YouTube is Actual Garbage

YouTube used to be one of my favorite spots on the internet for years. I'd watch endless videos from various creators (half of which got outed as being absolute freaks [derogatory] in the last 10 years, but that's neither here nor there). It seemed like a place where people would just... well... broadcast themselves. That was the motto of YouTube for a long time. I'd come home from school and watch Halo 3 machinimas, Equals Three, SMOSH, some let's plays, someone's vlog, a bunch of college students putting things into microwaves, some stoned Canadian reading some insane news article and giving his thoughts, so on and so on. I'd largely consider YouTube to be at it's best from around the mid-late 2000s up to the early 2010s. With I think the biggest turning point being the ham-fisting of Google+. It slowly degraded away from people posting whatever they felt like and were passionate about to what appeased this black box algorithm. Don't get me wrong, YouTube had problems before, I…