We were tipped off about a problem with youtube initially shared by markiplier, a youtuber
with 22 million subscribers.
In a video on markipliers channel called Youtube Is Broken…and here’s why, markiplier explains
everything.
He says that the reason for the youtube shutdown is likely google plus.
Youtube hasn’t said anything about how the crash happened even now.
And its been more than a week.
Could it be that google doesn’t want to admit that youtube is broken?
That’s what markiplier thinks and honestly, it would explain a lot.
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Alright, so this video will be a ranty video where I complain about youtube, which are
honestly my favourite videos.
I love complaining about youtube.
We still don’t know what caused youtube to break.
And that’s crazy because youtube has never had a problem like this before.
There would be little issues that would cause the site to crash for no more than a few minutes
at a time, but for an entire 90 minutes?
This was unheard of.
Well, markiplier says that he thinks he knows why the youtube shut down happened and it
has a lot to do with the shutdown of google plus.
Here’s the deal.
In 2014, google made it mandatory for creators to create a google plus account.
Google plus is essentially googles attempt at creating competition with facebook.
It was created in june of 2011 and it was supposed to be this huge social network.
When you create a google account, google created a google plus account for you, unless you
specified not to and actually made sure that you opted out.
But if you wanted to create an account that allowed you to comment on youtube, you needed
to make a google plus account, so many people had them.
But that doesn’t mean that people would actually use google plus as a social network.
Google has reported that google plus has low useage and engagement, and 90 percent of all
google plus user sessions last less than 5 seconds.
You just go on google plus to check a notification or something and then you close it.
And to top everything off, unless you carefully turned it off, google plus would display the
comments you had made on youtube on your google plus profile.
I mean I don’t have a problem with this, but not everyone wants to display their negative
comments for the world to see.
Right Before the big youtube crash that happened last week, it was announced that google plus
was going to be shut down because of privacy leaks.
Google came forward to admit that a bug in exposed the personal information of up to
half a million google plus users.
This was actually discovered back in march of 2018, but google didn’t say anything
about it until October of 2018.
Basically what happened was a flaw in the programming allowed 438 external apps to access
users names, email addresses, occupations, gender and age without authorization.
Google said that theres no evidence to suggest that anyones information was misused.
So in about 10 months, they are shutting it down completely, but they tried to change
the code on the Tuesday that youtube crashed.
Now they reverted the change and they are trying to figure out what happened, but that
doesn’t change the fact that youtube is basically broken right now.
Because they shut down google plus, youtube is being affected.
Over the last few days, channels are experiencing a 30-40% dip in initial viewers, and prolonged
viewers.
And that’s because People aren’t getting their notifications.
People have actually been complaining in the comments that they aren’t getting their
notifications and this is why.
Which is honestly, kind of a relief.
I have actually noticed a dip in initial viewes and I thought it was me, im like damn im not
picking good stories, the thumbnails suck, people hate me, but its nice to know that
its not all my fault.
They changed the code on google plus that caused youtube to crash because so much of
youtube is integrated into google plus.
Once the code was changed, that caused a huge problem with youtube.
People aren’t getting notifications on google plus when youtubers upload their videos, which
is how so many people found out when their favourite creators upload a video.
And there are a lot of things going on in the backend for creators in the creator studio
that just aren’t working.
To sum it up, markiplier said that youtube just doesn’t care about its creators.
They don’t care about their creators because they rely on code and algorhythm instead.
And now that the code and algorhythm doesn’t work, creators are suffering.
Until Youtube put a system in place that gives benefit to creators, its going to continue.
And the fact that youtube isn’t saying anything is also a problem considering the fact that
youtube creators are supposed to be partners.
Without us, they don’t make money.
But they still don’t tell us when stuff like this happens.
Anyways guys, that’s all I have to say about that, its time to respond to some comments
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