Great video. A feedback loop between algorithms and content creators, with the audience's influence being quite weak and indirect.
The monetization in general is often heralded as important for revenue sharing. By comparison, facebook just takes all our content and gives us nothing for it.
But it obviously isn't all good. It creates a lot of perverse incentives to optimize for the letter of whatever the algorithm recommends, instead of authentically serving the audience's needs or authentically trying to produce content purely of high quality.
The monetization in general is often heralded as important for revenue sharing. By comparison, facebook just takes all our content and gives us nothing for it.
But it obviously isn't all good. It creates a lot of perverse incentives to optimize for the letter of whatever the algorithm recommends, instead of authentically serving the audience's needs or authentically trying to produce content purely of high quality.