X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad::undefined

  • 摆 烂@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Remember, when people made content just for the fun of it

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      9 months ago

      I do, and I miss it. What’s more I’ve never once seen a Mr beast video.

      Avoid the cruft, roll your own content and find smaller, individual communities like these tubes used to be a decade (or more) ago.

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        9 months ago

        I’ve had a much more enjoyable time on freetube because of this, actually. unlike youtube who feeds you content based on what makes them the most money, it tends to actually show you videos that are relevant to what you’re watching. whether it has millions of views or 100.

        it feels like the smaller communities are a little more warm and fun.

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      9 months ago

      There’s still plenty of people doing that. But their uploads will be inconsistent when they upload and quality. The views will also be low so YouTube’s algorithm won’t recommend it unless they pay to advertise.

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        9 months ago

        My YouTube recommendation page is full of channels with sub 100 subscribers. Because I actually watch them since I find those videos engaging for different reasons. I’d you actually watch small YouTube channels YouTube is more than happy to serve those channels to you.

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          9 months ago

          I do get sub 1000 view recommendations from YouTube but I don’t know if I would assume those creators haven’t paid any money. You can pay to push your videos to a small, very targeted, audience for fairly cheap.

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    9 months ago

    They can have him, I’m sick of seeing him show up in thumbnails on youtube.

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        9 months ago

        That smile is like how I look when I try to smile for a picture. I guess I don’t have the muscle controll. It looks weird as fuck just like that guy.