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"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership (www.sportskeeda.com)
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A lot of Youtube channels are reporting declining viewership lately.

EX1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpVnx4_yqTo
EX2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0tmhEtVJE

Fun times. Looks like a lot of channels are seeing a decline not just Linus. Hes just the latest to talk about it.

Then I saw this article as well and thought I would share.

Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?

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[โ€“] smayonak@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

LLMs are doing things like summarizing videos and then using the summaries to answer queries that before would have been a search result with monetization.

Google's executives are unconcerned about the declinibg incentives to create YouTube videos having been sold on the lie that the future of the internet lies in Ai generated content. In other words robots will make the internet.

Robots which hallucinate constantly.

[โ€“] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 15 hours ago

Remember when search summaries were just extracts from the top result instead of LLM hallucinations? Pepperidge Farm remembers.