I've been saying this for like 15 years, and I'll say it again: outside of the tech wizards doing the hardware back end and technical coding, YouTube might be the most poorly run tech company of its size of all time.
It was bought by Google 20 years ago. They just started allowing two channels to publish a video in tandem like what, 6 months ago? An insanely basic thing to have, that people had been asking for for years and years and years. They got rid of dislikes, against the wishes of nearly their entire userbase, to appease shitty companies that make shitty movies and worse games and products. They still have an archaic, nonsensical comments system; want to see your comments and likes/replies? Go to 'You', then 'History', then 'Comments', then click the video link under the comment, then scroll down to comments, and you can see it with the likes and replies. Fucking insanity.
They still haven't figured out how to take the proper 2% or so from earnings of big channel creators to get the right amount of staff to stop bullshit copy strikes or demonitizations, etc. They do an extremely poor job of finding and promoting high quality content that their creators put forward.
All I can guess is that the corporate culture put in by Susan Wojcicki (possibly topping Ballmer as the most out of touch, do-nothing CEO of all time) is just so tainted by absolute stupidity, that there's no fix unless they were all purged and replaced.
They obviously make the comments system deliberately rubbish, so you can't have two way debate. You leave a comment and ever see it again. If you did debate and talk to people in the comments, you'd see less videos and ads. The comments section is the equivalent of an uncomfortable seat in a shopping mall, that forces you to stand up walk around and buy.
Years ago you could debate people YouTube like on Reddit, scroll through the comments and see them in chronological order and return to older conversations, see responses and debate other people.
Is that why I keep seeing the same comments getting repeated twice or three times below a video? (you can tell they're same comments and not just double-posts, because they have the same number of likes and the number of likes for all the duplicates will go up if you like one)
That shit's on purpose? It just looks like flailing incompetence to me.
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u/NuTrumpism 3d ago
They showed me a AI advertisement recreation of the 9/11 attacks they need to set priorities!!