A Brief Note on the CrowdStrike Outage and "Tech Influencer" YouTube

Not that I endorse this in general but I was personally so busy heads down with work I had no idea about any of this until it came and went. It did not affect any of our companies (directly) when it happened so it never came up on my radar. Having said that, as a routine policy I do tend to explicitly ignore things because it’s easy to get caught up in all this. At the end of the day these are silly YouTube videos that are, let’s face it, cruising for attention and clicks. They’ll latch onto anything anytime because that’s the hit their audiences crave. The salient point is that will continue happening regardless of this brief note, which empirically is what has been driving my disengagement rather than attempting to “set the record straight” which I think is a moot point.

The author need to name these channels, it doesn't match my experience watching YouTube.

I don't see the issue. Youtube is usually a low quality source for just about anything.

This isn't even a new problem. I see Youtube as equivalent to nonsense you'd have found in a magazine rack in the past.