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> This is your best one, YouTube has created tons of wealth for creators and has cut out tons of the usual Hollywood intermediaries. Additionally, there has never been a greater investment made on storing and distributing video like the one Google made on YouTube.

Patently not true. Most of the big YT channels these days have sponsors or controlling orgs. Often own wholely or partly by the big dogs.

For example a lot of "gun-tube" channels are owned or work under the Leviathan Group. https://www.leviathangroupllc.com/

Plenty of others like that, e.g. Take 5 Media Group , Wake Up , and INNOCEAN, etc.

There are certainly individual contributors, but if you think most of the big channels aren't 100% owned and operated you're being played.

And in their defense, there is just a lot of dross on YT; allowing anyone to upload anything means 90% of it is crap. Netflix's buyers may have a specific set of tastes, but I don't have to sort through reams of poorly edited memes & reaction videos.




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