I understand your first point, that its frustrating for something thats always been free with limited to no ads to change its model.
The thing I want to know though is, YouTube costs a shit ton in terms of infrastructure and development hours, do you have a suggestion on how they can host the public and private content they host and deliver hundreds of petabytes a day while turning a profit? Do you stop user uploads, delete channels that have been inactive for a decade, delete private videos of non-subscribers?
Inb4 well they shouldnt exist because thats not how they formed tired argument ive seen, then my question is, ok so lets say we’re thinking up a YouTube replacement. How do we model it so the company makes money, people arent the product, i can upload what I want, watch it for free without ads, people who draw others to the platform make money too, ect… What gets cut?
Edit: Because I don’t have a suggestion and I dont think its possible to get anything like the old YouTube we all loved without making major consessions, otherwise I think we’d have more than a handful of compeitors.
If you can speak to the specifics of why you found the writing bad, I think thats fine. If your critique is just “writing was bad”. Well then maybe think on it for longer before sharing your opinion if you dont want to be lumped in with the chuds who also arent going past skin deep with the same opinion.
I have major issues with The Last of Us 2, a game that was also piled on by right wing chuds. I did enjoy the game, but there are issues i have with character motivations where I think the story writers didn’t do enough to convince me that the characters had the conviction they were portrayed as having. I also feel the game had a clear ending that was acceptable and then decided to tack on an additional section because I guess they wanted to resolve somethings that were better left unresolved.
Other than the driving plot forward, once you’re able to ignore some things yeah, enjoyable game, with some missed potential.
Ultimately I also think its about recognizing that these things are other peoples yums, and i think critiquing them is ok, but stating something like bad writing is objective and doesn’t seem subjective. You are denying someone who thought the writing was good. You’re allowed to not like something, but dont yuck it.