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Funkydog posted...

I never denied youtube does what it does for the advertisers benefit. Nothing it does is to help the viewer or creator, but if creators want to maintain a platform and income, they have to do what they have to do. Only a lucky few can defy this with how youtube has purposely built themselves.

And the real solution is to just watch the millions of other content creators who don't do what you think is an utterly unforgiveable sin. And if a five second "like and subscribe etc." at the end of a video really bothers you then I dunno, that sounds like a you problem. I manage to just ignore it from the ones I watch that do it. Several do shitty clickbaity thumbnails, but then I'm not sure I pay any attention to the thumbnail of those I'm subscribed to anyway as they aren't targeted to subscribers, but the algorithm and getting new people to click. And their content doesn't reflect the clickbait thumbnail, as those that maintain that idiocy into their videos are pretty awful, I agree.

That might as well be a me problem. I dislike that it's a me problem and that people are so excited to watch ads and be boxed into a narrow range of recommendations with the occasional random algorithm-boosted video thrown in but seeing people stick up for it like this leaves a bad taste and I feel like I should say something at least.

Going looking for new Youtube content is usually a fruitless endeavour and you're going to be sifting through a lot of the same glorified spammers and so it's gotten very rare that I'll find a new channel I actually like. I do like to go looking for new music occasionally but other than that I'm mostly carried by the fact I've been on the site long enough to just remember a pretty large volume of users and videos that I can go check in on.
I miss old Youtube when its old favorite game "Ah fuck where'd they hide the new comment notification this time?" was the biggest irritation you had to contend with.