No.10144
>>10135I think they were a giant liability with little reward. The "add *unmoderated* commentary on video" feature was at high risk of creating a new ad-pocalypse scenario, annotations create something offensive, media blows it up and hurts YT stocks, and companies threaten to pull adds unless something is done. It had no reward because youtubes main demographic, zoomer kids, had no idea the feature existed and would not mind if it was gone. Moderating the annotations isn't worth the effort, high chance of a slip up and user base wont reword the extra effort.
You can't even really have captions anymore. It was another "500 hours of content are uploaded on youtube daily. We can't moderate all the subtitles", so they killed community captions. The 500 content/minute stat isn't even pulled out of my ass it's the actual amount of content.
No.10173
>>10144I mean it's actually a significant issue though.
A lot of pretty good videos aren't in English, or else are in English but you don't speak English/would prefer different languages for the subtitles. I know it helped me a lot to learn the English names for historical events and people by watching youtube videos with subtitles in my language instead of English. Plus obviously it's a serious problem for deaf users, especially since Youtube just replaces swear words with [ ], making it utterly impossible to know what was there, and also since the AI still can't actually recognize words. This is even a problem for videos with shit audio quality or when there's a ton of background noise, the subtitles are a lifesaver.
No.10187
>>10179>>10126>>10166FYI there's a big archive of annotations at
https://archive.org/details/youtubeannotations and invidious instances use it to restore them.
No.10232
https://youtu.be/jDNKibYm0wcI still laugh a ton watching this one.
No.10984
>>10860God damn I love this video
No.11646
>>5689Man this brings me back I use to blast that song and a bunch of others back in the day, namely stuff from the corruption of lulz album.
Also I feel like shit has gone full circle because now I gotta ask what was the name of that song? My old brain is drawing a total blank…I use to rip on people for asking for song names..
No.11677
>>11676same, my friends and I still refer to people as having a "huge cock of a voice"
No.13213
>>10179fuck it's dead
I assume this was Fukkireta with all the annotations?
No.13277
I wonder what people who are as young now as I was when I saw videos like these think of "old" internet humor/culture
No.13278
>>13213It's still alive here
I suspect it will get taken down eventually as well because of all the annotations that just say black dragon rollblack dragon rollblack dragon rollblack dragon roll
No.13279
>>13278>black dragon rollwordfilter lol
you know what I mean
No.17071
>>17067wtf, why is this so good?
