This is why I never took YouTube seriously as a revenue source. I just want to post the occasional video whether it's going to be popular or not. I don't need an additional motivation. Getting paid to do something you enjoy is a great way to stop enjoying it as it becomes an obligation.


The death of YouTube came when another CEO came in and individuality ceased to exist and content has become way worse. I'd say we protest against them until they finally snap out of this shitty state and for god's sake change their ways.


I ironically have an opposite problem with the video length. I can't focuse long enought if a video is less than at least 20 minutes long lol. Also it's because I listen to them in the background and listening to some 7-hour long game analysis in one sitting is much more preffered than interrupting myself to change the current video


19:40 I wonder how many reaction channels stopped recording and scrapped their reaction to this video at this moment.


This couldn’t be even truer today, dislikes have now been removed. If YouTube keep on limiting features I’ll have no choice but to find another platform. It’s not your fault by the way.


That point around 08:00 is really important. The algorithms and subscriptions shield regular users from the reality of how terrible most content on Youtube is now, and how terrible Youtube is at delivering content in a coherent and useful way. If you don't believe me, scrub your browser profile, make a new Google ID, and start from scratch. It's like climbing up a rope ladder in a hailstorm of shit.

Ergo: Default recommendations tend to be channels that upload a lot in short order and typically are clickbait like?


Only around 1.8 million people remember this fact sadly...<br>And sadder part is people forget and may get content again with bad content

Only around 1.8 million people remember this fact sadly...
And sadder part is people forget and may get content again with bad content


Well Smooth McGroove is back so there’s still hope!


i think the fact that YouTube didn't recommend me this vid until 3 years later only supports your point of quantity over quality

They only recommended this video to me after a blue moon chance of discovering a new channel via the autoplay feature. I was so amazed that i was actually watching something different i quickly subscribed and binged his channel so the algorithm would give me stuff i want. I fucking hate that i have to fight an algorithm to give me content i want vs what it wants me to watch that will play the most ads on the same videos 10 times over (because eventually it literally just stops finding new videos and only replays stuff you’ve already watched with the rare exception)

I didn't even get this video from my recommendations

Just like my example:
I like to listen to Rslash. He uploads everyday and I get a notification everytime.
But I also like Internet Historian and Vivziepop.
I get no notifications and only get the video in my recommended a week after. It's fucked.

I remember Pyro recommending this vid a while back. Only way I found it and his content since.


27:11, 27:35 It's funny looking back at how poorly this has aged, considering the amount of stats that have come out from YouTubers recently that show that asking to subscribe actually makes a significant impact on subscriber and retention rates


"If YouTube keeps going the way it is, we're gonna have a bad time." - EmpLemon 2017


Love the video dude, i agree with everything you said. Keep up the great videos ❤❤❤❤


As a sign of respect for the old YT, as well as equality (and I hope EMP agrees with being fair here).

Use this as a dislike button (if you want to)


Also this is why I love channels like Night Mind, YouTube has basically blacklisted them because they are horror themed channels, and our virgin eyes cant see anything bad like that while we see possibly worse stuff like that in history class! Channels like Night Mind are hard to find, because Nick actually puts all the effort into editing and working his hardest to make great content and look for new series,horror series, that are different and new and interesting, and gives in depth analysis about them, and sometimes giving some comedic moments to balance it out! Like you said, that's rare to find. I remember Vsauce, Michael is still doing his hardest to make his videos memorable and put high effort into them while adding comedic moments and opinions to it with his analysis. The only difference between Michael and Nick is that Nick is a smaller YouTube compared to Michael, at almost 200,000 subs, while Michael has millions of subscribers. Another thing about them is that their content Is hard to find, because GOD FORBID WE HAVE SOMETHING COMPLEX AND DIFFERENT THAN CALLING THE BOSS BABY OMG HE AWNSERED!
Its why Nick inspired me to make my own horror channel, because of how much he clearly cares about his content, even with YouTube's problems.
Your content reminds me of Nicks too, because you actually care about your content, you CARE about making it good and you care about it without bending over to YouTube's broken hierarchy.
I remember old YouTube, although I'm a young teen, when i was 6, i watched all those videos, and they were great! They still are! I'm getting BORED from YouTubers at times, because of repition and pandering, and like i said, Thats why i love channels like Yours, Nicks, and Micheals, because you give a damn about content, not about what will make the most money, and i thank you for that. Keep being amazing at what you do

Also this is why I love channels like Night Mind, YouTube has basically blacklisted them because they are horror themed channels, and our virgin eyes cant see anything bad like that while we see possibly worse stuff like that in history class! Channels like Night Mind are hard to find, because Nick actually puts all the effort into editing and working his hardest to make great content and look for new series,horror series, that are different and new and interesting, and gives in depth analysis about them, and sometimes giving some comedic moments to balance it out! Like you said, that's rare to find. I remember Vsauce, Michael is still doing his hardest to make his videos memorable and put high effort into them while adding comedic moments and opinions to it with his analysis. The only difference between Michael and Nick is that Nick is a smaller YouTube compared to Michael, at almost 200,000 subs, while Michael has millions of subscribers. Another thing about them is that their content Is hard to find, because GOD FORBID WE HAVE SOMETHING COMPLEX AND DIFFERENT THAN CALLING THE BOSS BABY *OMG HE AWNSERED!*
Its why Nick inspired me to make my own horror channel, because of how much he clearly cares about his content, even with YouTube's problems.
Your content reminds me of Nicks too, because you actually care about your content, you CARE about making it good and you care about it without bending over to YouTube's broken hierarchy.
I remember old YouTube, although I'm a young teen, when i was 6, i watched all those videos, and they were great! They still are! I'm getting BORED from YouTubers at times, because of repition and pandering, and like i said, Thats why i love channels like Yours, Nicks, and Micheals, because you give a damn about content, not about what will make the most money, and i thank you for that. Keep being amazing at what you do

Axl Kss Dude, horror channels get all of their monetization taken away. It's considered inappropriate/offensive content by the new guidelines. That is blacklisting

Ghostgirl 708 the second most subscribed channel on SA is a horror channel with 12M so that "black list" thing is bullshit.

Nick Nocturne is my favorite creator I've found in the past year, and Nick has introduced me to many other interesting channels and individuals. Can't wait to see what his new project is!


This inspired me to go through and unsub to all the corporate feeling content farms that im still subbed to and that I can find. It's the only thing I feel like I can do personally


This video kicks ass, the man is just so real on this


This video still applies in 2021. It's time to change.


im 13 and I love content Luke this and other stuff. this is genius. i dont have a whole lot of friends and im an introvert so this is nice for me to watch!


Almost a year old but still relevant and still valid. Pls never stop


Aside from Jontron and The Rebel (loool I’m sure EMP has reversed his thoughts on that) this is video aged beautifully.


Im hoping I get into the recommended for like 10 seconds. I have plans to give back to the community, take time with uploads and try to not sell something to an audience I know they wont buy. This really shouldnt be a marketplace, it should be a forum.


god how that first statement about videos being to long hits so dam close to home with tik tok and youtube shorts, the highly edited long form videos still have large audiences and you get those longer videos bang on 10/10s


Lessons in meme culture: ACTUALLY SEARCHES THE MEMES AND DOCUMENTS THEM LIKE FINE WINE
Behind the meme: literally watches 1 video about it and adds nonsensical stuff

Lessons in meme culture: ACTUALLY SEARCHES THE MEMES AND DOCUMENTS THEM LIKE FINE WINE
Behind the meme: *literally watches 1 video about it and adds nonsensical stuff*


Just found this video today and wondered "where is he wrong? YouTube seems to be alive and well after 3 years".

Well, we were both right. This is not the YouTube I remember... it's been long dead.

This website trained me to think this was all OK, scrolling minutes at a time through the algorithm's clickbait/repetitive content. I barely see my subscriber's videos anymore! W.T.F.

Thank you for waking me up to this problem.

Not that the rest of the video is bad, but both ends of the fourth and sixth points really tell it all.

YouTube changed the algorithm, and by the mid 2010’s uploaders figured out what formats could and couldn’t work through it.

As such, people who upload videos daily that are just long enough to be eligible for ads in bulk get fed views, watch time and recommendations, whereas people who are more inclined to think outside the box release videos that don’t appear in the algorithm because they are unlikely to have the time to upload enough of them.

From the perspective of the advertisers in particular, I see why they would favor the new algorithm because chances are their ads would be more likely to play on a channel that uploads daily, but that leads to a lot of videos that feel very samey, and chances are that advertisers could reach a wider variety of audiences if their ads played on a wider variety of videos.

There are four things that should change about YouTube in particular in my opinion:

1. Change the algorithm back to the way it was originally.

2. Stop censoring videos for being rough, mature, or expressing views you disagree with.

3. Reform the copyright tools to detect what the context of the content used is, allow independent, impartial third parties to review all copyright claims, and set it so that the revenue claimed by claimants is proportional to the percentage of the video that includes the copyrighted content.

And 4. Go back to the old star scale (perhaps in increments of .1 or .5 stars).

Emplemon talked about why people should like dislikes, and why removing them robs people of the opportunity to express a negative reaction or disabling the feature robs the ability to express a positive or negative reaction.

Well the star scale would enable people to express a mixed reaction better than simply like and dislike in my opinion.

Furthermore, your solution to this problem is spot on too, this requires a MACRO-shift in the minds of views, creators, advertisers, and YouTube, all of which will never happen because the formula works and you can't fix what isn't broken. Maybe if we all abandon YouTube, then YouTube will acknowledge this issue, but by then YouTube would be stuck in their ways.

P.S. Yes, I did post a reply to continue my comment because, let's face it, you wouldn't have read a large wall of text otherwise.


I just hope we all realize that this isn’t Susan’s intentions. Some of these problems are still prevalent today but if we try our best to reach out to a YT executive they will comply. Just watch Mr. Moist’s video about his call with Susan.


Thank god i have years of fine tuned subscriptions, i get to watch great channels like Emplemon, LEMMiNO and Kurzgesagt


Damn, this is some real raw features. Never heard Emp so angry.


3 years later, this video still inspires me <3


EMPEROR OF DA LEMONS, YOU ARE SO FUCKING WOKE + INSPIRATIONAL RN, I'M SO PROUD O U!

@DiscoBallGaming they look distinct from ytp.. i've already watched most of em and they got no knowledge over the basics of ytp

Um, I don;t think he's actually woke or anything. He's a smart guy. I'm pretty sure if he was woke, he'd have to have radical leftist tendencies. That's really the best way I can put it. He just doesn't act like that kind of a person.


Of course this video is still relevant today, we haven't done anything to fix YouTube yet


Dude I love your channel.  We’re around the same age so you grew up with the exact same stuff I did, Ed Ed n eddy, spongebob, Jimmy neutron, regular show, simpsons, etc.  I really realized this when you pointed out how shitty fanboy and chum chum was, and same with Johnny test.  I had the exact same reaction to those shows, Johnny test was an absolute last resort, and I just never watched the other show because it seemed so awful.


Im happy i found your channel. A bit late to the party, but now i know that i have a new gold ore to get the truths and laughs from.


Bill Wurtz is one of the surviving channels that represent old Youtube.

@Dusk Raccoon Just watched one of his videos and it was fantastic, Thanks a lot for the recommendation. :)

@Hatted Moron ik about the new vid, its awesome btw, didn't know about him posting anything to his website, kinda forgot he had one

@Weras he said on his website he was learning 3d, and he just posted a new video

"surviving"
last video - 1y ago with title "might quit"

"surviving"
*last video - 1y ago with title "might quit"*

@Dusk Raccoon I fucking LOVE the Angry Video Game Nerd. Possibly the best channel on YouTube. Or, at least, my favorite. <3


Speaking of animations on youtube, I miss battlefield friends from Neebs Gaming or as they were at the time, Hank and Jed


What ruined YouTube

capitalism for normies


This is two years old, but I'm watching it for the first time now and I think this is your best video to date. Keep it up Emp, you're one of the best channels on this site today.<br>Also nice use of Emerson Lake and Palmer in the video!

This is two years old, but I'm watching it for the first time now and I think this is your best video to date. Keep it up Emp, you're one of the best channels on this site today.
Also nice use of Emerson Lake and Palmer in the video!


"Why aren't more people trying to be the next Vsauce or videogamedunkey?"

Naw, the way I hear it, ol' Dunks is done making good videos. Still waiting for Among Us Tuesday from him though.


13:24 and this is why a part of me wishes YouTube still only allowed monetization for larger youtubers. Not everyone should really have monetization.


You can't have other opinions
Well they removed now the dislike button
So again and agian you're right


Damn, I wish born earlier to see this kind of stuff, when that era of YouTube was prevalent,  I was picking boogers watching DanTDM, popularMMOs and a very scarce amount of videos probably from Newgrounds. I was a wee little toddler and I missed the golden age of YouTube


Poor JonTron. He speaked his mind and got outed for it. No one wants any personality anymore, all they want is pretty colors.

Nathan lol he’s taking back his comments and apologized many times. Jon was in a low point in his life, tried to argue with a very talented debater, and was unprepared for the debate. He got pushed into saying dumb stuff but is certainly not a Nazi. You can’t take one bad thing a guy says and try to say that makes him a bad person. We’ve all said terrible things, I just don’t get why you can’t give him a second chance.

Not to mention the guy that debated him thinks it's ok to sleep with children or something like that.

"I like Trump" = Wow, hate speech. Stop this person.

"Orange man bad" = Great! Such a woke and polite person, go to homepage.

If he really is a nazi, what about it? Isnt anyone allowed to speak their opinion? Are you going to censor him for holding that ridiculous opinion? I dont like nazis, but i like censorship less.

@I know I have an incredibly small penis, but >wants white ethnostate
>isn't a Nazi

That's some primo cognitive dissonance there bai

Nathan ok bro stop using the word Nazi. Because if Jon is a Nazi then what are actual nazis? The guy did a goof but he is not a Nazi

Nathan i see tou cant handle other opinions. i dont see him being a new hitler so whats the problem?

@Nathan That nonsence happened almost 2 years ago and eveyone jsut moved on, can't you just let it go yourself?

@Nathan Show me proof. I'm not doubting you, I just want the evidence.

@Cobalt people who arent nazis are the /problem? How delusional are you people?

@Cobalt what happened with jontron? im not really on date with most of this things.

@Nathan No, and you're part of the problem.

Not to mention his fellow youtubers cashing on that.


I respect you man, I use the tactics as YouTubers did in early YouTube.


If you removed every time he said 2017 and showed me this video I wouldn’t be able to tell when it came out in the last 5 years


Just came back after the dislikes are gone, plus an anime YouTuber just lost 150 videos in a single day, this surely feels more and more prophetic the more the days pass by


The reminding to subscribe thing is so common in videos nowadays that my brain automatically filters out the phrase now


Can we get a part 2? 4 years later with all the stuff that's going on now on YouTube.


Normally I just listen to the audio of videos while playing video games so when the text part came on I was like, “That’s an odd choice, having a music segment in the video…”


9:10
I miss the days when youtube was great,but now it's just playing it safe instead of going wild.

Also don't they have a YOUTUBE for kids,so why don't they just go and port every kid friendly content there.

Thanks for a inspirational speech I will never forget that.


as a guy who watches modern ytps, this is deeply upsetting


Tbh, so long as people enjoy it w/e. Low effort content is like fast food, yea its shit but it can be nice


About let's play channels... It's so good that exist out there channels that upload non-commentary, 100% playthroughs.


There's 2 reasons why people went to youtube instead of TV. 1) choice of content. 2) Lack of ads. Look at youtube now, LOOK AT IT!


The comparison with modern youtube to television was really eye-opening. It still holds true to this day.

Used to think that when tv was garbage youtube was good but tv was garbage then and now


I support mediocre and low effort content, yet still agree with almost everything else in this video.


Funnily enough because of how the algorithm works getting users who no longer watch your content to unsubscribe from you, is the best way to grow a channel.

Because every time a subscriber doesnt click on your shiny new video it gets sent to purgatory for not being popular enough, thus sending your channel into an endless pit where your own popularity from a trend throws your channel into deep obscurity.

Example, let's say you make content about things you enjoy. People come watch your content who are interested. If one of your random videos gets "trendy" and gets big spike in views the next video you put out, if it's not related or as popular as the better performing videos youtube will straight up just not show your uploads. Because the algorithm has deemed your content as non engaging.


Some of the comments in the newest first section just don't get the state that YouTube is in

They're literally a part of the problem Emp's describing, sad myopic people who can't be fucking assed to pay any attention to what's happening and who won't until it's too late.


"Because you have done nothing but watch TF2 for 3 days"<br>I see what you did there

"Because you have done nothing but watch TF2 for 3 days"
I see what you did there


don't get me wrong, i hate the shit that people output nowadays 90% of the time,

but i love the new interest in retrospective videos and responses which are genuinely entertaining and make me think about the common youtube video format


If you want a sitewide community of exceptional quality animations, then there's always Newgrounds.


Oh man, if only there were more people like you on yt. I'm 15 minutes in and totally agree with everything you say. Like you did with behind the meme, you should make a video highlighting pages that make repetitive, generic content like infinitelists, durv, mastersaint etc and INFLUENCE others like you to agree with you and make MORE videos, and maybe get the actual bad content creators to see what they're doing so shit and why there's more to YouTube than ad revenue.

finnjet2208 even though I’m a pretty small channel, I’m actually working on an infinite lists rant. But I’m not sure when it will be done.


I guess the problem with the audience is that most of them grew up watching YouTube after Golden Age, so they don't understand. Nowadays YouTube is their normal. (Myself included)


almost half a decade later and this is still relevant.


Its honestly sad how true this video is to this day


I cant believe i literally watched emplemon rant about youtube for an hour and loved it.


It is so difficult to find quality content here on YouTube I agree because it is so rare that I find a new channel that's unique and actually interests me

@Eric Glenn nah I'm not one of those people I am actually quite happy with when I was born

This reads like one of those "Born in the wrong generation" comments you see in any music video comment section


Just found this video, I remember the good times when I was 8 and was watching funny af animations and great content, I feel like crap because of the way YouTube is rn


I watched this video the whole way, and I wanna say:
-I liked your deleted skit.
-The lists of why old YouTube was good and why new YouTube was shit was well made, researched, and edited.
-I'm glad to see your subscribed list returning to Pre-DownwardSpiral era levels.


With the actman stuff that’s going on this video is more correct than ever.


I believe that this video still holds quite well.


The end of this video was depressingly prophetic. I shudder to think of what Emp thought about YouTube removing dislikes a few months back.

You can see what he thought by going on his Twitter


Building on the always asking to subscribe argument. It's also annoying when they say "looks like 90% of the people viewing my videos aren't subbed." It's pissess me off so much becuase when I watch a video of a channel I have never seen before, I dont instantly subscribe. I watch a few videos to see if the channel as a whole is good. When a person does this, I usually stop watching them. Also on an unrelated note, there have been a few youtubers like spike viper or the waffle galaxy that were good and unique many years ago but have recently become more cash grubby and just plain low quality.

I saw a YouTuber (who is openly, and humorously self deprecating about his ego) do that a few times.

Rusty Buckets, a pretty good basketball YouTuber.

Also an example of someone who does, and doesn’t fit this video:

His intro is an EDM track, and a good portion are 10-15 minutes in length (but the topics he covers don’t feel stretched or shortened either way), and some involve more complex or drawn out arguments that don’t cherry pick.

Call it someone who half follows the established format generally, and also is themself from a content perspective while doing it.


Not gonna lie, I was thinking that this needed a 2019 revamp, but then I realized that nothing has changed at all. If anything, it got worse...somehow..

Ah yes, ads on non monetized videos, even worse

ahahaha welcome to 2020. Oh it's almost 2021. Please person in the future reply to this so we can all enjoy how much more fucked up youtube has become :)

Something i notice is... i don't watch videos anymore, i just listen to music now

And it gets even fucking worse ONLY A YEAR LATER!

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@Poor Pescado 1000  it was a blessing but a cursed

@Pyro Kujo (hiatus) tbh, coppa was a good thing.


26:05 - Using footage from one of Kitty0706's videos while describing the "old breed" of YouTubers was so perfectly fitting


Good god and youtube is even worse now than it was in 2017...


we are going to 2022 and still so actual.


Crazy how this video is about 3 and a half years old and if I hadn't looked at the release date in the description I almost wouldn't have even known. Seems like nothing's really changed since then.


YouTube is dead. It's normie.

It's never going back.

All we can do is wait for another form of media actually run by ambition.

its not that its normie, its that its corporate and being tuned to ensure they can enact sociopolitical change they want via influence

How about Bitchute? No censorship. If enough people migrate there, it could become a serious competitor to YouTube.

@Pseudo Nym I'm not even planning on exposing YouTube itself, I'm planning on exposing the crap that is put on YouTube.

Show advertisers how bad the site has been, and YouTube will scramble to fix itself.

@Tornado Mimi Cyclone IDK why you're telling me all this, but whatever, cool idea I guess. YouTube is very good at surviving bad PR if that's what you're planning on doing so I doubt this idea will go anywhere, but hey, I've been wrong before, prove me wrong and I'll gladly eat my words.

@Pseudo Nym My idea right now is to try to change it from within: Create many channels (should be easy with Google's Pages system) to tell Advertisers to stop supporting a company with such awful business practices (possibly by showing them YouTube's PR disasters over the years, as well as corporate videos that are arguably MUCH worse [example: plane crash compilations] than what the average individual puts out [example: independent animation].), and watch as Google is FORCED to respond. Matt Watson used a similar technique, and it seemingly worked.

@Tornado Mimi Cyclone No, it's a year old. https://imgur.com/a/GzZ2gBX Look at the age of my comment according to YouTube.

Anyhow, until we get this "New York Tube Company" you speak of one day, we can't realistically expect content creators to pay for their food and housing using Dailymotion or Bitchute; again, I haven't heard of anyone being able to make a living off of any of the sites you listed (as of the time of writing, at least). If a system, be it legislature or otherwise, were in place to provide creators with some sort of protection and sustainability, then maybe it would be a different story. But until that happens, the fact is just plain and simple: it is not realistic to expect content creators to use Dailymotion as an alternative to YouTube to pay for their food; YouTube is atrocious as a corporate entity, but what other options do we have?

@Pseudo Nym  One, it's TWO years old. Not a year old.

Two, it's like what comes first: the chicken or the egg. Giant Advertisers don't come to sites with smaller userbases, and sites with smaller userbases don't come to giant Advertisers.

However, I think there's a good solution: recreating the Bell System in the form of a "Tube System".

Imagine: "YouTube Pacific" or "New York Tube Company"

It might be the only way to protect creators from the system, but it will hopefully be VERY effective. ESPECIALLY if it gets split up somewhere down the line.

@Tornado Mimi Cyclone Imagine looking at a year old comment and assuming that those alternatives were at all competitive with YouTube at the time the comment was made.

Although...even now, I would say those alternatives are still not at all competitive with YouTube. Is it even possible for you to make a living off of Dailymotion? Does Bitchute even have the required viewership for you to get enough ad revenue to pay for your housing? I haven’t heard of anyone making a living off of Bitchute or Dailymotion. However, I have heard of people making a living off of YouTube. So unless Dailymotion has enough viewers to make the ad revenue competitive with YouTube, I don’t see any of the alternatives you list as a suitable alternative for content creators who wish to sustain themselves in the online video market.

Maybe if sponsors were willing to fund Dailymotion videos, then I could see it happening somewhat, but sponsors only do this with videos that get enough viewership. And considering Dailymotion has a smaller viewership than YouTube does, I see it as something that is highly unlikely.

It's not happening. YouTube has no competition. Even if YouTube is a dead husk of its former self, we have no choice but to eat that dead body because what's the alternative?

Hehe Le Normiezzz..... xD :DDDDD plz upvote???

SteaMonkey theres a site called vidlii its actually like old yt

theres vidlly, an old version of YouTube we can still use, but nfkrz fucked the servers last year so no internet, good content, good internet, mostly shit content

that will happen only if one of us create a web site and call us and make it our territory... but it is not hard to create the darn website the problem is call the guys that you want to go to your website to go to it because of the fucket up youtube algorism the video about the new website will be 99.9% of the chances not even get a single view or even if it grows we will just watch it dies again like youtube... i think

22:32 at least we have exurb1a when our citrus is breaking his brain. Honestly I feel bad for him.

We can't give up! The best we can do is resist for as long as we can!

Make it yourself! <b>B R O A D C A S T Y O U R S E L F</b>

Make it yourself! *B R O A D C A S T Y O U R S E L F*

Make it then. Make a new media platform or make a better trending page. This is capitalism my dude

Everything in this world, media or otherwise, will serve you despair. Hopes will get you nowhere, dreams will get you crushed, you can either except this fact and find selfish peace or you can stand up and try to make a difference

but you can't, not through normal means. Only through total destruction can you make permanent changes. However, it's possible even those scars will get covered up. The only thing left to do is

drown.

Vidme is dead<br>Were you not there for that?

Vidme is dead
Were you not there for that?

4chan said the same about pepe and look at it now

SteaMonkey If you build it they will meme

indeepj yes everyone's brains turned to mush watching endless pewdiepie and top ten videos we need to take things into our own hands and bring back a golden decade of YouTube once more

atomic doomsday58  Nobody Realises That We Should, Nobody Notices That We Must Take Over, Nobody Realises Anything Nowadays.

Either Wait For Another Form Of Media Or Take Over.

Social Media in general is now run by normies, and the biggest reason is that there is money involved. Look original content is great, it’s new, requires more effort, and usually is highly appreciated, but one thing it will never be good at is making money. Making original content popular is way harder and riskier to do than making a well established carbon copy piece of content popular. So shitty content will always beat out great content in popularity, even though every viewer and critic hates it.

There's Vidlii which is most definitely odd.

SteaMonkey Remember the days of shit like Black Jack octagon ytp videos and shit like "8 Awesome Angles of Youtube"...ah thats the kind of shiet i watched when i was a kid on youtube, when it was about passion and creativity here.

youtube has been normie for the longest time dude

Nirvana Paradox I don't mind people who think they're 'normal' as long as they don't turn everything into a pisspool of commercialised content like mainstream media does (Aka Normies)

Can't have things being normal, can we. That's just "weird". Lol...


This makes me feel like if i try, it really ain't gonna work.


I think the problem is youtube used to be social media but now its a shitty cosplay of television, and also a huge game of king of the hill

YouTube used to be like Bravo UK (the things that advertisers wouldn't like), but now they're like Bravo USA.

I've actually made friends on YT back when it was actually a social media site. I used it more than Myspace. I miss messaging people on here and customizing my profile. Then it got bought out by Google.... Ugh.

I sell clickbait and clickbait accessories.


29:18 this has a bit too much truth in it


part of the reason i subbed to emp is because i've never heard of a youtuber telling people to *un*subscribe, and i knew i had to sub to this madlad


You are one of my favorite new channels I’ve found. Holy crap. I knew Youtube had become hollow and soulless lately but man you summed it up perfectly...OVER A YEAY AGO! It’s only gotten worse! Amazing how we’re close to the same age yet you’ve actually been making content on this god forsaken site for years...and you still do. You still get in front of that mic and upload EXCELLENT content. Like some kind of friendly internet Spider-man. Pretty impressive, I guess it’s true what they say. Fans are the harshest critics. Keep up the great work. (So long as you feel like it)

Ps: That analogy of the tree canopy sucking up all the sunlight and forcing the underbrush to starve in the shade was really great.


I feel like the watch time change COULD have been good if it was video watch time %, for example, a 5 min high quality animation, if fully viewed would give the same amount of priority in the algorithm as if you fully watched a low quality 30 min video.


I haven't even watched this video yet but I think we need a part 2, considering How old this one is, and YouTube is still on a downward spiral

Honestly come this August it'd be cool if there was a 5 year revisit


And it's been on a downward spiral ever since lol


It's funny cuz after all this, I love this channel and only learned about it like 1 or 2 years ago


To me, the whole situation with YouTube started with the Viacom lawsuit, which led to YouTube basically bowing down to corporations and thus turning the entire site from a video-based social network where people could share independent works to nothing more than an advertising platform for big corporations who have all say in what goes on.

Because of YouTube's horrible algorithm, all the "trending" media is crafted for normies and ONLY normies, and that's why you keep getting videos that are about current trends such as fidget spinners or 1000 degree knife videos, because they're strictly made for normies and nobody else. It's become impossible to find anything that's niche, and more than half of the time I'm on YouTube, I struggle to find anything to watch that isn't a "hip" and "trendy" thing. All I ever really watch are movie review channels, anime channels, and the few niche channels that I am still subscribed to.


The asking people to subscribe thing is actually proven to dramatically increase subscriber gain. Apparently everyone really is too stupid to remember to press the subscribe button.

When I came across this comment, I had to contemplate life for a minute.


Since I work 6 days a week, upwards of 14 hours a day, your videos ARENT LONG ENOUGH!!


I just found your channel and you you have the best content. I also hate YouTube for what it has become. Keep cool my dude. :-D


It’s been 3 years and this is more relevant than ever


Pyrocynical is actually a good channel, and he is very adamant of the fact that he has to comply to the algorithm in order to stay afloat.  No, he's far from a leafy clone (at least not anymore), and he's quite entertaining.  I'd give his latest videos a try


This is the best youtube video on youtube, pure honesty


Whoa dude...this is golden shit right here ill tell hwhat!


A lot of people are saying nothing's changed and that this video's still 100% accurate, but I'd say the proliferation of video essay and commentary channels in the past half decade shows that the attention span of the average youtube viewer is drastically different than it was in 2017. There's a fucking VERITASIUM video that came out 5 days ago with almost 6 million views right now, look at how successful the Never Ever series has become, that shit's on my home page almost every day. Maybe it's just that youtube has gotten much better at showing the user what they specifically want, but that's definitely a DIFFERENT problem with the algorithm than existed back then.


Youtube is even worse today. The algorithm literally just recommends videos I’ve already watched, and nothing else. I always press “not interested” on the video and then “I’ve already watched it” but it hasn’t had any effect on the algorithm WHATSOEVER and it’s impossible for me to be entertained unless i go out of my way to find personal recommendations from other humans

@Anonymous I’ll start to know what they’re gonna say before they say it and i get so mad

I get this same damn problem, like bro wtf stop givin me the same exact shit

Who fucking designed this?? I feel like a schizophrenic hearing the same stuff play over and over and over and over and over again (not exaggerating, Morges’s hour long Shane Dawson documentary has actually autoplayed itself a total of 10 times unless i go and stop it.) That isn’t how fucking human brains work. They need STIMULATION not fucking repeated mcdonalds quality content that makes you feel like you are going insane after the 10th listen


Damn. Of all the YouTubers I've ever seen, you might just be my inspiration. Hell, you have a massive influence over a lot of people. I have always wanted to be an independent YouTuber (haven't started yet), but with all the problems you were mentioning about YouTube was actually getting me immensely worried about how I may want to begin. Like I said before, I love YouTube Poop. YouTube Poop is not just art to me. It's a whole new world, separate from this poor excuse for a reality we live in. They are what makes me laugh. There were actually a few that made me cry. They are what makes my head spin, and my heart skip. They are what brightens a gray sky for me. YouTube Poop is what I watch to rejuvenate and invigorate my senses. I just can't get enough of it. However, I don't think I have what it takes to make one myself. Sure, I have ideas, but I need the equipment to do it, and the knowledge to use it. If YouTube is a job, I intend to enjoy my job. I have to treat my job like it's something I'm going to do for the rest of my life, and if I don't enjoy it, why do I have it? When you mentioned WatchMojo, I looked back to when I would watch them back-to-back, and holy shit. You were right. I was actually subscribed to them for a long time. A problem I intend to fix very soon. I have always loved countdown videos, and I still do, but YouTube Poop is my primary source of entertainment. I think what I love most about them is that they are not only completely unpredictable, but also genuinely unique to each person who makes one, even if it is of the same clips of the same movie or TV show. Everything is done differently. No two YTP's are the same. And the way you made them was just the way I like them. Completely over-the-top, and no lack in variety. Personally, a video is more to me than just a video. It's a memory. Memories of my own adventures. Memories of the friends I made them with. Memories of accomplishment. A testament to my time in this world. Not something I'm literally severing my personality for. YouTube, the way it's going, is like a Concentration Camp. You overwork yourself with shit you are forced into, and they shove all these rules down your throat, and for what? A spoonful of soup juice each day, lucky to find a chunk of...something in there. One step out of line, and it's off to the gas chamber with you (and your crew, if you have one). All kingdoms need some rebellion every now and then. It would be boring otherwise. Thank you for showing us the true face of YouTube.


This video is fucking amazing because will speak the truth of YouTube at any time even now


Wait till he hears, about what they did to the dislike button lol 😂


I enjoyed every minute of this guy insulting me in my face about YouTube


Emp: says he doesn't want YouTube audience to subscribe to him because his videos are too complex for them to understand
Also emp: creates YTPs

Emp: *says he doesn't want YouTube audience to subscribe to him because his videos are too complex for them to understand*
Also emp: *creates YTPs*

that face when you still assume he still makes ytps<br>jesus he already stopped a long time ago and has been making videos about documentary of why something devolved today

that face when you still assume he still makes ytps
jesus he already stopped a long time ago and has been making videos about documentary of why something devolved today


I so wanted to hate you for ragging on my dawg, BTM, but it turns out your arguments are very valid and your opinions about YT's future are justified. Keep doing you, respect.

IS THIS A REASONABLE PERSON ONLINE? HOW CAN THIS BE POSSIBLE??? WE HAVE REACHED INFINITY!!!

Fortunate Talisman I also really agree with this video even though I really like Pyrocynical.

This is the first time I've seen a comment like this it makes me happy that at least some people can see and anaylize stuff instead of watching 2minutes and hating

Leave youtube to die So <b>VIDME REPLACES IT</b>

Leave youtube to die So *VIDME REPLACES IT*

I wish more fans of things or people were as open-minded as you. Ironically, many of EmpLemons' "fans" are more closed-minded! EmpLemon even said so himself!


Maybe Google should’ve listened to Emp when it came to that whole be creative and try to do your own thing rather than copy other businesses thing seeing how their whole attempt at getting into the video game market worked out.


Oh don't mind me, I'm here for my annual re-watch of this glorious video.


its funny that youtube changes so much in the years since you started, and hasnt changed one bit since this video


Really enjoy what you said around 46:00.  I'm 18.  I remember watching the glory days of YT.  Each time I would go to the site I was exited.  Then about 3 years ago.  People like Filthy Frank ans H3H3 came starting to gain mass influence.  I thought that YT was becoming great again.  Only until this past year YT SHUT ALL of that down.  And it sucks because the old videos on YT effected our society.  now days it is just shit on a stick, and the people who watch are brainless morons.

  and even the new edgy channels that were deemed as the ones to save YT, are nothing like they used to be.  Like for instance Filthy Frank (even though I love him still).  Is nothing like it used to be years ago.  Now it is just filled with edgy kids.  Remember when a Quickscope video in 2009 would get millions of views?  Also remember when a simple Lego stopmotion video would get 10million views?  Hell even when Minecraft videos like in 2010 was watched by all ages and was enjoyable.  That was when the site was innocent somewhat and the content was new.  Now the site is just filled with vile kids.  And gave no choice to a more aware audience to move to the shadows or just move on in life.  YT used to be like watching cartoons in the morning on the weekends with a bowl of cereal.  Now it is like a hell fire coming out satans asshole.  Love you all.

ItsOver666!!!!! Yeah... about that, Maxmoefoe is even worse.

duyhung 2h The guy isn't funny either. His humour consists of making weird sounds, kissing men in their lips, eating vomit, and covering himself in weird fluids. He always does nasty things which make me want to puke.

ItsOver666  It's really not obvious to understand his humor, actually. But i agree, that video is a bit over-the-top.

Filthy Frank is disgusting. Eating a cake filled with human parts isn't entertaining, it's sickening.


"Youtube has been on a downward spiral"
always has been

"Youtube has been on a downward spiral"
*always has been*


I wish this video would stop aging so well

This video is aging like milk, but instead of aging like milk in the usual way it's just turning into cheese


yeesh, watching this video when I was 12 and rewatching it now... Emp really hit the nail on the head


27:00 That sentence could not be more true on youtube nowadays even if it tried.


Being at the bottom of the YouTube food chain much like everyone else here is, I gladly bring myself to watch this video all the way through at least once a month or maybe even twice to remind myself how much this site has fallen from grace.

Speaking as a casual browser of YouTube when it was new (even when my account didn’t exist), it’s a real shame to see this website become a shadow of it’s former self with very few people being honest, coming up with ideas that aren’t the same mass-produced stuff you see everywhere, and treating their channels like a fun little hobby. I especially feel insulted whenever YouTube treats their content creators like shit and even pretend they’re completely innocent and not doing anything wrong.

I feel like it’s only a matter of time before YouTube fades into obscurity because of their blatant “mistakes”, creators’ over-saturated and uninspired content, and system where small channels can’t get anywhere on their own...

Sunny you shouldn't because it's only making the site worse

Charmy The Charizard I hoped so too, but I think at this point it’s another one of those cases of “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.” I might just make a Fortnite clips or Toy reviews and get big that way (with clickbait thumbnails). It seems like such an easy way to make money, you’d be stupid NOT to join in.

Charmy The Charizard I hope so if not I'll have to give up on making good content on this site one day

I never lived to see the Golden Days of YouTube, but judging how people like Emp tell that Content Creator Sanctuary was, I can simply only DREAM of the "What if YouTube remained good?"

Also, you think you're at the bottom of the YT food chain with 1.8k subs, when I only achieved 30, and a friend's is just growing with shitty content, while mine just sinks with actual GMod animation (shitty but animation)

I think it is reasonable to infer that effort isn't worth a try nowdays, and we can only watch as YouTube continues to rot away, but there's still hope, many people BASHED this year's Rewind (2018) and turned it into the 2nd most disliked videos of all time, so, if the Jew of Susan gets put to shame like this year consistantly, it is possible they will change for the better.

The Hypest make a new website for the real content creators and leave YouTube for the shitty corporate and copy paste channels


27:27 well emp fun fact when you repeat something enough times people will believe it it a common form of manipulation so yeah you tubers are fake snakes but at least there good at something


Love the Ultimate Showdown in the background. Lemon Demon good.


I hate awesome videos that are too short.. so jeah just continue making documentarys :)


Since this video was uploaded, I've been coming back to it yearly. Every year YT seems to fuck up and this shit happens. 2018 it was the Logan Paul situation and the YT headquarters shooting, 2019 it was when YouTube tried to fuck over the qualifications for channel verification, 2020 was just the whole year, and now, in 2021, it's YouTube trying to remove the dislikes.
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11/10/2021 EDIT: YOUTUBE IS DOING IT, DISLIKES ARE DEAD NOW. JOIN THE SPIRAL🌀🔄♻🔻❗👇

@Staringcorgi6 agreed. Utter insanity we live in nowadays

@electrik løss I think removing dislikes is an awful thing to do no one wanted it removed and to quote a wise man "dislikes don't harm people it harms egos"


Its really sad that this video isnt watched by more people.

Ruin39 no it's not more people need to help improve the site which means more people need to watch this

Normies wouldn't understand it so its better to be this way.


And he made this in <b>2017.</b> Can't wait for Part 2 on 2022 for the Fifth Anniversary of the platform getting worse and worse.

And he made this in *2017.* Can't wait for Part 2 on 2022 for the Fifth Anniversary of the platform getting worse and worse.


Jesus, this is almost 4 years old and it could have been made today


Tubes shouldn't only be made by the people, they should be run by the people. Nationalize youtube and make it run by the people. We all need a video sharing platform of reference, you don't need Google or some big corp to run it.


This video sparked the Golden Age of EmpLemon


I miss when the homepage actually had an inbox where comments, personal messages, and new subscribers were listed in their own categories, with a red asterisk to grab your attention when there were new ones to read, and links to your own channel, favorites list, and video manager were in the top right corner of the screen. Now, you have to click your channel icon and pull up a dropdown window and go into that ridiculous "Creator Studio" thing and go through several steps to find your video manager, channel, favorites list, and new comments on your videos since the notification bell only tells you SOME of the new comments you get. I've had to create bookmarks on my browser with links to all those individual pages since YT has now made it so needlessly complicated to access them. Ugh...

I had no notifications for almost a year because they disabled the google+ side of things without automatically reactivating my youtube notifications. I had to go through several pages of non-intuitive settings to reactivate them.

Then you're especially not gonna like how they're now gonna take out private messaging. I don't even understand the reason behind it, but it's happening.

God, finally someone points this bullshit out. I once typed a comment that got 400 likes and 62 replies. YouTube only notified me of about three of those comments.

I wish for the day when clickbait shits become extinct & submit to good channels.

wow that's a lot of shells, the teenage mutant ninja turtles must be impressed

I feel like Youtube is just a shell of the shell of itself that used to be a shell of itself

I liked when your Google+ and YouTube comments were both in the same notification menu, and you could respond to YouTube comments in said menu like on Google+.

NOT ANYMORE

I liked when your Google+ and YouTube comments were both in the same notification menu, and you could respond to YouTube comments in said menu like on Google+.

*NOT ANYMORE*


i love how he put 'The Ultimate Showdown in the bachground at 14:00 because of the newgrounds stuff, a very nice touch / easter egg


This video has never been more relevant in the age of content creators who put little to no effort in actually making original content like dream,tommyinnit,etc.


The most well written script out of all of his videos


Youtube disaster timeline:

2012-2013: animation dies out

2014: the rise of buzzfeed, watchmojo and fine bros

2015: clickbaiting is becoming really bad

2016: clickbaiting becomes really, really, really bad

2017: the viner invasion

Edit: 2017 also had the AdPocalypse, restricted mode, fidget spinners, diss tracks, YT and the Las Vegas shooting, Jake Paul Drama, Idubbbz termination and discrimination, FilthyFrank quitting, many useless layout changes and the worst one of them all: DEMONITIZATION!

I can say fine bros did a good content until they messed up about the legal property of their content. There some vines that is worth watching although most of them are cringy but other than that Angry Deep Fried Chicken<br>all you say has a point.

I can say fine bros did a good content until they messed up about the legal property of their content. There some vines that is worth watching although most of them are cringy but other than that Angry Deep Fried Chicken
all you say has a point.

and in 2017: SML Getting False Flagged, and apparently YouTube loved what they did, so then YouTube keeps Demonetizing and Age-Restricting his New-ish videos and even Family Friendly videos!

In the 2012-2013 era and prior, animation was BOOMING. The most popular I could find was "EddsWorld" (which I watched myself), and after Edd Gould passed away in March 2012, animation was stopped for a moment. Everyone who looked up to him and time itself on YouTube, stopped. That's when animation started to die out. That's why EddsWorld had its series finale on March 16, 2016, and the other animations just were shit. NOBODY on YouTube likes the classic YouTube videos anymore. They only like WatchMojo, Buzzfeed, Jake/Logan Paul, fidget spinners, and the Tide Pod Challenge. You are a respectable person, dude.<br>                                                 Thank you.

In the 2012-2013 era and prior, animation was BOOMING. The most popular I could find was "EddsWorld" (which I watched myself), and after Edd Gould passed away in March 2012, animation was stopped for a moment. Everyone who looked up to him and time itself on YouTube, stopped. That's when animation started to die out. That's why EddsWorld had its series finale on March 16, 2016, and the other animations just were shit. NOBODY on YouTube likes the classic YouTube videos anymore. They only like WatchMojo, Buzzfeed, Jake/Logan Paul, fidget spinners, and the Tide Pod Challenge. You are a respectable person, dude.
                                                 Thank you.

BaltyRaven by 2019 the only videos on the site will be sports videos, talk show hosts talking about trump and logan paul poking a dead body.

Whitehot Pot the sad reality is that I would not be surprised if they do it

Angry Deep Fried Chicken 2018: the search bar is removed and you have to watch videos recommended by the algorithm


Ay listen I have absolutely ZERO problems about this being a hour long video...i can listen to empLEMON for hours😝


this video was so good and thanks I’m gonna put out the music and content I fucking want to from this point


wait, 2017?? i thought this was recent<br>jesus its only getting worse

wait, 2017?? i thought this was recent
jesus its only getting worse


This video is very true, anyone who disliked cant face whats going on in youtube

It's 2021, they don't even have a choice to dislike it anymore lmao.

Marcel Leon People who disliked it are Youtube workers


Now it is kinda ironic to say animation is bad now when you have odd1sout, jaiden animations, tim tom, something else yt, let me explain studios and illyanimations pumping out amazing content


Fun fact about the algorithm.   Early in 2021, I suddenly started getting dozens of comments on a video of mine for a different channel, the views had jumped from a couple hundred, to over 8,000.  Like oh hell, what video could have possibly triggered YT to list it?  A 40 second video response to a Chuggaconroy Let's Play from 2010.  First we need to go back to pre-2010, because in addition to leaving comments on videos, we had a feature known as video responses.  You could submit a video response to a creator and most times it would be approved as a mutual network to spread videos and attention...course YT felt inclined to remove it, 2012 I think?  YT for some reason picked that video out, nearly 12 years after being uploaded, after the video response aspect was removed...who knows.

Also anyone else find it funny that YT used to limit non partners to 10 minutes or less...and now punish people for choosing to keep videos short and tack on a lot of filler/fat.


2021 now, video is still true.
ive been on youtube since 2012 on multiple suspended accounts (ironic right?) and its still dogshit.
i wish youtube closed, i mainly use it to rip songs to mp3s.


Man i wish i could have witnessed the old youtube...


I am going to leave this video on on my back ground and be played over and over and over<br>Till it becomes "trending"

I am going to leave this video on on my back ground and be played over and over and over
Till it becomes "trending"

time to abuse the system.<br>time to use THE MACHINE to our advantage

time to abuse the system.
time to use THE MACHINE to our advantage

HELL SPOON we need to spread it EVERYWHERE!!

So, what? You're applying the experiment made 2 weeks from now until the YouTube zombies can see it? Actually, that is a f***ing great idea!

Sorry for censoring this comment. Apparently YouTube has created a new revenue system for comments which adhere to the rule of thoughtless and vapid as long as it doesn't have swearing.


This is actually a really good video I’d like to see something like this with how pewdiepie jack and other really popular you tubers have just spammed their favorite tik tok videos as their new videos


The most satisfying thing is when you go and search stuff and find small channels that you still watch to this day


Did you know there’s a thing called the negatively bias wich means negatively effects us more than positive experiences wich is why negative videos get more views


I like ytps well enough, but I have really sensitive hearing, so I can do without the ear rape. Honestly, the day that ear rape does, ytp videos will be my main subscriptions.


Papa emp, i wanna say your content is some of the best ive ever seen. I wanna share this vid to my friends but ill make sure that i show them your main content so if they subscribe its for the right reasons. what we need is a site that can actually compete with youtube, a site that can have complete freedom. sadly theres no alternative, we just have to watch the actual good content that we have found.

Yeah i guess "your friends" are also one of those people who have a attention span of 10 minutes. Good luck with changing them buddy.


I keep coming back to this every couple months or so for inspiration


Even 4 years later the downward spiral continues... 😭😭😭


Hey man you got good taste in music, glad to see anyone else knows about ELP


It's funny I've followed you since ur early YouTube poop days and then youtube made me forget bout you. Couple days ago I rediscovered you and I am blessed to know that you're still around and your content have gotten amazingly good! Keep it up Emplemon! You're one of the few who isnt plague by a corporation

Your kidding emplemon is making commentary and documentary crap like everyone else on this damn site


20:29 holy shit over 2 years later I find out that this is Tarkus playing in the background


18:10
Correction: Fernanfloo has been on Youtube since 2011-2012 and has been an important part of spanish Youtube since his rise to fame.


this man right here is a pink floyd fan; this is the second video where ive seen a reference to the album "wish you were here", the other being the album art for it appearing in the one about video games decreasing in quality. Here "welcome to the machine" plays briefly at around the 17:00 mark


Emplemon's youtube age is 110

Edit: the real question is what is his power level


Holy shit I forgot how much we needed this video at the time. I’m not sure if I just started to ignore it or if something actually happened


I've watched this whole thing and I must say, this is probably one of the most important videos I've ever seen in my entire life! This opened my eyes and made the light shine in. Us content creators are in grave danger of loosing what we've worked on and toward. I may reconsider how I do my content after seeing this. I may even listen to this a couple times as motivation while I get my work done.


I enjoy that even if it's almost an hour you still know that he put time and effort into it


I keep this video in a special place.

Being around since the early days of YouTube (on a different account because my old account got suspended despite me only using it to manage my subscriptions - they never told me what I violated, or even that I violated), I was one of the many people who had the dream of recognition. I wasn't (arguably, still am not) talented or outgoing or charismatic. I was an awkward, spotty teen. But YouTube was such a melting pot of content that I was told that there was something I could do, some way I could refactor this light in my chest and channel it in a way that other people would be interested.

Back then, being "the number one" on YouTube meant nothing. It was so diverse and strange that it was impossible to meaningfully extrapolate your numbers into any measure of success. Every single channel was its own microcosm, and going from one to another to another to another was a short, simple hop across the void. It was the Internet equivalent of "this store doesn't sell the flavour of Mountain Dew I like, but the one across the street might", then you go over there and discover like twenty flavours of Monster Energy, but no Doritos, but the store next door sells those (you were only interested in original, but they also sell cheesy and cool ranch , so that's awesome).
Now everyone is trying to be Walmart. All of the corner shops and mom-n-pop stores went out of business.

That's the problem: the ecosystem of YouTube has changed too much in order to encourage homogeneity. Because homogenous content is free of anything radical or polarising or interesting, and it's easier to monetise. It's not sufficient to "be the change you wish to see". Even if everyone did that, it wouldn't be enough. YouTube has been rotten to its core. The Buddhists say it to the effect of "the pursuit of money is the root of all suffering", and the ecosystem no longer supports the content creators of yore. The fact that one of the top criteria all channels are graded on is "Advertiser-Friendliness", and even if you had no intent to capitalise on your content, failing that criterion will literally decimate your chances. That this is even a criterion that channel owners can observe for themselves is indicative of the corruption that has wrapped around YouTube's creative heart. Search for 'The Tower Dog Leaks' and you'll see just how many eggs YouTube puts in the ad basket, and gag on the sulphur as you notice that they all rotted long ago.

YouTube is beyond saving. It has been so horrendously mismanaged that the extent of the damage is beyond the site itself - it's cultural. Even if their server farm exploded and they had to start over again, it's still irrevocably tainted. 'YouTube' is synonomous with bland, inoffencive, identical slurry. Edgy content like IDubbbz is marginalised, controversial content like Joshua Conner Moon is destroyed. Now everyone is trying to be PewDiePie or Jake Paul and everything is TikTok and Vine revival vids.

YouTube is not worth rising to the top. YouTube is an infernal furnace. And what do you call things that rise to the top of a furnace?
You call it slag. And you scoop it off and throw it away. When the people who define what 'the top' is are the advertisers, I no longer want to rise to the top of something that has sold its prestige. And neither should you. Go out and kick a football.

I keep this video in a special place.

Being around since the early days of YouTube (on a different account because my old account got suspended despite me only using it to manage my subscriptions - they never told me what I violated, or even _that_ I violated), I was one of the many people who had the dream of recognition. I wasn't (arguably, _still_ am not) talented or outgoing or charismatic. I was an awkward, spotty teen. But YouTube was such a melting pot of content that I was told that there was _something_ I could do, _some way_ I could refactor this light in my chest and channel it in a way that other people would be interested.

Back then, being "the number one" on YouTube meant nothing. It was so diverse and strange that it was impossible to meaningfully extrapolate your numbers into any measure of success. Every single channel was its own microcosm, and going from one to another to another to another was a short, simple hop across the void. It was the Internet equivalent of "this store doesn't sell the flavour of Mountain Dew I like, but the one across the street might", then you go over there and discover like twenty flavours of Monster Energy, but no Doritos, but the store _next door_ sells those (you were only interested in original, but they also sell cheesy and cool ranch , so that's awesome).
Now everyone is trying to be Walmart. All of the corner shops and mom-n-pop stores went out of business.

That's the problem: the ecosystem of YouTube has changed too much in order to encourage homogeneity. Because homogenous content is free of anything radical or polarising or interesting, and it's easier to monetise. It's not sufficient to "be the change you wish to see". Even if *everyone* did that, it wouldn't be enough. YouTube has been rotten to its core. The Buddhists say it to the effect of "the pursuit of money is the root of all suffering", and the ecosystem no longer supports the content creators of yore. The fact that one of the top criteria all channels are graded on is "Advertiser-Friendliness", and even if you had no intent to capitalise on your content, failing that criterion will _literally_ decimate your chances. That this is even a criterion that *channel owners can observe for themselves* is indicative of the corruption that has wrapped around YouTube's creative heart. Search for 'The Tower Dog Leaks' and you'll see just how many eggs YouTube puts in the ad basket, and gag on the sulphur as you notice that they all rotted _long ago._

YouTube is *beyond* saving. It has been so horrendously mismanaged that the extent of the damage is beyond the site itself - it's cultural. Even if their server farm exploded and they had to start over again, it's still irrevocably tainted. 'YouTube' is synonomous with bland, inoffencive, identical slurry. Edgy content like IDubbbz is marginalised, controversial content like Joshua Conner Moon is destroyed. Now everyone is trying to be PewDiePie or Jake Paul and everything is TikTok and Vine revival vids.

YouTube is not worth rising to the top. YouTube is an infernal furnace. And what do you call things that rise to the top of a furnace?
You call it *slag.* And you scoop it off and throw it away. When the people who define what 'the top' is are the advertisers, I no longer want to rise to the top of something that has sold its prestige. And neither should you. Go out and kick a football.

Good job giving insight and not being toxic about the situation, as well as perfect grammar and formatting.


Great video man, it's pretty depressing how much of a clusterfuck Youtube has become over the years and all of the little guys like myself get pushed completely off to the side for the big name channels and those who side with Google/Youtube's politics. Just a few months ago Youtube made it so when people typed my channel name the only channel result that popped up was a reaction channel which shared the first few letters of my channel name. Even when you typed my full name in it still only showed the reaction channel unless you hit the top button above the search to actually get what you typed. So for a while people had to search for my channel twice in order for it to even show up, thankfully though it's been "fixed".

It would be a damn shame to lose Youtube as decades of videos would be lost forever in the void especially the older ones but at the same time I want Youtube to die so a better company can step in and make things right. It's tough, it's like putting down a pet you've had all your life and the only way to help it is to put it to sleep but at the same time you lose them forever.

The Renegadist Same. I type up my channel. First thing that comes up. xming. Nice to see I'm anonymous to some


I have rewatched these commentary videos to the point where I can quote a lot of them


I'm from Brazil, and luckily YouTube Poops have always been insanely popular around here, being called YTPBR which is an abreviation for "YouTube Poop Brasil" and they're just as good as the Americans counter parts. There are old poopers like BomberPooper who makes YTP from El Chavo and Chapolin, and newer ones like ToleZuando who makes YTP from movies and TV shows. So luckily here in Brazil there is not so much ignorance about YouTube Poops, after all, everyone here has already seen the meme of "Te agarro pela cabeça e te JOOJ" or "Seu Madruga Will Go On" and "Chaves luta contra kiKU pra ver se no céu tem pão". Worth seeing even if you don't understand Portuguese


Now, hear me out, you made this long video essay expressing your opinions in an artistic way, and it reached 1.6m people, like 10% of the user base a decade ago. A good thing, no?

To elaborate, just cause some garbage gets 100m views doesnt mean its not cool that independent media like this can get millions of views


“YouTube will always have inspired, creative, passionate individuals making content. It’s just a matter of finding them.”

COUGH dillongoo COUGH

“YouTube will always have inspired, creative, passionate individuals making content. It’s just a matter of finding them.”

*COUGH* dillongoo *COUGH*


I quote Pink Floyd <br>“ we don’t need no thought control.”

I quote Pink Floyd
“ we don’t need no thought control.”


@emplemon I’ve noticed that your criticisms arise mainly from YouTube’s response to market forces but a lot of your content leads me to believe you lean right politically.  Given that capitalism only responds to a profit motive and not necessarily our ideals and values how do you reconcile your political alignment’s strict adherence to free markets with your criticism of the degradation of YouTube those incentives have caused?


lol truthfully if the YouTuber doesn’t remind me to subscribe I’ll forget because I’m too wrapped up in thought from the vid to remember.  Emp overestimates his audience or at least a portion of it.


Man it's fund to see about how people years ago complained about 20+ min videos, when now that's the norm


Good thing we have lessons in meme culture now


Maybe no one cares but I just started watching your videos and it’s very difficult to concentrate on what you’re saying because of the great music playing in the background, all bangers.


8:54 I laughed at this part at first only to realize that at the time I was in fact 15


I wonder if Emp still hates Pyro after he’s evolved his content


Your YouTube recommendations is like gut bacteria, takes a while to get developed but it's a fine tuned culture that can be ruined easily


As time goes on, I think the median (and mean) age of your average Youtube Viewer has been going down at a very fast pace.


good content it demonetized.
and when vids get ratioed
the platform deletes downvotes to keep things 'fair'


My dad has watched guitar videos on youtube for five or six years and he had absolutely no idea what a sub button was lmfao


The next stage of YouTube's Downward Spiral:

YouTube Rewind 2018

The next stage of YouTube's Downward Spiral:

*YouTube Rewind 2018*

@Jonathan C.

And the new Adpocalipse (Again)

The very next stage, YouTube Rewind 2019


This video could have been released today and be considered finger on the pulse reporting.


If you want to open yourself to the great side of YouTube I recommend Neil Cicierega.


I'd love to see a follow up to this about the state of YT today.


Youtube poops and other incredible animations have been my childhood (born 1998). The way talented animators, like achilles12345, could express their humor through their videos left me laughing for hours on end. Not just humor, but also incredible story-telling, like Mark Haynes and his Super Mario Bros Z series. (Highly Recommend for people who give credit where credit is due!)

After watching this entire video I came to a realization: I have allowed myself to become blind by subscribing to low effort, mass produced channels and allowed the "algorithm" to secure my loyalty towards them. The most recent time I was actually captivated by someone's talent was watching the SpongeBob Anime Opening by Narmak. There was just so much to absorb and enjoy and I find it hard to locate more people like him on youtube nowadays.

So in conclusion, I hear you loud and clear EmpLemon and I 100% agree with you. I must thank you for opening my eyes to an unfortunately, painful reality about youtube. Now if you don't mind, I have some unsubscribing to do...

Sadly, the only notable Youtube animators that are active (and by active, I mean make a new video every few months) would have to be Sir Pelo and Ukinjoe.


On the animation note, terminal montage reminds me of ytp’s and has pretty funny animation.


internet culture is WAAAAY better.. also this is a great thing you’ve made


It feels like mobile YouTube is really doing its best to force feed me more videos and take away as much of my user input as possible


I remember the days of animators actually being able to make a living off YouTube and having a golden age of animation on the platform.


"or even 5 years", its been 5 years and its not only the same but worse.


"I swear to fucking Christ, if one more fucking YouTuber tell me to subscribed to them, I'm going to descend to a never before seen debt of my own personal downfall mental spiral"

Dream: Also, only a small percentage of my viewers are actually subscribed

"I swear to fucking Christ, if one more fucking YouTuber tell me to subscribed to them, I'm going to descend to a never before seen debt of my own personal downfall mental spiral"

Dream: *Also, only a small percentage of my viewers are actually subscribed*


I used to be able to watch like 5hr long videos but ever since I've watched a couple 30 second clips its so hard because youtube just throws it in my face every said 30 seconds


heck, what you talked about is still better than 2021


Welp, with YouTube kids disabling comments randomly and the disabling of dislikes, this aged better than fine wine.


YouTube should just go home and become a family man. This site has jumped the shark way too many times.


Bruh I completely forgot the trending tab existed. I went there once, and never again


I feel like the American Dream is an excellent metaphor for Youtube Just a dream and nothing else

Emplemon do you really think that you get somewhere with talent and hard work, do you really think that this problem is youtube only, wrong this is The American Nightmare talking We live in a world where companies are Shepards and we are the sheep yet companies try to claim how The American Dream is the greatness of America even though The American dream is a joke or currently is a joke nowadays the best job you can rise up to is sitting in an office wasting your life away at a dull, grey, lifeless, cubicle probably staring at a calendar with tropical images on it wishing you can go there The Boring Robotic jobs at an office is actually so bad That Tom Scott used an AI for video ideas and they seemed more diverse, intriguing, and unique than anything Watchmojo created so yes a Watchmojo was literally more Robotic than an actual Robot

The reason why it is the way it is that Companies don't really care about standing out or being different or adding personality, depth, emotion, they just want to appeal to as many people as possible no matter what the cost in other words Con artistry is the newest trend in companies.  just look at Buzzfeed who rather than confront actual misogyny, and sexism (and they can't because they are so politically correct that if they talk about one slightly controversial thing) they cover some of the prettiest issues like Manspreading featuring a girl with a top hat taking as much space as possible rather than discuss the horrific crimes of Harvey Weinstein


inb4 this gets overshadowed by Commentary videos, low effort gaming, Emoji Movie rants, fidget spinner videos, toy videos, Buzzfeed, Watchmojo, and anything from the trending tab.

@Xelgodis Being pissed off because people reply to threads that are old? Ok Zoomer.

@Mattok101 DigitalTamer <br>Necroing 2 year old comment threads? Okay, boomer.

@Mattok101 DigitalTamer
Necroing 2 year old comment threads? Okay, boomer.

@Xelgodis he does not make YTP anymore. Get with the times, normie.

WatchMojo is dead. They barely get views now. They have more Empty Subscribers than VSauce (Empty Subscriber means sub that does not watch your vids)

Pie Pivotmontier-O Then there are the people like Kristian Ma (A highly skilled TF2 yter) IMO, that don’t get the recognition they deserve

kite man I will find and use that extension for the rest of my life too bad I'm mostly on mobile

I don't think that watch mojo is that bad. I like to watch the superhero/supervillain backstory vid's cause i can not keep up on comics always.

Xelgodis Gaming when did I EVER say that BTM was ever good.

Xelgodis Gaming They were alive AT THE TIME he talked about them

Xelgodis Gaming not really.....you have to see the rest of the video,

Some Funny meme that will die in a few months

Shakespeare's Apple. Damn it you're fucking right and Jacksepticeye does suck hard. I only defended Markiplier because of what you said even though im not actually a fan (In fact he is quite boring to watch). I like that he played the first FNAF until the end and even did it on the hardest difficulty. He played 7 hours in a row just for the 20/20/20/20 score in FNAF 1 which is something I really have respect for. (Unlike Pewdiepie who played the first game only half and then said that he would never play FNAF again. When FNAF 2 came out he just played it without even ending the first one.)

Shakespeare's Apple. Its true that they overreact, but every youtuber overreacted to fnaf and it was annoying af. Also markiplier actually played fnaf through till the complete end (which isnt much, but compared to other youtubers it is) and thats kinda nice and markiplier also always seems like he knows something about the games he plays. Other channels usually just suck at the games they play and have bullshit commentary. Markiplier is only a bit better

I'm probably the only one who hates Jacksepticeye and Markiplier with a passion.

All they do is overreact to FNAF and Undertale. Whilst occasionally making half decent videos with one funny joke.

Ayden Buckley In Danganronpa reddit, people (myself included but jokes on them, i'm already spoiled) have been receiving PMs with spoilers from v3 (most recent game which hasn't been released yet)

Kirby Of The Stars I love when people do that before the game is even out!

Who's fucking tired of seeing videos on videogames that just came out like a day ago that show the ending of the game as well as the final boss, even if you didn't look it up? People just fucking love putting out this relevant content without caring about spoilers in the title or thumbnail! It's fucking dumb af, and YouTube is supporting it!

And the popular game of the week (Persona 5,Sonic maina etc.)

There's an extension for firefox/googlechrome named video blocker and it
 allows you to block all the fidget spinner channels you want

atm i have 1619 channels blocked and i will never need to see them for
as long as i use this extension

and youtubers begging you to check out their channel<br>ₚₗₛ

and youtubers begging you to check out their channel
ₚₗₛ

Pie Pivotmontier-O <br>You know it will.


I can't believe its already been 4 years.


I just love I found this channel through youtube recommendations. Subbed.


It really hasn't improved in the last ~3.5 years either.  And we have no alternative....  it sucks.


I think this is the demon version of EmpLemon. He sound REALLY PISSED.


It's a shame that people didn't listen to the whole thing. Because this is by far, the best video on YouTube's algorithm.


I didn’t even know what subscribing did for a long time because so many channels advertised it. I thought it was like a popularity thing


This video has inspired me to have my friends throw sandwiches at me for science


It's not just youtube of course, this kind of thing. And it's not just about profits, it's about subjugation. But it's never been sustainable and it will meet its end - maybe sooner than we think.


2005-2011 broadcast yourself
2012-2016 corporation and bland signs start to show
2017-2021 censorship and basically a corporate clickbait shit content city with endless ads


It's fucking pathetic how some reaction channels squeeze in multiple mid roll ads in their videos.

I also hate how YTPs that are actually in the algorithm aren't even that good to begin with (Newly released animated film YTPs that only consist of dead memes, swirly mirror effects, and voiceovers)

Matt Murdock Cough Cough Emotional yellow faces cough cough

Matt Murdock *Cough* *Cough* Emotional yellow faces *cough* *cough*

El Spoggerino that's why I watch people like cs188 he's been on for a while

Paranoot *Cough* Da Boos Baby *cough* *cough*

I once saw a Force Awakens YTP in the trending tab, and literally all it was was: normal conversation, character screaming something unrelated in reply, and freezing on actors in a "lul wtf eggsdee" reaction.  For nine minutes.

Had over a million views and tons of likes.


The fact that you took something a hater said and made it part of your brand continues to amaze me.


I completely agree,  I spend hours every day filming my videos then trying to edit them to make them funny and actually watchable then when im finally done 10 hours later and 3 people start the video see I have 165 subs and then no one else sees my videos. maybe someone will come and dislike it and I gain nothing and it just makes me depressed


38:25 and now they've ripped off YouTube shorts from TikTok


What if nobody was lying about their age, and the actual median age of youtube users were like 124 years old. It could explain why these senile people keep forgetting how to unsubscribe.


I love the “youtubers speaking their minds” with 1 frame of jontron


This platform is committing suicide. All for the glory of the dollar.
The idea of YouTubers wanting to monetize everything was in my opinion the worst thing. Not that I fault them. They have their grind to make their money.
But when money gets involved in anything, it poisons everything. And people who want to just make content just for fun, it gets shadowed by people with sponsors and high production value


How all of this is the sad truth now just polarizes my own mind. He called all of this stupid crap and look where we're at now. YouTube turned themselves into enemy #1 of video/streams.


One thing I think you've done with these long videos is evolved the YTP trend in a way that makes them really useful as tools to keep people paying attention and stay entertained through a thoughtful, albeit longwinded, discussion. It's really kind of transforming the long-form analytical discussion video genre on YouTube too, as I think nearly everyone these days uses some elements of YTP to keep people engaged in these kinds of videos, especially in gaming and anime videos.

I don't know what my whole point is necessarily, but I guess I'm just trying to make excuses for why I just watched a 49 minute video lol


Average  2017-present dark age YouTube fan .V.S Average 2008-2016 YouTube golden age enjoyer.


38:36 "why not try to become distage from your competitors rather than making shittier versions of their products"
Well, recently they release the Youtube Shorts "feature" that is just a copy of Tiktok.

Except that YouTube Shorts is way more watchable.


Yet again,I feel like we need to go on a strike when it comes this crap.


It’s crazy how this is still true almost 2 YEARS LATER. I’m just happy we have channels like you who actually speak a opinion on something that needs fixed.


Three years later and it has gotten worse at an exponential rate and it is extremely disappointing that upon rewatching this I thought to myself that it wasn't even close to how bad it is now which is very depressing.


I don't think that people should be shamed for watching corporate stuff. Let them, if they find that entertaining they should have the right to feel ok watching it. It is content to relax probably, not to pay attention or anything.


Great video emp, I'm taking your advice and unsubscribing from channels I don't care about. hopefully someday youtube can have better content in the future


11:56 God, I miss the weird part of YouTube.


you know, i agree with you for one reason: You put enough effort into your content to ACTUALLY CITE MUSIC

i love you


Dude u had like 150k subscribers about a month ago ! Ur rising super fast ! 👏


Because of this vid, im actually on a mental downward spiral


Love the Gavin shoutout. I can't stand how dumbed-down content is nowadays


49min and all edited OMG it take me like 45 min to edit a 5min video like you edit this one, I can't even imagine how much time does it take to make your videos. And I'm not even going to tall about YTPs that's just another lvl, that is why I aprecciate your channel; you really put effort on your videos.


Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention. <br>Heaven forbid you say something that isn't within a popular consensus, because then mountains upon mountains of people are gonna show up and scream death threats, suicide baits, rape threats, or any other horrible shit just because it isn't the exact same regurgitated opinion that EVERY OTHER PERSON HAS. It doesn't matter what it is, and it doesn't matter if what the hate storm does is legal(it fucking isn't), because Youtube doesn't fucking care about legality, it doesn't care about morality, all Youtube cares about is it's fucking money. And the fact that I can't even say what this is without fear of getting hundreds of people screaming bloody murder at me, speaks volumes about how cancerous people can truly be. Hallelujah, HOLY SHIT... (where's the tylenol...)

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention.
Heaven forbid you say something that isn't within a popular consensus, because then mountains upon mountains of people are gonna show up and scream death threats, suicide baits, rape threats, or any other horrible shit just because it isn't the exact same regurgitated opinion that EVERY OTHER PERSON HAS. It doesn't matter what it is, and it doesn't matter if what the hate storm does is legal(it fucking isn't), because Youtube doesn't fucking care about legality, it doesn't care about morality, all Youtube cares about is it's fucking money. And the fact that I can't even say what this is without fear of getting hundreds of people screaming bloody murder at me, speaks volumes about how cancerous people can truly be. Hallelujah, HOLY SHIT... (where's the tylenol...)


Aged like milk that's been pissed in but someone still drank and threw it back up in the glass then shat in it


"Liberal propaganda"<br>I about choked on my drink.  Thanks for acknowledging that for what it was.

"Liberal propaganda"
I about choked on my drink.  Thanks for acknowledging that for what it was.


As a small YouTuber, it really helps to watch this video every few months to recalibrate myself and make sure I'm doing the best I can be doing.

Yeah, that’s what scares me about making videos, am I too much like these dull channels with no soul.


Fucking hell I love your editing, good points, good humour. Sub earned.


Hey Emp, not sure if you will see this comment as the video is so old. However, after watching it again, I was wondering if it would make sense to do a "State of YouTube in 2022" type of video to see your comments and thoughts from 5 years ago and compare them to the current YouTube landscape. I think it would make for an interesting video so just a thought. Thanks!

The video could be about migrating away from youtube


I've already watched the full video 4 times now.

Iv been watching this video for years and made my own 2018 YouTube down spiral


Youtube doesn't make sense to anyone including its creators. I get recommended the same 30 videos everyday and even if I go through and click not interested on every video, I still end up with the same content. Either other videos I've already watched, some 9.8M sub history Channel or fucking Vice news. I think youtubes algorithm isn't trying to push new creators content, and I believe that's youtubes purposeful doing. They never knew how the algorithm worked, but it seems like all the sudden the algorithm is specific to the kinds of content it's pushes because youtube tweaked it to not show the "offensive", unique, and even gaming content. The only people I'm recommended today are much more family friendly. The people I am subscribed to should show the algorithm what I enjoy to watch, yet it gives the complete opposite. I feel like this has gotten much worse because of lockdown, youtube has so many eyes on it all the time now, and grimey "news" outlets will pounce on any chance they get.


I was born in late 2007 and i started watching youtube about late 2010. My fav youtube series were the original Supercats Trilogy.


i watched yt for the first time when i was 6 yrs old in 2010. i was amazed. animations and quality gameplays were just a click away.<br>i watched minecraft and portal gameplays, lazer compilations, asdf movies and old ytps made in 2008. it was great. but in 2013 everything changed. no recent portal gameplays, minecraft gameplays were out of control and all over yt, didnt find lazer compilations in my recommendations beside videos by people reacting to them, almost no new asdf movies just reuploads and nearly every ytps made at that time were low quality (nothing but a video made of rewinds and cuts). this was the time when i discovered what memes are. i didnt find good memes just the old, boring and overused ones. compilations of everything were everywhere, top 10s, waaaay too many reaction videos and shitty gaming channels  with lots of subs everywhere. but im still here on youtube finishing this comment at 5 in the morning knowing that it will never be found in the ocean we call the comment section.

i watched yt for the first time when i was 6 yrs old in 2010. i was amazed. animations and quality gameplays were just a click away.
i watched minecraft and portal gameplays, lazer compilations, asdf movies and old ytps made in 2008. it was great. but in 2013 everything changed. no recent portal gameplays, minecraft gameplays were out of control and all over yt, didnt find lazer compilations in my recommendations beside videos by people reacting to them, almost no new asdf movies just reuploads and nearly every ytps made at that time were low quality (nothing but a video made of rewinds and cuts). this was the time when i discovered what memes are. i didnt find good memes just the old, boring and overused ones. compilations of everything were everywhere, top 10s, waaaay too many reaction videos and shitty gaming channels  with lots of subs everywhere. but im still here on youtube finishing this comment at 5 in the morning knowing that it will never be found in the ocean we call the comment section.


Kinda messed up how between this video's release, the time this comment was posted, and probably the time you're reading this comment things on YouTube have gotten only worse. I guess we still haven't seen the bottom of the spiral somehow.


You know the worst thing is that there is NO alternative that I can find. I would love to just use another site but if theres one out there I just cant find it


Can we have a TikTok version now that it’s 2022 lol The epitome of human stupidity.


Just wanna say Emp, you got great music taste. Part of why i like watching these videos

Best music taste of any youtuber. This video especially is amazing. The rant over Achilles Last Stand is amazing; that rant is 5x as long as it needs to be and would be pretty annoying with no background music, but the music makes it a genuinely poignant, emotional experience. Guy could be a music supervisor for a TV show, easily.

Double bass by gorillaz, never thought I’d see a YouTuber put it in one of their videos, one of my favorite songs of all time


The 2.3k dislikes are most likely children


Youtube died, right when they favored the advertiser over the consumer.


Waluigi goes to college made me die of laughter


Now I know what kind of content i will make :D. <br>Thank you for this guide!!!

Now I know what kind of content i will make :D.
Thank you for this guide!!!


I honestly can't tell if the 13-year-old elitists in this comment section are sarcastic or not but honest man I haven't watched a fifty-minute video on a topic I don't know anything about since bill nye.  This was really eye-opening. 10/10 editing & commentary.

Blue Typhoon2017 Welcome to my world. The downward spiral into a politically obsessed internet utopia continues.

as long as you understand bill nye isn't a real scientist

Laura C he does that all the time in his new show

Nosferatu ???? dude since when does bill nye preach sjw propoganda in his science show???

Nosferatu as a kid yeah, but i'd still watch him now. you gonna shame me?

Laura C yeah the wrong audience got to this video (I think)


I hoped that problems in 2017 were at least slightly diffrent like even one problem more or less


Man i watch Exurb1a, you, Motorcycle videos and internet historian.<br>I still feel pretty good and unaffected by Youtubes shitstorm.....for now.

Man i watch Exurb1a, you, Motorcycle videos and internet historian.
I still feel pretty good and unaffected by Youtubes shitstorm.....for now.


I could listen to you rant for hours, because ALL of your points are relatable and true. AND, then you put Achilles Last Stand in here like a boss. This is Quality content.


I actually watched through this.  The entire thing.  And it was spot-on.

I whole-heartedly agree with every word you said.  And you're right, changes DO need to be made, quite drastic ones in fact.  But the fact of the matter is, when you become such a big corporate face like YouTube is, you start to group people as a whole, and not as individual.  There are individual people who made this website what it is, and that's both a good thing (2005-2012) and a bad thing (2012-present).

There come times when you're too small to even be noticed.  And that's really scary.  Think of when you're trying to petition the government a new law that will help millions of people, but they just scoff and brush you aside.  "Just another citizen."  But that's not true, we're all unique.

And that's what makes me worried about YouTube.  They don't see uniqueness anymore.  They try to find what's hot and tReNdY right now and ride on it until it dies in a fiery inferno, then wash, rinse, and repeat until, congratulations, you've made a bad website.  People I look up to that are still relatively small don't get noticed.  They remind me of the people who just want to be noticed by their favorite celebrity but can't be because they're all the way in the back of the room.  That just sucks.

I want things to change, I really do.  I remember back before this all started, I used to love going onto YouTube and seeing my favorite channels uploading a new video, and it would be great no matter what, because they were great.  But now things have changed.  Whenever I see someone upload a video, it's a gamble.  Will it be good?  Will it be bad?  I don't want things to be a gamble, I just want to see the good content I subscribed for in the first place.

While things don't seem hopeful right now, I still have that determination that things will get better, somehow.  And if you read through all of this, I hope you have that determination, too.


I watched the whole thing. Truest thing I've ever watched. Almost everyone I know irl is basically a zombie and I constantly wish to be part of something more interesting, something that isn't just content being thrown at me. I'm an artist and a programmer, so I might actually be able to one day.