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People make the videos, and then sometimes youtube pays them for it.





People make videos because there is a platform which makes it incredibly easy to share that video all across the planet without cost to them. And in turn that platform has an enormous base of viewers for that content. To suggest that a world without YouTube (or a similar service) would look the same is ludicrous.

> To suggest that a world without YouTube (or a similar service) would look the same is ludicrous.

It could be ludicrous, if that argument were being made.




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