Bring back the dislike counter. They allow scams, whatsapp hacks, and bullying yet cant bring the dislike feature to help identify videos that arent useful or misleading.

As a elder millennial I hate shorts (and TikTok), more specifically KZfaq's obsession with putting them in my subscription feed when I never watch them. I want substance.

3 steps to improve KZfaq: - bring back the dislike counter - create mechanism to punish bad actors for malicious copyright claims - allow users more control of the “Topics” on recommendations feed

Shorts are a horrendous problem. KZfaq are holding popular content makers for ransom by insisting they make shorts, or their content will be buried by the algorithm.

The fact that they gave him $100 million to retain him is almost unheard of

Her legacy: - unskipable ads - days long ads (72 hours ads) - inappropriate ads - a bad algorithm - abuse upon users, sponsors and youtubers - a decrease in quality on the platform - no real way to report problems on the platform And let's not even get started on how much dissaster she left behind.

Mama Susan was as influential in helping creators as dog trying to land an airplane. She had the controls right in front of her, but not knowing what is actually happening in the real world is a terrible way to wreck a product over time.

As many others have already stated, KZfaq has done MANY moronic things. The removal of the dislike counter as well as making it VERY hard for creators to make content while dealing with guidelines has gone from stupid to idiotic. And let's not forget about their Black- and Whitelist where some creators get special treatment. I doubt this new CEO will change anything.

Cancelling the dislike counter and censorship is killing KZfaq.

I was there at the beginning of KZfaq. It was glorious. Even in it's early 480p days it was something to behold because you knew the videos on your front page were the most viewed, not the most promoted.

An idea to improve things massively. They can introduce a button that can be used by the user to quantify their negativity for a given video. This way when someone is searching for something important, they can quickly identify false or clickbait videos and save valuable time. After all the task of a search engine is to easily present the user with relevant information and KZfaq is the second highest used search engine.

Against all odds youtube somehow found a CEO who's worst than Susan.

First task for the new CEO should be to solve the comment section scam/spam problem, and then harden the account security for creators

Appreciate your reports. Noticed you omitted the whole “shadow ban” issue. Probably should be included since it hurt their brand and spawned competitors.

TL:DR To improve KZfaq (imo): - Bring back showing the amount of dislikes. - Allow us to hide community posts in our subscription feed as I have seen quite a few KZfaqrs use it as a vehicle to essentially spam - Give us the option to stop autoplay on playlists. Ridiculous how we don't have that. I use playlist to pick out videos to watch from a specific topic, not to watch all of them. - bring back hiding comments in the comment section. They had this feature for a minute then took it off. - For KZfaq premium members such as myself, have a feature that allows us to skip sponsorship ads. I am sorry but the reason why I have KZfaq premium is because I DON'T want to see ads. For people who don't have premiums, they get enough ads to watch, then on top of that have to watch a 1-2 minute sponsorship. Sure, we can fast forward, but we could be missing quite of bit of content after the sponsorship. - Fine tune the recommendations to be better, like recommending videos based on topics and not channels. I may have an interest in a topic, and have watched many KZfaq videos from different content creators to research, but then my recommendations would just spam me with recommendations for one content creator who I had no interest watching beside what they talked about in a specific topic I was searching up. Now if I watch multiple videos by them, THEN that's an indication that I may enjoy what their content on their channel as a whole. - If I have to keep deleting specific recommended videos from my recommendation, then that is an indication that I am NOT interested in those videos. STOP RECOMMENDING THEM. Example: I love cartoons, but I do NOT like Family Guy and I don't watch it. Same thing with the Simpons. Don't hate the Simpsons, but I don't watch them. Every time I come on, everyday I am giving recommended videos that have clips of these shows, and this has been happening for at least a year. I don't understand. Algorithm needs to be fine tuned to noticing patterns. That it because my comments is too long. 😂

Thanks for the video, Dagogo! So excited for you with how your channel has really taken off. Sending you all my love and support for your efforts. Take care, -Kenneth

KZfaq grew not because of any CEO but because the internet was in its infancy and the idea of youtube was new, so it took off, and just so it happened youtube was in the heart of it.

I hope that Neal Mohan is aware of why users have been choosing other platforms for more and more activities. The primary issue is the extremely intrusive ads. I am aware that ads are a necessary means of revenue but my god on a five minute video there is now almost 1 full minute of ads spliced in at the beginning and midway through. This has to stop.

Been here since the google video days, loved the long format content back then, still love it today. Can't imagine my life without youtube and quality channels like yours 💙

More often than not, I have to scroll threw hundreds of my recommendations before I find anything I like to watch. For a company that focused on showing you the best results, there has to be a way to improve that.

KZfaq isn’t going back to the way it was unfortunately

I for one believe the leadership at KZfaq have made a long and ongoing, awful sequence of decisions for the platform at the cost of both viewers and creators.. but especially creators. The way KZfaq has and continues to treat their creators is quite frankly despicable. Even creators of factual documentaries such as those covering history are constantly at risk. I could go on and on but the last point I'll make is one that I'm sure most everyone is aware of but needs to be repeated. KZfaq's failure to clearly state their rules and policies on paper (virtual or otherwise) is so utterly frustrating and perplexing as to cause any logical minded person's head to explode. Obviously this is done for the purposes of allowing them to selectively apply any rule, to anyone, at any time, for any reason.. So no... I don't think the leadership at Google has been some beacon of great leadership and effective moderation. The reason they are the only show in town is because they are a monopoly who has a completely captive audience whom competitors have little to no chance of overcoming. I genuinely despise what KZfaq has become and that is directly a result of how it has been run by the top leadership. These people should not be praised.

I remember when Google bought KZfaq and they started “retiring” Google Video and I was frustrated because KZfaq videos were still very short. It took a while for KZfaq to finally have the long documentaries I used to find on Google Videos that were like 45min+ long

*”Do not fear having no friends. Fear having bad friends”* ~My life taught lesson

I didn’t even know KZfaq had a new CEO lol

I would argue that YT's massive overreaction to advertiser apprehension was an unmitigated disaster. They alienated their content creators, leaving them to plead for survival with fans for direct support via Patreon. It's been rough sailing ever since, with one silly decision after another, confusing, vague and arbitrary guidelines, and nebulous internal processes. YT lost its fresh startup creativity to dull-witted, corporate thinking long ago. I see more of the same with another suite like Neal Mohan (as evidenced by his erratic pivoting to trends and technical buzzwords).

I didn't realize! 😊Thank you

Remember when KZfaq used to be just funny cat videos and 'Charlie bit my finger'? Now it's like a whole university with courses on everything from cooking to astrophysics. KZfaq really grew up, man.

KZfaq is only the way it is because the cost to set-up the right infrastructure is so high for Video, nobody can ever hope to get to a similar position for long enough for it to even start competing. Sure, TikTok is their main competitor, but I wouldn't call TikTok to be in the same league still

Really interesting and well-made video!

i love youtube. it is the best video platform online, imho, and that is largely due to all the content creators like you. i follow so many great people that create A+ videos ranging from 10 minutes to many hours. whatever the new CEO does, i hope it doesn't ruin the relationship with smaller content creators

KZfaq makes a few success stories of content creators in every country and then huge numbers of creators emerge and vanish without getting monetized for many reasons BUT their content stays for KZfaq to use without paying a penny to those millions of creators. What a concept.

Feels a bit better knowing that Neal Mohan is more of an engineer than a marketer, but I'm still concerned about his strategy on Web3 and NFT.

That plug at the end was like a bonus extension of the main subject

Getting rid of dislikes was the biggest mistake they ever made.

KZfaq needs to create a separate shorts app (with a different name/brand) Shorts/Vertical videos is a totally different category and I believe is a mistake trying to mix them up on the same platform with Long/Horizontal videos. WhatsApp would have never worked inside of Facebook.

KZfaq is now just one long add, occasionally interrupted by the content you wanted to watch.....

Was so happy to see Johnny; you guys are two of my favorite channels!!

The best thing to come out of KZfaq in recent years are video journal channels like this and a handful of animation and gaming channels. The apocalypse is the worse, especially now with some videos borderline having an ad put in every 3 minutes. The copyright issues annoy me to no end with how abused it is.

One of my subscriptions was demonitized without any explanation.

KZfaq can't even handle spam, scam and bots in the comments section

Interesting! Thanks for sharing it. ✌️

Hey Dagogo. Is it helpful to know that it was pretty obvious to notice the changeovers, where i imagine you added in edits, during the video? Great video as usual.

The thing is, YT is so large and established as a platform that they don’t actually need to be the ones to innovate past a certain degree, sure they can get caught napping but they can easily sit back and let the world revolve a bit without feeling too much pressure to stir things up, simple because there is no real competition in their space, they own this part of the internet. They’re so big that even someone comes out of no where with something that does directly compete with YT, they can quite easily pivot and make the necessary changes. So yeah, it don’t matter if YT innovate or not.

I feel like shorts and removal of dislikes is the beginning of the end

Gosh I love this narrator. Every single video feels so complete, smooth and satisfying to watch. Top 1 narrator in the world if you ask me.

love this into song man great work

The worst thing about KZfaq is the censorship. If he could fix that, it would be amazing. Well, it’s already amazing, but amazinger. But that might be above his pay grade.

The excessive ads, the annoying "are you still watching?" pauses, for god sake Google you have enough money, scale back the stuff ruining KZfaq or it'll die eventually

I'd like to see a cooperation feature where revenue for a video can be shared between creators, for collaborations and reaction videos

I love that Finshots featured on ColdFusion!

I remember Google Video pretty well. 2005-2006 feels like yesterday even though it’s been years and years now! Had no idea Susan was so instrumental in the creation of AdWords and even getting Google to buy out KZfaq in the first place! Anyway I think Neal seems more than qualified for the job. We will just need to see what happens from here.

If they can fix the comments section issues (more specifically the spam and scam bots) , I think both creators and viewers would consider that a win. And of course improve the whole copyright strike system.

I remember how years ago i could do research on youtube. When i search for a topic and click on a video, i could see relevant suggestions in the lateral bar. But now there are only ad and populsr suggested video that doesn’t even correlate with my research 😢

I didnt know this video had been released, when i went to your channel page the thumbnail wasnt present in the Videos bar, I saw it because I clicked on the Video section looking for an older video to watch. Wondering if it was an active decision on your end, or a "bug" that hid it from being included.

Imo KZfaq has been on a continuous downwards spirals since about 2013. Around 2015 is when it went fully corporate and the internet in general became too mainstream to still have that old feeling. It is what it is I suppose nothing good lasts forever.

Exceptional knowledge sharing you do! Thanks for all this

Love the music at the end :)

Hahah ....Neal Mohan is what we call in India as "Process Uncle" ... No innovation , no risk taking ... Playing it safe behind process / framework keywords 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

his last name is a reference to the Carnatic Raga Mohana, which is equivalent to Raag Bhoop in Hindustani music

In my opinion, KZfaq is the greatest social media app till date.

The fact that we didn't get a 5th AI video in a row means that we're not doomed yet!

Here’s a new idea for KZfaq instead of demonizing people for not being kid friendly just age restrict them people should have the right to make money regardless of there content so just age restrict un kid friendly videos not demonize them and if you want to help people identify what kind of content there about to watch. Put ratings ya know like have an AI system give the video a rating like PG-13 or something and have restrict mode have customizable settings to what ratings it hides and it doesn’t have to be the same ratings that movies use you could make up your own you can also have content labels like tv ratings do under the rating you can have a smaller ,O, standing for (offensive content) so yeah that’s basically my idea let all content makers make money and use ratings to warn the viewers.

Let's get ready to rumble

KZfaq is one of the greatest social media invented . I hope they don’t mess it up. I learn a lot and watch a lot of funny stuffs from KZfaq.

KZfaq has turned into garbage corporate Tube ever since 2014.

My first source of getting music from the internet was "google video". That download button right next to that video made it so easy

Most important is fix the algorithm for the feed. KZfaq has billions of videos but only a handful show up in my feed over and over . Even giving me videos I've watched several times already instead of more of the billions of videos that I haven't seen. This IS its biggest problem.

KZfaq is significantly more usable by using a few extensions. For example, there is one which shows the number of dislikes on a video, by somehow gathering information from multiple people who use this extension. I don't know how accurate it is, but it does very roughly align with the number of dislikes explicitly stated by some KZfaqrs. Another nice extension option is disabling Autoplay, hide Shorts, hide recommendations, as well as many others, depending on personal taste.

What Susan achieved is most creators and a lot of viewers of KZfaq waiting for a viable competitor to leave KZfaq. Oh, and she did that while having the search engine with virtual monopoly on her side. Good job for not completely ruining the platform I guess..

Dude what the actual heck! I clicked on this video and then closed it and clicked on it again 5 times just to end up watching the same ad everytime.

The dating site idea was just one of many KZfaq had. The creators didn't know what they wanted it to be, and dating was simply part of a brainstorm session, never a set goal.

The feature I miss the most is the "videos being watched right now" bar on the homepage. No algorithms, no marketing pushes. Just random videos from all walks of life on the belly of the internet

Hopefully you talk about the new aggressive forced ads

It's really interesting to learn about the future of KZfaq under Neal Mohan's leadership. It's clear that he has a strong vision for how the platform can continue to evolve and provide even more value to creators and viewers alike. From new monetization options to improved search and discovery features, it's exciting to think about the possibilities for the future of KZfaq. I'm looking forward to seeing how these changes unfold and how they will impact the content creation and consumption landscape. The thumbnail though 😂

Anyone else notice ‘buffering times’ (especially commercials) suddenly started as soon as he was named?

Had no idea how much content is watched by how many people. KZfaq is truly huge!

I am a very small channel, non-monetized, with the most innocuous content imagineable, and I just got yet another strike against my channel for reasons that make no sense at all. I have had strikes for a 10-second video of a jiggly cheesecake, and for a 15-second video of a preacher dancing in church. I could not appeal these. I realize now I could lose my channel forever for no reason that makes any sense. These MUST be done by algorithm and seem more based on titles and descriptions than content. There is never a human being involved.

The thing thats killing youtube is the in video ads, i pay a subscription as not to see ads yet i get ads, pretty easy solution really.

All I can say is: I have never used tik tok and never will (or any similar variation implemented by KZfaq)

The creators built this platform no one else.

in a parallel universe/another dimension, tinder is youtube 😂😭

It seems that the principles of behavioral economics are being applied in management, and that sounds pretty sophisticated.

Hey there can you please release the soundtrack list for this video?

It's difficult to have an opinion about this change from a short video. But given the information given here, while an extremely competent manager, Mohan doesn't look like someone with a vision for the product he will manage, instead following shiny tech trends (AI, Blockchain, NFTs, etc). But at the same time, the core features of KZfaq are already set and it's a mature product, so does it need a leader with strong vision with all the risks it involves, or a good caretaker, improving its solid core with additional but more minor features?

KZfaq is just becoming TV. KZfaq was way better pre-monetisation.

I love how you immediately pivot to a youtube competitor after singing its praises

Always a pleasure to watch your educational videos with your excellent voice Thanks a lot and keep the good work going

Here's to wishing that upcoming innovations prioritize the true heart of the platform: the creators and the audience who appreciate their craft.

Susan had a huge hand in turning KZfaq in to a censorious corporate and political partner focused propaganda and advertising mill. She pretty much single-handedly took the You out of KZfaq without a second thought.

12:38 @Coldfusion Please release this masterpiece. We've been waiting too long for Dreamcore.

I always love the calming soothing music ColdFusion put in the background. Most business reporting yt channels are so dramatic and intense with their storytelling and editing, like they try to shove information down viewers' throat

Go ColdFusion !! Ur the Man 😁

My faith is laid on you, dear ColdFusion. Content creators are the heart of streaming platforms and the viewers are the cells. KZfaq is a great platform to facilitate both but, any turn they take, there will always be a competitor to take over if the house of cards falls apart. Honestly, I couldn't care less for pretentious policy and decision makers

the intro music would ought to be using a bagpipe virtual synth.

With couple of moves google started digging its own grave. 1) Removing dislike counter. Completely non democratic way. 2) Desperation for user data, they did all the worst things possible to steal personal data. 3) No innovative products or solutions now, just catching up with the competition. 4) From 1 skippable ad to 3-5 ads (including non skippable ads). People are fed-up with their desperation to make money.

KZfaq really was sold over a Grand Slam meal at Denny's 💀💀💀

I do remember Google Video... I saw the first Zeitgeist Documentary on it hahahah

Your channel is simply amazing

What I think would be interesting is if they start to improve on yt premium. As of right now, reasons to switch are the fact that yt without it becomes unbearable instead of yt premium beeing good.