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Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

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[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YouTube got better before it got to whatever it is now

[–] jaam01@lemmings.world 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think that's a fair comparison. Youtube only existed for less than 2 years as an independent start up. There's no way to know what it could become as an independent tech company.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The original plan was a dating site with video profiles!

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

What could have been...instead we got tinder :/

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Certainly not rich enough to host the amount of content it does, or pay content creators what they get paid.