shanen's Journal: Are cute animal videos valuable?

Just asking for a friend who said the main purpose of today's Internet is to share videos of kittens doing cute stuff. My videos are mostly ducklings and prairie dogs and some other animals.

So the minor problem is that over the years I have accumulated a lot of them and my storage on google is getting full. But the major problem is that over that time I have become ever more loathe to even consider "donating" any actual money towards the google's greater glorious profits.

Therefore I'm contemplating mass videocide. Just mass extermination of the videos in question. Clearly the quickest and easiest way to get rid of the nagging ads for "cheap" storage on an eternal contract. Okay, not eternal, but until someone cleans up enough of my estate to cut off the credit cards, though I wouldn't be surprised if the google devises some more persistent link to my assets... (That's the kind of FinTech "innovation" I would expect from today's google. Some kind of "living trust" that lets the google inherit part of my estate... Have I just shared another terrible idea? As if the google doesn't have too many already?)

I have already deleted several years of photos, but those photos weren't that big. However the sad part is that the significant parts of those photos were tiny and could have been condensed (with AI help and my supervision). You see, I'm also foolish enough to be a top reviewer for Google Maps and along the way I accumulated a lot of images of restaurant menus that could have been mined for the historical data, especially for local prices and their changes, but too late now. (The main map of Google Maps should be the rooms for improvement, but I want to stay with the "valuable topic" of cute animal videos...)

I actually think there should be negotiating room for the preservation of cute animal videos. But I'm just going to follow the AI buzz and say "Think of all the training data for video cuteness." Most obviously (but I have a bunch of other thoughts), I could do the fabulous A/B testing the google loves so much to evaluate the cuteness of video pairs while checking my videos are not invading my privacy and then allowing most of them to be shared. Next step is comparing my cute videos with other people's cute videos (and vice versa) to develop broader metrics of cuteness in the eyes of many viewers. Also the ears of the listeners, since the prairie dogs bark so cutely on some of those videos.

Maybe someone around here knows of a website that offers something like this? If it isn't too much hassle to move the videos over there, then maybe I can avoid the convenient videocide? But time is running out and I'm SOOOO tired of the nagging. (I'm sure tempted to say more on this aspect, but... Suffice it to say that nagging is not a sales tactic I want to encourage.)

Oh yeah. One more thing. I sincerely tried to suggest various alternatives to the google, but the main evolutionary trend of the google is clearly towards ever greater contempt for the piss-ant human victims like you and me. The goal of the google is to find the smallest possible number of shoe boxes to cram us into. Just too bad I think each human deserves a special shoe box? (My own philosophic problem, neh?)

What does videocide mean?

[shanen]

Eh? Now the spelling check has decided that videocide is problematic after all? Were my eyes napping before? Eh and double eh?