Koen's Corner

Why YouTube changing is a good thing [A Koen’s Corner Script]

NOTE: This is merely the Introduction for the video I will be working on. I will update this blog posts as time goes on, so stay tuned for future updates to the post going forward.

Introduction

If you’ve been around the YouTube landscape in the past five years, there’s a good chance that you have been rather disappointed about what has been happening to our beloved platform. A lot has changed since the 2010s. We’ve seen a bunch of creators come and go. And the platform itself now pushes very different content from what we were used to seeing in our recommended feeds in the 2010s.

We went from mostly seeing either video games or tech related videos, or skits if you were into that, to very heavily edited essays or Mr Beast styled game shows. YouTube content has shifted rather rapidly over the course of a decade. With videos now being much more involved and elaborate productions that are made to hold your attention. Not by screaming into the microphone while playing video games. But by telling engaging and interesting stories, or discussing a topic of interest.

However, us as users and content creators don’t see YouTube and the content that gets distributed on it. For many creators and users alike have complained about the many terrible changes that YouTube has brought to the table. Many of which are often released incomplete, or straight up broken. While others are designed from the ground to harm your channel in a number of ways.

I have certainly been highly critical of YouTube’s many questionable decisions in the past, and will continue to be so. Even if I don’t express my feelings towards it, since I prefer to not flood my channel and socials with negativity like that. With that being though, it is not by any means what this video is about.

We’re here to discuss how YouTube content has changed since its beginnings, and how I believe that the evolution of the platform was necessary for growth of it. Content creators have had a lot of stuff to adapt to. The content itself has changed, and evolved into something much bigger and better. And as someone who has been using this platform since 2009, and making videos since 2012, I’m very happy with where we stand today. Flaws, and all.