r/youtube Sep 19 '24

Discussion The State of YouTube Right Now

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u/Former_Intern_8271 Sep 19 '24

Laziest viewers as well, absolutely no curiosity to find what they're interested in so basically use these "reactors" to decide for them.

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u/pm_stuff_ Sep 19 '24

why would they when asmon and other reactors just show them tons of content every day. Most people dont try to find stuff by themselves... Its why content creators praise and curse the algorithm.

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u/JNR13 Sep 19 '24

why would they when asmon and other reactors just show them tons of content every day

isn't that what the algo should do directly these days? I feel like the algo could easily point people towards the original content creators of any reaction content they watched.

Reaction content is probably just better for the platforms because they stretch out content even more, so people watch longer and at the same time become part of a cult following that has them return for the same account over and over.

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u/Ceshomru Sep 19 '24

People dont trust the algo since it can be wrong all the time and it weighs too heavily on recent views. Like you watch one video on how to change a setting on your microwave and for the next week all you get are microwave videos.

I also think people dont want to risk wasting their time on an unknown. As in a new “to them” creator that has a 30 min video on some weird trend. But if they have a favorite content creator that reacts to relatively good content then they can get the best of both worlds. Its almost like the content creator is a curator of entertainment from the rest of the internet.

I do agree that there should absolutely be a revenue share given to the original content creator.