YouTube
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YouTube’s Triple Paywall Problem Explained
What we’re seeing isn’t a gentle drift towards monetisation, it’s stacked monetisation, and it’s reached the point where it feels naked. Once upon a time the deal was simple. You gave your time. They made something worth watching. YouTube ran ads around it. Everyone understood the trade. Then creators quite reasonably said adverts alone aren’t…
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Another YouTube Trust Problem – Fake LIVE Badges
Slapping LIVE on a channel avatar when nothing is live is pure theatre. It exploits the same reflex as red notification dots and fake urgency banners. Your brain sees “live”, assumes scarcity or relevance, and your thumb pauses. That’s the entire game. What makes it worse is that it trains people to distrust the signal…
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YouTubers Beg for Subscribers, What Are They Asking For?
I watch quite a bit of YouTube. Probably too much, if I’m honest. It’s useful, occasionally entertaining, quite informative, and every now and then you stumble across someone genuinely brilliant. Someone who clearly knows their subject and shares something worthwhile. But let’s not pretend the whole place isn’t also full of absolute muppetry. Because it…
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YouTube Censorship – When Content Creators Bleep the Truth
I get proper pissed off by this, and I can’t be the only one noticing it. You watch these long-form interview channels on YouTube, the ones where someone sits down for an hour or two with people who’ve got genuinely important stories to tell. Prison officers, social workers, police officers, people who’ve lived through awful…
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Criticising the Machine Algorithm Game While Feeding It
There’s a pattern I can’t unsee anymore. It’s so flipping common. Plenty of tech commentators on YouTube and podcasts love to rant about algorithms. About AI. About attention. About how recommendation engines are rewiring us, shortening our focus, spoon-feeding us ideas instead of forcing us to think. They’ll ask the big questions. All valid questions.…
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The YouTube Attention Economy is Drama Over Truth
Think about it for a minute. If you spend a lot of time on YouTube, how much of that time is actually spent consuming somebody else’s rumours, gossip, and speculation? Because so much of YouTube, as well as social media, blogs, and those bloody shorts (God, those damn shorts), is content created simply for your…
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YouTube’s Productivity Trap – Why You Feel Less Capable
YouTube hasn’t just become a place to learn how to do things. It’s become a place where you’re constantly told that whatever you’re already doing is wrong, inefficient, amateurish, or quietly sabotaging your future. Not bad enough to stop, obviously. Just bad enough to make you feel uneasy. That low-grade itch of “I probably should…