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@blinky465 While I think it would be fairly easy to pick on YouTube and highlight some of their more questionable behaviours, for the most part, I think they’re generally stuck between a rock and a hard place trying to balance many conflicting and competing interests.  I won’t defend them and say they do a great job – they don’t.  I won’t say I agree with their priorities – I don’t.  I also think they’re massively under-utilising the potential of the platform by pushing the idea of “content”, which generally strips away any artistic endeavour and tends to prioritise disposable garbage over anything with artistic merit or well researched, independently created documentaries.  Those things obviously exist but it’s incredibly hard for creators to make them successful using the YouTube platform itself.

 

All that being said, scathing criticism of YouTube aside (and call me naive) but I don’t think they’re demons and devils determined to suppress any trash talk about D&D or talk of RPGs that aren’t D&D. Obviously I could be wrong but, as someone who kind of likes conspiracy theories, this is not a very good one (nor were the ones Info Wars used to peddle)