I actually cannot believe the padded room universe YouTube wants us to live in
Vids have been removed for years, demonetized for years, sometimes based on political ideology, sometimes their own brain dead policies (“not allowed to contradict WHO”)
The word suicide is often censored and I guess they’ve been known to remove old war footage
The recommendations are absolutely fucking terrible and asinine, not only often lowest common denominator but the same things you’ve seen and also just spread across so many subjects other than what you’re currently watching
It is fucking wild, as someone who saw firsthand the first few years of YouTube (however that being said their copyright process went above and beyond what was required and they’ve also been politically motivated for quite a while; I believe they ended up effectively taking Scientology‘s side against anon)
Google is either the world’s stupidest fuckass most incompetent company or they do these kinds of things on purpose (I remember sensitive footage from Waco getting removed right around the time Google bought YouTube, what if goog really is deep state?)
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Implicated in all this too is the proliferation of advertising and that’s not a coincidence
Not only the ads themselves but removing dislikes to placate advertisers