Hasn’t he also said some weird stuff about sex with kids too? The type of stuff that you would hear from a nerd on Reddit when age of consent comes up.
That’s news to me. They took away subscriber numbers? YouTubers still talk about them.
And this is the number behind the plaques they send out to people. I can’t image them stopping that. They won’t send plaques based on weekly average activity numbers.
It was at least in part a piracy site. Everything was uploaded by users. It was a piracy site in the same sense that early music content on YouTube was. It was mostly users uploading in the early years. This is why there was a massive lawsuit against YouTube back then. And why we got content ID, etc.
This also often meant the audio compression was random, and sometimes terrible. On grooveshark and YouTube. And on YouTube the native bitrates were terrible 2006-2010 or so.
Your mom was right. But she was probally wrong about it spreading malware.
Frankly, it’s a bit insufferable at times. For me, Lemmy really put into focus how we all sound, myself included, at times (most of the time). We need a more diverse mix of people around here!
Hasn’t he also said some weird stuff about sex with kids too? The type of stuff that you would hear from a nerd on Reddit when age of consent comes up.