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by cblconfederate 2101 days ago
> "I spent 10 years telling people my address is youtube.com/creator

channel urls are like /channel/UCoMdktPbSTixAyNGwb and i ve never heard youtubers spelling out usernames, but rather to search for the name

if one would start a video link service, they d start with a short url (+stats) maker

i think you re right about monetization though. As bad as google is at least they pay content makers, unlike the rest of big tech