>>15771928>I'm just saying that there's no conspiracy like "Youtube hates anime",Then you are fighting some strawman created by the voices in your head.
Read my point: it doesn't mention any conspiracy just that what is going on is likely motivated by a deliberate but incompetent decision instead of by a technical accident that is too dificult to fix.
>And this is why I don't believe that this is deliberate.Because you assume competence on their part. I just showed an example of a company at very least as big (contemporarily) as Google hiring incompetent managers, making a series of dumb deliberate decisions and running the company and all of its products into the ground: Yahoo, under Marisa Meyer.
Stop assuming competence and accidents and start assuming general incompetence and, when things start going sideways, "cover your ass" and "hide the problem until you can leave" decision making.
Incidentally one of the biggest unforced errors by Youtube was "Youtube Kids" and the regulations around it and it didn't take any conspiracy, just a series of bad decisions
First part
>people found out about "Elsagate" (actually, about videos with imagery targetting kids but whose content was not appropriate)>same people found out very unsavory comments on videos featuring minors in situations like gym class, ballet, beaches and the sort>it started gaining traction to the point it started bothering advertisers Part 2
>Advertisers said "we're taking out ads away if you don't fix it">Politicians, likewise, said "look, there is tnis COPA law coming all the way back from Clinton days that we turn a blind eye">"but if this fuck up doesn't end we'll start enforcing it on your ass and it's a huge sum of money per violation and we know for a fact people under 13 use youtube: they're out own kids, it's us letting them"Then, here is what Youtube did
1) force content creators to declare their videos for kids or not for kids
2) tag videos that content creators did *NOT* declared as for kids as for kids based on "pattern recognition" by bots
3) hide likes, shares, comments, playlists on videos made for kids
4) mark accounts that watched videos marked as for kids as "kids account" (not even kidding, if you subscribe to a channel on a video marked as "for kids" you can't, for instance, "click the bell" with the explanation that kids accounts can't do that)
6) remove videos "for kids" from the regular video lists, suggestions, recommended
It was universally hated and criticized, it every once in a while fucks this or that creator and it most definitely won't make them any more money than if they had addressed the actual problem outline in the first part, the one that originated everything.
It was incompetent decision making and the effect look exactly like "a bug" (for instance, Haachama "Bitch made pasta" being tagged as "for kids") but it is **NOT** a bug. It was deliberate decision making and, more likely than not, this new CCV culling is too
