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by somenameforme 945 days ago
I decided to check this out with Google Trends, out of curiosity. The answer [1] is surprising. Over the past 5 years there's been a quite substantial downward trend in interest in YouTube, at least as far as what people search for.

Though that page probably also answers why, somewhat amusingly. Swap the related queries to sort by "top" instead of "rising" and 3 of the top YouTube related queries are: "mp3 youtube" "youtube download" and "youtube to mp3".

[1] - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

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> Over the past 5 years there's been a quite substantial downward trend in interest in YouTube

This may also be due to competition from TikTok, which became available outside of China 5 years ago.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok