What are you watching on Youtube now? η'

[Fippy]

 

[Sofista]

What's the tragic news?

Read this.

 

[El_Machinae]

This one sits in my heart all day

 

[Chukchi Husky]

 

[thetrooper]

Yes. This is Kite:

 

[BenitoChavez]

Read this.

Oh wow.

 

[emzie]

 

[red_elk]

 

[Fippy]

The Kite song is brilliant, merci @thetrooper

 

[Broken_Erika]

 

[Pangaea]

I'll take the liberty of posting this here too, since it's such a marvellous song, and especially so in this hurtful hour.

 

[Catharsis]

 

[Berzerker]

Thats about as melancholy as Rush gets

 

[BenitoChavez]

Who can teach me the history of my own country better, schools or youtube? I'm going with youtube since I've never heard of this. Anyway, it's a long one but the first 5 minutes are pure gold.

 

[Narz]

The spoken words did not match the eyes. The video reminded me of an interview Admiral Jeremiah Denton gave in 1966. I have never seen a less enthusiastic, more reluctant announcement of something that is supposed to be great.

Calling the removal of dislikes a good thing for creators cannot be done without conflict by someone holding the title of “YouTube’s Creator Liaison”. We know this because there exists not a single YouTube Creator who thinks removing dislikes is a good idea — for YouTube or for Creators.

Why would YouTube make this universally disliked change? There is a reason, but it’s not a good one, and not one that will be publicly disclosed. Instead, there will be references to various studies. Studies that apparently contradict the common sense of every YouTuber.

The ability to easily and quickly identify bad content is an essential feature of a user-generated content platform. Why? Because not all user-generated content is good. It can’t be. In fact, most of it is not good. And that’s OK. The idea was never that all content is good. The idea WAS, however, that among the flood of content, there are great creations waiting to be exposed. And for that to happen, the stuff that’s not great has to fall by the side as quickly as possible.

The process works, and there’s a name for it: the wisdom of the crowds. The process breaks when the platform interferes with it. Then, the platform invariably declines. Does YouTube want to become a place where everything is mediocre? Because nothing can be great if nothing is bad.

In business, there’s only one thing more important than “Make it better”. And that’s “Don’t f it up!"

 

[Kaitzilla]

 

[Chukchi Husky]

 

[Zkribbler]

charade - Audrey Hepburn; Cary Grant -- I saw it years and years ago, but remember nothing.
tagline - the greatest Hitchcockian movie that Hitchcock never made.

 

[Farm Boy]

 

[Gori the Grey]