>>23421>youtube is so utterly saturated with content and trying to search for them just results in a bunch of generic front-page garbageThere's a trick to get results from before a certain date. It's like "before:mm-dd-yyyy" or something like that I'm not sure
>>31992>doesn't use Unhook Youtube on desktop browser and NewPipe on mobileuygha what are you doing?
But I agree, it's one of the most frustrating things that's happening to the web, not just YT. Infinite scroll, """suggestions""", unwanted recommendations, irrelevant search results that you can't remove by default, they're all capitalist cancer.
But tell people that capitalism is the cause of all this and they'll scoff at you, call you a delusional commie and then continue to complain about the obvious effects of crapitalism without realizing. Or point out that we're being deliberately pushed to digital addiction by capitalists, and they'll just blame "people" for being addicted to their phones that were specifically designed to be addictive.Another crime that YouTube has committed lately is removing the ability to see a channel's videos by chronological order, that is, from oldest to newest. They only give you the options "Recently uploaded" and "Popular". I seem to recall them claiming that this is because of server issues (which is worrying since that'd mean they'd want to start deleting old videos at some point without people noticing) but whether they delete old videos or not, it's clear that their main goal is forcing people to consume new stuff and maximize views.
>>32001 (me)
>>doesn't use Unhook Youtube on desktop browser and NewPipe on mobileoh and btw you can use an Invidious instance if you're willing to stop using the YouTube site altogether. But I don't know how good or bad their search function is.
>>31992Been like that for at least a year or two. Ironically I use google video search.
>>31992It also seems to be doing its best to avoid finding some videos, the other day I was searching something by exact name in quotes and everything and it just refused to find it, using the same query it was the first result on DuckDuckGo which is not exactly known for it's good search results…
>>32003Google also sucks balls more and more. I sometimes use bing, yandex, or DDG.
>>31992It also doesn't help that pop-youtubers know this and game the algorithm. Sometimes a video will be the 4th or 5th one below reaction videos of the original.
also everything is a fucking rap video, search any random word and there's a 90% chance it's a fucking rapper as top resultIn general google, not just youtube, has gotten REALLY hard to use for literally anything. All topics will return a bot-generated listicle, rambling blog post, or some tangentially related current event by CNN or Fox article for the first few links. The more specific or niche you get, the worse it gets.
>>32030Sometimes I go on this website hoping it's up again
http://www.pown.it/
LOL'ing at these videos on my work computer in my Great Recession-era suburban office building
>>23443i actually tried to find this the other year and found a bunch of newer shit, just like OP said, so thanks
>>31992feature not bug. you will CONSOOM only the latest and most state/corporate slop
>Classic YouTube
2005-2007
>Post Viacom and Start of Google integrated YouTube
2008-2010
>Google/YouTube Rise of Vlog + more Reality centralized video content
2011-2013
>Google+YouTube = Gaming, Vloging, Rise in Political Videos and Autism
2014-2017
>Google/YouTube Corporate Take Over, Taking the You Out of YouTube
2018-2020
>Google/YouTube - Just another MainStream TV Network With Mass Censorship
2020-Current
>>33621What's so funny about this
>>33625>Liveleak>AnimalOh hell nah I ain't watching that shit
>>32432Vlogs were everywhere on early YouTube lol
They've pretty much been the bread and butter of the site from the start
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