What irks me most is the kids content. That should have been a separate site altogether and it's ridiculous that 'non-kids' content gets more strictly regulated for fear they might hear a swear word. Especially considering how much weird shit gets pushed at kids intentionally that youtube doesn't appear to care about (looking at you elsa-gate).

No demonetisation? The REAL old YouTube didn't have monetization to begin with!

The only way we'll get Peertube mass-adopted is by monetizing is it

P.S monetisation != ads

I weirdly get some videos recommended to my by very small channels (like 30-60 views per video). I asked several people around me but none of them seem to be getting that kind of recommendations.

it recommends things that you'd watch, here's some videos from my recommendations:

are you only looking for videos via the trending tab?

though most of the other points are valid, I just wanted to point this one out because it seems obviously wrong, I remember that I used to never see low-view videos when I first used youtube

My only problem with this is that YT Shorts aren't a shitty TikTok clone because TikTok was the worst possible version of Vines.

TikTok was malice incarnate. It was made to be a weapon.

Youtube has been recommending me some videos with small amounts of views lately so that might have changed something with the algorithm

if this meme didn't mention tiktok i would guess it was from 2017. who even talks about elsagate anymore?

also anecdotal but personally i would say the visibility of small channels have gone way up these past few years. the amount of videos with very low view counts i see in my feed has gone from basically non existent to half of my recommendations.

The YouTube kids app is so incredibly useless in order to comply with government regulations that all our kids use our accounts. Which also sucks.

Don't forget that half of old youtube was rickrolling

When being a youtuber became a job rather than a hobby

Tobuscus

Guessing by kids we're talking about young children and not teenagers because old YouTube was practically made for teenagers. The more popular layouts people used back then often had the same aesthetic as myspace pages. There was more gaming content on the site than anything else, followed by viral vids (=3).

There's a lot to dislike about the modern structure of the platform but as a grown adult I appreciate that there's a much larger variety of content now which was essentially what the shift in design was supposed to achieve.