Philip DeFranco Sick of Youtube

Grothesk's picture

Tired, Frustrated, But Also Excited

I've seen lots of videos on SpikedNation over the years predicting "the end" of Youtube, and I don't see it coming even now.  However, Philip DeFranco is moving into a brave new world of news-entertainment and he's leaving Youtube behind insomuch as it will no longer be his primary platform.  Youtube is in a pretty bad state and this is a sign of the times that they need to do a major overhaul.

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skeptoid's picture

Figured you might post this. It affects little tiny channels too - irritating. DeFranco wants to grow and he can't do that while YouTube's stupid algorithms are squeezing him down. By the time they approve the vid manually all the glam and glitter are gone. I mean, just from a business perspective, I'd have every single fucking one of Phil's vids - vids for any channel with more than 1 million subs - manually processed immediately until they figure out how to teach an A.I. about context. As of April 2016 there were 2000 channels with one million or more subs - I don't understand why YouTube's shareholders aren't demanding a resolution at this point. I mean isn't this a business after all?

 

Wouldn't it be more or less safe to just say "Any channel with over 1 million subs has proven itself and all vids will be approved and only reviewed if a complaint is received and only affected if that complaint has merit."? 

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acdc51502112's picture

" I don't understand why YouTube's shareholders aren't demanding a resolution at this point. I mean isn't this a business after all? "

 

because this is clearly what they want, CONTROL

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Pantysoaker's picture
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Eat a D, Philly D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBlm-ioCWH8

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Nakey's picture
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yeah, well if youtube keeps this shit up eventually bigger and bigger guns will seek another platform. if that platform gains momentum it will be like teamspeak vs discord, mumble, and ventrillo. oh youtube will always have users but so will the others.

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Mori's picture

I don't get it. I have a list of subscribed channels and once a day I go to my subscriptions page and I get updated. I look at all the new videos and watch what I want to (sometimes some channels will post videos I don't care about so I skip them). Once in a while I go on a spree and try to find new channels, end up watching some related videos, etc.

 

A successful channel has lots of subscriptions. So to me, all of these people, like myself, get the update video on their subscription lists and they either watch them or they don't. Sure, all the algorythms putting videos next to others and all that, will end up giving a video more views or will help get the channel to be discovered by new people, but the bulk are the subscribers and if you have millions of those, I don't see how that is a problem. The videos do not get hidden from the subscriptions page.

 

About the nannying from youtube, removing ads from everything, now that's the real issue. I don't get how youtube hasn't created an uncensored page of it's service. A place where people agree to some terms of services and agree to be shown anything from violence to sex. Us users, non-ultra-sensitive, non-millennials, non-feminists, non-religious do still exist you know and there's a bunch of us. I bet that millions and millions would 'subscribe' to such a place and if millions are using a service, guaranteed, you can bet that ads will want to be there.

 

As usual a very small minority gets to write the book of rules and because they're all ultra sensitive twats that can't have a child see a boob (or an adult for that matter) without getting offended, we keep on having all of this censorship everywhere. Well, god damn it!

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