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Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by trh0awayman »

kristopolous wrote: post #7

The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy. It's become disconnected so much that metrics of quality are seen as arbitrary, unrelated attributes. There is literally zero reward for hard work. It's actually more likely to hurt than help you because original scholarship or novel insights is definitionally more dissimilar to existing thin…

Recommendation systems just mirror what the users watch - including their age - and the reality is that 99% of people have horrible taste in just about everything. They can't tell the difference between a great film and a terrible film - they walk away thinking "I enjoyed that".

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by mike_hock »

formerly_proven wrote: post #29
onion2k wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy. They do, but only through the proxy of 'likes' and 'followers'. This leads to a bigger problem with web content, especially with video - people conflate the quality of the video production with the quality of the content. Someone who can make slick, glossy videos full of effects will almost a…

On average production quality seems to correlate inversely with accuracy and actual knowledge on Youtube. It kinda makes sense, most Youtube channels seem to be one-man-shows, if the production quality is good, the dude doing it is basically an A/V person at that point and you're looking at P(A/V person AND knowledgeable in X) vs. P(knowledgeable in X).

Not only YT, this applies to almost everything. If a website is basic black-on-white HTML with little or no styling, it usually has high-quality content.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by planb »

kristopolous wrote: post #7

The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy. It's become disconnected so much that metrics of quality are seen as arbitrary, unrelated attributes. There is literally zero reward for hard work. It's actually more likely to hurt than help you because original scholarship or novel insights is definitionally more dissimilar to existing thin…

I don't think that's the underlying problem. The youtube algorithm sees people searching for something, watching a video and then liking it. How should it not conclude that the content was useful for the watcher? Probably it even _was_ useful and gave them the info needed to solve their problem.

So why did they consume this content on YouTube and not on Stack Overflow? Because that's the way they are used to searching for answers. Probably because they feel videos are in general easier to understand. Or they come from a background where YouTube videos usually provide the best quality answers (home improvement comes to mind immediately).

For those of us that know how these videos are made, they feel like spam at best and a giant scam that rips off Stack Overflow at worse (though this use is allowed by the license), but I don't see what incentives Youtube should have to ban them.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by iLoveOncall »

nixcraft wrote: post #34

Meanwhile, Google has removed RedFrost Motivation[1] (over 1.5 million subs and =>120 million views) from the YouTube Partner program stating reason "uses someone else's content without adding significant value for viewers". I kid you not. This is one of my favourite motivational channels with an orignal artistic take. According to post[1], they claim to use talented voice artists and musicians to produce our exclusi…

The ban seems legitimate since they use copyrighted poems.

Every answer on StackOverflow is under Creative Commons SA-BY, and this guy follows exactly the terms of the license.

I won't say that this Youtube channel isn't a parasite, but it's doing something 100% legally and the one you talk about is not.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by ZephyrBlu »

ssl232 wrote: post #11
ZephyrBlu wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

StackOverflow is not searchable on YouTube... There is no comparison here between the SEO/search performance of these YT videos vs SO text posts.

Both YouTube and StackOverflow are searchable in places other than YouTube.

Yes, but where is the comparison of their SEO performance on Google search? There is none.

His YouTube channel also only has 20M views in total. It seems very likely the SO posts he used would have more than 20M page views.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by iLoveOncall »

GabrieleR wrote: post #27

I got inspired after watching it. There is a clever piece of script behind it. I've planned a full coding session today in order to implement it. Cooking recipes, philosophy quotes, Wikipedia articles (?) and daily news headlines. Still looking for more content. I'm also thinking about TTS functions like the one used in Sir Reddit YT channel. Hate me or join me. Risso.gabriele@protonmail.ch

You're late to the party, there are already plenty of those that exist, some read top comments of Reddit threads for example.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by iLoveOncall »

mwidell wrote: post #33

I am somewhat surprised he only has 80k subscribers and 20M views. Not a lot considering the amount of videos. But he is probably making a nice side income from this. As a comparison I have done youtube "the honest way", and I posted around 200 videos and have 66k subscribers and 7M views.

With 20M views he must have made at most around $20,000, no? I would also imagine that the vast majority of his subs are bots.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by seaman1921 »

chekibreki wrote: post #37
charcircuit wrote: post #19

I wonder how he can upload so fast. At one video per minute he would quickly run into the daily limit. I ran into it before when I was uploading a bunch of videos to run songs through content id to see what was okay to play for an upcoming live event.

Most developed countries have unlimited quotas for their Internet plans. The US seems to be an exception.

I think he is talking about the youtube API limit..

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by ProfXponent »

acover wrote: post #14
fxtentacle wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every search result spammed in favor of YouTube is an additional bit of attention to be monetized by Google. Why should they prevent people from making them more money?

Reputation?

When your reputation is already rock bottom you have nothing left to lose.

I stopped using YouTube a while back when it decided that because I like programming, video games, and martial arts I would also enjoy misogynistic pricks like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro.

There is something deeply flawed in YouTube’s recommendations, and despite my effort to curate content it kept driving me towards alt-right drivel.

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