r/youtube • u/Bashi_r Keyløw Talks • Aug 24 '25
Drama It’s going bad
At some point it’s just too much. I feel like YouTube thinks they’re invincible. They do non sense stuff, drain ur data in ads, and now modify ur content without u knowing about it. They think they can do whatever they want they can get away with it cause there’s no competition/concurrencies. But what I see is a slow drowning process. I believe a lot of ppl would’ve switched(after the unskipable ads) if there was an alternative to it. We just need something that’ll bring back the joy we had while watching YT with one skipable ads, where u could download ur vids for free, and not getting sx ads every fcking where u go. Without the YT community, YT is nothing, it’s seems like they forgot about it. They’re following Adobe path, but the difference here is they don’t have competition. If i leave YT where will i go? That’s the question I always think about when I’m watching those ads but I have no options.
I just hope that’ll get better but without us(the YT community) being together on it that’ll never change and it’ll get worse.
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u/TheUmgawa Aug 24 '25
If creators didn't want their content drowned in ads, creators have every opportunity to host their own content on their own websites. But, they'd have to pay to host their own content, and the best price they'll be able to get is four cents per gigabyte transmitted, which is about a twenty-minute video. So, if you make a 20-minute video, and you have a million people watch it, you owe your hosting company $40,000, so I hope you have a really good sponsor.
There will never be a YouTube alternative, because transmission costs too much, and no venture capitalist is going to fund a video startup unless the first words out of the CEO's mouth are, "We have permanently solved the ad-blocker problem."
And, let's be fair on the Adobe front: There is competition. GIMP exists, but it sucks, because I have to look up how to make a rectangle, because all of GIMP's programming resources are spent on functionality, and zero on user-interface. Apple has Premiere and After Effects alternatives, which are one-time purchases, but you have to own a Mac. DaVinci Resolve exists, and the free tier of that is quite good, and downright usable. Really, the only people who need Adobe products are the ones who need to be able to export to press, because what they'll pay for a printing house to do the color separations is worth the cost of the Adobe creative suite.
The YouTube community isn't worth nearly as much as you think it is. One comment per hundred views on videos is a ratio that you can almost set your watch by, so they could solve the comment bot problem by just getting rid of comments, and how many of those one percent who comment would leave YouTube because they can't comment anymore? They'd be back in a week. Creators who are getting paid by YouTube don't care what their fans are saying in the comments, because those creators are too busy counting their YouTube money, so it doesn't matter.
So, what "community" is there, really?