What would happen if Google suddenly shut down YouTube completely?

why not just create a video platform where it costs money to upload a video. I would pay 5 bucks if I would mean I could post something and not get removed
 
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Chaos Theorist said:
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
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Buy a hard drive and back up everything you care about. All platforms die at some point, or at the very least, the content you care about will be removed.

Distant Stare said:
why not just create a video platform where it costs money to upload a video. I would pay 5 bucks if I would mean I could post something and not get removed
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You could just rent a little bit of webspace for that.

The thing is if you're succesful in reaching lots of people, it will be more expensive than 5 bucks to serve everyone. And if you're not, then you could just upload the vid and give people to link to download it.
 
Nothing personally for me except lack of youtube but even then pornhub will just make a better platform.
 
raymond said:
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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bullshit honestly. maybe at best it doesn't make a direct accounting profit, but they don't release numbers. they're not running yt out of the goodness of their hearts, they could spin it off and sell it if they wanted. it makes money.
 
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Lack of YouTube Rewind would cut cancer rates as much as quitting smoking.
 
Syaoran Li said:
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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Google has already had decades to construct infrastructure globally whereas Mind Geek would have to utilize what they currently have while investing at a loss into similarly sized server spaces even to match YouTube's current capacity. This is why we don't even see other tech giants making moves in this arena. Building data centers on this scale in market that is already monopolized is bad financial move.
 
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Chaos Theorist said:
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
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There have been enough commercials that have vanished off of YouTube because the creator got booted or left for whatever reason (at least four distinct examples I can think of right off the bat) to have me paranoid enough to start downloading commercials again.

The other thing that would disadvantage me if YouTube went down is instructional videos. Even if two minutes of a seven minute video are relevant with someone who can barely speak English, that would still be a disappointment if I needed to do some car repair or something (like change a headlight).
 
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I fucking wish it would be taken down. Then maybe a less orwellian site could take over. It's never going to happen but you know...

www.youtube.com

A man can dream

A man can dream though, a man can dream
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
 
it would be a lot harder for me to keep up with Mexican wrestling and random old kung fu movies
 
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wylfım said:
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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This is likely. Also because of how they operate they could tell SJWs and most governments to go fuck themselves but I'm sure eventually bullshit would creep in.
 
Syaoran Li said:
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)
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They have already been fucking with the file formats recently, and apparently started dumping the original uploads after processing. If they ever decide to start re-encoding existing files, that output will be double compressed. It's a good idea to save files now, I expect that whenever YT starts to fail or goes full DRM, there won't be any warning. One day the site will be buggy, the next day high res playpack will be gone.
 
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Syaoran Li said:
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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I think Mind Geek are smart enough to know that competing with YouTube is a fools game but in the event a vacuum was created I also think they're smart enough and wealthy enough to create a platform quickly and effectively and if not turn a profit, at least run it to break even. Plus think of the cross platform integration opportunities. You could have two suggested video bars, one for related videos and one for related porn. XD
 
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Dutch Courage said:
Economically, another YouTube-esque site would fill the niche. Until the internet itself is gone, it will always be accompanied by video upload sites.
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Would it? YouTube has literally never made a profit. Google pushes it so they can control the media, but without their bottomless pocketbook I'm not so sure anyone else would want to try.
 
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Alec Benson Leary said:
Would it? YouTube has literally never made a profit. Google pushes it so they can control the media, but without their bottomless pocketbook I'm not so sure anyone else would want to try.
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True, but I think if YouTube went under, Mind Geek is the only one I can think of who would step in to provide a new platform in its place since they already know how to run video sites and make a lot of bank from Pornhub and other sites of a similar nature.

YouTube may be a complete money sink, but it's also one of those things that drastically altered our culture, especially internet culture. If it went away and nothing replaced it, a lot of people would be upset and a smart company with the right amount of equipment, funding, and know-how could easily fill that niche and try not to make the same mistakes that Google made and continues to make with YouTube.
 
Chaos Theorist said:
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
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We already get that on a daily basis because YouTube's copyright bots are fucked to hell. And while I would say that the internet probably has a backup somewhere. Not everyone's going to save videos like this for many reasons (be it they don't care or simply because they're unable to fr whatever reason).

But let's be serious here, while I do think that if YouTube were to shut down suddenly, another site would easily come to take its place. The fact of the matter is that it's too big to ever be replicated, and regardless of whether it's run at a loss or not, I can't see Google deleting it off completely. More so since apparently they're shilling out $70 million for a separate site for kids.
 
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