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On the creator side, YouTube won’t monetize you until you have 1000 subs.

Which means the person that put up 1 video with a massive amount of views will get squat (but Google will gladly put in ads and take a 100% cut).

Protip: subscribe to creators that post useful but not very subscribeable videos. Sucks for creators that put up videos that don’t really relate to eachother.

Dunno why everything has to be a “channel”. That’s what search is supposed to be for.

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> but that's not all they optimize for.

They must do this as a global level, not an individual level.

I've never noticed a single one of those awful algo-driven apps notice that I never watch short videos and in fact I often force quit the app the second they feed me trash I don't want to see.

And they keep doing it.

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There’s a bunch of websites where I’ve declined to install their app about 74747627282 times in a row and… tomorrow they’re still going to think they can nudge me into it.
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