Also, good riddance, MatPat?

No, but seriously, it's getting annoying.

This is like the 2000s all over again!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    You've watched so many "I'm leaving youtube" videos on Youtube that now the algorithm thinks you like to watch "I'm leaving Youtube" videos and is recommending them all to you

    • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    8 months ago

    It's just becoming impossible to make quality content at the scale and tempo required to keep up with all the ridiculously low effort content that those content creators shit out. You can't make a career out of high quality content without making money on it, and YouTube does not incentivize quality content, so we'll be seeing more and more of this going forward.

        • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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          8 months ago

          That's what everyone is calling it but it's basically a byproduct of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall while also being an analog for it.

        • doleo@lemmy.one
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          8 months ago

          You’re probably right, I just thought that was a catch all term being used for basically everything, lately.

          • Raebxeh
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            8 months ago

            It actually has a specific meaning and is used in academic literature now. Here’s a quote from Cory Doctorow’s Wired article on the subject:

            Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

            I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

          • nohaybanda [he/him]
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            8 months ago

            It’s basically the same economic mechanisms producing similar results across many industries. Makes sense to use the same term

            shrug-outta-hecks

  • buh [any]
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    8 months ago

    Nobody wants to work anymore

  • davel [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    One does not simply walk out of social media. One must declare it and then respond to the responses.

    You can say you’re checking out any time you like, but you can never leave.

  • regul [any]
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    8 months ago

    I assume something about the pay structure has changed.

    • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      its just matpat stepping away, the team will countinue without him from what i read

  • KittyBobo [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    Damn, the last time I saw this dude's face his was a smooth skinned baby, he's a damn man now. Max Payne lookin motherfucker. His videos were obnoxious but he didn't seem like a bad guy, hope he's doing okay.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Is it some enshittification thing? I'm not a content creator so idk if even youtubers are feeling the pain of enshittification and found an alternative.

    If so, I'd love to know this new frontier and try to carve out a space of my own.

  • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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    8 months ago

    the internet is changing, and they've been at this for 10-15 years. They can try to adapt or retire/move on to something else. Tom Scott did what he wanted, still has projects going, and is slowing down. Matpat has a family and made bank, why learn new tricks when he could settle down?

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Every time I notice something on YouTube, mancarryingthing has posted a vid like 2 hours ago about it.

    Case in point https://youtu.be/aUTnZwisOR0?si=ck2oVCLR-AZ1My7I

    This is seriously freaky

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    There's also being harassed off the internet by bigots, like JoCat

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        It's a whole thing, just search "Jocat" and you'll find the drama

        • voight [he/him, any]
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          8 months ago

          I love it when straight guys who can't go a single conversation without mentioning anime and video games tell me about how my trans fem friends are silencing trans voices.

        • voight [he/him, any]
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          edit-2
          8 months ago

          Oh you mean the guy who tried to imply Hesse was harassing him after getting a well-liked post making fun of a song of his that didn't even link, just presented it out of context as a dumb cartoon.

          Then revealed after creating said shitstorm the harassment had been due to unrelated stuff months prior.

          • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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            8 months ago

            Oh, I didn't know about all that. I just heard that there was some song he made and people used that as an excuse to harass him. I haven't kept up since then.

            • voight [he/him, any]
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              8 months ago

              I'm just especially bitter since I openly called my shot here about it, but that's nothing to be proud of realistically I'm just unhinged.

        • ItsPequod [he/him]
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          edit-2
          8 months ago

          No I know I'm just confused since that's like, all wrong lol.

          Edit: on re-reading I think I misunderstood what you meant in the first place, carry on

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, I've noticed it too. I wonder if some of the channels that bailed on Unity after the debacle showed promising view numbers on their videos and have elevated those keywords on metric sites.

    • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      8 months ago

      Honestly, the YouTube algorithms were showing me interesting channels and ones that were small (which is how I like it).

      Now?

      All the sudden, I'm seeing weird shit like this, but maybe it's a passing thing, idk

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
        ·
        8 months ago

        Might wanna go through your view history for the past few weeks. Maybe something here slipped through or if you have autoplay enabled something might've been playing for too long.