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★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

the implication is that if I select Red, I will no longer see any outdoors/camping youtubers, because there's too much Green in their videos?

do creators have access to these metrics? what if one colour dominates all the others?? does that mean that suddenly all of youtube will be shifted over to that colour to stay competitive? will all videos suddenly become bright blood red???

who fucking wants this?? who does this serve??? and why would you not explain the implications to your users in any kind of informed way????

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Owlor

@AmyZenunim I have no idea if this is what happened, but this very much feel like a "helpful" suggestion from some executive fungus that can't tell his own head from his arse but because he's in charge, they have to do what he says so he can feel like he contributed something.

cybik :deifirev:

@AmyZenunim for the record:
lifehacker.com/youtube-lets-yo

not that it gives any reasoning as to why this is even a bloody thing. This is weird and stupid and I'm assuming something far more banally evil is afoot here and I hate it already.

Renée

@AmyZenunim remember when all movies from like 2000-2010 were orange and teal? This thing doesn't even support secondary colours soooo

lol

Claire-hime

@AmyZenunim I actually kind of like this because it is such a completely nonsensical feature

it's better than finding a new way to harvest our data anyway

Nikelui

@AmyZenunim@unstable.systems the only plausible explanation is that project managers at Google get bonuses based on "innovation". That's why they introduce all this useless crap and constantly break products that are perfectly functional (I'm looking at you, Google Maps).

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