What exactly caused this?

>>105879495 (OP)
Cherrypicked examples from the past + you are 16 years older now

>>105879495 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwORzQxAXmU

>>105879495 (OP)
jews

>>105879495 (OP)
Shane Fagson and Gay William Johnson started making videos in 2008 retard

>>105879495 (OP)
>What exactly caused this?
Money.

This happens once things get taken serious once there's lots of money involved.
No one took Youtube serious in the 00s.

>>105879551
Holy, the feels

you couldn't upload 2 hour vids back in the day
it was like 10 mins max, then 15, then partner accounts got up to an hour

also having a long youtube video open on your smartphone just to listen to some fag talking while you're doing chores wasn't really a thing back then, but people can't seem to live without it now

>>105879789
>having a long youtube video open on your smartphone just to listen to some fag talking while you're doing chores
why would i do that instead of being alone with my own creative problem-solving thoughts

>>105879495 (OP)
It was a change in the demographics of two groups: the people working at the company and the people viewing the videos. The change in one caused the other to change, the diarrhea produced by one fed the other like a circular human centipede.

>>105879495 (OP)
episode 2 is out
https://youtu.be/x9J2A5I1P4o
https://youtu.be/Cbf9CwwBybw

Grow the fuck up and stop being such a manchild with rose tinted glasses you reatarded millenial

it was worse back then

>>105881822
This. It was a real nightmare for trans folks. Let alone LGBTQP+

>>105879495 (OP)
half of the shit on the left is substantially older than 2009 and wasnt from youtube, zoomer

>>105881829
no? it was fucking unfunny back then and only stupid boomers laugh at the shit

You control your recommendations.

>>105879495 (OP)
newfags, newfags caused it

>>105879495 (OP)
Monetisation
>>105879516
It's not cherrypicked, the kind of videos in the right of that image simply didn't exist back then

>>105879495 (OP)

Back in the day, it was just us, a bunch of creative, white autistic teens in our own little circle jerk of madness.

I still remember how, at some point, we managed to make the "Re: DragonForce" video one of the most replied-to threads on all of YouTube.

Our parents and normalfags (who are now smartphone zombies, the same ones who used to tell us "don’t spend so much time on screens"), they weren’t part of it.

Enshittification happened once they got smartphones.

>>105879495 (OP)
People don't remember this, but there was genuinely a big backlash when YouTube first started testing out running ads before videos. People were genuinely afraid of the profit incentive turning it into cable TV... and they were right.

>>105879495 (OP)
anon those are all ytmnds and flash videos illegally recorded into mp4 and uploaded to youtube without the authors' consent

Monetization

>>105879618
>No one took Youtube serious in the 00s.
Bad zoomer take

>>105879495 (OP)
Nyan Cat didn't appear until 2011.

>>105879495 (OP)
the 10 minute rule

>>105883161
Half right: Youtube can barely make a profit since nobody actually wants to watch ads, hence all of Google's increasingly baroque attempts to disable ad blockers on Chrome which only serve to bleed their Chrome users away.

>>105879495 (OP)
just don't watch youtubers who show themselves talking.

>>105881822
shitskin

>>105881972
>he doesn't remember the webcam rant channels
Still, those guys were a lot more fun than nu-youtube faggots.

>>105879495 (OP)
I've been working as a video editor for the last decade -- the decline of YouTube is to be blamed on monetization and the serialization of content.
If your goal is to become a full-time YouTuber your only option is creating easily watchable and serialized content.
Anything with creativity takes too long to produce in a time frame proportional to the earnings.
And of course, because YouTube wants to make money they promote serialized content that consistently brings in views.
The worst decision YouTube has made as of late was promoting the home page above subscriptions, but that was necessary to keep viewers on the site longer.

>>105883977
What kind of freak uses a double dash in a comment? Or is this a bot post? Regardless, this explanation is the one that makes most sense.

>>105884054
It's called an em dash retard -- they were apart of our grammar long before LLMs.

Revisionism. Youtube has always had a lot of youtubers filming themselves talking

>>105881972
>the kind of videos in the right of that image simply didn't exist back then
Would you like to try again?

>>105879516
This.

>>105879495 (OP)
I don't really watch YouTube

>>105879495 (OP)
People complaining about things being "problematic", "cringe", and Zoomers wanting to go with the flow too much.

>>105884389
>Revisionism. Youtube has always had a lot of youtubers filming themselves talking
Yes and it was always those youtubers you better avoided.

>>105879974
i always feel like i am going to miss out on something if i don't have something playing. so much news and channels to keep up on.

>>105879516
tactical trvke

>>105881829
>nobody:
>poltard: TRANNIES

>>105884103
An em dash is a single character. You posted two hypens.
Not only do you look like a moron for larping as a pretentious writer, even notoriously shitty AI does knows the difference better than you.

>>105879495 (OP)
Just Have A Think is based

>>105882033
All three suck, they just don't have the start power face. They all look like they came off the fucking street.

>>105879495 (OP)
Wasn't talking heads considered bad style on tv by the 90s?

>>105885048
>t. troon

>>105879495 (OP)
>bringing up based Patrick, he who explains financial kikery to the common pleb, like it's a bad thing
glowpost

>>105879592
This, particularly shit like
>Algorithm rewarding open mouthed soifacing thumbnails
>Algorithm rewarding everything being over 10 to 30 minutes, so something that could be summed up in 3 minutes gets redundantly run into the ground for 30
and on and on. Things have gotten even worse beyond just YouTube too, notably Tiktok is the biggest issue - there is a hypothesis that that latest garbage Pixar film is shot with everything in the exact center of screen (forgetting the rule of 3rds and other simple filmmaking concepts going back a century) specifically to cater to things being clipped for Tiktok. Hell, the massive ADHD-ifying of everything being cut into tiny videos and how Youtube and others do Shorts and Reels and all the other garbage was one of the first casualties of Tiktok's success There's also stuff like things being designed to be
>Second screen content
where on YT or even Netflix or whatever every character does an exposition dump and tells instead of shows because the presumption is the viewer has it on in the background while doomscrolling their phone or fucking around online, so they're not really paying attention to the movie, show, or other content on YouTube.

None of this was some natural progression of content, it was specifically encouraged by the way social media companies, advertising, data mining etc...behind the media hosting fronts decided to provided financial and viewership incentives.

>>105879551
What have they taken from us! Fuck the modern internet.

>>105879495 (OP)
But youtube also has brainrot shit today? Like the AI "Bombarino" memes

>>105885292
Yes, an em dash is a single character. I don't have it mapped to a keybind on my machine, so I'm typing it as you would on a typewriter -- which is the correct way to write them in plain text.

>>105879495 (OP)
jews

>>105879495 (OP)
>The clients get older
>YouTube is paid by Google
>YouTuber job is now a thing
>Most YouTubers only have their rooms and speak to random things of in internet
>YouTubers check trendings and learn how the human brain works to make people click
>YouTube split with YouTube kids
>Kids are now in TikTok
>You have nostalgia, like everyone else
>Vidéos back in the day was like retarded TikTok videos

nothing has changed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHrrBTj8hpE

>>105879495 (OP)
money and cellphones

>>105879495 (OP)
Jews.

Jewish people are managers to a certain set of youtubers and they have the inside info to "blow them up".

>>105879516
Lengthy YouTube videos that talk about nothing was not the norm back then.

>>105879495 (OP)
You can turn a boring video into a somewhat satisfying content for your audience by increasing its length. This will also trigger a sunk cost fallacy in your audience, making them more likely to remain loyal to your channel.

>>105879495 (OP)
jeet ceo

>>105879495 (OP)
someone make a version of this with tf2 on the left and tf2 on the right

>>105887936
lol acting like the people on the internet were not degens before 2007. i remember reading about some person fucking a dolphin in the 90s . in fact in the early 2000s before the iphoens there were flame wars between liberals/conservatives and athiests/ christians back then too.

>>105879551
After watching this I fell nothing but sadness

>>105888993
>le wacky dolphin story is equivalent to 2Billion jeets and AI hellscape of today

>>105888887
Youtube was limited to 10 minutes until 2010.

>>105879551
I want to go back

>>105879495 (OP)
For the first couple of years, there was a 10 minute limit to video uploads. (Apparently introduced in 2006 to curb unauthorized uploads of TV shows, but a long enough for SNL sketches.) Most of your 2009 column are converted flash animations, gifs, and viral web videos. The last one which generally had to be short since they were being served directly from web pages.

In 2010 the length cap was raised to 15 minutes. Longer for some users as the era of the "Youtuber" emerged. The tools and workflow got increasingly accessible to produce pretty-damn-good if not "professional" videos, and release it to the world. The traditional entertainment networks were no longer gatekeepers. And viewers got to decide who to make famous, no matter how unphotogenic or cringe.

>>105879789
>>105879974
>what is radio, or audio books, or the already nearly decade old medium, "podcasting."

>>105889279
>>In 2010 the length cap was raised to 15 minutes.
In July 2010, but half a year later they increased it further.
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/up-up-and-away-long-videos-for-more/

Videos under 10 minutes aren't monetized which led to low effort long form content

>>105889279
>tfw you'll never watch Naruto Episode 130 (2/3) every again

monetization killed creativity. people rely on youtube for their livelihood so it encourages quantity over quality, and when people get lazy it gets even worse. most people are cattle who will watch their daily e celeb video to waste 10 minutes, or the painfully empty "documentary". the youtube algorithm also favors this garbage because they make more money off it. The "creators" are add friendly and upload regularly.

>>105881794
agitprop bot