I have YouTube Red so I can listen to YouTube videos in the background on my phone, but I don’t think I’ve ever watched a complete YouTube original.<p>If anything, I have a general sense when I see the “Original” tag that it’s probably overproduced and flimsy content relative to normal YouTube videos. The marker is probably anti-selling the content to me at this point. Even though I’ve ostensibly “paid” for that content.<p>Contrast to Netflix Originals which I generally assume are at least mildly relevant, interesting, and/or produced by reputable creators.<p>I think Google messed up by going after the most popular creators, who are mostly playing a game of clickbait and lowest common denominator attractors.<p>Netflix did the total opposite, forgoing the big name filakers and finding artists who have niche audiences that were previously considered too small to fund.<p>Google needs to realize the “Top Youtubers” and “People who need funding for a small but traditionally produced film” are very different categories.