Why We Need to Make Time for More Videos
MY wife celebrates her birthday in exactly 4 weeks, so today I started organising decorations and assembling foods for a party. But I also decided to put greater effort (and time) into regularly recording videos, so today I'll record at least 4.
Seeing the mess that goes on at YouTube (aside from Russia suppressing connections to it after they had wrestled for years; same for Wikipedia) we probably have a good opportunity to make our own impact independently (from GAFAM).
Videos are neither out of style nor have fallen out of grace/fashion; it's YouTube that's becoming worse (forcing ads, bloat, and encouraging low-quality "shorts" to compete with TikTok). Internally we've long debated the rapid decline/demise/scarcity of worthwhile new "content" in YouTube. It's just so full of garbage, some of it computer-generated if not entirely automated, that it's hardly surprising YouTube had mass layoffs (when curation is needed most, not least). Over the next 5 years we'll probably see considerable "market share" erosion there (YouTube loses money and cannot 'incentivise' so-called 'creators' anymore) and all those people who invested in getting YouTube subscribers will either lose their platform or what's left of their "audience".
YouTubers really ought to protest what Alphabet has been doing to that platform in recent years (or what has sadly become of it), but if they complain in Google/YouTube they can be penalised, e.g. shadowbanned, demonetised and even suspended by their covert "boss" (Google shareholders). In other words, as long as they continue uploading to YouTube they will lack the independence or the liberty to speak freely. █
