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There are short, effortless videos with nothing more than manipulated still photos, homework assignments and class lectures, barely audible three-second clips of ceremonies with no context, and even recorded Zoom meetings that could have no hope for an audience beyond someone who couldn’t attend live.
It’s there in the miscellany that you find YouTube the social network, YouTube the random video storage, and the many other YouTubes that aren’t pursuing a broad audience.✏️ What we’re being fed is not what is actually there. The algorithm and the “creator” economy” is a sliver of the true social network hiding away in the backend.
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