Not sure if this is the right thread for such a post, but I didn't want to make a new one for this random musing.
Does it not concern anyone else to see what the majority of people actually watch on YouTube? I know many people, myself included at times, like to complain that Susan and her legion of bots aren't paying attention to the real creators on the site. That is unquestionably true, but when you see what's actually being watched and in such large numbers by comparison, it starts to make sense why they don't give a shit.
I just went through the explore/trending tab for the first time in months, and I'm just dumbfounded. Why are normalfaggots like this? Mainstream music videos, corposhit, vapid vlog channels, etc. Literal bottom of the barrel type of content, yet most of which sit in ranges of views from the hundreds of thousands to millions.
I have yet to see some of the most high quality videos on the platform get anywhere close to these sorts of numbers. I'm sure there's viewbotting going on in the mix, but it can't be that much. This is just... ugh.