Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by thunky 362 days ago
> But youtube doesn't want thousands of talented people making niche content with high quality.

> Youtube wants a hundred Mr. Beasts

Why would that be? Isn't Mr beast expensive to Google? And if you add up 10k small channels to equal mr beast's views that's the same number of eyeballs on ads at no cost to Google (assuming the small channels aren't monetized).

Admittedly I have no idea how it works though.