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Evolution of Dance (YouTube Most Watched, circa 2006)
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I think you're missing what I'm bemoaning. It's not "Youtube doesn't work". It's "Good viral content no longer exists" When this video or Charlie bit my finger got popular it got popular OUTSIDE of people who were searching for it. People got exposure to something unique fresh and new that wasn't something they always clicked on.
Now it feels like everyone is in their little echo chamber in youtube, which is great, I get to see SBNation, NumberPhile, Tom Scott, and Your Movie Sucks... and don't see Mr. Beast or PewdiePie, because that's what I choose to view.
But nothing spreads "Virally" any more because youtube feels like they locked down what people see to what they 100 percent know people want to see with no chance.
A bigger different problem with this is what happens on twitter and sites like that, where it reinforces bad mentalities. If you only look at alt-right or progressive videos, you start to ONLY see those, and you aren't getting a wealth of different opinion, you basically get a singular view of the world, because that's what you want to see. It'd be fine, but people start to think "What I see on social media is representative of the entire world." And that's the first step on a bad path.
Thank you for clarifying. I'll have to think about it, but at first blush, I'm completely in agreement with you.
Yeah, I mean you are perfectly able to say "I like modern Youtube." But I'm just nostalgic for when it wasn't oversaturated and there were global phenomena. Now there's so many special videos and memes for every group you pretty much can't keep up with it all so there's confusion when someone brings up something you're not a part of.