I know nothing about how YT works. How is 20 million shorts views in 90 days a viable number? That seems ridiculous.
I guess they'll keep pushing it till the line starts going down.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2026
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Pichai you fucking banchode.
There is way too much obvious AI channels on youtube. I encountered them because I like football. A football youtuber called Vizeh did a video about this issue. It is very exhausting to browse youtube this way. I am sick and tired of it.
I like the animated stuff like monkey wrench and lackadaisy and and my stories and the science and engineering videos and the sovcit public meltdown vids. I’m not sure where else to go for those. I don’t think I find as much on nebula and I’ve heard peer tube kinda has a never-grew-up vibe to it.
And they will continue to bleed talent for every ounce of value they can, just like the record industry, the movie and tv industry, the book industry, the video game industry, enshitification is an emergent property of a degree of value extraction.
Consistently one of the worst paying social media services and not exactly in a generous market.
For a second, I thought this required creators to watch 8000 hours of videos, and felt relief.
It would at least throw up an obstacle for bot/spam accounts. They’d have to make the effort of watching a bunch of videos.
…But no.