Do you remember when YouTube’s whole vibe was “Broadcast Yourself”? Yeah, that got quietly scrubbed, and in this video I’m basically walking through how that wasn’t just a tagline change—it was the platform telling regular people to get in the back seat while advertisers, legacy media, and “authoritative sources” drive. I talk about how the simpler era of random viral nonsense (goats screaming, Tourette’s Guy, all that dumb beautiful internet magic) got replaced with politics, “responsibility,” and algorithm decisions made by people who don’t even like what users actually watch. I break down why I think 2016 was the beginning of the end, how 2020’s pandemic policies turned into selective enforcement and narrative control, and how YouTube TV and big network deals pushed YouTube closer to becoming the new cable. Then we hit the current nightmare: AI everywhere. Not just AI slop, but AI moderation and content detection that’s loaded with false positives—so broken that reuploaders can walk away while the original creator gets nuked. The takeaway is simple: if you’re not big enough to go viral or get someone like Moist Critical to notice, you’re basically yelling into an automated void. God speed.