• Lantern@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, it’s the terrible content moderation policies that are going to kill YouTube, not a certain type of video.

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      1 year ago

      Bingo. I don’t find shorts all that appealing (especially since I can’t cast them to a TV! Wtf, seems like core function there) but I agree, the REAL problem with YouTube is how much creators have to top toe around demonization.

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        1 year ago

        they’re all paying the bills by hawking raid shadow legends anyways, may as well not rely on youtube monetization anyways and host elsewhere

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      1 year ago

      I’m not even sure it is bad policies. I am pretty sure that they just don’t have moderators.

      I doubt anyone reads 99.9% of reports.

      So you get bigotry and hate, you get insane and deadly DIYs, you get 12yo girls being creeped while posting random 5s clips from their lives.

      Not to mention just the vast amount of extraordinarily low-quality content YouTube serves up. It’s amazing how bad a lot of the videos it thinks you will like are. The algorithm makes no sense.

      But hey, here’s 16 different Joe Rogan clips with sigma male music in the background.

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      1 year ago

      This Shorts issue seems to have measurable, constant and immediate effect in ad revenue and therefore platform profitability. Bad content moderation may or may not decrease engagement but in the end Google is a commercial enterprise that’s looking at the numbers at hand.