What Are Your Gripes Against Youtube?

[Rainbow Spy]

Content creators, interfaces, or Susan. What is something you hate about Youtube?

[BlastARENA]

Their highly nonsensical monetization system, especially for titles of videos(words such as "you" most swear words and many others can get the uploader demonetized), bending the knee too often to movie and record companies, and the BS "hate speech" rules. Enough has been likely said here of the former already, but hate speech is a term with usually ill-defined categories. Anything that somebody doesn't like and/or feels offended by can be labeled as "hate speech".

[Masque]

Silverkite님이 먼저 게시:

Can't we just go back?

Sadly, we can never go back. YouTube is progressive, like so many other institutions. Racheting is the nature of progressivism. One rachet-click forward, one step at a time. Even conservatism only slows the ratchet's forward progress. There is no reverse function on a ratchet. Always forward from point A to point B, an inch at a time. Even conservatism can only ever slow that to 3/4 inch at a time.

[Silverkite]

BlastARENA님이 먼저 게시:

Their highly nonsensical monetization system, especially for titles of videos(words such as "you" most swear words and many others can get the uploader demonetized), bending the knee too often to movie and record companies, and the BS "hate speech" rules. Enough has been likely said here of the former already, but hate speech is a term with usually ill-defined categories. Anything that somebody doesn't like and/or feels offended by can be labeled as "hate speech".

under hate speech I remember that some channel which mostly had folklore music from early 1900 up to the end of WW2 was closed because some song were used by German and Russian forces during the freaking war.

Here in Italy during the 80's our school teacher formed a choir, we were allowed to sing Bella Ciao (no revision), we were allowed to sing Sul Cappello, we were allowed to sing l'Addio del Volontario, I don't remember if she thaught us Faccetta Nera as this happened 32~ish years ago when I was 6yo, nobody freaking cared about children singing fascists songs together with partisan song or commie ones, do the same right now and you get called names.

I can sing Katyusha in freaking russian and nobody tells me anything other than but hey it's Milan's FC hymn or hey this is a cover of song X! but on the moment my phone accidentally goes Panzerlied or Erika they go crazy

[Masque]

Silverkite님이 먼저 게시:

BlastARENA님이 먼저 게시:

Their highly nonsensical monetization system, especially for titles of videos(words such as "you" most swear words and many others can get the uploader demonetized), bending the knee too often to movie and record companies, and the BS "hate speech" rules. Enough has been likely said here of the former already, but hate speech is a term with usually ill-defined categories. Anything that somebody doesn't like and/or feels offended by can be labeled as "hate speech".

under hate speech I remember that some channel which mostly had folklore music from early 1900 up to the end of WW2 was closed because some song were used by German and Russian forces during the freaking war.

Here in Italy during the 80's our school teacher formed a choir, we were allowed to sing Bella Ciao (no revision), we were allowed to sing Sul Cappello, we were allowed to sing l'Addio del Volontario, I don't remember if she thaught us Faccetta Nera as this happened 32~ish years ago when I was 6yo, nobody freaking cared about children singing fascists songs together with partisan song or commie ones, do the same right now and you get called names.

I can sing Katyusha in freaking russian and nobody tells me anything other than but hey it's Milan's FC hymn or hey this is a cover of song X! but on the moment my phone accidentally goes Panzerlied or Erika they go crazy

YouTube did a purge recently of all (Western and European) regional folk music channels, under the misguided idea that it equals nationalism, and, as we all know, pride in one's national traditions is always bad.

[Moose]

The cancer of mainstream media and corporate sponsors invading the platform , now it's a lot harder to find something unique or interesting to watch.
The entire copyright strike system and how it's abused and used as a weapon(Naughty Dog for example).
Unnecessary censorship, like videos being de-monetized because they said Covid or used bad language.
Personal tastes on types of videos I don't like would be..
Reaction videos, these are just flat out lazy and unimaginative, leeching income off of other peoples hard work.
Loot box opening videos, usually from a popular streamer that's obviously given higher drop percentage just to promote something.

[Mad Scientist]

Moose님이 먼저 게시:

The cancer of mainstream media and corporate sponsors invading the platform , now it's a lot harder to find something unique or interesting to watch.
The entire copyright strike system and how it's abused and used as a weapon(Naughty Dog for example).
Unnecessary censorship, like videos being de-monetized because they said Covid or used bad language.
Personal tastes on types of videos I don't like would be..
Reaction videos, these are just flat out lazy and unimaginative, leeching income off of other peoples hard work.
Loot box opening videos, usually from a popular streamer that's obviously given higher drop percentage just to promote something.

Remember the original days when we just watched people VLOG because it was "Broadcast yourself" instead of this overly corporate BS?

[Jonathan Sensei]

BlastARENA님이 먼저 게시:

Their highly nonsensical monetization system, especially for titles of videos(words such as "you" most swear words and many others can get the uploader demonetized), bending the knee too often to movie and record companies, and the BS "hate speech" rules. Enough has been likely said here of the former already, but hate speech is a term with usually ill-defined categories. Anything that somebody doesn't like and/or feels offended by can be labeled as "hate speech".

Well you know what they used to say about actors and actress in early Hollywood.

"You have to sleep in the director's bed to land a breakout role".

Companies like Youtube who're looking to make as much money as possible are always going to bend the knee to those companies who'll give them the most of it. I don't see this as something to be surprised about. This isn't a new trend or anything like that.

As for hate speech, eh. It's a morally gray area if you ask me. I agree that it's ill-defined but that's kind of the problem with speech itself. Where does a person draw the proverbial line of what's acceptable or not? I feel there's no middle ground with it. Either you ban all of it or you don't ban it at all. Both will have people complaining about it either way.

[Masque]

I like good reaction videos. There's a couple of black dudes who watch videos they've been recommended, like Rush's "YYZ" or "2112" (they called it Two One One Two, LOL), or Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", and their reactions are wonderful, as they get their minds opened to amazing music they've never been exposed to before. Theirs are like watching a baby eat ice cream for the first time, in a way. Two truly open-minded dudes, who openly admit that they've been sheltered musically from a lot, and so ask "Okay, what next?"

Another one I liked was a woman flute teacher -- classical -- watching Jethro Tull do "Thick as a Brick". Her reaction was fun, too.

[Moose]

Boofalo Soja님이 먼저 게시:

I like good reaction videos. There's a couple of black dudes who watch videos they've been recommended, like Rush's "YYZ" or "2112" (they called it Two One One Two, LOL), or Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", and their reactions are wonderful, as they get their minds opened to amazing music they've never been exposed to before. Theirs are like watching a baby eat ice cream for the first time, in a way. Two truly open-minded dudes, who openly admit that they've been sheltered musically from a lot, and so ask "Okay, what next?"

Another one I liked was a woman flute teacher -- classical -- watching Jethro Tull do "Thick as a Brick". Her reaction was fun, too.

I've watched that flute players reaction and I'll admit some of the ones where professional artists or ex army specialists watch films to comment are pretty good, great opinions, it's more the ones where they're just sitting their saying hmm or raising an eyebrow like Suzy Lu's crap.

[Duckilous]

Moose님이 먼저 게시:

The entire copyright strike system and how it's abused and used as a weapon(Naughty Dog for example).

Not only can it be abused, some lowlifes can even exploit it to blackmail creators.
https://twitter.com/gamefromscratch/status/1265105083106295814

[Dominic]

The struggle to get noticed for doing what you enjoy doing in life. I am not the best at what I do far from it. But I still try sometimes.

[Spud the Spud]

Youtube has decided to push an agenda, instead of making money. That's most of the problems it has now in a nutshell. They could make a LOT more money if they'd choose to, but they'd have to start with no longer trying to push their agenda. Oddly, none of the shareholders have sued them over that yet. Youtube is legally required to...not necessarily maximize profits, but pushing a one sided agenda is clearly NOT serving the best interests of the shareholders. There's clearly grounds for a lawsuit. *shrug*

Though there is one other. Why does the search feature suck so bad, when youtube is related to Google? Is that REALLY the best they could do after owning it for so many years?

[Masque]

Spud, the same could be said about Disney, and almost all of Hollywood. Or game companies like Naughty Dog. Making money is less important than The Struggle. They make up for it with the occasional blockbuster, I guess. They must, or what they do would be literally "unsustainable", because they would literally go broke, as the meme goes. Naughty Dog probably will. Disney has enough capital to burn -- and lose -- money in service of the agenda for decades, and so does Hollywood, apparently.

[Zoomii]

Rainbow Spy님이 먼저 게시:

KOOLLAYDTAC님이 먼저 게시:

They made it a lot harder for anyone new trying to make a name for themselves to earn money on the platform anymore. Some of their rules when I looked in to it are complete and utter nonsense mate. lol

There are countless content creators that have such a high quality for their lack of light

That is so true. One time i watched a YouTube video that was probably the highest quality video I've ever seen. I looked at the sub count and he had less than 1000.

[Doctor Go-Go]

It's 15 years old and who gives a ♥♥♥♥?