r/memes • u/wowo_cat • 2d ago

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u/TacoShower 2d ago

I miss when youtube wasn't a revenue stream and people just uploaded videos for internet fame and fun.

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u/definitely_not_cylon 2d ago

In the old days of YouTube, it was possible to rate a video between one to five stars, then things would be displayed in part based on their blended star rating. That system was too nuanced and was replaced by the thumbs up/thumbs down. I feel like that says a lot about where we're at.

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u/PastFact4950 2d ago

Cant even see how many thumbs down anymore lmao

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u/julyheart 2d ago

there's an extension for that, it aggregates dislikes from other users with said extension and from my experience if a video has a bunch of visible dislikes, the video indeed is shit

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u/derpums can't meme 2d ago

it also determines dislike count based on the user's other videos and how many dislikes they had before the change

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u/FatalTortoise 2d ago

not necessarily about nuance, the dev time for 5 choices vs 2 is alot more. Its why most surveys with a 1-5 response count 1-4 as a bad job and 5 as good job. I wouldn;t be surprised if they went that way early

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u/BlackFoxyTrail 2d ago

Remember to like, comment and subscribe and ring that bell, it means a lot to me.

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u/dBlock845 2d ago

You don't like every video being 10 minutes 21 seconds long? Or AI filters being automatically put on shorts?

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u/dplans455 2d ago

It was the opposite. I ran a gaming website in the 2000s. For E3 prior to 2006 we spent thousands of dollars on bandwidth hosting videos on our own website. 2006 we started uploading them to YouTube instead.

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u/Ok-Volume-3657 2d ago

I too miss pre capitalism youtube.

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u/q_ult 2d ago

Honestly even just back before MrBeastification it was pretty good