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YouTube is really weird, the whole reason I go there is to watch people who don't have TV shows. If YouTube turns into Jimmy Fallon clips, then why even have the website?

YouTube is being tempted by corporate money to turn it into another TV channel. But as soon as the only good content you can get is made by NBC or CBS, then why would people go to YouTube?

It's amazing that they seem to promote these TV shows when their own creators get pushed to the side. I mean, talk about bad business.

They should have the Jimmy Fallons on youtube, but why wouldn't you push your own creators? That's what makes youtube unique.

The small Youtube creators are the ones that should be protector and promoted by Youtube and it seems like it is the opposite. They are ones hurt the most by these changes to youtube's systems. It's like youtube just wants them to leave.

Look at how they treated their #1 overall channel. He freaking left for Twitch. Are you kidding me?



"Look at how they treated their #1 overall channel. He freaking left for Twitch. Are you kidding me?"

I'm a bit ignorant of both the YouTube and Twitch scenes. Who are you referring to?


Presumably Pewdiepie (the largest channel by subscribers), but he's very much still posting to YouTube. Not sure what that's about.

Twitch, incidentally, banned IcePoseidon because he was doing IRL streams and attracting too much attention (getting threatened with guns) who moved to YouTube's streaming format.

Twitch and YouTube are looking more and more like a little proxy war for Google and Amazon.


Pewdiepie




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