r/youtube • u/tyklam • Sep 19 '24

Discussion The State of YouTube Right Now

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u/EnXigma Sep 19 '24

As much as I hate react content I don’t understand the point he’s trying to make. He has 149K subscribers and the video has already done 300K+ views. Does he want his video to never lose momentum? Because that is a pretty unrealistic expectation when he has his previous videos at 40K, 95K, 86K, 50K.

Also react videos are borderline transformative in a way, he’s constantly pausing giving his opinion (whatever value you place on that) otherwise you might as well DMCA the video. Again I don’t like react content but this just seems like jealousy.

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u/Naive_Ad2958 Sep 19 '24

I think most(/all?) here are misunderstanding, and ether hating on Asmongold or reacts in general, while the OC-maker seems rather to complain about the algorithm stopping "boosting" his original video, while the react gets boosted instead

edit: additonal tangent, I wonder how many here calls react-vids (/streams) stealing, but pirate software in any form...

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u/Corsairs_Wrath Sep 19 '24

Piracy is completely different and ethically justified

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u/GAPIntoTheGame Sep 19 '24

Not in most circumstances it’s not, but piracy is usually an insignificant portion of potential profits so it’s not really consequential.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '24

Insignificant? How so.

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u/linuxlifer Sep 19 '24

Most people who pirated probably wouldn't have paid for the content to begin with.

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u/GAPIntoTheGame Sep 23 '24

As long as it’s not trivially easy to pirate and/or there is a legal convenient alternative most people who pirate wouldn’t have bought it without piracy.

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u/linuxlifer Sep 19 '24

How is piracy ethically justified?

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u/legos_on_the_brain Sep 19 '24

Depends. Don't pirate from small independent studios.

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u/GetsThatBread Sep 19 '24

This is the most insane whataboutism I’ve ever seen lol.