How would you improve YouTube?

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So let's say you magically was in charge of YouTube how would you improve it?

Perhaps allowing NSFW?

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Fun fact: YouTube was originally a dating website.
 
So let's say you magically was in charge of YouTube how would you improve it?
I would bring back dislikes count. I would get rid of shorts. Otherwise YT works just fine for me.
Perhaps allowing NSFW?
Why? :eek:
Do we have shortage of such platforms? Leave YT alone. :mad:
 
If I was in charge of YouTube raise the authority score of my channels to suck all of the that traffic lol
authority_score=100
shadowban Mr beast =true
 
I’d improve YouTube’s recommendation system so smaller channels with good content have a better chance of being discovered.

I’d also make the moderation and demonetization rules clearer, because creators often don’t know exactly what caused a video to be limited.

I wouldn’t allow general NSFW content, but I think YouTube could have clearer age restricted categories for mature content.
 
Fun fact: YouTube was originally a dating website.

I didn't believe you, so I checked :eek:

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Lower the barrier for small creators. Give new voices a fair shot instead of feeding the same top 1% all the traffic.
 
honestly i would fix the search algorithm. right now yt search is pretty much dead for anyone trying to do actual seo. they just push recommended videos from massive channels even if the content barely matches what you typed in. makes it almost impossible to rank new stuff organically unless you already have a following or drive external traffic to trigger the system... which kinda defeats the purpose of having a search bar.
 
I didn't believe you, so I checked :eek:

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see bro I know.
honestly i would fix the search algorithm. right now yt search is pretty much dead for anyone trying to do actual seo. they just push recommended videos from massive channels even if the content barely matches what you typed in. makes it almost impossible to rank new stuff organically unless you already have a following or drive external traffic to trigger the system... which kinda defeats the purpose of having a search bar.
I agree search on YouTube is pretty garbage but most views come from homepage and suggested videos anyway.
 
Probably I would be more concerned about giving better controls for monetization and recommendations to the creators rather than concentrating on NSFW issues. Discovery mechanism would have been more helpful for the users than any random algorithms.
 
I would remove the shorts from youtube.... I hate searching for videos and the majority of results being a 5 second short ripped from tiktok.
 
Nowadays when i enter the yt short live stream. I found many streams which were literal useless. Like a person was only showing a piece of paper lmao. And idk why people were even watching it.
 
first thing i would do is bring back the dislike button man and actualy fix the search algoritm so it stops showing me irelevant videos after scrolling twice
 
The ship sailed a long time ago for NSFW on YT. I think a good majority of advertisers would bail and then they'd enter the AV / processing nightmare.

Personally, I'd tighten up on the AI slop and work on increasing visibility for new and upcoming creators.
 
They should improve homepage feed suggestion algorithm immediately. Always suggesting the same shit like a boring loop.
 
first thing i would do is bring back the dislike button man and actualy fix the search algoritm so it stops showing me irelevant videos after scrolling twice
Good point,

I also think Removing the dislike button feels like "Golden Star" energy. That paradigm in schools now where all the kids win so they don't feel left out.
Realistically its also a form of censorship or maybe even bordering into propaganda territory. If we can only Like but not Dislike anything then what is that really? its a false sense of reality, everyone must hit the like button because its bad to make your own decision and hit the Dislike, infarct we removed it so you can't.

I also wan't to know why can we install browser addons and see/use the dislike again? the metric is clearly still there just hidden officially. This sounds like shaping public opinion using a form of censorship.
 
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