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YouTube failed as a dating site. This one change altered its fortunes forever

9 months ago by silence7 to c/technology

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In part one of a special five-part oral history, YouTube cofounder Steve Chen, music executive Lyor Cohen, investor Roelof Botha, iJustine, Felicia Day, and others revisit how a Flash-enabled video site became the cultural force of today.

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xxce2AAb 33 points 9 months ago

A... dating site? Given the state of youtube comments, it's probably for the best that plan didn't pan out.

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NecroParagon 8 points 9 months ago

Oh yeah. It's weird being old enough to remember a time before youtube and I'm still pretty young. My (much) older sister and I would AIM chat and email all the time. We had ytmnd.com and stupidvideos.com, but it turned out people would rather take the ease of video sharing whatever rather than the pseudo video dating youtube were trying and the founders recognized the greater potential.

I remember when the site first went public, even early on it was so much better than the others. Even with all the problems I'll always love YT.

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xxce2AAb 11 points 9 months ago

Personally, I love (some of) the content of YouTube, but it's been a long time since I've liked the site.

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NecroParagon 8 points 9 months ago

That's totally fair. Nebula has been a good place for me to find distilled content from the creators I really care about. Hard to argue in Google's defence lately. They bought it early so who knows what it might been if it stayed independent.

Just got a soft spot for the site I guess. It gave me some of my favorite people.

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