“When the economics goes bad, we become vulnerable to bad ideas.”
The brilliant @DouglasKMurray joined me to talk about his new book, The Madness of Crowds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPex2u-8AM&list=PLEbhOtC9klbCr0iN2ANJbaV477B0eSpc6&index=321&t=0s …pic.twitter.com/pWCAE0veji
To take an example from one of the papers, “Top 10 Lesbian Couples in Hollywood Who Got Married” is demonetized, perhaps because advertisers want to avoid LGBT issues (not that they should, but that’s what demonetization implies, so w/e).
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But independent of monetization, it’s perfectly reasonable to expect more people to be interested in “Top 10 happy Couples in Hollywood Who Got Married” than “Top 10 Lesbian Couples in Hollywood Who Got Married” because content about lesbians is more niche.
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So are demonetized videos being viewed less because YT is suppressing them? Or is it simply the case that the things that make videos less interesting to advertisers also make videos less interesting to viewers? Correlation doesn't imply causation.
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And it’s not like YT should force people to watch unpopular videos—nor do they have any reason to suppress popular videos.
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Yet creators of less popular videos have every incentive to play the victim and point to demonetization as evidence that YT is oppressing them. Because how else could no one want to watch their crappy video?!?
End of conversation
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