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What would be such an event's effects on society, economy, and the world at large?
What would happen if Google suddenly shut down YouTube completely?
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Economically, another YouTube-esque site would fill the niche. Until the internet itself is gone, it will always be accompanied by video upload sites.
Now if the internet itself were gone, a lot of things would be different... Some generations might not even survive.
Now if the internet itself were gone, a lot of things would be different... Some generations might not even survive.
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Twitter would collectively shit its pants and nobody over the age of 14 who wasn't exceptional would care.
Camgirls and Pewdiepie on suicide watch.
Camgirls and Pewdiepie on suicide watch.
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Bitchute runs on WebTorrent though, but I'm not sure how that would scale.
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Bitchute is p2p for videos with enough viewers, so they would actually scale more efficiently than youtube and actually run a profit.
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I'm sure every massive corporation with cash to burn would scramble to create service to squash what other options there are right now. Think YouTube's bad? It is but imagine it being ran by Apple.
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The asymmetric connections of most users, as well as the lack of end-to-end connectivity in some situations might mess with that though.
IIRC they try to keep video bandwidth below the typical upload speed though.
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Many people would be forced into productivity at work or forced to go outside
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Youtube is run at a loss, and most other companies can't afford the requirements of running a social media site that needs to be able to handle hate speech and copyright trolls.
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Their cut of the ad money, duh.
Edit: and, they can track what people are interested in, so they can use that for ads elsewhere.
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Considering Porn Hub seem to take great joy in poking YouTube with a stick these days I imagine a site called You Hub would be operating within hours and things would carry on more or less as they always have.
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Honestly, if anyone could actually run a successful YouTube alternative that could actually compete with Google's mess, it probably would be Mind Geek.
The main issue with any YouTube competitor is that YouTube has always ran at a loss and is mainly propped up by Google and YouTube was one of those things that was in the right place and right time when it debuted in 2005.
There wasn't any video site like that before (except maybe some porn sites) and it caught on in popularity. Also, consider the era that "Classic YouTube" was in. 2005-2008 was peak Web 1.5 and internet culture was going mainstream, yet had not been fully sanitized and bland like Web 2.0 in the 2010's. A lot of people, especially Millennial teens and Zoomer kids flocked to it since it was different from cable TV and other normie fare.
Google saw a lot of opportunity in this and bought YouTube. I'm not sure if they were expecting to make it profitable or if they always intended it to be a loss leader for advertisers, but they struck the iron while it was still red hot.
A lot of the other competitors like Blip TV, Metacafe, or Dailymotion either went completely under or languished in utter obscurity for the most part.
The only reason why Dailymotion and Bitchute even continue to exist is because YouTube is growing more draconian in their policies every passing moment it seems. Hell, I'm surprised VidLii even exists at all aside from the format being a clone of classic late 2000's YouTube.
A YouTube competitor requires a lot of infrastructure just to function and even more upkeep to make it actually relevant and nobody can do it without already making a fuckton of money from other enterprises. YouTube is largely propped up by Google's properties that are actually profitable and even then, it's such a money sink that they have to cram it full of commercials more than ever before.
Mind Geek already makes a lot of money from Pornhub and countless other porn sites, and given their particular line of business, they know how difficult it is to work with payment processors and have already figured a way around that so they can be profitable.
If they made a work-safe YouTube competitor, then Google would face some real competition on that front since it will be a lot harder to squash it than some no-name ghost town like Dailymotion.
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Massive splintering of the video content section of the web and decentralization. E.g. a net positive.
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We would probably lose alot of historicaly relevant ephremma such as old tv ads and interviews
As much as the loss of Youtube would lead to the springing up of new platforms, the sheer loss of content would be felt for years to come
As much as the loss of Youtube would lead to the springing up of new platforms, the sheer loss of content would be felt for years to come
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That's probably why we should archive anything of value (such as said historical ephemera) while we still can just in case YouTube does get shut down or overhauled (whether by Google's own hand or by the DOJ investigation fucking them up) or in case the woke hipster fucks who work at Google decide to delete any of these videos for some dumb reason (I'd wager a lot of old ads would be considered problematic by Millennial Leftist standards, even relatively recent stuff from the 1990's and 2000's)