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For as much slop as gets produced on YouTube, I think the high quality educational content more than makes up for it. You can literally look up any subject and find a full blown series on the topic.

His huge budgets and willingness to reinvest all the profits into future videos have allowed MrBeast to produce a lot of unique videos which are effectively unmatched by anyone else. Right now they're really the undisputed kings of the platform, by a massive margin.



This is why those who can appropriately select good information will flourish in this age. I still suck at it (get pulled into mindnumbing shorts for 30 minutes), but then I learned a new musical instrument for _free_ using YouTube.


Agreed, YouTube is the PBS of the internet. It's free and fast.


PBS is not, at least nominally, advertising-supported.

YouTube very much is.


It’s a wonder of the modern world


and it just works. I'm glad there's a monopoly of UGC video




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