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> I don’t think there’s a justification to arguing you own YouTube or the content.

This actually gets to the core of my sentiment. I am influenced by these systems, but I can't directly influence them back. I don't know if this is somehow wrong in principle, but I definitely want more.




> but I can't directly influence them back.

Opting out of viewing is directly influencing.


As an individual viewer of course the creator of the content is the one with influence.

There's potentially millions of viewers, there's no magic influence that you'd ever notice.


By "system", I was referring to the middleman infrastructure (Youtube, in this case).




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