>>848 >But that slowly changed thanks to the Goolag purchase which kept ruining YouTube at small steps and turning it into Cable TV 2.0 and Spotify 2.0 : Nothing lasts forever OP. Even the best things in life have to end eventually. Like the Holy Roman Empire for example.

>>1727 To put things into perspective, the Holy Roman Empire lasted 1000 years after it's inception from the coronation of Charlemagne (Whomst was a German man mind you). It lasted more than most empires stay on their feet. So just food for thought over your feelings OP. I hope this information helped you out>>1727 >>1727

>>1727 My post got all messed up for some reason

>>1717 I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like to be someone like that. Not to sound like a pompous snob, but that mindset feels like that of another species to me.

>>1732 There's something spiritually damaging about the media used to condition NPCs. Vid related is a great example that I saved a few years ago because it mixes together everything that NPCs use to blast their brains into paste: sex, wealth, and the banality of everyday life, all exaggerated to obscene levels. I'm not too familiar with Baudrillard's writing, but I think this is similar to what he would call a simulacra - something that means nothing except its literal value. No artistic merit, no deeper allegory, no beauty, no inspiration to better oneself. Every single shot is a jagged jump cut that assault's the viewer. All noise, all the time. Stuff like this is force-fed to hundreds of millions of people every day by YT algorithms, and they simply don't have the IQ to recognize it for what it is and defend themselves against it by not watching it. They see a thumbnail with some guy making a fear grimace and giant block text and they just click on it because they might as well be animals. Same principle as a supernormal stimulus, which is a term you should learn if you haven't already. It's easy to hate them (I don't want to sound like a pompous snob either) but I think it's mostly a byproduct of the information age. In medieval times, people wouldn't be exposed to anything resembling this, and they would get their cultural and spiritual foundations from their churches and families. As religion and deeper spiritual meanings are ripped out of public life and people are allowed to choose their own ways, materialism wins out because it's literally right in front of people and requires nothing but the basic faculty of vision or hearing.

>>1733 >It's easy to hate them (I don't want to sound like a pompous snob either) but I think it's mostly a byproduct of the information age. In medieval times, people wouldn't be exposed to anything resembling this, and they would get their cultural and spiritual foundations from their churches and families. As religion and deeper spiritual meanings are ripped out of public life and people are allowed to choose their own ways, materialism wins out because it's literally right in front of people and requires nothing but the basic faculty of vision or hearing In a sense it's really not their fault. I'm no radical traditionalist or fascist, but I think that Julius Evola and Adolf Hitler were right when they commented on the feminine nature of the masses. "Feminine" not in the sense of being effeminate, but in the sense of being passive and formless without higher direction. And the higher direction they submit to nowadays has no interest in doing anything other than filling their heads with garbage. Those at the top of the social pecking order have, as a general rule, always wanted to keep people stupid and powerless; in the past, though, they were much more limited in how they could go about doing it. But due to the huge leaps forward that science and technology have been making, there are fewer and fewer obstacles to prevent them from doing so. I don't see any viable solutions either. If power comes from the top down, then that invalidates the bottom-up conception of power that modern democracy is based on. Something like Urbit could help fix a lot of the problems of the current Internet if the claims of its adherents hold up to scrutiny, but wide-ranging social reform isn't going to happen without having backing from some faction of renegade "elites" or another.

>>1138 lol no it's just an edit, the original dialogue was from the game Deus Ex >>1140 In reality, Mega Man Battle Network is a silly game about battling robots and solving problems on the interwebs, although it predicted the whole IoT "EVERYTHING HAS A SMART COMPUTER INSIDE OF IT" shit

IT JUST KEEP GETTING WORSE https://archive.is/9MC88 >>Starting July 23, 2021, older Unlisted videos will be made Private unless you opt out from this change. This is part of a security update to Unlisted videos that were uploaded before January 1, 2017. Unlisted content uploaded on or after January 1, 2017 is unaffected by this change. In other words, almost all the youtube videos that are worth watching will be practically deleted. Hopefully, the folks at invidious will be able to overcome and/or at least it will increase the competition for youtube alternatives as goolag clearly wants to kill it for good.

>>1806 Fug. But I dunno, invidious seems like it's on its last legs and will probably follow hooktube soon. As for jewtube alternatives, Dailymotion is surprisingly still around and has a lot of content long deleted from jewtube. Same with Vimeo. Though who knows for how long they will survive in the CY∞ climate.

>>1806 Mind posting the original link Anon? I can't access this archive.today link hidden behind the (((compromised))) Great Cuckflare Wall. If you'll post the original, then at least I can look it up on Wayback. TIA.

>>1812 I see. So, looks like it's already happened today huh?

>>1815 Naturally. You think jewgle will ever give you heads up in advance to prepare?

>>1806 What absolute faggots.

vidlii seems pretty cute, but I'm trying to figure out a way to downsize videos myself before uploading them so that the end result isn't as awful, but so far no luck. I try downscaling them to 360p and using low bitrate but once uploaded they look and sound even worse.

>>1122 >hit up NSFWYoutube >error: this video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube

>>1122 Can't you use an invidio instance? Otherwise just post a fake id, they're not the fucking government (even though the gov is behind them)

>>1849 I just noticed that. That really sucks

>>1849 It's been like that for a while now. It really chaps my hide.

>>1807 >invidious seems like it's on its last legs and will probably follow hooktube soon What? Why? Surely not just because the lead developer opted out. I've been using invidious as my default YT interface for a couple years now, and it's about the same as it ever was.

>>873 >bo burnham I'm glad that it's not just me noticing that things have actually gotten darker.

Looks like they removed the option to sort videos by oldest, newest and most popular on the app. I just don't understand why they keep removing simple features like this.

>>1972 the collective will decide your playlist, brother DO NOT TOUCH THAT DIAL DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT (oops. too long a sentence) DO NOT EVEN THINK

>>1972 Youtube prioritizes corporate channels, so their videos will fill any video feeds. Sort by newest was useful for finding smaller channels.

>>1972 >>2001 invidious still lets you narrow results by day, week and month.

>>2003 Invidious works for people not using app based devices. People using computers can easily bypass the dumbed-down app interface, but normies live in the app ecosystem. Many of them are completely unaware that their viewing options are being boxed in.

This has got me thinking about creating videos that are the antithesis of modern Youtube. No advertising, no sponsorships, no monetary benefit at all. Just pure concentrated autism for its own sake like the old days. Host it somewhere obscure and free of algorithmic manipulation. It wouldn't set the world on fire but any anons who feel the same could join in too.

I have nothing to add really.

>>2088 This isn't the first time Jawed has spoken out, he did something similar when Google+ was made mandatory back in 2013.

>>2087 Go right ahead then, you can use VidLii or any of the PeerTube instances, or just good old webm postan. As long as you stay anonymous. >>2088 "Creators" still won't leave the platform or give other platforms a chance, they'll stick with the sinking ship till the very end instead of finding alternatives while they still can.

Speaking of Youtube alternatives does anon have any favorite Peertube instances they watch/upload to? The instance search kind of sucks and mostly comes up with instances for other languages even when you select English.

>>2296 >does anon have any favorite Peertube instances they watch/upload to? Unfortunately no and no. All the instances I've been on either have jewtube re-uploads or full foreign films/series, so nothing to see really. The lack of an algorithm doesn't help also. When I wanna upload videos or live stream I go to whatever instance has open registrations at the time.

>>2302 that sucks

>>848 I remember when I used to think Smosh and Fred were obnoxious faggots, but now I'd rather have that shit than the current trash on the platform. At least it was just teenagers screwing around vs Youtube pushing political agendas and corporate bullshit.

>>2603 I remember rage threads on /v/ around 2010 or so and how a lot of the stuff posted was just teenagers/autists having fun being stupid. Vids like Foam Adventure though one of the girls is a tranny now, or that one anime con clip with the girl yelling NYAAAA, or that video with two nerds doing a Kingdom Hearts larp. Back then this had us fuming. But now I just feel nothing. Sometimes it's even nostalgic in a way, reminding me of the times when autists were more innocent and didn't get themselves involved in political shit.

I jumped on youtube in 2005 trying to watch Sonic X for free. Found that 4 episode Rayman TV show on there and watched it like 100 times. Shocking how apart of my life it is

>>863 I didnt knew Ashens was that old. I only discovered him way later (I dont remember when, maybe at early or mid 2010s)

This is a digital equivalent of burning books. Millions of videos will perish. Where is the outrage?

>>2971 Two words Anon: >yt- >dlp OK maybe that's one word. Or a contraction. Or w/e. You get the point. >tl;dr What's the good of getting outraged at the Globohomo? They'll just laugh at you and send their thugs at you if you get too noisy about things. Just use their systems against them and save everything.

>>2972 This is likely way beyond the scope of reasonable archival (unless someone has saved literally every single Youtube video out there), it's like when they made pre-2017 unlisted videos private, perhaps billions of videos will absolutely disappear forever. Youtube is such an endless behemoth that the best we can do is save what we care about to somewhat mitigate the damage when it inevitably dies.

>>2971 Hopefully they'll change this decision for the YouTube channels/videos. I can understand them doing it for the other Google services, but removing a large chunk of the videos that brings people to the largest video site is quite the decision. >>2972 Easier said than done. Videos quickly rack up in filesize and previous shutdowns like Geocities that were minuscule filesize wise in comparison, still had a lot of it unarchived. Still, it's better to archive whatever you want to keep before it's too late.

Seeing conflicting reports about the YT part, some sources say they'll only delete accounts with no videos, which would make more sense.

>>2975 Let's hope so, estimates for the amount of video on Youtube are as high as 300 petabytes.

Google to start deleting inactive YouTube accounts and videos >Starting later this year, if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we may delete the account and its contents - including content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos. >While the policy takes effect today, it will not immediately impact users with an inactive account - the earliest we will begin deleting accounts is December 2023. https://archive.ph/yILJJ If you want to know how to fight this, participate in contributing towards Operation Download & Conquer.

>>2975 Comments made by those accounts would be still gone.

>>2979 Any way of backing up the comment section of older videos?

>>2981 yt-dlp has a --write-comments flag, so probably.

>>2982 Alright I found a guide https://write.corbpie.com/download-a-youtube-video-comments-with-yt-dlp/ If anyone wants to start, here you go.

>>2978 Thanks for boosting this operation, anon Remember to spread it over regional imageboards too