The public launch after it have not only revolutionnize the way we going to seen videos online, away of the very dismal pirated sharing sites of old, but the proliferation of new creators that went along... And also, some conflict for the unauthorized use of copyrighted material works. Warner Bros. among them, was always there to yanked down any account who shared illegally on YouTube their owned contents.
Now at a Google-Alphabet property, YouTube has helped million of people for contribute to a massive library of the history of animation and also, Television all around. But for what cost? One of the biggest concerns I have with this platform is the unfair way to share contents without that the "owners" would pay anything to the actual creators out there. This is why linear Television exists. It is still today the only way to make us sure that it went ran correctly and by respect of all the contents' crews.
And then, you have many YouTubbers that you have no ideas that they exists who are more busy to made a fortune than really doing quality work. For the younger generation, luxury and make investments are keys for lasting a viable impression if they were "sacrified" by the 2008 banking crash and the 2020s COVID-19 pandemic. But you know that there is many real people who worked hard for share these works in public by make no choice, but, to pose a tag if the platform is not free of stealing?
These youngsters are growth with the likes of Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, have understood the basics of shareconomy by Influencers in the likes of Bitcoins and NFTs and expect a more inclusive and social environment than just stays at their own keyboard. YouTube became the pionneer of all the "social" platforms we know of today. I was thrilled the first time I known its existence, by be an endless journey to watch contents i wouldn't find otherwise. That was always my only use of YouTube first, to watching contents that weren't always available legally in any capability.
But twenty years of YouTube later, what that means for the average people?
The same problem about the fair way to share copyrighted materials and royalties to creators are still topical. Especially for music videos or clips of old shows. You know all these owners gets anything by YouTube for their work? Even if the people are dead, their inheritance gets nothing in compensation for the use of their work. The bureaucraty of YouTube is akin of the way such pirates websites like Napster were the game-changer to evolved our grounds to the Digital, and unfortunately, it was a practice that most linear radios have used to NOT plays at all our musical library anymore by removing the older ones out of the park. As it's so hard to think to our children.
Again, in 2025, YouTube own many criticism for the unauthorized use of the copyrighted materials and the way artists (and studios) have to be paid for seen their works online. Counting the number of views the day is not evident, if that means at a revenue but not everyone are thrilled to gets money from an online platform that continue to turn profits to the back of creators, even with decades of work in hand.
Like with others forms of technology, YouTube have to go with paid membersip for be able to ran in business. This is never meant to be a free sharing-video website, or that went with many conditions in order the video sharing there is not just stolen from someone's else. Since the old Kazaa days, many rips of VHS (and also laserdiscs and DVDs for that matter) have took surface to the internet where in the older days, turned out like a veritable Easter Egg hunting.
That would made the hilarious question of what Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim may think of their creation today, two decades after its official launch.
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