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That is correct. Though I guess that there aren’t more than 0.1% on yt that are “making it”. You just don’t see the vids that got 5 views since 2004 or the millions of ppl that so dread to be someone yet never gain traction.
And you know when exactly YouTube went total ape-shit? The moment people could earn some meager bucks. Then shitty content flooded the whole platform until it was full of crap and actual good content got harder and harder to find in that pile of “you might wanna see this” Nowadays i see the frontpage, sigh in disgust and close the page. And I haven’t even seen an ad there yet. This would be the cherry on top
You pay a scammer to scam you and wonder why you get scammed? Their course was clear the moment they ditched their slogan “don’t be evil”. And here we are, again.
As long as people are actually willing to get scammed (and boy did the threshold get low in the last decades), scammers will scam.
Or just don’t pay for this shit that sooner or later will win the race anyway, no matter how much “resistance” you’d show.
People buy a pile of rotting shit and then wonder why it stinks.
Your browser sends more data than you want it to. And if it’s a specific app you’re talking about, they can do whatever they want and spy you dry. There’s a reason every shitty shit wants you to install their app instead of just using their fucking webpage, which already sucks enough.
…concluded the “AI”
YT also has a “tiny, tiny fraction” of creators that make a living there. There are many, but there are also gargantuan numbers of people never going beyond a handfull views because they can’t reach their audience without paying or LUCK. No saying you’re wrong though.