>>109189736
money

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i-is that a video of some sperg making a laser pointer!?
nononononon
not advertiser friendly!
banned!
banned!
banned!
(we're still showing ads, we're just not giving you a cut)
BTW, here's an ad.

right now they're doing the insane task of trying to quantify purely qualitative metrics like "satisfaction"

>>109189736
you get what you pay for

>>109189736
Adpocalypse

>>109189736
What does the "Nobody:" line even add here?
The image is complete without it.

>>109189736
its always been the picrel way anon

>>109189736
I quit YouTube for good .. now I only use Rumble to listen to Nick Fuentes and youporn

>>109190148
it's implying that nobody asked youtubers to do this
which is false, because youtubers get buried if they fail the humiliation ritual

>>109189736
Capitalism.

I will never understand posts on /g/ regarding youtube, like man, you control the shit that you click on, just don't click on slop, learn how to use your subscriptions and before/during:# in search.
YT is as shit as it's always been and you're blinded by nostalgia.

>>109190282
>like man, you control the shit that you click on, just don't click on slop
No, it doesn't that's not exactly how YouTube works.
>YT is as shit as it's always been and you're blinded by nostalgia.
Delusion. YouTube is better platform the before and that year before, every year it has been going worse. YouTube was last remotely "good" in 2013 then 2014 came and then it seriously has gone to shit.

>>109190160
>listen to Nick Fuentes
lmao

>>109189736
kek

>>109189736
People coined the concept of "influencer" and everything went downhill from there. Now nothing is genuine anymore because everyone is trying to get a piece of the cake by advertising 24/7

>>109190247
debtism

>>109189736
the bigger the blowjob face the bigger the money
tards are more likely to click on videos with basedface thumbnails

>>109189736
The same thing that happened to everything: popular kids discovered it.

>>109189736
They simply adapted to the meta that grabs normie attention - making retarded faces.

>>109189736
People stopped using it?

Rumble exists and everyone switched.

>>109190061
I pay for premium. How come I get AI slop?

>>109193779
Skill issue.

>>109189748
I've never sent someone money for opening their mouth in a youtube thumbnail. Is this a thing that normies do?

>>109194095
always asked myself the same thing...

>>109193743
>Everyone switched
lol

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>>109189748
FPBP
I miss when the Internet wasn't taken seriously.

>>109189736
Youtube has been shit since 2019
>you have to self censor in your videos to avoid getting demonetized
>way too many ads nowadays and they're longer ads too
>youtube does not allow you to say faggot or nigger in the comments anymore
>got rid of dislikes
>AI does moderation and gets to decide which video gets deleted or not from what I heard
>most youtubers are pretentious douchebags
>I don't like saying this word but there's too much AIslop on that website now
>youtube shorts are shit
>youtubers have to rely on sponsors because they don't get paid enough
Finding interesting videos on there is hard, the youtubers I use to watch became sell outs or became insane. There's more things to talk about like political censorship but I don't feel like talking about it.
Here's an ancient video I found on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbuVW1QbX1k
>>109190282
>YT is as shit as it's always been
You have no idea what you're talking about dude, Youtube was a fun website at one point.

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>>109194185
>search is fucked
>no sort by upload
>url code might only show video down below a page of unrelated trash
ads are (you) problem

>>109189736
Third-world children

>>109194216
Yeah that too, ad blocks on the internet are as essential as oxygen and water.

>>109189736
>>109194185
Steve1989MRE hasn't changed and is one of the final bastions of Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD_mNqc1JR0

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>>109194185
>way too many ads nowadays and they're longer ads too
You guys see ads ? I've never seen an ad on Youtube on my own computer in 20 years.

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>>109189736
>What happened to YouTube?
Brother.
This is been like this for 10 years now. It is known that onions faces make the algorithm turn good.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/onions-boy-face-basedjak

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>>109194278
This, but the recently added delay is so annoying that I have to force myself to quit that bullshit at some point.
It's just unusable at this point and the constant UI changes make it all worse.
BACK IN THE DAY the ui changed like once a year, now it feels like once a week

>>109194216
>ads are (you) problem
I still have this quote in my dropbox.

user@desktop:~/ $ cat Dropbox/ad-blocking
There is no such thing as "ad blocking". The web is a pull medium, not a push medium. I merely decline to request ads. - Anon

I am sad that I never made a screenshot of it. It was posted here on /g/ and I think screenshots of it existed, but i think there are hard to find now

>>109194315
Tell Twitch users not to request baked-in ads. Soon on Youtube, probably.

>>109194315
well said. in the old days I very happily used Lynx to browse the web. If someone coded a text-driven browser that could actually visually represent modern sites it could be really awesome. I'm talking a way to draw frames and have newer tech forms and such be represented on screen in a way that allows you to use them. Images and videos are easy to make clickable to "show" it is more of formatting and interactivity that needs to be addressed.

>>109189736
Did you just wake up from a coma that you entered in 2010?

>>109194335
>Soon on Youtube, probably.
I am just waiting for it really. I still wonder why they haven't done it yet, but that will be the point where I force myself to stop using it

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>>109194304
>now it feels like once a week
not just yt
6 gorillion doctoral graduates of mumbai itt tech need to justify their $9/day jobs by constantly fucking with everything

>>109194375
>not just yt
literally the reason why I finally quit spotify.
I am a bit thankful for them to fuck up the app so bad.
In like the last 2 months of using it so many gestures changed and buttons changed and then if I wanted to queue something by swiping it crashed the whole app and other shit.
Damn that was horrible.
I should've quit that shit so much earlier. If I only invested that money into buying music man. I could've had a whole library of alexandria by now

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>>109194395
>If I only invested that money into buying music
yar matey i hope ye dont do this

>>109194095
If you click the video and see an ad they make money, normies don't use adblockers

>>109194412
Actually right now just doing a backup for friends, because I found this by accident:
https://codeberg.org/tomkoid/yadal
The 10 bucks for this first months was a good investment.
I backed up my spotify playlists. gotta work through them step by step

I use dearrow.

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>>109193436
i have an account going back to 07 an only log in to occasionally post some to the point 3-5 minute unedited video on yt of an interesting mechanical oddity with a specific detailed title and description
they usually get under 50 total views and often cant find them with the native search
my geriatric pops watches yt on his boomoidvision by talking into the comcrap remote. he has 0 use for watching anything but overproduced crap with 3 million views the algo feeds him
the entire system is designed to suppress everything except mindless shit

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>>109189736
adsense
youtubers where incentivized to create low quality slop to get people to watch ads on there channel.
most of the problems the site has with content come from people trying to farm out viewers for ad money. Elsa gate and mr beast style videos would go away without adsense money.
end adsense fix youtube

I don’t watch any video where a person has been photoshopped into the thumbnail, if it’s a screencap it’s ok. Doing it this way I’ve been able to ween myself a bit from the jewish electric teat of youtube

>>109194565
the only way to find new shit worth watching is go through the comments on niche videos and click on users that make coherent replies and see what theyve posted. works best on older videos

>>109189825
You get ads?
What the fuck? I thought this was /g/ - Technology not /g/ - fucking retards
Damn.

I wish the sidebar would only show videos that are directly related or actually similar to the video I'm currently watching

>>109195029
>I thought this was /g/ - Technology not /g/ - fucking retards
Common mistake.

>>109190156
that surprise face BS thumbnail meme started around 2015-2016, it clearly wasn't a thing in early 2010s Youtube. They still had outline text and fancy backgrounds but not the surprise face or overt smile with thumbups/huge emojis.

If you go back before 2012 you see the blue background on white text YT thumbnails or generic title cards, with quality thumbnails that have effort being an exception. And if you go back further you realize in 2008 only professionals had thumbnails and normies had whatever frame youtube choose.

https://dearrow.ajay.app/
i'mma just leave this here

>>109189736
https://files.catbox.moe/9cqagn.mp4

>>109189736
Because the masses will click more on these stupid reactions and clickbait thumbnails

>>109196919
>https://ajay.app/
>Ajay Ramachandran
>Better Transit Ottawa
can't make this poo up

>>109197212
say what you will but he also made sponsorblock, what have you done to make youtube more tolerable?

>>109197238
I don't give views to poopoobers who have (((sponsors))) :)

>>109189736
algorithmic suggestions.
I remember when Ur home page used to be channels U subscribed to. NewPipe fixes this sufficiently for me tho.

>>109197252
sponsorblock does more than just sponsors, it can also be configured to skip over intros/outros/filler/interactions (shit like "if you like this video be sure to subscribe and hit the bell icon to get more videos like blah blah blah").

>>109197259
Not watching slop means I don't see any of that.

>>109189736
Rumble is better in every way, so people switched.

>>109197269
ok buddy. half the stuff i watch says they don't like doing things like interactions but that it helps with "the algorithm" so they're compelled to do it anyway

>>109189736
fuck I was just thinking recently that all the people in youtube thumbnails look exactly like the shocked cucks in cuckold pics when they find their wives sucking a huge bbc...

>>109197394
You sound like an expert on this topic.

>>109197292
Except when there's propaganda all over the front page and strange religious/snakeoil ads that keeps poppng up

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>>109189736
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>>109197394
Is this shit actually funny to you? You know I think I might need to go back to the forum scene at this point

>>109189736
The onions face attracts goyim clicks, highest ctr videos get priority. At some point ot becomes the industry standard

>>109193779
does your algo still suck nigger dicks?
they seemed to have downgraded mine to the point i feel like theyre just fucking with me.

the also nuked shorts into retardation after shilling it for so long

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>>109190282
>learn how to use before/during:# in search
No. I want to see the list of results in reverse chronological order. And that's gone.
Moreover, even the "popularity" sorting is still algorithmic instead of based on view count. There is currently no way to see search results without interference.

>>109189736
smartphones
children
greed

>>109190179
If nobody said nothing, then everybody said something. The exact opposite of what this shitty template is supposed to imply.
Anyone who uses this is officially below child-level grammar.

>>109197836
>attracts clicks
does it tho? we've never seen that data we just assume YT is doing the rational business thing. that's not a very good assumption.

it is important to note that YT survives on advertising revenue and retards are the best people to market to because you can trick them into buying stuff with ads. for this reason it is fine for them to lose the smart or savvy audience with bad thumbnails because they wouldn't buy anyway. The thumbnails filter out anyone who isn't a retard.

Advertising-funded platforms are the worst. The entire model is guaranteed to produce garbage. If someone made a different kind of platform you would not use it, and that is why this circumstance exists.

>>109189736
The onions face is psychological manipulation. They make the expression of the emotion they want you to feel, that gets the best dopamine response out of your brain. If you see a shocked face in the thumbnail you'll feel a faint shock that tricks your brain into thinking "I should check this out, this might be interesting" before your eyes even read the title of the video.

>>109199863
There's a classic fable of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" that speaks to this mechanism. The lesson is that if you abuse it you desensitize the observer and it will have negative consequences for you. Most people are apparently too stupid to understand this point.

In the context of YT it means the thumbnail effect you describe eventually turns into a negative indicator and people not only stop watching videos featuring it but start actively avoiding the site entirely because it is associated with these shock-scare images. The same happens here when the catalog is spammed with garbage images for threads.

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>>109200295
>The lesson is that if you abuse it you desensitize the observer
My question would be whether you can desensitize the lizard portion of your brain that responds to this. Is it just too deep down in there to really be affected one way or the other? What if they can keep spamming this shit forever?

>>109189736
>market research suggests that soifaces on thumbnails get more clicks

>>109193743
That's an insanely delusional statement. Be careful who you say that around or you might get committed to a psychiatric hospital.

>>109189736
Youtube is in the process of destroying their platform with deeply retarded algorythms, corp manipulation of views and placing in the feed, manipulation of numbers to silence and quiet ban creators, rampant RAMPANT content theft, and AI.
Pretty soon Youtube is going to be absolutely worthless. It kind of already is as a media platform.
Once everyone realizes that guys like logan paul and mr.beast are entirely fake popular and everyone else is expendable and will be robbed of their earnings by claiming the video violates terms it will be kind of fucked.

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>>109190148
i think it was just a way for twitter normies to signal a joke. i don't think it actually makes sense. more recently, "pov:" started being used for the same purpose.

>>109199438
>Anyone who uses this is officially below child-level grammar.
It's fucking youtube m8.

>>109194095
Unfortunately yes. It was popularized by Mr Beast. He literally crunched the numbers and saw that whenever he put a face like that in a thumbnail, it would get more views than one without it. Other YouTubers then copied it because they want to make as much money as him.

>>109201491
>It was popularized by Mr Beast
It was already a big thing long before, especially in any video targeting kids.
Some youtubers actually had to stop doing it (thankfully) after Mr Beast got popular because the association drove away their usual demographics

>>109189736
YouTube's content has always been garbage. It's always been letsplayers, vloggers, shitposts and clips of Family Guy. There's never been a standard to uphold so whether or not it's gotten 'worse' is irrelevant.
The software has gotten tangibly worse though. The website takes up 64 GB of RAM, the mobile app is a glitchy bloated mess, PiP only works sometimes and not others, they've consistently gotten rid of the few features people liked (e.g. top comments, dislikes, 5-star ratings visible before clicking, personalized channel CSS layouts, DMs, etc), and there's a fuckload of intrusive, mandatorily-viewed ads and even the quality of those ads has taken a nosedive. It used to be ads for, say, Progressive or perhaps a new movie that is coming out soon. Now it's AI-generated commercials go obvious scams and Temu garbage.

In short, money happened.

It's OK, though. TikTok, the hot new thing on the block, will expand and eventually usurp YouTube's position, and YouTube will go the way of MySpace. We just have to wait it out.
One thing's for certain given Google's and YouTube's conduct history: they won't learn a thing on their way out.

>>109189748
I hate advertisers. why haven’t they been sentenced to death for financing the degeneration of society?

>>109194185
>2019
lfmao

>>109189736
PewDiePie was actually the one to popularize the clickbait style of thumbnails that took over all of YouTube.
He started using them as satire btw

>>109200322
>desensitize to it
A strong-minded person can but the use of those images reveals that the content behind them after clicking into the video will be just as bad. The same people who can desensitize will figure this out, and get the same result.

Someone who is willing to use psychological response hijacks to get attention to their thumbnail is not going to do so in front of a video that is honest, thorough, and direct. The wise person quickly learns that you're not missing anything by ignoring the site. That is the risk to the platform - losing its sense of being essential to the user.

>>109207918
>The wise person quickly learns that you're not missing anything by ignoring the site. That is the risk to the platform - losing its sense of being essential to the user.
The wise are already using an adblocker. So the site losing them isn't an issue as far as YT is concerned. They might even celebrate it as their bandwidth isn't being wasted on "freeloaders."

>>109204487
That's when you could no longer be edgy on Youtube you retard.

>>109195029
>>109195070
nu/g/ is absolutely atrocious.
>"people" using windows
>shills shilling proprietary malware
>apple fanboying
>chrome users
What else am I forgetting?

>>109208807
the main purpose of youtube for google is to shut down other independent video hosting services from growing, not to make ad money