• grayman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As a premium subscriber, it’s definitely gotten worse for me over the last month. Whatever they’re doing on the back end, it’s pretty terrible.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure what the hell is going on at YouTube but I’ve noticed a significant drop in decent videos being recommended, and a huge uptick in videos I’ve already seen showing up at the front of the feed. Probs gonna drop it when the price picks up and just go to nebula.

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        1 year ago

        Honestly: I’d rather pay for YT and pirate Netflix.
        The amount of Entertainment I get from YT exceeds the scale of Netflix and I use it daily at 2-3h per day.

        And while yes, it’s free, I can also support the creators with a better click price than a regular click.
        Is it a better solution then the respective patreon/whatever? Nope
        Do I want to pay 5€/month or video each time? Fuck no. I am not king Midas.

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          1 year ago

          Yup, that’s how I see it too. I don’t like seeing ads, the creators do at least get more money, and the actual value I get out of YouTube is pretty high

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          1 year ago

          Not to mention not every creator will have a patreon anyway so this covers that scenario as well.

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        1 year ago

        There’s a ton of educational content only on YT and so it’s a part of our homeschool curriculum. My kids were getting a lot of super inappropriate ads a while back, so I got premium to avoid all ads.

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          1 year ago

          Stockholm syndrome was made up to cover for police incompetence

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              1 year ago

              Here’s a springboard article, if you want to do your own research.

              https://www.nzz.ch/english/how-the-myth-of-stockholm-syndrome-came-from-a-media-driven-hostage-spectacle-ld.1752897

              The woman, based on whom the term was coined (the psychiatrist never even talked to her) wrote an autobiography “I became Stockholm Syndrome”.

              There’s also the works of Allan Wade, a Canadian psychologist, who has talked to the victims throughout his career.

              Basically when you’re at the whims of an armed lunatic, you might cozy up to them in order to appease them. The victims were also really afraid of the police coming in and shooting them. Which is pretty justified, considering the police couldn’t even identify the perpetrator before conceding on his demands and bringing in his prison buddy.

              The guy with a gun, whom they’ve been talking to for days and has not hurt them in the slightest looked much less dangerous than the impending doom of the police barging in and shooting the wrong person.