YouTube is way past it's prime. I think the best time was 2012-2016
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My experience is different, it "understood" me during 2019-2022 and offered great content!
I don't use it much for discovery nowadays though, I use it for mostly for content from existing subscriptions.
Video is super important and it should be the way we consume info, because any text can be generated by AI.
When podcastr?
Moving image is the universal language!