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YouTube’s Failing Model
The day before yesterday, I was on Twitter and I found a tweet from a user named @JoonTheKing1, which said the following:
To be fair, YouTube’s channel search bar does allow people to search by date now. However, this is still a massive change to YouTube’s interface and a reversal of something that has existed for years.
Over the course of 2022, I have gotten back into making content for YouTube, and I just want to say that the interface is so radically different compared to was when I was uploading simple videos as a child. Although I do like some of these changes — such as the ability to see who my audience is subscribed too and what videos my audience is watching — many of the new facts about this platform cause me to feel much more restricted than I once did.
The two that most bother are the removal of annotations (which they got rid of in late 2019 because they were unable to get them to work on mobile — which doesn’t justify killing them on desktops) and the inability to make liked video playlists public. I know it may sound kind of weird, but I remember going to the channels of people I liked and checking out what videos they liked in hopes of…
