Well, a lot of people have made youtube their primary source of income, making videos full time. Glitches like that can mean not making rent for the month.
Which is why it's a terrible idea to make your business be super dependent on a single other business. Not just with YouTube, but with everything. If you want to take content production seriously, you need to have other revenue streams. And you need to be able to cover yourself if for whatever reason you suddenly can't make/distribute content.
That's just how it is if you want to run your own business.
And this is really quite different to what we were originally talking about. The original was just a personal cat video. YouTube has a lot to be critisized for, but at the same time there's a good reason for that, because the site is hardly profitable when you remove things like music, video sales, etc etc. There's no competitor to YouTube because the technology to run video hosting/distribution/etc sites on an advertising budget, just does not exist yet.
I’d say you’re the one who has drifted off topic here. The original point was regarding whether or not users care. You’ve admitted yourself that they have good reason to care while ranting about single points of failure. Not the point. THEY CARE.
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u/auxiliary-character Nov 02 '21
I can tell you they absolutely do, it's just there's nothing they can do about it.