"Why is YouTube going all about promoting content? I thought YouTube was a video sharing site."
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Why, yes it is.
It IS a video sharing website. A website to share videos. You know, through the site, sharing the video... you know like vlogbrothers and brotherhood 2.0 which was about communicating in YouTube videos. Through you know... Subscriptions or VIDEO RESPONSES...!
You know... sharing video in the internet. You know, a video sharing website. Website of sharing videos... you know, video which are shared through the internet in a nice convenient way. You know, sharing videos... not using other media to share video to people who want to see them because it's a VIDEO SHARING WEBSITE.
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Sorry. Just... Video website. Of sharing. of web videos. Video on the internet. To people who might want to see them. Videos. You know to people. Sharing Videos. YouTube.
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So.... Anyway... (moment of recollection) I was watching through the videos of this topic and people pointed out (like Kevin, are you watching this?) that YouTube want us to be a consumer of video and not wanting people to make videos. You know. Creating content...
ANd... if you remember back in the old days when YouTube was a video sharing website.... still is, I'm afraid. Anyway, you might seen a motto of YouTube on the bottom of the logo... you remember it, right?
Right?
Come on, say it. Broad...broadcast yourself. Broadcasting to other people. Sharing things. Making it public. And not hidden from algorithm and such....
Yourself... you know what you're feeling, what are you doing.... what do you want to show... to us. The people. Who want to watch videos. Oh yay. Video for you to watch.
MAKING CONTENT! That's what YouTube was for. To create content and sharing to the world. Isn't that simple way to do things?
I remember when back in 2009 when YouTube was rehauling its format to appear more like Hulu and other competitors, and that was such a backlash that YouTube decided not to do it.
I remember the song.
"Oh why, why am I even surprised
Maybe YouTube can be Hulu
And avoid its demise
But if it comes at the cost of the little guys
then I think that I might say my goodbyes
I think that I might say my goodbyes"
(Repeat chorus)
When now... we're just. frog in a pot.
You know the metaphor. When you put a frog in a cool pot of water and you heat it up real high, the frog will sense it's hot and jump out of the pot.
But when the heat is applied ever so slightly, and the temperature rises just a little bit every time. The frog will stay there and just simmer and die.
That is what we are. YouTube had slowly turned this place to the Hulutube we loathe and we don't even recognize it. We're just frog in a pot. Just simmering and dying.
There is some people who want to start making a new website for old YouTube goers like us who like to watch content and share it with other people. You know, create a community and we know the technology is there.We can embed videos quite easily and we can make other features work too and we're just starting to create a concept, I was getting excited, but this thought ran in my mind.
Why didn't we do this earlier? Why didn't we do this in 2010 or 2011 when the pot was lukewarm, not barely boiling!...
I don't have the strength anymore. I feel like I'm just going to perish and die in this incredibly hot water. We don't know if we can make the jump... but if we can, we must try. We must jump.
New website: frogoutofthepot.com. (Huh? What you think?)
(We thought making YouTube studios and doing nextup was great for our community. But now i realized it was trying to make content in higher quality so the people can't climb any higher. Those new people will be daunted and don't want to climb the building.)
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