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Maybe you are just not the target audience here? YouTube also has videos like TikTok and it still has a bazillion users...

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Yeah the TikTok core audience and the Hacker News crowd have maybe a 1% overlap.

Well, YouTube's core audience isn't going there for TikTok-style content (no judgement on that content either way.) They mostly come for vlogs, let's play's, tutorial videos, video essays, etc.

Also worth noting that YouTube is a money sink so it's not like it's the most lucrative business model.

I've heard the argument a few times YouTube actually loses money, besides just being a money sink. Does anyone have anything from Google talking about margins or profit/loss of youtube? I've never been able to find anything concrete on the issue. This is the best I've ever been able to find [1]

1. https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al...

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