In the eternal quest for increased revenue, YouTube is introducing a feature where rich people can like videos more than poor people, and I am about to throw up.
It is called the hype button, and it is similar to the like button. But where likes are democratic, hypes are for pay, allowing rich kids to add as many hypes as they can afford to videos.
This is Elon’s enshittification of Twitter all over again.
Please help me criticize this feature in the comments here:
https://youtu.be/4OssXl1Qr3I?si=-mIpgxarhrq-gNOu
Randahl Fink /
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2025-02-06 12:55:29
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