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It breaks my heart that it's come to this. I used YouTube my whole life to learn. It's like a living breathing encyclopedia for art, math, science and culture. More than 2 decades of pure human knowledge is on there. I've learned more than I could ever hope to learn from just using books and my library. Some things are best absorbed visually.
And now, I find myself thinking the same thing as you. I don't want to leave these decades of knowledge behind. Some channels have been dead for years but what they taught is irreplaceable. It's so incredibly unfair that such a collective effort of the world can be bought up by a giant corporation and exploited.
I guess the same goes with what AI did to decades of written knowledge. Decades of people creating content just trying to help others, and it's being looked at with dollar signs.
Doesn't seem fair.