Creators Say They’ve Cracked YouTube’s Monetization Algorithm

‘Big YouTube news is breaking today and so many creators are going to be fucking pissed’

Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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6 min readOct 29, 2019

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YouTube’s creator base has been in informal conflict with the platform that hosts their videos for years. And now, they think they have evidence of just how the platform is screwing them over — by prioritizing…

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Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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