I feel like YouTube is forgetting what it is.

[Colin X]

Instead of being this hub for creativity and letting people express themselves, it’s clearly going more towards the safe side and becoming more like a TV network.


I get it from a business standpoint



But when the stars of your platform are speaking to their millions of followers almost weekly about how you’re fukkin up, it’s not a good look.

It’s trying to become this family friendly place where everything will be relationship/family vloggers, tech reviews and makeup artists.

 

[Genos]

Yeah, hopefully with the rise of VR/MR/AR there will be a new player who takes their place.

 

[AlainLocke]

The whole point of any for profit venture is to make money...which YouTube doesn't do.

The content creators aren't really important and were just used to bring in a following to sustain it until they get everything in place for their major coup.

YouTube currently has a following they don't want. YouTube wants people to use it like TV channel/Music Channel.

It doesn't want a bunch of people that go on there just to watch some Vlogger talk about sports or whatever...

Any streaming platform that is worth it's salt and interested in making money...is eventually gonna be consolidated into a multi-national enterprise used to create and spread content created by the big players such as Disney, Warner, Sony and Universal once they get big enough.

Basically YouTube doesn't care about content creators and their audiences...they are just a sacrifice.

 

[L&HH]

Youtube has not stopped anyone from being creative and expressing themselves. What Youtube has done is stopped serving ads to videos that their advertisers don't want their videos associated with. But, just because Youtube won't allow certain videos to be monetized doesn't mean the content still can't be created. Content creators need to figure out another way to monetize.

 

[Colin X]

Youtube has not stopped anyone from being creative and expressing themselves. What Youtube has done is stopped serving ads to videos that their advertisers don't want their videos associated with. But, just because Youtube won't allow certain videos to be monetized doesn't mean the content still can't be created. Content creators need to figure out another way to monetize.

Uhhh creative shyt cost money


By stopping or slowing down their flow of money they are indeed making it harder for those creators to make that content.

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

It’s becoming an official network/streaming platform. Already have YouTube red and they’ve been advertising YouTube tv. Even on my fire stick it says that on 1/8/18 YouTube won’t be on amazon so something must be up.

But on the real they ‘official’ channels and the ‘trying to go viral’ wave ruined it. It used to be very creative content and organic internet videos. It’s not the same anymore

 

[L&HH]

Uhhh creative shyt cost money


By stopping or slowing down their flow of money they are indeed making it harder for those creators to make that content.

But how is it Youtube's fault if Ford, Coca-Cola, McDonalds or whoever don't want their ads on offensive content?

If the content is that creative that people want to see it there's other ways for those creators to monetize. Through patreon, merch, or then can cut their own ad deals directly with advertisers like some people do with seat geek and put them natively in their videos.

Primitive Technology hasn't monetized a single video and maybe drops a video once a month and makes like $6000 a month via patreon.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

They better make a patreon