Too Long; Didn't Read
YouTube, Instagram and Facebook have all gotten redesigns to be more like TikTok. The apps, and sites now showcase walls of videos from people you don’t know. Short-form content allows for more ads, and short videos take away some of the relationships with creators. The relationships between fans and creators that once flourished in early YouTube (a proxy for most online videos) are fewer and further between. The same video already went viral is interspersed with clips of Peaky Blinders, Breaking Bad, and podcasts that already get hundreds of thousands of views.