It's always going to be a arms race and usually the scrapers win anyway. I don't like it either but if you are posting on public Discord servers/channels, you have to expect it to be exploitable by third parties.

On-demand. So the person demanding it is giving it input, it asking it to help them create something from their ideas. Something they could then share with others.

They will never be able to do everything, it's a physical impossibility. Even a magical AI that required no power to operate a full tilt would run out of time before it could do "everything"

What gives you this idea? It's not that way today and AI won't change that, no matter what you think.

I've literally done this when I worked at restaurants in college. Guess what, 99% of the time the cheap asshole ordered something.

But your analogy is massively flawed anyway. No one is bringing their friends to Youtube, it's not some startup begging for users. And no one is going to leave Youtube because their friend throws a fit over his ad block not working anymore.

OK dumbass. Since you can't answer, I guess we will take that as you agree with my assessment.

The bubble is bursting. These days, you need about a million views per month, every month to have a career on YouTube that actually pays the bills. For one person. If someone else does the video editing for you, add their cost.

A million views equals $5k. The kids realise that as soon as they don't live at home anymore. Pretty much all big YouTubers theses days make their money from Patreon, merchandise or sponsors.

The algorithm is likely optimising not for your pleasure but for ad revenue.

I see a TON of what is essentially an entire video of product placement, thinly veiled as "10 kitchen gadgets you need to know" or "12 new must-have tech gadgets", probably because a year ago I clicked on one or two of those before realising that they're not really interesting tech news but just full-out advertisement.

It keeps doing that even after I've clicked a ton of them away as "not interested".

It also keeps recommending me old videos from my subscribed channels that I've already watched. WTF?

The algorithm is shit these days.

Revenue is a bullshit number. YT keeps its actual profits (which is the number that matters) a secret.

I should be more specific, though. I mean "dying" not in the immediate sense, that's why I said slowly and it'll be around for years to come. But the time where everyone wanted to be a YouTuber because it's easy money are over. You need over a million views per month, every month to make YouTube a viable career choice these days.

Lots of even big channels these days are largely and openly finances by Patreon or sponsors. That means that they are no longer tied to YouTube in any meaningful way. Which means the platform is now interchangeable and the moment a competitor appears with similar numbers of users, the content creators can move elsewhere.

I was there when the dot-com bubble burst (for some reason I hear that in the voice of Elrond in my head, despite it's not actually that long ago, anyway) - I saw first hand how quickly your entire business can disappear when your only leg is "I'm very popular and have lots of users". The first company I worked for went from "we're in the top three" to "we're a subsidiary of someone else and btw 90% of you can go" in a week.

Again, no.

I do realize that most advertisement these days is not a direct incentive to buy but brand marketing.

What do you think does it do to your brand imagine if your brand keeps pissing me off? My ex insisted on using YT for music over loudspeakers and to do that from her phone (no adblocker). I'm a man, but if for whatever reason I ever find it necessary to buy women's period products, I know which brand I absolutely for 100% will completely avoid.

How else would you calculate it? If I steal a car, they don't value it at the wholesale price of the raw materials used to manufacture the parts used to manufacture the car, they value it at what it would have sold for at retail. Theft of services works the same way.

Guess who.... Didn't read the entire summary?

Great, then do that. Don't wait, do it now. Go on.

Subscribe to channels you like, and skip the front page, go to your subscription page by default. Not only will this feed you content you want, it will train the algo to server you better suggestions when you do go to the home page since you will be watching mostly videos you already like.

Even if there was, do you think it would be free with no ads? That is impossible. They would have the same issues.

No, that isn't how it works. This isn't TV. They get paid for ad impressions not by viewer ratings. No ad served, no money. The lower the number of ads that are served, the less attractive the platform is to the advertisers.

Hahahahahahahahahaha WOW the fucking ego. Are you really that deluded? No, it does not make it more valuable. You're a leach on the system. Your views have no value to Google because they have no value to advertisers who pay the bills. You dilute their profits on a per-hour-viewed basis. Your other interactions on the platform do nothing for Youtube.