The Trending page has been listing the same people over and over and over again for the last 3 years. It's shameful, pathetic, and makes the platform feel extremely biased.
Seriously though. This is unacceptable and overly controlled. Not to mention that those people over the last 3 years post borderline brainwash content without any connection to a real audience.
It's pretty sad to see YouTube turn into something like this.
The Trending page makes me feel really old, and pretty "get off my lawn" w/r/t what's popular, or being promoted, right now.
A lot of the channels I've followed have gone fallow. No new content.
That said, I think the arguments around this topic are pretty disingenuous.
1) There's nasty content being uploaded to Youtube -- YouTube isn't making the nasty content.
2) YouTube promotes some content, people are pissed - it's all about the moneti$ation.
3) YouTube creates a system to stop promoting some kinds of content, people are pissed - censorship, slippery slope to de-platforming, etc.
There's no real alternative to YouTube (Vimeo isn't it, and the blockchain YouTube isn't it) for:
a) creators,
b) creators who want to make money.
And looking at what Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have to deal with in the social sphere, who'd want to inherit those problems? This is why we're still going to end up with aggregated media empires, because they'll accept the overhead of running the network, and it will simply get even more shallow in terms of who supplies "content".
The only platform I've seen so far for this one to compete with YT outside of porn is Patreon, and the videos that get monetized there without also being posted and/or monetized on YT tend to be... less than wholesome in a lot of cases.
> The Trending page has been listing the same people over and over and over again for the last 3 years.
Skytube (android app for YT that I like because it allows shutting off the screen while playing) does call it "Recommended", and that feels more accurate. I agree that the Trending page is terrible. When I was more active on youtube, I hid it from my browser because I often couldn't resist the temptation to open it and then regretted it soon afterwards.
Not sure what you mean by "Skytube [...] does call it ('Trending') 'recommended'", because YouTube have both "Recommended" and "Trending" and they're two different things.
No, Skytube doesn't use YT's subscription and recommendations. You locally set your subscriptions and the app checks for updates occasionally or when forced, no account required, no server-side profile (well, they could, I'm sure you stick out like a colorful bird using that client), no YT-defined sorting of what might interest you. And it has a bookmark & download function built in. I'm somewhat of a fan as you can tell, there's more on https://skytube-app.com/ and you can install it via F-Droid.
They do have a Trending page as well, but I don't know how that's calculated. It's very random, has nothing in common with YT's Trending page, and I don't use it.
Sorry to de-rail the conversation here, but I feel this exact same way.
How many freaking videos can one person produce about doing their make-up?!
And GMM, my lord, they've eaten every animal's boiled genitals by now, 5 times over.
It's all the same Swedish produced, quick-cut, psuedo-rap music videos, some-guy-with-a-bucket-on-his-head's latest attempts to grasp at 2009's dubstep, or yet another KPop group that comes in with the afternoon's breeze.
Oh look, another movie trailer! It's the 'exclusive' 7th trailer for Marvel's 'Doctor Bong 3: The Mellower'
Harhar, here's yesterday's clips of Late-Nite 'celebrity' interviews via old SNL stars that are 'functional' now.
And the 'Youtube Face' that's on every single freakin' thumbnail. Oh look! Human face making an emotion! Better click!
Seriously though. This is unacceptable and overly controlled. Not to mention that those people over the last 3 years post borderline brainwash content without any connection to a real audience.
It's pretty sad to see YouTube turn into something like this.