YouTube stars' fury over algorithm tests
Found on BBC News on Monday, 28 May 2018
Some of YouTube's most popular stars have criticised the website for "experimenting" with how their videos are delivered to their fans.
Technology vlogger Marques Brownlee - who has more than six million subscribers - said prioritising videos "they think we want to see" was a "business move". But he added: "It's a subscription box. Users chose to subscribe. They want to see it all. If they don't, they'll unsubscribe."
99.9999% of the video material on there could be deleted and it would not be a loss at all. Youtube has turned into a landfill where users now upload videos of text typed on notepad to "help" others instead of using, you know, a text blog. Plus, if vloggers with millions of viewers are furious about a "business move", then there isn't anything to add, except that they are vlogging for business reasons too. It's not like they don't make their living with it.