This just seems like a manifestation of the class shift that happened in the internet era. Don't be an idiot - you don't work for youtube. You don't work for Youtube, you don't work for Youtube, Uber, Facebook or Apple. You're a company that has a business relationship with Youtube, Uber, Facebook or Apple. A company that solely exists for your business relationship with the aformentioned, and the business relationship resembles a BDSM relationship more than a traditional relationship, but that's fine, because that's what you knowingly signed up for when you decided to contract with youtube.<p>And now, you want to come to <i>Youtube's</i> customers and complain about youtube to them.<p>This is going to sound very harsh, but essentially what I'm saying is that this isn't an issue with youtube, it's a political issue about power dynamics in corporate and monopoly power, and these surface level outbursts seema little... naive. Especially when there's no mention of context - which is that this guy basically built his business on sand.<p>Youtube completely fucks with this guy and his last phrase in the video "Hope to see you on this bloody platform next sunday". Well that's great leverage isn't it.
I sense that most of his frustration is the result of having nowhere else to go.<p>For a long time I've wondered why all these people sat around and watched Amazon get bigger and <i>bigger</i> and BIGGER ... and noone pushed 50B onto a table somewhere and said: Go gettem.
He's not just complaining, he's demonstrating specific YouTube technical failures: @2:34, unable to respond to comments. @3:07 cant' login to creators studio. @3:27 impotent tech support. @7:36 links in his descriptions don't work properly any longer.<p>I support regulating YouTube as a utility and requiring data portability in the hopes better services can add value to the content/community in front of the videos.
As a user I find YouTube’s home page suggestions awful. It suggests videos 7 years old, videos I’ve already seen, or Minecraft videos because my daughter watched one once on my account. All the while, the videos I actually care about from channels I’ve subscribed to are nowhere to be found.
I'd be willing to put $5 down on a bet that it is an integer overflow somewhere in youtube's database (or a hash collision), the longer and more active you've been, the sooner this will hit.