“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
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@DouglasKMurray must be dangerous when@TeamYouTube has demonetized all 6 clips with him before they even go public. (Plus a 2 minute clip of me wearing prop glasses.) It’s not about the money, it’s that these clips will all be crushed by algorithm and not suggested.pic.twitter.com/ZgO0p01jaF
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YT has said they don’t treat demonetized videos differently in their recommendation algorithm. Is there any source other than anecdotal “my video didn’t get enough views” complaints from attention-seeking YTers to suggest that isn’t true? I’ve never seen one.
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Replying to @40feralhogs @RubinReport and
Yes there is. Sealow one of the best YouTube data analysts out there produced this video. There is an accompanying report as well. I highly recommend you check out his work especially his most recent one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3H8D2LrLHc …
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Replying to @VideoIsSocial @RubinReport and
I don't find this persuasive. For one, it's very sloppy and full of hidden (or not-so-hidden) assumptions and guesses. In one case they quantify the certainty of a "personal guess" at 100%. Really?pic.twitter.com/W1SynYacBS
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Replying to @40feralhogs @VideoIsSocial and
But taking it in the best light possible, it sets out to show a correlation between demonetization and lower view count. Fine, but correlation doesn’t imply causation, which is the complaint.
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Replying to @40feralhogs @VideoIsSocial and
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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Replying to @40feralhogs @VideoIsSocial and
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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Replying to @40feralhogs @VideoIsSocial and
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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Replying to @40feralhogs @VideoIsSocial and
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?!?
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