Hank Green

I think there would be a true creator revolt if they decided that they were going to alter the way that that money is split.

Though they did alter it for shorts.

They were like, well, it's a different piece of content, and it has a different economy, and so we're going to take a bigger cut.

When I think of the indictment of YouTube, I think less about the creator economy, if only because they do at least do better than everyone else.

They lie less.

They seem to care more.

They seem to have like some internal systems that are actually about surfacing creator concerns and having true advocates internally.

I think that that is less than it once was, just as, you know, like all power structures in tech are.

that can sort of hold tech accountable have weakened over the last five years.

And that seems to be accelerating.

But the thing that, in all of this, I think is...

much more indictable is like when we outsourced all of our decision-making to content recommendation algorithms, that was a lot more power than we thought we were ceding.

And that's a really tricky thing to do well.

I think that YouTube did it badly for a long time, does it better now, but it's still, you know, there's lots of...

Lots of, you know, YouTube's like, I've identified that you enjoy rocket ships.

Have you tried transphobia kind of situation going on?

But better than it was when Shorts first launched.

I mean, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on this.

But I think in the future, we will look back on this era.

with the most critical lens of is that everyone in society gave away their choice to select what content they watched.