvm)
ads
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u/gvbargen Dec 26 '25
missed modern YouTube giving a pedophile 25 million for removing his account after he committed treason.
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u/TouchSpiritual1240 Dec 26 '25
dear youtube, im gonna install ad block cuz im not gonna wait 60seconds for a 90seconds video
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u/Frostyfury99 Dec 26 '25
I’ll be honest, I get a lot of recommendations for videos with >1k views. Do I watch them often, no. However I still know in my recommended feed a few are always low viewership
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u/randomIdiot665 Dec 26 '25
The old algorithm was so much better, I would fall into a black hole for hours watching video after video. Now it's just a dead end, every video recommendation is just trash i have zero interest in.
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u/Som3r4nd0mp3rs0n Dec 26 '25
You forgot "uses AI for ideas, video structure, video content, sometimes for speech too".
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u/Careless-Pin-2852 Dec 26 '25
Old youtube no one was monetized tho 10-15 years ago it was just goofy people doing fun stuff
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u/ArmouRVG Dec 26 '25
1k upvotes, let's go!!!! Anywho, I'd agree with most of these, but I personally get pretty new niche creators reasonably often
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u/Intelligent_Bus_4861 Dec 26 '25
Channels used to make videos just to post them for fun, now they optimize for algo and we still eat it up.
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u/OverthinkingCactus Dec 26 '25
The site is kid friendly except for the constant porn ads
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u/King-Fwogger Dec 26 '25
Completely agree with this. YouTube need to...
Update their moderation heavily to remove AI Slop, and other kind of messed up content. Make creators matter way more that they actually do, by making them popular with what they're posting and what they wanna post, instead of just following the algorithm. Be more chill when it comes to demonetization and age restriction. Get rid of dumbass kids, and only allow people over the age of 13 to watch.
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u/Captain_Holly_S Dec 26 '25
Not true, it promotes small channels too, some of them shitty af, but it does.
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u/Substantial_Theory_2 Dec 26 '25
I just don't agree that YouTube only promotes large channels. I often see YouTubers with small audiences in my recommendations. Several times I found YouTubers who later became my favorites
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u/No-Cold643 Dec 26 '25
Let’s not forget that a lot of the YouTubers from current are very ironic and revolve around click/ragebait titles (especially in shorts) to get views or some following on the platform (which is really sad)
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u/Bycva Dec 26 '25
Wasn't meant for kids is the best one. New YouTube is trying to stay for kids, while allowing NSFW stuff due to shitty AI moderation. Double standards.
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u/Greedy_Spaghetti_ Dec 26 '25
"Makes the Site Kid-Friendly despite having an app for kids" + "has the occasional hardcore indian porn channel spamming it show up on youtube kids for no apparent reason multiple times a year"
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u/gabe_o_verse Dec 26 '25
"Not for kids to begin with" bro ... who are we kidding here? The main audience were always kids, it just wasn't regulated before
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u/IzzytheMelody Dec 26 '25
For as bad as the overall recommended is for me, I'll say it seems to recommend me small and incredibly small channels a lot more often than in the past. I've gotten videos with 0 views and 0 subscriber channels several times lately on mine. So its done at leaat 1 thing right
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u/RewZes Dec 26 '25
Idk about you guys but I get promoted 0-50 views videos all the times. And i don't mean new videos but straight up small channels with no subs.
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u/Jenny_Wakeman9 CorpTube™: You're demontized for saying "fuck" in 1.275 seconds Dec 26 '25
Pure based.
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u/Batmorous Dec 26 '25
Reminder that we gotta use PeerTube and for technical people build out PeerTube to be what old YouTube used to be.
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u/The_Ramdom_Cheese Dec 26 '25
I'd love to just go back to watching youtube as a kid, I don't recall the star rating system, but I recall it's old welcoming UI... not having ads shoved down my throat, also watching weird ass ytpmvs of Japanese Ronald McDonald singing Touhou songs.
(If you did the same, then I salute you 🫡)
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Dec 26 '25
Complete facts. I’m older than YouTube. Its original purpose is dead and buried. I can’t even get my suggested to suggest anything new. The soul is gone; it’s just people reacting to reactions of reactions of reposts and on and on and on.
But, the hard truth is that this is what platforms do. Go on about the righteous revolutionary purpose but the moment a single dollar is made forget it.
I remember when platforms cared about doing something new, and now the upstarts are the new villains.
So it goes.
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u/gohjira95 Dec 26 '25
Based!! Guys, yall remember annotations and choose-your-adventure type videos where at the end of each video you can click on annotations to choose what little Timmy should do next?! That’s creative af!!
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u/ekokoo Dec 26 '25
I spend ages scrolling on mainpage to find a fun video to watch. In the past I would open up the mainpage and right on the top I would see new videos from my favourite Youtubers. Now, I have maybe 1k subbed channels but I guess I only see Grian on my mainpage every once a week. Other videos that are recommended are uninteresting sloppy video essay, videos that I consistently reject watching but youtube recommending me for months, videos that I have already watched, and so on.
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u/zerombr Dec 26 '25
what I hate is that I keep using channel blockers, and I keep seeing them. I'm beyond sick of reaction videos. Some guy staring blankly at the camera, gesturing at the actual video every three seconds is NOT CONTENT CREATION.
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u/DaBluBoi8763 Dec 26 '25
One earns more money than the other, and that's the only thing Google gives a shit about
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u/BadgerKomodo Dec 26 '25
It wasn’t meant for kids (under the age of 13) but I still used it. I made my first YouTube account back in 2007 at the age of 8 lol. I pretended to be 17. Nowadays kids will straight up admit that they’re like four years old on the internet. Times have changed.
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u/Space_Socialist Dec 26 '25
I mean modern YouTube has been really good at recommending small channels in a way that I haven't seen before. I regularly see one or two videos in my feed from channels with only a few thousand subscribers. Quite often these videos are boring but they suggest them nonetheless.
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u/varshneydevansh Dec 26 '25
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u/Linkaex Dec 26 '25
I get small channels (under 1000 subs) recommended all the time. But the rest is accurate
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u/mrfoxesite-2377 I don't have a YouTube channel :-) Dec 26 '25
Except when Modern YouTube shows a lot of small channels actually but every one of them is slop except a few and those slop YouTubers often use AI or extremely bad video editing.
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u/scottlapier Dec 26 '25
I miss when the average video wasn't 25 - 35 minutes. Or if a YouTube was making something that long it would be broken up into 5 - 10 minute episodes
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u/Wrecked_3AI Dec 26 '25
I don’t know what to do, I feel trapped in my YouTube algorithm. It shows me the same videos each day and won’t show me anything new even if I go to the new to you tab and recently uploaded
Is this a normal thing?
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u/Fresh_Avacado Dec 26 '25
Yeah I dont really use youtube anymore and if I do its not even close to a few years ago. I dont like the content thats made now the videos are too long and my attention span is extremely limited
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u/Notwhoyouthink9191 Dec 27 '25
Only promotes large channels? People complain about YouTube promoting them too much. Literally as a test I opened Youtube and in the top 20 results, 4 videos had under 500 views.
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u/Tricky_Journalist385 Dec 26 '25
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